Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-11-18
HOUSEHOLD sREvITIEs.


 A small box filled with lime and placed on shelf in the pantry or closet will absorb dampness and keep the air dry and sweet
 Take a quart of best vinegar, two ounces of lump sugar, two ounces of salt. Boil these together for a few min utes and, when cold, anoint with 8 brush the meat to be preserved.
 -''When you eat fish," said distin- guished physician recently, t'don't eat any thing else with it. Bones are apt to slip into the bread or cracker or the potatoes or any thing else you take with the fish, and thus become lodged in the throat"
 If chromos need cleaning moisten a cloth in little cold tea and wipe them off with bit of chamois skin, after which polish with a little olive oil. Gilt frames, when new, can be covered with coat of white varnish, and then all specks can be wiped off without harm.
 Baked Bananas.-Remove the skin and cut in two; place them in shallow baking tin, open side up; sprinkle well with sugar, and grate over them little nutmeg; place a small piece of butter on each piece of banana, and bake twenty or thirty minutes; serve with cream.-Boston Herald.
 To take iron rust out of white goods pour teacupful of boiling water, stretch the goods tightly across the top of it, then pour on little of the solution of oxalic acid dissolved in water, and rub it with the edge of teaspoon or any thing. If it does not come out at once dip it down into the hot water and rub again.
 A Southern Way of Cooking Sweet Potatoes-Place layer of sliced cold sweet potatoes on the bottom of bak- ing-dish, cover we'll with butter and Q sprinkle of sugar. Another layer of po- tatoes, butter and sugar. Repeat this until the dish is filled. Cover we'll the last layer with sugar and butter. Brown it over in hot oven, and serve hot Good Housekeeping.
 The following recipe for gems is quickly and easily mixed, and they will be found delicious for breakfast: To a pint and 8 half of flour add tablespoon full of sugar, about the same of butter and a teaspoonful and a half of baking powder. Break in an egg and stir up bhS "hOAC WI LII 0nOuBA Wd1CE UO IAdhO d nice batter. Pour into the gem-pans and bake. Let them be nicely Drowned on top and eaten while hot-N Y. World.
 Kidney Taute Split the kidneys in halves lengthwise, and trim. Cut in pieces. Put two ounces of butter in a | frying-pan; let melt; add a small onion, cut in slices, with the kidney. Stir over brisk fire four or five minutes; then add tablespoonful of flour; stir again; stir in teacup of soup stock tor hot water); season with salt pepper, the juice of a lemon and a teaspoon full of grape jelly; stir well and serve hot - Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Cabbage Pickle. Cut cabbage in quarters, if large in eighths, boil fifteen minutes, pack in jars with small cucum- bers soaked from the brine. Small onions, few large peppers from which the seeds have been taken, a few small roots of horseradish bruised or split, and a handful of black mustard seed. Over this pour vinegar sufficient to cover; after boiling add to each half gallon a teacupful of sugar, half an ounce of cloves and half an ounce of cinnamon. Yankee Blade.
 Turkey Croquettes. Add piece of butter the size of an egg to a spoonful of milk. Stir in enough flour to mak e the mixture of the consistency of drawn butter. When it is we'll cooked add 8 beaten egg, a coffeecupful of cold turkey which has been chopped fine, and pep per and salt to taste. Spread 1t on a platter about an inch thick, and leave it over night. In the morning cut the mixture into squa res, dip each square in cracker crumbs and fry in hot lard like doughnuts. ts.-IIousekeeper.