The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-13
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
In warm weather refrigerator closets should
be washed with soda and cold water once or
twice week.
Pulverized borax sprinkled on shell yes and in
corners of store-cosets. is a safeguard from
ants. Ii pulverized borax is mixed with Persian
powder, the powder will be more effective.
Oil-cloths should never be washed in hot soap
suds; they should first be washed clean with
cold water then rubbed dry with clio tn wet IN
milk. The same treatment applies to a stone or
slate hearth.
A female contributor to the household de-
partment of an exchange joyf ully announces
that women may be delivered from the reproaeh
OF being unable to drive nail by the simple
process of dipping the tips of the nails In lard,
after which, she says, they will penetrate the
hardest wood.
For strawberry ice-cream take pint of fresh,
ripe, good strawberries, put them in q
bowl and strew over them half pound Of pull
verified sugar. Then mash them we'll with q
wooden spoon, rub the pulp through fine hair
sieve and mix the juice with pint of thick
cream and the Juice of medium sized lemon.
Now put the whole into freezer and freeze in
the ordinary way
For soft ginger bread put one teacupful Of
dark molasses, half cupful brown sugar, and half
cupful butter into pan, and set it where it will
just come to boil Cool, and add one table,
spoonful ginger. one of cinnamon, tablespoonful
salt ard one egg. Stir in one cup sour milk. butt
termilk or cream, and two and q half cups flour.
beat WELL and last of all add teaspoonful
soda dissolved in ore-third cup of warm-not hot
water. Bake in moderate oven.
A fine frosting can be made of one cup grau-
ulated sugar and one fourth cup milk, without
either egg or gelatine. Method: Stir sugar into
milk over a slow fire till it boils; boil FIVE min
utes without stirring remove from fire; set
saucepan in cold water, or on ice, while You stiH
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The advantages of this frosting are that it will
keep longer than the egg or gelatine frosting,
and it will cut without breaking or crumbling.
Favored to suit the taste, it is excellent.
Here is a savory dish of rice Put one-quarter
of a pound of well-washed rice in saucepan
with enough cold water to cover il, and let 1t
boil for five minutes. Drain it and put it back
in the saucepan with three quarters of pint OF
milk and a little pepper and salt then boil gently
until it is rather dry and quite soft Place
small, wellbuttered bakingdish, making
cheese the top layer Put some small bits OF
dripping on the cheese; brown in a good oven
and serve very hot.
Strawberry or raspberry pickle may be made
thus: Put the berries in jar, layer in the
bottom first with cinnamon and cloves scat tered
over them; then put another layer of berries.
and continue in this way until the jar is nearly
FULL then pour over them syrup made OF two
cups of vinegar and about three cups of sugar;
neat ILLS TO the UOlllDR pOlnU ana CHeu pour 10
into the jar. Let it stand from one morning
until the next; then pour berries and syrup into
a preserving kettle and let them boil slowly for
nearly half hour. If you be careful to let
them cook slowly and do not break them when
stirring the berries will keep their shape per-
fectly. If canned they are sure to be fresh and
delicious when wanted
A Dutch sauce for salad is made thus: "Put
three teaspoonfuls of vinegar in a saucepan, and
reduce it on the fire to one third; add onequarter
of pound Oh butter and the yolks of two eggs.
Place the saucepan on slow fire, stir the con-
tents continuously with spoon, and as fast as
the butter melts add more until one pound is
used. If the sauce becomes too thick at any
time during the process add a tablespoonful Of
cold water, and continue stirring. Then put in
pepper and salt to taste, and take great care not
to let the sauce boil. When it is made--that is.
when all the butter is used and the sauce is OF
the proper thickness-put the saucepan contain.
ing it into another filled with warm mot boilingl
water until the time of serving"
Of outline embroidery, a writer in the Phla-
dephia Record says I'm outline work there are
many possibilities that may be effectively used
in the ornamentation of portieres. For summer
cottage what could be more charming than a
curtain Of ecru or yellow India silk upon which
are worked, at intervals, covering the entire
body of the curtain, geometrical figures, cres-
cents. and all sorts of odd figures, with dull red,
old blue and olive filoselle2 1t might be accentu-
ated as it were. by the addition Of an occasional
applique or SILK III the dull colorS OF the en-
broidery. Unbleached linen sheeting might be-
used in place of the silk with good effect, and
the worker may rest assured that her
outline embroidery will loose nothing
of it's charm by oft-repeated washings. On
heavier materials heavier outlines must be
worked. Thus blue army blanket may be
transformed into thing of beauty by outlining
upon it odd designs with embroidery, silk or
several strands Of filoselle Another kind Of
outline work is done by following the design
with heavy strands of crewel couched down with
filoselle sewing silk. This is however. only
suited to bold, large patterns. Unbleached mus
lin, lined with turkey red, or blue, or orange and
trimmed with gay Madras gnghams makes
bright and pretty curtains. Canton flannel
trimmed with bandanna Observation-Disclosures
makes an effective curtain when properly placed,
and the canton flannel arranged after the man
ner of stripes in Roman ribbon, the seams dis
guised with herring bone feather stitches, is
exceedingly pretty, besides being among the
most economical materials for portieres."