The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-08-19

SIRIPOF VINEGAR. -Four quarts vinegar and
two pounds sugar boiled until clear syrup.
Bottle it. Sc one on two tablespoons to Il glass
of water, and it will be found a very agreeable
beverage.
SHELVES OVER Doom FRAMES. Moorish
fret-WOrk makes an effective finish for shelves
over door frames. These shelves are excellent
receptacles for the odd pieces of pottery or
porcelain that would be "lost to sight in the
rccesseS of some china closet
LEMONADE ALWAYS READY. Squeeze the
juice from cozen lemons; boil the pulp in a
pint of water and add TO the Juice. To each
pint put an equal measure of white sugar and
boil ten minutes. Seal up. When wanted use
one tablespoon to glass of water.
CAKES FOR TEA. These cakes are good with
afternoon tea Mix for fifteen minutes four
eggs with half pound of sugar, half Il grated
nutmeg and as much powder cloves as will lie
on the tip of a thinner knife. Then add half Il
pound of dry and sifted flour and mix thorough
iy; have a creased or waXed tin; drop a table
spoonful of the dough at intervals upon it. and
bake pale brown in Il moderate oven.
TOMATO OMELET. Peel four ripe tomatoes,
and cut or chop them into little dice. Make Il
heaped tablespoonful of -four into Il smooth
paste with little cold milk; add Il little salt
and pepper, six wel-beaten eggs, and the to-
matoes. Beat the mixture thoroughly and fry
over if liked, but it must not be turned. 1t will
require from six to eight minutes to cook prop
erty.
WAY TO COOK Calls LIVER. Try this
Austrian method of cooking calfs liver: Re
move the skin from the liver and cut it in
pieces as thick your finger and lay them in
milk for several hours. Then take them out of
the milk and sprinkle them with flour; dip
them i'll beaten egg and cover them with flour
with which you have mixed little salt. Fry
them in hot drippings and serve garnished
with minced parsley.
FRIED APPLES though very old-fashioncd
dish, taste well for breakfast. Lay some small
bits of salt pork on the grddc and remove
when the grddle is very hot, and lay pieces of
fair, tart apples, as large as can be cut skin
uppermost on the griddle. They must be laid
ly fast, turn when brown and sprinkle with
salt, When sOftened thoroughly arrange on a
dish. They will be found very palatable. The
apples should not be mellow,
WoRk-BAGs OF TICKING. Little work-bays
of blue and white or pink and white ticking
are made in the shape of an envelope eight
inches long by six wide. The coored stripes
have line of golden silk in stem stitch The
white stripes have colOred silk briar, herring
bone and others of the various fancy stitches
through the centre. The lining is of silk and
bow of ribbon forms the fastening. Bags in
this shape of larger size may be made in the
same way or of plush, embroidered, as well as
of canvas, worked with silk,
AIRING HOUSES IN SUMMER. Every house
closed for the summer should be opened once a
week, so that each room may be thoroughly
aired, every waste pipe should be well flushed
| with water and have generous supply of dis.
infectants. The cellar should be well aired, and
| # the winters supply of coal be put in during
| the family's absence, floor and walls should be
thoroughly swept and the coal dust removed
not thrown into the coal bins. At least one
week before the return of the family the rooms
should be ventilated every day and the flushing
| Of the pipes attended to.
The DUSTER AND THE SOFT CLOTH. The
feather duster as flirter is unequaled, and, as
with other flrters, effects are so instant and so
pronounced as to blind the eyes to the real re-
suits. The dust flies, and because it flies 1t is
regarded as disodged permanently. Never
was there more mistaken notion. The feath-
er duster reaches inaccessible places and is the
least dangerous method Of freeing statutes and
paintings and all general ornamentations OF
wall or ceiling from the untirng and penetrat.