Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To clean ornaments Of alabastei
dissolve boraX in boiling water and ap
ply with a cloth or soft brush. rinse anG
dry in the sun.
Mashed potato should never be
smoothcd on the top, as it makes il
heavy. Potatoes need IA hot dish, rs
does almost every thing that is cooked.
Keep large squares of thick paste
board hung conveniently to slip under
pots, kettles. stew dishes and spiders,
whenever YOU set them down.
If, before grinding the mornings
coffee the berries are heated for four
or five minutes, or until they take on a
darker shade of brown, the flavor of the
coffee will be much improved.
Among vegetables peas, beans and
lentiles hold front rank rs supplying
real food to the body. while the vege-
table oils, such as olive or peanut oil,
are useful in Supplying the body with
fats. ~ Christja1' at Work.
Apple Ice Cream. Three quarts
apple sauce swcetencd to taste, one
quart water in which apples were
cooked one quart sweet cream, beaten
well together; just before cream Is
frozen. oeat light the whites of three
eggs and stir into it.
-Com-starch Cake, One cup sugar,
one-hal cup butter, one-hall cup sweet
milk, one heaped-up cup Hour, one tea
spoonful croam-ol-tartar, one-half tea
spoonful soda, three teaspoouiuls corn
starch dissolved in the milk. Mix, add
ing last the whites OF four eggs. Sea-
son TO suit taste.
The following is said to be of bone
fit for ingrowing toenails Heat Il
small hit of tallow very hot in spoon,
and pour it on the EXAMINATIONS. Pain
and tenderness are relieved at once.
and if repeated frequently the edge ot
the nail will be exposed in u few days,
and then can be cut away.
Sugar Biscuit -Sft together one
and one-half pints OF Hour, ono-half Of
a tablespoonful of salt, one large cupful
Of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and rub in one tablespoonful
of lard. Mix with two eggs and one
half pint of milk Cut into biscuits and
bake Good HoR5eheepG'g.
Enamel for Shirt Bosoms. Melt to-
ge.her with Il gentle heat one ounce of
white wax and two ounces of sporma-
ceti; prepare in thesusual way sufi-
cient quaatity Of starch for Il dozen
bosoms; put into it piece of this en-
mnel the size of a hazel-rut. This will
give clothes beautiful polish,
Blackberry Cordial. Simmer fresh
ripe blaclberies until they break
Strain through cheese cloth, pressing
well to extract all the juice, To each
pint OF juice, add one pound of loaf
sugar. one-half ounce ofcmnamon, one
fourth ounce OF cloves and one-fourth
of mace. Boil fifteen minutes, bottle,
cord we'll and keep in Il dry cool place
Valuable III summer complaints Of
children.
Scotch Cookies. Beat two cups of
sugar with one Of butter and five table
spoonfuls of milk. in which has been
dissolved one teaspoonGul OF soda. Beat
two eggs quite light and add them.
Mix two teaspoonfnls Of cream of tartar
with half a pound OF hour and a table
spoonful of powdered cinnamon. Mix
the whole together, adding more flour
from time TO time TO make u dough.
Roll very thin, and bake quickly in
large round cakes.
A Good Mouth Wash Get five
cents worth of boraX and two and
half cents worth Of tine,urc of myrrh;
dissolve the borax in three parts of
boiling rainwater; when cool, add tine
ture OF myrrh and one tablespoonful of
spirits of camphor. Bottle. Wash the
teeth morning and evening with one
tablespoonful of the mixture, diluted
with same quantity of warm water.
This preserves the teeth from decay.
and IS good for toothache and sore
mouth.
For cleaning marble take one-half
pound Of soda and one pound of whit
ing, mix with warm water and stir to
the consistency of cream. Stand this
in a jar in the oven over night; in the
morning stir it and lay the paste about
half an inch thick over the marble pre-
viously we'll washed with soap and
waters leave this on the marble for
twenty-four hours, then wash again
and polish with soft cloth, For very
bad stains this process may have to be
repeated twice.
-Macaroni Pudding To make this
RppetiZing dish take one cupful broken
macaroni, one and one-half pints milk
tour eggs, one cupful of sugar, one
large tablespoonful butter, one tea
spoonful extract vanilla. Boil macaro-
nj in well sailed water ten minutes
then add to the boiling milk, and sim
mer twenty minutes longer; remove from
the fire, pour on sugar, eggs and but
ter beaten together, lastly add extract
put in we'll buttered pudding dish, bake