Daily Republican., 1886-06-02
HOUSEHOLD.


A crescent-shaped cushion of old
gold velvet or satin may be embroider-
ed with daisies or forget-me-nots.
A single panel screen has branch
of white lilacs. This design is very
effective when painted on the pale
green seamless mating.
Never let match go out of your
hand after lighting il until you are sure
the fire is out, and then it is better to
put it in stove or earthen dish.
If you have pictures hanging against
an outer wall protect them from any
possible damp by covering the back
with sheet lead, or else keep them
from contact with the wall by corks
fastened to the lower end of the
frames.
A sofa-pillow of China silk is cover
ed with conventionalized roses worked
in outline stitch in silk, in shades of
dull red. In the centre is a disc with
two youthful faces in profile, in the
manner of medallions.
Excellent Cough Medicine:-Steep
equal quantities of thoroughwort, flax
seed, slippery elm bark and licorice
root, strain, add equal parts Of molas-
SEES and sugar; cook to syrup. This
is very good for cough.
Brown Bread:-One pint each of
graham flour, Indian meal and butter
milk, two-thirds cup of molasses, and
one teaspoonful each of soda and salt.
Steam three hours. Sour milk may
be used, adding a little shortening.
A standing antidote for poison by
poison oak, ivy, &c, is to take u hand
full of quicklime, dissolve in water,
let it stand half an hour, then paint
the poisoned parts with it. Three or
four applications, it is said, will cure
the cases.
If there are any closets in the house
near chimneys or flues, which there
ought not to be, put nothing of a COM
bustible nature into them. Such
closets will soil silver and crack
crockery and burn bedding They
form bad part ofany house that con-
tains them.
A cream named after Prince Puck.
Ter is made of three ounces OF maca
rooms rolled very fine and beaten into
one pint of cream. Whip until stiff,
sweeten to taste, flavoring with one
wineglass of sherry and the juice Of
one lemon. Freeze and serve.
A dainty dish for breakfast or lunch
IS made of slices of fresh crisp toast,
buttered very slightly. On each slice
put salmon and cucumber, or cold
meat and chutney; sprinkle with pep
per and wrap each slice in a lettuce
Leaf that has been stepped in vinegar,
Fried cake.-One beaten egg, three
heaping tablespoonful of sugar, three
tableepoontuls of melted shortening,
six tablespoonfuls of sour milk or but
termilk, one tablespoonful of salt and
one tablespoonful of soda. Flavor
with nutmeg. Flour to make as stiff
as biscuit.
When cleaning tin dishes and uten
sill, a little cooking soda on the darl
spots with thorough washing in no
suds, is almost equal to regular scour
ing. do not mean at the time of gen
eral cleaning, but in the daily disl
washing and every day work. Thi'
is very easy method and wortt
| knowing.
Cheese cake-Take two cups of cot
tage cheese, mash well with the bach
of spoon, add three eggs not beaten
one at time, sugar TO suit your taste
one tablespoonful of flour, crate in a
little nutmeg, add salt and milk enough
to make it little thicker than custard
Bake with an under crust. When
ready for the oven sprinkle cinnamon
on top.
Unfermented grape juice-Cook the
grapes, strain the liquid, sweetcn ant
cook q few moments. Seal in air tigh
jars the same as fruit preserving. l
perfectly done this will not ferment
and mixed with little water is a good
thing for the stomach in many in
stances where tonic and not a stimu.
liant is needed.
An appetizing way to use remnants
of cold beef is to mince the beef very
fine and put a thick layer of it ovel
macaroni or spaghetti that has been
boiled for twenty minutes in sailed
water. Over the layer of beef poul
canned or fresh stewed tomatoes tina
have been stewed with bit Of onion
a little parsley and some butter, ther
cover with bread or cracker crumbs
over which bits of butter are dropped
and bake in a quick oven until nict
brown.