The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-29
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

lent summer desserts
Flour of sulphur sprinkled on a hot shovel,
and the fumesinhaed while they are fresh, will
cure cold in the head. A teaspoonful of sulphur
is sufficient, and does not cause dlsagreeable SEN
sations
announced-that of 'lampers.n These hampers
go from house to house each morning to fill and
trim lamps. Practice makes perfect, and they
are able to guarantee perfect light, wel-cared-
for lamps, and highly polished chimneys. These
hampers are comfort to many housekeeper,
and their charges are not excessive.
For washing embroidery in crewels or silk
pour gallon of boiling water on one pound OF
bran. Let it stand for twenty -four hours. stir
ring occasionally; strain and use. decoction
of soap bark is also excellent for the same pur-
pose. Simmer handful of soap bark in s. quart
of water until the bark is perfectly soft; strain
the decocton, dilute with water, and wash the
articles in it.
A preparation of ripe cucumber juice and ely-
cerine is recommended by an English chemist
for sunburn and for smoothing the face and
hands il roughened by exposure to the wind or
by the use Of the hard water one is obliged TO
make serve sometimes when travelling. Ii makes
sort of emollient milk, and is useful also to al
lay inflammation or irritation from the bites or
stings of insects
To make peach ice-cream pare and rub some
ripe peaches through fine sieve, and to one pint
of the pulp add three-quarters of pound of pull
verified sugar. Stir the mixture and add few
drops of almond extract, then mix together well
with one quart of cream, put it in your freezer
and freeze in the usual way. The cream is i'm
proved if it be heated to the boiling point and
then allowed to get cold before freezing
Try this way of making cucumber catsup:
Three dozen full-g-own cucumbers, eight white
onions peel both and cut as fine as possible; on
this sprinkle three-fourths of pint of fine salt,
then put the whole in sieve and drain for eight
fha kalyo foaa ft1l nf farA
half cup of ground black pepper, mix them we'll
with the cucumber aud onion; then put the
whole in q stone jar and cover with strong vine
gar closing IL tightly. It is fit for use In three
days, and will keep long time.
This is good way of frying tomatoes: Select
medium-sized smooth, feshy tomatoes and cut
them in round slices an inch thick; dip them in
beaten egg and then il bread crumbs then fry,
in little hot fat, on both sides, and serve with
this sauce: Mix one tablespoonful OF flour
smoothly with pint of milk, adding one ounce
of butter, creamed, whiskine it well with the
milk one beaten egg. a little salt, pepper and
mace. Place the stewpan on the range and SIM
mer until thick Put the tomatoes in the mid
die of warm dish, pour the sauce around them
and serve.
To make crab apple jelly wash peck Of crab
apples, put them In porcelain kettle, cover them
with cold water, set them over the fire, pnd boil
until they burst. Remove the kettle from the
| fire. and pour the juice, through sieve, into an
earthen dish. Then put the apples into the sieve,
letting them remain until the juice is thoroughly
drained from them. Strain the juice through a
bag, hoped over an earthen dish "a cotton bag
will do, though many prefer fannel); to every
pint OF the strained juice allow one pint of sugar.
Boil the juice for few minutes, taking off the
scum as it rises; add the sugar, stirring until 1t
| is dissolved and boil the syrup until it ieies on
spoon. skimming as long as any scum rises.
Have ready q dozen and a half jelly tumblers,
pour the jelly into them, let it thoroughly cool,
| and then cover.
Spiced peaches are prepared by brushing the
skins, sticking six eight whole cloves in each,
and then covering them with cold vinegar IL
| any mold shows, the vinegar is to be scalded and
| again poured over the peaches, which are to be
kept cool. Sweet picked peaches may be left
uncut, or the stones may be removed from the
| halves Brush off the fur, or peel them, and then
| weigh them. ALLOW half their weight of sugar.
and a quart of vinegar and heaping table
spoonful of whole spice to each pound of sugar
| Boil the sugar and vinegar together, removing
all scum as 1t rises. When the syrup is clear put
| in as many peaches as will float, and boil them
until they begin 70 soften, then skim them out
When all the peaches are boiled put in the SPICE
and boil the syrup until it thickens Put the
peaches in jars, pour the not syrup over them.
and when they are cold seal them air-tight
new device has been discovered for making
money at church fairs. which will be welcomed
as soon as the frosts come and the season is on
u
nuts and use the meats for home made candy,
taking care to preserve the shells in whole
halves" during the cracking process. Then
write out personal remarks from the poets
easily selected from birthday books, enough so
that each buyer will find corn plimentary allu-
sion to himself inside the walnut Place the
sentiment between the shells AMI fasten them to-
gether on one side with glue or by running blue
ribbon through holes in each half which have
been made with hot knitting needle. Bronze
over the shells and the dish of compliments is
attractive in appearance and bound to net sew
eral hundred per cent on first cost labor of
course, counting as nothing The candies should
be served with the shells
Boston Transcript: That wooden smoke is
cure for a felon is certainly one of the medical
discoveries of the age. Could we give the name
OF the correspondent who sends US the following,
it would at once be recognized as of authority
sufficient TO guarantee the truthfulness of any
assertion TO which it might be appended "lf
you ever endured the agony of felon, you will
appreciate the fact that it can be cured by
WOODEN smoke. Place the wooden rags under an
inverted flower pot, and put Goals upon them, or
set them on fire IN some other way. then hold
tne feIon over the smoke, and it will extract all
the pain. This has been done by friend of
mine within week ] assure you that in my
circle we considerit as great discovery as that
ether will temporarily deaden pain. TA o,l,,
remedy for felon that over consaared ;ntaIi;
BILE, and have had aognizance of several agera.
Vatea caseS' ~as having the part laid open fun
oef snA influence of ether and the bone thor
oughly scraped That reaches the root of the
difficulty; but the smoke cure is far better"