Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-20
~HoUsEKEEPER'S HELP.

INSECT DGsTROYERs--To keep insects
out bird cages, tie up a little sulphur in q
bag and suspend it in the cage. Red ants
will never Do found in closet or drawer If q
small bag of sulphur be kept there con-
stsntly.
STRAWBERRY JELLY.-Crush the fruit
and strain through u conrse linen bag, and
to each pint of Juice allow one pound OF
sugar; boil ten minutes, skitnming as nee
esssry; pour hot into Jelly glasses and stNud
the glasses in the sun as for preserves for
two days,
BLACKBERRY JAM-To each pound of
ripe fruit, very ripe stewed in a porcelain
kettle, add one pound Of best loaf sugar.,
and mOsh the contents fine with a strong
iron or wooden spoon, while still upon the
fire. When well mixed and boiled fifteen
minutes longer, stirring well the mean
while, fill small jars or glasses, and set
away.
CusrARD FOR CAEE.-0ne pint Of rich
new milk, one egg, one tablespoonful OF
-four, one of corn starch. Flavor same a.
cake: sweeten to taste. Boil until thick in
C tin or esrthen vessel, set IN hot water.
When nearly cool, spread on sl Of the
cake but one and put together the same as
Jelly cake; cover the top layer with soft
icing.
STRAWBERRY SYRUP.-For five quarts OF
fruit allow twelve pounds OF sugar and one
pint of water, sprinkle the fruit with some
of the sugar and let it stand over night
then crush the berriee, strain, washing out
pulp with the pint Of water; add the re,
naming sugar aud bring to the boiling
points, again strain; bottle n cork al
once; keep in q coo! place
SrRAwBERRY Jam TO six pounds Of
fruit allow four pounds of sugar; remove
| the calyxe.; crush and put into preserving
kettle and cook one.hslt hour over a mod,
crate fire, stirring constantly; remove from
the range and add the sugar; mix the
sugar with the fruit, and again boil 20
minutes, stirring 90 before. To tell when
sufficiently cooked, take out a t%easpooufuI
on a plate, and If no Juice gathers about
il, and it looks strong and sparkling, it has
cooked enough. Every hoqsekeeper should
be provided With G miniature apple butter
stirrer for jams, etc.
BLACK CURRANr LIQUOR No l. Boil a
quart of ripe black currsntS and o dozen
bruised cloves in three half pints of water
for half an hour, then filter the jaict
through g ielly-bsg. Add a pound and 6
halt of loaf sugar, and boil the Juice sgair
a quarter Of an hour, skimmiug it care
fully. When nearly cold filter it through
fine flannel. Add three pints OF proc
,virit, and bottle it for future use. No. z
!. Bruise q pint of black currants, pat then
in : bottle with three halt pints OF sp'rl
and three quarters of q pound OF bruised
sugar-candy. Let this stand elk or eigh
weeks, and filter it for use.
: PRESERVED STRAWBERRIES --Inre
quarters Of 3 pound of fruit and a pint Q
water 20 seven pounds Of sugar. Put tn
sugar and water into Q porcelain kettl
and boil them seven to ten minutes &C
eordipg to thickness, then add the t;ui
previously washed and drained and DO
four minutes; sEim out tie fruit; turn 10
syrup into tin pans and set IN the snr
So it is to cool; let it stand in che sun-
b protesting frop insects-the sunny part
two days; pgt into glass and screw down
r it is not necessary, however, to 2 theE
!, sirt;qht.
. CAMEO SrREgBERRIRs-FM glass es1
with fresh, whole strsgbsrries sprinkle
. With sugar in proportion Of one halt poun
Of sugar to q quart of fruit; put on Ii
. tops aud scrss dlNH 81 obcs IS tightly
possibls; Gil . wash boiler With cold waite
previously putting an old Dish at the DO
tom-s perforated tin made TO ct the boI
er, is q great Improvement on old plate
I.in-and stand in the jars. The wat
should be witnin 80 iaches OF 'ns Top
vlsu .as water boils, note the time al
boil twenty minutes, drsy to he hsck
the stove; take out the cans and stand on
niece of flannel; screw down sgain g. u
cans cool, causing contraction OF the glas
turn down and down again until ar tgh