Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-08-08
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PESNYRorAL TEA.-The virtues of this old
fashioned remedy are vouched for in cholera
years. by 3 correspondent, who says that the
pennyroyal herb, made into tea and drank
hot. Is the most comforting and active prcSen-
tive that can be imagined when depressing
symptoms set in.
DARK STOCKINGS should always be thor
oughly washed in strong salt and water and
then dried. Alter they are dry thet are to be
washed again in a second solution of salt and
water and then washed in clear water and
dried In this way the dye will not rub off OF
the feet and undergarments.
For CORN SOUP-TO each quart of young
corn cut from the cob allow three pints of
water Boil until the grains are tender and then
add two ounces OF butter that have been well
mixed with one tablespoonful of flour. Let
this boil for fifteen minutes longer lust before
serving add one egg well beaten and salt and
pepper to taste.
To MAKE blackberry brandy, take two quarts
of blackberry juice (it will require about five
quarts of berries TO make III and two pounds Of
white sugar. Boil and skim, then add one-baIf
ounce Of cloves half an ounce OF ground CHINA
mon and five grated nutmegs and boil again.
When cool, add one pint of the best brandy and
bottle when cold
For PEACH Ice CREAM, pare and cut In
small pieces one dozen peaches, or more If de-
sired, and boil them with half a pound Of loaf
sugar. When reduced to a marmalade,. press
them through a fine sieve. When cool add ore
pint of cream and q few drops OF cOchineal to
give a deeper peach color. Freeze. Serve with
around the cream.
A SIMPLE, Practicable way of cutting off glass
bottles for cups or jars Is to take red-hot
poker with pointed end make mark with a
file to begin the cut then apply the hot iron,
and crack will start, which will follow the
iron wherever it is carried. This is ON the
whole, simple. and better than the use OF
strings wet with turpentine, etc.
SCALLoPED CLANS are a nice entree, and are
also good for breakfast. Chop the CLAIMS fine
nd fham I
some powdered cracker with a little warm
milk, two well-beaten eggs and q little melted
butter; then add the minced clans, mixing mixing
or, If you have not these in buttered patty pans
or large clam shells that have been thoroughly
cleansed.
PEACH CAKE-Bake three sponge cakes in
jelly-cake tins, and cut your peaches in thin
slices, sprinkling them over one of the cakes,
and put sugar over them Prepare whipped
dissolved in n half-cup of milk, Or little more,
and add to the cream after it is sweetened and
favored with vanilla Cover the peaches and
then place over the cream, and then cake and
more peaches and cream. finishing with cream
IN TAXING PILLS, place them under the
tongue, then take a mouthfui of water or other
liquid and swallow Just as in the act of drink
ing; this done, look for the pill. Invariably
the lean t-take-a-pill patient is astonished,
and sometimes he investigates the mouth with
his fingers to reaSSure himself ii he has really
Swallowed the pill; The secret lies in the fact
back upon itself; the pill, taken by tine force of
the current, is imperceptibly washed down the
eSOphagus.
A PASTE that will not draw engravings when
pasted down paper must be thin. \ mix
ture of gum-tragacanth and gum-arabic forms,
with water, a thinner muciiage than either of
these two gums alone. Rice flour is said to
make an excellent paste for fine paper work. A
solution of two ounces and a half OF gun,-arabic
in two quarts of warm water is thickened to u
paste with wheat flour: to this is added a solu-
n
half each, in water. The mixture is heated and
stirred until about to boil, and then cooled. 1t
may be thinned with a gum solution.
To MAKE PEACH JELLY, make a thin syrup
with ten ounces of sugar and half pint of
water. Then take ten or twelve ripe peaches,
pare them, cut them in halves and take ont the
stones, bruising the kernels of half of them.
Now put the halved peaches, together with the
bruised kernels. into the syrup and allow them
TO simmer for fifteen minutes, adding for flavor
the zest of two lemons and the juice OF three.
Then strain the jelly through a jelly bag, add
ten ounces of dissolved geiatine, and pour it
into a mould, which should be placed on the
ice until the jelly becomes stiff enough to turn
out. The peaches themselves may be utilized as
a compete.
A DAINTY SUMNER PUDDING is called 1.-THE
Florentine." Put quart of milk into your
pan, let it come to a boil; mix smoothly three
tablespoonfuls of eorn-starch and little cold
milk; add the yelks of three eggs beaten, half
teacup of sugar, flavor with vanilla, lemon or
anything your fancy suggests; stir into the
scalding milk. continue stirring till the con-
sistency of starch ready for usel. then put into
the pan or dish you wish To serve in; beat the
whites of the eggs with a teacup of pulveriZed
sugar, spread over the top: place ii in the oven
a few minutes till the frosting is pretty brown.
Can be eaten with cream, or is good enough
without. For change you can bake in cups.
To GIVE BLACK COLOR to the willow used
for baskets and other woven ware let the ma
terial remain from twelve to twenty hours in
lukewarm water. and then dipping it n sutIi-
elent length of time in a dye composed OF five
parts of ground fustic, three of sulphate OF cop
per, five OF sulphate of iron. and four OF cream
of tartar. The dye should be kept at boiling
heat for half an hour, to extract the color from
the fustie and dissolve the other ingredients,
alter which IL may be allowed to cool. A small
quantity OF logwoOd added will sometimes i'm
prove the color. The same process may be used
for coloring the various fabrics of which SUM
mer hats are made, snch as straw, palmieaf,
grass etc.
DIsAGREEABLE DOORS arising from decaying
vegetable matter can be destroyed at once by
pouring over ii two pailfuls of water. to one OF,
which has been added one pint OF the liquor of
chloride OF zine. and 10 the other one pound of
chloride of lime. 1t Is always good plan to
give the cellar one coat OF whitewitsh at spring
cleaning time, then give ii n second coat in
Will do much to- keep the cellar free from ver-
min. fla cellar has a damp smell, and can not
De thoroughly ventilated. few trays of char
coal set around on floor. shelves. and hedges
win make the air pure and sweet. III a large
buckeffui OF charcoal be placed in damp
cellar where milk is Kept. there will be no
danger of its becoming tainted
CHARCOAL il one OF the best agents for puri-
Tying foul water. II cistern water has an I'M
pleasant odor from the cistern being too closely
covered. il may be made as sweet-smelline MS
when fresh by suspenGiEg in the water a mus
lin bag containing one or more pounds OF char
coal, according tn the size oI the ciS,ern. Rain
water will often become foul from the Iecayi:,y
OF tie vegetable matter which has been carried
with the water through tine pipes down into the
cistern from the root BY using one ounce of per-
manganste % potasssi for each fifty gallons OF
water, the contents CT the ciStern Will be made
as clear and odOriesS well water. The ouan-
tity of water in a cistern can be easily guessed
at. The permanganate SHOULD be put in and
the water thoroughly stirred up. Ii will turn a
bright purple. III IL does not turn clear again in q:
few minutes a little more permanganate must
be added All the refuse III the water will set
lie in u harmless sediment at the bottom of the
SsStern.
STAINS of various kinds on many different
articles are some OF the results of many of the
things which go to make summer delightful
Grass stains come out best by using an applic:l-
ton OF soda and soap. Wet the spot. rub over
common baking soda will adhere; let il
remain on the stain half an hour more, then
wash out In warm water. Whiting and soap
Will also remove grass stains. The delicious
fruits which are so healthful and GOBLIN. make
dire stains on table linen and clothing Such
stains can be removed from W bite goods by
pouring boiling water through them provided
the spots have not been first wet in cold water
If they have. or are of long standing ana refuse
To disappear before this simple treatment dip
them In water to which has been added chic