The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-07-14
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Hints and Recipes.
Wash the hair in cold SAGE tea.

Wash the hair in cold sage tea.
To remove ink stains soak in sour milk
over night.
To brighten and clean old alapaca
wash in coffee.
To brighten carpets sprinkle with salt
before sweeping.
When cooking beans add one-half tea
spoon of saleratus.
To polish stove rub with newspaper
| instead of brush
Mix stove polish with vinegar and
teaspoonful of sugar.
To remove tea stains from cups and
saucers scour with ashes.
Soft waffles-One quart of milk, four
eggs, one-quarter of pound of butter
yeast; to be made as thin as pan cakes.
To remove grease from wall paper lay
several folds of blotting paper on the
spot and hold hot iron near it until the
grease is absorbed.
Crackers that are not fresh can be made
to appear so by putting them into hot
oven for short time. Watch them care
fully, as minute too long will serve to
brown and spoil them.
A good potato, when cut, will show a
light cream color, and a white froth will
be the result produced by rubbing the
cut surface together. Reject that variety
where drops of water appear. Another
test is to put potatoes into solution of
salts; the good will sink, the poor float.
Bishops bread-Beat fourteen ounces
of sugar with the yolks OF six eggs and
the whites of three for half an hour.
Then add slowly eight ounces of -four,
six ounces of blanched almonds cut in
thin strips, six ounces of raisins and
three ounces of citron cut in fine pieces.
Pour in well-gressed pan and bake
slowly.
To bleach a sponge, soak it we'll in
dilute muriatic acid twelve hours Wash
we'll with water to remove the lime. then
immerse it in a solution of hyposulphite
of soda, to which dilute muriatic acid
has been added a moment before. All :
it is bleached sufficiently remove it,
wash it again and dry it. 1t may thus
be bleached almost snow white.
Birds net pudding-Peel and core
eight tart apples; in each hollow stuff
sugar and little cinnamon; make bat.
ter of pint of -four, a spoonful of corn
starch, large teaspoonful of baking
powder and spoonful of melted butter.
Mix with milk to the consistency OF
drop-cake, pour over the applies and
bake three-quarters of an hour. Eat
with sauce.
Petroleum jelly serves to clean and
take away all traces of dirt from the
hands after work in the shop or labo-
ratory. For that purpose, you need only
rub the hands with small amount of the
jelly, which, penetrating into the pores
of the skin, Incorporates itself with the
greasy matters which are there. Wash
them with warm water and CASTLE soap,
and the hands become cleansed and soft
ened.
A palatable supper dish-Line a veg
etable dish with well-seasoned mashed
potatoes; leave a large space in the
centre, wet it over with the white of an
egg, or with milk sweetened with a very
little sugar, and put it in the oven to
brown delicately; take about two dozen
oysters, and little milk, with butter,
pepper and salt, and let it come to
boil on the top of the stove Put in
with the oysters few thin slices of cold
roast beef; when this is sufficiently
heated and the oysters cooked, pour il
into the space left in the potato lined
dish.