The Iola register., 1890-08-15
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

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Plant flowers, shrubs and vines about
the house to add TO its attractiveness,
and otherwise improve and ornaments
your surroundings
1t is not only an economy for home
makers to keep an account book, but it
is goat satisfaction to know, from
year to year, exactly what has been ex-
pended
Keep clasp knife or knife with a
handle different from those in common
use for the sole purpose of peeling
onions. and so avoid the Havor and odor
Of them where it is neither expected or
desired.
Save stale pieces Of bread, and when
an easy day comes, dry them thoroughly
in an open oven, and with q rolling-pin
crush as fine as dust. These, then, will
always be at hand for preparing oysters,
outlets, eroquettes, etc.
"A little powdered potash thrown
into rat holes will drive the rodents
away that are so annoying in cellar or
kitchen; cayenne pepper will have the
same effect on rats and cockroaches, and
mouse will never gnaw through a
piece of cotton sprinkled with cayenne
that is stuffed into his hole.
-Huckleberry Toast.-Wash and stem
pint of berries, add sugar to taste, and
pour over layers of thin buttered toast
Cover with a plate, and let them stand
half an hour before serving, on the
range or in a moderately cool oven 1t
may be baked in a pudding-dish and fin.
ished with a lemon-davored msringue-
Demorest's Monthly.
Dainty Spring Chieken.-C1eane care
fully, wash thoroughly, salt and pepper
to taste. Make rich batter Of half .
pint Of flour, pinch of salt, two eggs
beaten light, half gill of butter, and
milk enough to mix thick batter Dip
each piece. Of chicken in the batter and
drop in boiling lard. To be eaten as
soon as sdone.-Boston Budget
Chocolate Cake.-0ne cup of sugar,
one-half cup of butter, two eggs, one
half cup of milk, one-haf teaspoonful
of soda, one teaspoonful cream tartar,
two cups of flour. The cream is made
thus: One-third cake of chocolate, one
half cup of milk, yelk of one egg, sugar
to taste; boil until stiff; when cold
spread over the cake.-Boston Globe.
-Stewed Sleeps Head.-Procure
sleeps head, wash thoroughly, remove
the brains, and let them soak in cold
water. Stew the head gently for three
hours, in three quarts of water. Take
the head out of the pot, remove all the
meat, and return it to the broth. Put
the bones aside for the stock pot. Chop
the brains, and add them with two
chopped onions, thinly sliced carrot,
turnip, bunch of parsley, little su-
gar, pepper and salt. Let it boil gently
an hour.-Housekeeper.
There is no reason why women
should tire themselves in squeezing
juice from fruit for jelly or in stoning
cherries, when there are several patent
processes for doing this work with per-
feet success, enabling the worker to go
through preserving time with unstained
hands and unexhausted patience. There
are enough necessary things to do in q
household which can not be done by ma
chinery. Housekeepers should take ad-
vantage of every chance that offers for
genuine help in their work.
Chicken Curry.-Cut up a very
young chicken, wash it and cut 1t into
small pieces, chop one onion, put half a
cupful of water into saucepan, add
two tablespoonfuls of butter, half o
teaspoonful of sugar, the juice of one
lemon, and the onion and chicken and
salt, cook gently twenty minutes. then
mix one tablespoonful of flour and one
tablespoonful of curry powder together
with cold water and add it to the chick
en-, stirring it until it boils; serve with
boiled rice or baked potatoes.-Boston
Herald