Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-08-28
Household Recipes and Hints.

A Tablespoonful of powdered alum,
sprinkled into hogshead of water and
stirred, will. in the course of a few
hours, precipitate to the bottom all the
impure particles and leave the water
clear and pure as spring water. -Four
gallons would need but teaspoOnful.
A new way to make apple pudding is
to make a batter of flour, sweet milk,
and one egg, with baking powder, in
proper proportion. Pare and core six
tart apples, stew them in very little
water until they are quite soft; then beat
the apples into batter. This is to be
baked in buttered earthen pie plate; it
should be deep plate. This is to be
eaten with cream and sugar, or if cream
is an impossibility, use butter instead.
1t is strange says the Philadelphia
Nsl0s, that so many people do not know
how to cook corn. They cook it too
long. 1t should be popped in pot of
boiling water-no salt-and left there
for ten minutes-be sure the water is in
great rage-then taken out and wrapped
in large napkin until you are ready to
eat it. Boiled longer than ten minutes
the milk hardens in the kernels, and it is
not tenth part as palatable, and it is
much less digestible.
Half teaspoonful of cornstarch dis
solved in tablespoonful of cream and
added to an omelet of five eggs will keep
it light, and bit of cornstarch will also
prevent scrambled eggs from becoming
watery, as they often do "that last mo.
ment on the fire, but be careful not to
use too much in either case. An egg
we'll beaten and rubbed over the lower
crust of pies will prevent the juice from
soaking through, and the juice of fruit
pies thickened with a little cornstarcb
will not boil over
Rust can be removed from steel as
follows: Rub the article with kerosene
oil and leave it to soak for day. Then
procure fine flower or emery and mix
with kerosene oil and scour the surface
with rotten stone. To preserve from
rust, heat the steel and rub parafine. No
steel articles should be kept in cellar
or damp place, but in dry attic OF
closet. If they must be kept in q cellar
they should be we'll coated with paraf-
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paper would be preferable.
One of the best salad herbs goes to
waste as o weed and pest of the garden.
Children know enough to eat sour grass
with its tender acid leaf. French cooks
number it among the most excellent field
salads, and doctors say it is soothing for
the blood, preventing rheumatic and
equity disorders. 1t ought to be brought
to market by the bushel, for every field
has patches of it, and it Is better than
spinach or sorrel for purees and bonnie
femme soups, or it may be stewed with
sugar in porcelain as delicate order Of
piepIant.
For coffee stains try putting thick
glycerine on the wrong side and wash
ing it out with lukewarm water. Fol
raspberry stains weak ammonia anC
water is the best. Stains of fruit OF
good table linen can be removed with
out injury by using the following will
care: Pour boiling water on chloride o
lime, in the proportion of one gallon tc
a quarter of pound, bottle it, cork i
we'll, and in using be careful not to sti
it. Lay the stain in this for moment
then apply white vinegar and boil tn
table linen.
The happy owner of COW can Away
provide some dish for desert upon shor
notice. Here are directions for a ''trifle "
Cut several slices of sponge cake in small
pieces of regular shape, say an incl
} square; put them into a deep china bowl
| cover with a rich boiled custard, reserv
ing the whites of the eggs to whip TO
, the top, or if the COW produces cream
+ use the whites of the eggs in the custar'
and whip pint of cream for the top o
: the bowl; flavor with vanilla and sweet
. en- slightly; add the sugar while whip
ping the cream.