The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-22
Household Hints.

How to Prepare Sailed Almonds-Pour boil
ing water over let staad a few moments until
the skin will slip off easily. Then sprinkle
salt over them, or let each one salt them to suit
their taste.
Orange icing is not only easily made, but is
pretty delightful to the taste. Take One-half
pound Of powdered sugar, one tablespoonful
of boiling water, grated rind of one orange and
sufficient orange juice to moisten- Put the
sugar in bowl, add the rind and the water and
juice. The icing should be very stiff and used
Immediately.
Orange cake, with vanilla sauce, is one of the
cheapest, quickest made desserts known, and
is just the thing when friend drops in to dine
and the housekeeper is unprepared-an every
day occurrence. Take small, stale sponge
cakes (lady fingers dip them In orange juice,
place them IN glass dish, and pour over the
vanilla sauce. Serve at once.
Coffee Cakes-Ope cup of sweet milk, two Of
sugar, one of butter, three well-beaten eggs
three teaspoonsful of baking powder, worked
into Hour enough 10 make a stiff dough; roll
out thin and slit ground cinnamon, then sheet
and roll into roll, cut off slices from the roll
and place on tins; before baking sprinkle
rather thickly dry white sugar on the tops OF
the ashes.
Layer Cake-One and one-half cups of sugar
half a cup of butter one-half cup of sweet
milk two heaping cups of flour, with two tea
spoonsful OF baking powder three eggs the
white and yelks beaten separately. For the
filling take cup OF sugar and little water,
and boil them together until the strip is brittle
when dropped into cold water. Then remove
from the fire and stir quickly into the we'll
beaten white OF an egg. Add TO this cup Of
stoned raiSins chopped fine or a cup of chopped
hickorynut meats and place between layers
and over the top.
A Cure for Bunions-It is almost impossible
to cure a bunion. 4 French medical journal,
RerUe -Hedieaie dc LouUain, says DIR. Salemi OF
Nice uses the following method: The foot is
washed with soap and water, after which the
adjoining healthy parts protected by a
thick coat of elastic collOdion. Picnic acid is
now melted and applied to the hardened sur
face by means of a pointed brush. After al
lowing 1t to dry for several minutes the excess
OF acid remaining may be taken up with ordin-
airy blotting paper. This application should be
repeated every three or four days until a cure
results.
4 Swiss Cure for Fresh Cold-Camphor,
says the Lancet, has often been recommended
for colds in the head, although DIR. George
Johnson and others have long since indicated
the dangers from concentrated alcoholic solu-
the following method: Into jug half filled
with boiling water put drachm Of powdered
camphor; over it place a funnel-shaped paper
from which the apex has been torn of, so as TO
admit the nose. The camphorated steam may
thus be drawn in through the mares for ten TO
fifteen minutes Any cOryza. il is maintained.
however severe, will yield to three such appli-
cations.
Mutton Outlets, Tomato Sauce-Teke half a
can of tomatoes selecting the most solid part,
and stew them twenty minutes with a little
parsley, two cloves, pepper and salt. Put a
teaspoonful of butter in clean saucepan over
the FIRE, and when it reaches the bubblng point
add a large teaspoonful of -four. Mix this
smoothly, and when thoroughly cooked add the
tomatoes, which must first have been passed
through a sieve stir the sauce well. BroiI
quickly over a hot fire half a dozen well.
trimmed mutton outlets, arrange them on a
platter, and pour the tomato sauce around
them. The dish should be served smoking hot
to be good.
Pineapple Fritters-Make batter of one
pint Of milk, three eggs, cup of salt and a
pint of -four, with teaspoonful of baking
powder. Use canned pineapples. Divide the
slices into small triangular pieces dip each in
the batter and fry it 10 golden brown color in
plenty of boiling lard Dish them on folded
napkin, sprinkle them lightly with powdered
sugar and serve them as quickly as possible
Send to table with them a sauce made as fol-
lows Strain the pineapple juice which will
be lett in the can into a small enameled sauce.
pan, and add to it the juice of half a lemon, a
wineglassiul of white wine and teaspoonful
of powdered sugar. Bring this to a boiling
point and thicken 10 the consistency of thin
cream with arrOwroot mixed with little cold
water. If preferred, the pineapple may be
minced and mixed with the batter