The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-11
HOuSEnOLO r1INTS.

Furs and woolens should 60 into
tarred-paper lined chests.
Shcesef lemon, freshly cut, bound
tightly upon the temples, are said to be
sure cure for nervous headache.
| Dampen the dusting cloth the night
before sweeping day, and you will find
it will help greatly to do neat job OF
busting.
If buttermilk is used for griddle cakes
! it should be diluted one third with water,
so as to prevent the cakes becoming
sticky.
The latest style of asparagus plates
have three deep troughs, one for the
vegetable, one for the sauce and an
other for the stems.
The wings of turkeys, geese and
chickens are better than cloth for wash
ing and cleaning windows, as they leave
no dust or lint.
The hands-very clean-ean not be
improved upon for mixing up cake
batter. They are a great improvement
over the doughstick or spoon.
Sandwiches-Chop ham very fine,
season well and place between two
slices of nicely buttered bread. Then
with sharp knife cut off the crusts,
and cut diagonally across the rest,
making two little three-cornered sand
wiches. These are very dainty looking.
A good substitute for caper sauce is
made by boiling parsley slowly until it
becomes discolored; then cut but do not
chop it fine. Drain it, mix one tea
spoonful of vinegar with each teaspoon
full of parsley and STIR it into drawn
butter as pickle capers or nasturtiums
would be used.
The application of hot camomile
flower bags will frequently afford relief
in neuralgia troubles. The bags are
with camomfle blossoms, all the stems
being removed. When required for
use they are heated on tin plate in
the oven, care being taken not to scorch
them.
Scalloped Tomatoes-Strain the Ii
quor from can of tomatoes and set
aside to add to soup. Butter pie or
pudding dish; sprinkle the bottom with
fine crumbs; pour in the tomatoes, pep
per, salt and sugar to taste; stick bits
of butter among them, cover thickly
with. crumbs and bake quickly to a light
brown.
To Broll Ham Nicely-Slice the meat
from the ham raw as thin as you can;
! then put it into pan of cold water, set
it on the stove in a stew pan, and let it
come to boil; then have your griddle
hot and broil the meat, with a little
butter dropped into the pan and plen-
tiful sprinkling of black pepper.
Rhubarb Marmalade-Peel five or
anges, taking away the white rind and
pips; put the pulp into the stewpan
with the peel cut very. small, add five
pounds of rhubarb cut small, and four
pounds of loaf sugar; boil the whole
two hours, and the fruit half an hour
before adding the sugar; three lemons
instead of five oranges may be used if
preferred.
Excellent soft gingerbread is made of
one cupful Of sugar, one cupful of but
ter, one cupful of sour cream, one cup
full of New Orleans molasses, four
cupfuls of sifted flour, one tablespoon
full of soda dissolved in little hot wat
er, one tablespoonful of ginger, three
well.beaten eggs, the grated rind of
one lemon. Raisins may be added if
you please.
| To keep ice in the sick room cut a
piece of cheap, open-meshed flannel
about nine inches square and secure it
by ligature about the mouth of an or
dinary tumbler, so as to leave cup
shaped depression about half the depth
of the glass. 1t will be preserved for
many hours in this way, and the addi-
tion of smaller piece of flannel as a
loose cover will materially aid in pre-
servation.
! Paste for Oyster or Chicken Pie To
one pound of butter take out one and
half pounds of flour, leave out q
i quarter of the flour, cut a quarter OF
the butter into the rest. and wet it with
gill of milk or water. Roll out the
paste, and spread it with another quar-
ter of the butter, and part of the flour
set aside. Turn in the edges and re-
peat until all the butter is in. Touch
as little as possible in warm weather.