Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-09-19
Home Matters.

One tablespoonful OF ilqulu NAMES
one-half ounce.
Jelly bags should be made OF fan
mel and pudding bags Of linen.
Do not put soap in the water with
which you clean a mirror it is almost
impossible to polish the glass if soap
is used.
For Group use kerosene oil. Wet
piece Of flannel and apply. 1t gives al
most instant relief. Remove when
the skin becomes very red. or it will
blister.
When it is necessary TO take char
coal incidentally put in it a wide
mouthed bottle, pour it in an inch OF
water. cork it and shake it thorough
". A few seconds will suffice TO mix
the charcoal and water.
4 paragraph in the New England
Farmer points out that a tablespoon
full of Kerosene added to the soap and
water with which floors are washed
will greatly help in making them
clean and will leave the paint fresh
and bright. There will also be con-
siderable saving OF soap.
To Remove WHITE STAINS FROM
FURyITURE.-Having discovered
large white stain on black walnut
table was greatly pleased to find
that it could be removed by the APP
plication of spirit of camphor. This
should be followed as soon as dry by
q brisk rubbing with a flannel cloth
on which there is small quantity OF
| good oil.
flashed BROWN POTATOES. Chop
| cold boiled potatoes rather fine. Put
| sufficient butter in frying pan to
we'll cover the bottom of the pan with
| the chopped potatoes to the depth of
one inch. dust with salt and pepper
and cook slowly without stirring for
about ten minutes, then fold over as
YOU would an omelet and turn them
out on heated dish.
TOMATOES TOAsT.-Take three ripe
| tomatoes, cut away the stalks and any
green part there may be, take out the
seeds and cut the tomatoes into thick
slices. Arrange these in single lay
er on buttered baking tin, sprinkle
over them some finely sifted bread
crumbs seasoned with salt and pep
per, put little piece of butter on
each slice and bake in a brisk oven
for fifteen or twenty minutes. Serve
them on neatly cut pieces Of hot but
tered toast with the gravy that is in
the dish with them poured over. \
few drops of lemon juice is all inn
provement.
Potato BISCUIT. Make biscuit in
the way you prefer-with buttermilk
and soda, creamtartar and soda, or
baking powder, or without any of
these, which is decidedly best, if thor
oughly beaten, and add one large
cupful mashed potatoes Sweet or
Irish), seasoned with butter, to each
quart Of flour Mix well in the flour
before putting in other ingredients,
roll and cut, bake in quick oven,
and be sure to eat hot. Split with a
fork, and spread with sweet butter,
as you eat them, and they will almost
melt in your mouth, if properly made.
COPPERAS DISSOLVED IN WATER
\ spoonful of the crystals to pint,
makes about the cheapest and best
disinfectant and deodorizer for closet
pans and chamber utensils. This is
the most destructive poison. there
fore never allow it to remain about so
that ignorant persons or children can
get at it, In cellar that cannot be
thoroughly ventilated, and has u
damp smell, set few dishes of char
coal on the floor, shelves and lodges.
1t will make the air pure and sweet,
and if a quantity isplaced near where
milk is kept there will be no danger
of the milk becoming tainted.
BEEF SALAD.-Cut fine, cold boiled
beef and to each pint add table
spoonful of Clipped onion, a tea
spoonful of celery seed Cor two sticks
of celery, cut line), one hard boiled
egg cut up, handful Of light bread,
broken small, with skirumings from
the pot in which the beef was boiled
and enough of the liquor to make it
sofia cupful of beef gravy will do
as well, or tablespoonful OF butter
rolled in flour, with half cupful Of
hot water. Add two or three cold
potatoes, sliced fine and, after mix
ing all thoroughly, put in deep pan
and bake fifteen minutes serve hot
with cold slaw.
GINGER SNAPS.-Mix pinch of salt
and a tablespoonful Of ground ginger
into half pound of flour, and to this
rub four ounces of butter and the
freshly grated rind of a lemon. Mix
it to paste with about two ounces
of moasses and few drops of lemon
juice. Flour the pastry board, roll
out your pastry as thin as possible.
and cut it into rounds with tumber.
Bake in moderate oven and roll
round your finger into a cone before
it hardens. which it very soon does,
so you must be quick about it, Keep