The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-03-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To freshen salt fish soak them in sour
milk.
The best of tea makes but an indiffer-
ent concoction unless the water is fresh.
Anything mixed with water requires a
hotter oven than anything mixed with
milk.
Beets should be boiled one hour in
summer; one hour and half, or even
two hours, if large, in winter.
Apples will not freeze if covered with
a linen cloth, nor pie or custard burn
if in the oven with dish of water.
When several cups of tea of equal
strength are wanted, pour little into
each cup and then fill in adverse order.
The tea first poured from the pot is the
weakest of the decoction.
All vegetables should go into fast boil
ing water, to be quickly brought to the
boiling point again, not left to steep in
the hot water before boiling, which
toughens them and destroys color and
aavor.
Paper may be perfumed by laying a
perfumed sachet with the sheets and en-
velopes, or dry sachet powder may be
;prinkled in the box, laying an extra
sheet of paper between the box and
paper.
There is nothing that removes impuri-
ties from floors, etc, so rapidly as boiling
hot soda and water, applied with long
ladled scrubbing brush and rinsed off
once with clear water and dried with a
clean cloth.
When the skin is bruised it may be
prevented from becoming discolored by
using little dry starch or arrowroot
merely moistened with cold water and
placed on the injured part. This should
be done at once.
If black dresses have been stained boil
a handful of fig leaves in a quart of water
and reduce it to a pint. A sponge
dipped in this liquid and rubbed upon
them will entirely remove stains from
grapes, bombazines, etc.
The practice of rubbing the face with
vaselinc or other cosmetic sometimes
makes the hair grow where it is not be-
coming, Camphor applications, like
other irritants or stimulants to the skin,
will cause superAuous hair.
No matter how large the spot of oil,
any carpet or woolen stuff can be cleaned
by applying buckwheat plentifully and
carefully brushing it into a dust pan af-
ter a short time and putting it on fresh
until the oil has all disappeared.
Rub chalk all along the edge Of the
door that "sticks," then close it as near
ly as you can. The chalk will only come
off ON that portion of the door opposite
the part that needs planning to ease the
door. So you need not waste your wood
and time in planning away any other part.
1t is a little difficult to determine Just
when custard is sufficiently cooked. This
will settle the point: Take a spoonful of
the mixture and let it run back into the
dish. If it leaves the spoon entirely more
cooking is necessary. Should there be
little specks upon the spoon it is quite
time to remove the "softn custaEd from
the stove.
A good cough mixture is made by talk
ing two ounces Of balm of gilead buds
and boiling them very slowly in a quart
of boiling water. Let it simmer to one
pint, then strain il aud add one pound of
honey in comb, with the juice of three
lemons. Let all boil together until the
wax in the honey is dissolved.
A German test for watered milk con-
sists in dipping a well-polished knitting
needle into deep vessel of milk and
then Immediately Withdrawing it in an
upright manner, If the milk is pure a
drop of the fluid will hang 10 the needle,
but the addition of even a small proper
ton OF water will prevent the adhesion
of the drop.