Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-05
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


The continual use of Persian insect
powder will drive moths away from fur
niture. Its frequent renewal is neces-
sary until all are killed.
Large onions will require at least
two hours to boil and are nicer if the
water is changed once, adding little
salt to the last one. Chop them in a
bowl with plenty of butter, pepper and
salt.-Household.
Mock Capers: Gather nasturtium
seed when full grown, but before they
are yellow, let them dry little, then
put into cans, and cover with boiling hot
spiced vinegar, close tightly for two or
three weeks. These are excellent to use
with drawn butter for fish, or boiled
mutton.-Good Housekeeping.
Pineapple Rock Candy: Boil one
pound of sugar until clear, take some
preserved pineapple and wipe the pieces
dry, and also dry them in an oven if
convenient, then add a cupful to the
candy, pour into a creased pan; this
candy must be eaten at once.-Boston
Herald.
To remove white paint shake three
pounds of quicklime in water and add
one pound of pearl-ash, making the
whole the consistence of paint. Lay this
over the old work with brush and let
it remain from twelve to fourteen hours,
when the paint will be easily scraped
off.
-Eye-Water: Break three eggs into
one quart of clear rain-water, stir, let
boil, then add one-half ounce of sugar of
lead, stir few minutes, set off to COOL
The curd, bound on the eye at night,
will draw out all Inflammation and sore
ness. The liquid on top is the best eye
water ever -made.-Farm and Fireside.
Hotel Cakes: Take a half pound of
blanched hazel nuts and four bitter al
monds. Mix the white of an egg with
them, and pound together in a mortar;
then add one pound of fine sugar, few
drops of orange flower water and cream
enough to mix the whole to paste.
Make good, puff paste, cut into shapes
the thickness of crown piece, cover
with the mixture and bake in a hot
oven.
Eggs and Cream: Hard boil ten
eggs, slice them in rings in the bottom of
baking-dish, sprinkle in some cracker
crumbs, then place thick layer of the
egg, add pieces of butter, salt and pep
per, and sprinkle more cracker crumbs
thinly over them; continue this until all
the egg is used; sprinkle cracker crumbs
last, add pieces of butter and pour over
the whole half pint of cream; place in
the oven to brown; serve with any kind
of cold meat for lunch.
oh
quarters of an inch to one inch wide, are
very pretty for etchings, engravings or
water-colors. Plain frames are the best.
Who has not seen an elaborate gilt
frame, inches and inches wide, contain
ing tiny color or print in the center?
To me this is ridiculous. The picture
should be the noticeable thing-not the
frame. Plain, fiat, natural wood frames
showing the grain, are very pretty in
deed.-Rural New Yorker.
An Excellent Paste: Take two
ounces of clear gum arabic, one ounce
and half of fine starch, and one-half
ounce of white sugar. Pulverize the
gum arabic, and dissolve it in as much
water as the laundress would use for the
quantity of starch indicated. Dissolve
the starch and sugar in the gum solu
ton. Then cook the mixture in a YES
sci suspended in boiling water, until the
starch becomes clear. The cement
should be as thick as tar, and kept SO.
1t can be kept from spelling by drop
ping in a lump of gum-camphor, or a
little oil of cloves or sassafras. This
cement is very strong, indeed, and will
stick perfectly to glazed surfaces, and is
good to repair broken rocks, minerals or
fossils.