The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-04-29
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Pressed Chicken.-Cut up the chicken a ID
boil until very tender in little water, with
salt and pepper to taste and piece OF bat
ter. While still warm take out all the bones
srd chop The meat rather fine. Tnicken the
gravy with q little -four and mix well with
the chopped chicken. Pat all in deep dish,
press down firmly aud set away until per
fectlv cold. Turn from the dish and CIT III
slices.
Worth Knoving.-Ifyou nave cold rcast
b. ef, chop 1t tne, season with pepper aud
SALT add one-third the quantity OF bread
crumbs, and moisten with a little milk; with
Toured hands mould the meat into balls. dip
them in beaten egg. and then in cracker
powder and fry il butter, garnish with pars-
ley and serve.
Ssoques for the Bsby-Useful sacques for
the baby that may be washed aud still. look
well are made of soft flannel and are edged
with pretty chrocheted wo0lsu lace or with
yak lace. All the seams are feather stitched
with silk. They are great improvement
upon the crocbeted or knitted sacques that
are so pretty when new, but which lo.e their
nice looks after they are washed.
A Nice Dumplipg.-Ligbt aud delicate
dumpliDgs Gle made By this receipt: Hafa
pound OF bsef suet. chopped extremely zoe,
ten ounces fine bread crumbs. one large
tab.t spoonful of -four, the grated rinds Of
t.o small lemons, four ounces of en- gar and
four egge beaten very light. Mix thoroughly
al add the Juice to Two lemons. Divide
th mixture into four parts, tie in WE'LL
Toured cloths aad boil one hour in slightly
sailed water.
Roasting Bsef-Make it TendeY-If your
beef for roasting does not seem as tender
IL ought To be, II may be improved in Ibis
way: Pot the NEST in tureen, mix salt,
ptpger, two tablespoonful of chopped
parsley, feur sliced onions, the Juice of half
lemon, two bay leaves and four table.
spoonsful Of sweet oil; put half Of the mix.
ture under the meat and half over 1t. Cover
the tuIeen and let the meat remain in 1t for
two days in winter and eighteen hours in
summer.
Delicious Dessert Try this dessert: Peel
eight oranges, cut them IN thin slices, lay
them in baking dish and cover them with
one cup and half OF powdered sugar.
Place pint of milk in saucepan on the
stove, and, when hot, add a tablespoonful Of
corn starch mixed smooth with little e1ld
milk and the yolks OF three eggs Stir con-
SANITY, and when thick, pour over the
oranges. Beat the whites OF The three eggs
TO stiff froth. sweeten and pour over tns
cusGard. Brown in quick oven. Servo
cold.
Rub Them With Flour-Slightly soilei
white wcolen articles, knit, or erochete5,
may be made to leok as well as new if they
are carefully rubbed in -four Cover them
w''h -four and rub gently az If washing,
Ji.fi. he -four becomes dark Shake oIt the
| an 4 Tub in clean -four until all sJil s
REM. d. Shake well and hang in the @ind
| until atom OF -four remains in the wool.
| or course one ~ould not care to cleanse in
| this way articles that are worn next IN the
| body, but for shaEls, c. pes and head cover
| iDgs -four answers adnsiI My.
| - Orange Marmalade.-Aiiov one pound OF
SUGAR TO one pound of fruit; pare half the
| oranges, and after scraping of as much Of
/ "a v-ni ind anti ba al
low part in fine shreds with q pair OF scissors;
| boil this in three waters until tender auo
transparent, and set aside; grats the ri nd of
| the remaining oranges, taEe of and throw
| away all the thick, white inner skin; quarter
all the oranges. and take out the seeds; chop
| them very fine; drain all the juice that csa
| be extracted without pressing them over the
| sul ar. and make the syrup with this, adding
| very little water IL the oranges ara not very
| juicy; boil and skim the syrup five or six
minutes; put in the boiled shreds aud c1ok
| for ten minutes then the chopped frait and
grated peel, and boil twelve minutes longer;
| hvS dozen oranges make about twelve
| pobn Is of marma!ade.
Cure for Felons A CORES posdent says:
! 81 have had q case OF fel0n in my family
lately, and treated it successfully by steam.
| ing the whole hand with bitter herbs. II was
allowed to progress, through ignorance. until
| badly swollen, exc ui5itely painful, and OF q
1
| hand, it involved the whole hand aud wrist
in the swelling. A handful each Of tansy,
hops cstnip aud NORWOOD was thrown in
an old basin, small quantity Of tobacco and
half q crplul Of soap added and sufficient
water to cover. When boiling hot the hand
was placed over the steam, and q small
blanket was thrown over the basin to retain
the steam which was applied until the mix.
ture cooled. This was repeated day and
night until the pain was entirely moved
which was in forty eight hours. The RELIEF
from the paroxysms of pain is almost msgi
| cal soon the steam is applied. The mix
ture was only once renewed. Between the
applications OF steam, poultice OF soft sosp
thickened with slippery elm -four was sp
| piled, bat think it was unnecessary. Aftel
using for day the hand was submitted to 8
physician who thought Ii should be lanced
or no relief would be found in less than q
week, but the next day the pain took is
final leave. No anodyne vas used to pro
cure sleep, the steaming instantly re
leved the pain until the next attack"