Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-01-28
HOUSEHOLD KINDS.

stead of oil and vinegar.
u Always be sure if knives and forks
become worn TO renew their plating.
The time was when tables were en-
tirely set with white; now we 90 to tho
other extreme and have a clutter
of all sorts of colors mixed together
without harmony.
Salads are good decorations. One
can not put anything on table more
beautiful than celery. Blue is not a
very good color for use. 1t is apt to
look cold and spotty with white.
1t is said by an experienced seam
stress that if you would only thread
your needle from tho end farthest from
from that broken off last, you would
never be troubled with the thread
knotting.
Frozen Fruit Cream-Mix one
pound of fruit with one quart of good
fresh cream, sweetened to taste Press
all through fine sieve and put in a
freezer and proceed rs with ice-cream.
If put into fancy molds, freeze first,
and then pack well in tho forms and
put back in the ice and salt.
Rice Bread-Boil one pound of rice
until soft in three quarts of water;
when cool, mix it well with four
pounds OF flour, two tablespoonfuls of
salt, and one small teacupful of
yeast. Knead it well, set it to rise. and
bake rs common bread. Add moro
water in boiling, should the rice re-
quire it.-Cdterer.
Lemon Sponge-Half an ounce of
gelatinc, two gills of water, rind and
juice of lemon, one ounce of sugar,
one white of egg. Dissolve the gelatnc
in the water, add the lemon rind and
sugar, strain the lemon juice into a
basin with the white of an egg, then
strain onto that the dissolved gelatine.
and whisk all together till quite stiff,
so that the spoon could stand up in it.
The best way to fasten an oilcloth
to the floor is to have the boards we'll
scrubbed, dried and covered with the
thick scrapmgs of n house painter S
pots, and to lay the cloth on it and
keep it pressed down with weighted
planks until the paint sets. Then the
cloth becomes part of the floor itself
and will remain serviceable for years.
Indeed, it may be said that good oil
cloth, laid in this way, will last for q
lifetime.
Connecticut Loaf Cake-Three pounds
of flour, one and half pounds sugar,
one pound of butter, one pint milk, seven
eggs, one pound currants, one gill OF
yeast. Melt the butter in the milk and
mix with the flour, adding the yeast last.
Set to rise over night, and in the morn
ing beat the sugar and eggs together,
with quarter of an ounce of cinnamon,
and add them and the currants. Bake in
loaves when light.-Cdterer.
Dat Flake Griddle GLADSTONE pint OF
oat flakes, a teaspoonful Of salt, an
ounce of melted butter, two eggs we'll
beaten, scant pint of milk; mix well
and stir in tablespoonful of flour.
When the griddle is hot grease il
slightly; pour from large spoon on the
griddle; continue until the griddle is
covered with small cakes, then turn the
first one, and SO on until all are done.
Wipe the griddlc with clean cloth, and
grease slightly after each baten. The
Cook.
The secret ola good puff paste, OF
even pain paste, is to have the butter
waXy. Wash il in ice water and flat.
ten it into waters; put it into a cold win.
dow. 1t should be almost brittle. II
you keep to this rule about the butter
and always work it with knife, Touring
your hands when you have TO touch the
paste, you will have light pastry. A ia.
blespoonful of salt and one of sugar goes
to quart of flour for light paste. Add
the water judiciously, as too much water
makes pastry hard.
If any article of household furniture
requires disinfecting occasionally, it is Q
carpet; especially if it has been used 8
considerable time. The following is &
method recommended by a lady house.
keeper, both rs a disinfectant and pre-
ventive of moths. Add three table
spoonfuls of turpentine to three quart:
of water. Saturate large spongS
with this mixture, squeeze it about two.
| thirds dry, and 90 over the carpet care
fully. As often rs the sponge becomes
dirty cleanse it and take in a fresh sup
ply of water.
Furniture Forgeries A so-callet
ancient piece of furniture may often be
discovered as an imposition if made o.
new oak; however, this may have beer
stained with artificial color, which fails
to give the rich, mellow hue which
comes from age. Furniture forgerie!
are, on the whole, best detected by want
of antiquarian accuracy, as, for instance
chairs and tables alleged to belong tt
the middle of the seventeenth century
the legs of which are not strengthened
and held together by cross bars near the
| floor.
Orange Puddings-Soak cupful o
stale bread in half cupful of milk un
til it can be beaten to pulp; mix will
it the grated rind of one orange, the
juice of two, sugar to taste, and tn,
yolks of two raw eggs; butter six small
cups, and set them in pan of no
water; then beat the whites of two egg
to Il stiff froth, mix them lightly witt
the other ingredients, partly fill thu
cups, and bake the buildings until thu
egg is done in a, moderate oyen--abou
fifteen or twenty minutes will be re
CURED; serve the buildings hot.
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