St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-07-28
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Mahogany furniture should be
washed with warm water and soap; an
application of beeswax and sweet oil
upon a soft cloth, and polished with
chamois, gives rich finish.
Lemon Cheese Cake. One pound
OF sugar, one-half pound of butter, juice
OF three lemons, grated rinds Of two,
yelks of six eggs, whites of four; beat
thoroughly, put in jar and placsin
pan of water and boil till thick; turn
into mold serve cold.
For washing fine blankets, take two
gallons of water, add a half cup each
of ammonia and alcohol, mixed to a
suds with CASTLE soap. They should
be sopped up and down in it, rinsed in
tepid water, well shaken, and improved
by carding with a comb while on the
line drying.
"A cheap chamois skin for washing
windows will soon repay its cost in
time and labor saved, and nothing
makes glass look better. To cleanse the
skin after use rub plenty of soft soap
into it, let it lie an hour or two in a
warm solution of soda water, rub clean
and rinse in warm water in which soda
and hard soap have been dissolved.
Raspberry Pudding. Boil a pint of
milk and stir into it two tablespoonful
of cornstarch which have been wet
with little cold milk Then add two
eggs beaten with one-half a cupful of
sugar. Put cupful of raspberry jana
in the bottom of dish and pour the
custard over it. Serve while warm
with sugar and cream.-Good House.
keeping.
Amber cream is an excellent, easily
prepared dessert-in favor when milk
and eggs are plentiful. Soak half a
box of gelatine in one quart of milk for
ten minutes. Let it come to boil and
stir in the yelks of six eggs, beaten,
with seven heaping teaspoonfuls of
powdered sugar. Cook until it is like
soft custard. When it has been off the
stove just five minutes, put in the beat
en- whites, flavor and mold.
Milk heated to much above one
hundred degrees Fahrenheit loses for a
time degree of its sweetness and
density. The promptness with which
its cordial influence is felt is indeed
surprising. Some portion of it seems
to be digested and appropriated almost
Immediately, and many who now fancy
that they need alcoholic stimulants
when exhausted by fatigue will find in
this simple draught an equivalent that
will be abundantly satisfying and far
more enduring in its effects.
One of the best and simplest rene
dies for torpid liver or biliousness is
glass of hot water with the juice of half
a lemon squeezed in it, but no sugar,
night and morning. A person to whom
found himself better almost Immediate
ly. His daily headaches, which medi-
cine had failed to cure, left him; his
appetite improved and he gained sew
eral pounds within few weeks. This
is so simple a remedy that any person
thus afflicted will do well to give it q
trial. as it can not possibly do any harm.
american.
OF ordinary ways to kill the carpet
beetle, ironing wet clothes over the af-
fected part has met with much favor
among practical housewives. Place two
Or three thicknesses of common towing,
wrung out of water just so it will not
drip, on the carpet and iron until dry.
The iron must be very hot as the object
is to make steam enough to thoroughly
penetrate the carpet and kill the insects.
Wooden garments not in use are best
protected by tying up in paper bags or
putting away in perfectly close boxes.
Every crevice, even that where the
cover meets the box, must be pasted
over with paper, as these small insects
will enter the tiniest cracks.