Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1890-08-09
HOUSEHOLD BREvITlES.

Salt fish will soak fresh much quick.
or in sour milk than in water.
Rats can never be driven away per-
manently as long as there are harbor-
ing places for them.
For grease and milk and acid spots
upon furniture, rub the place well with
cold water, then polish with soft linen.
Save old napkins and pillow-cases for
such work.
For hives in children, rub the irri-
tated skin or the pustules with castor
oil, applied with the tip of the finger.
Baby will pass from fretting to slumber
while the process is going on, the relief
will be so great and quick.
Cream Pie. One pint milk, yelks Of
two eggs, one cupful maple sugar, two
spoonfuls of flour; boil till it begins to
thicken, flavor with lemon; put into the
crust; bake and use the beaten whites OF
the eggs for frosting. Boston Budget.
The Every incest" way to boil eggs
is to put them into boiling water and at
once set the dish on top of the reservoir
or in the warmer, leaving them eight OF
instead of hardened, and be much more
digestible. Michigan Farmer.
Crackers that have become stale by
keeping can be made crisp again by
placing in moderately hot oven for
few minutes. They must not be al
lowed to brown. Many crackers are now
sailed when bought. If not, slight
sprinkle before being warmed will be
an improvement. This applies to either
soda or the small oyster crackers fol
soup.-Western Rural
Albert Pudding. eggs, and
their weight in butter, flour and sugar.
Beat the butter to cream, then beat
in, by degrees, the sugar, flour and eggs,
mixing and beating it we'll. Boil three
and one-half to four hours, and serve
with wine or jam sauce. This pudding
is very good with. the addition of grated
chocolate; but If this be used, a less
strongly favored sauce is advisable.-
Good Housekeeping. Fssktss
- Milk Lemonade-Peel twenty-fouI
lemons and put about one-third- of the
rinds into about three quarts Of hot
water. Rub the other lemon-peels with
white sugar. Squeeze the lemons and
add one pound and half of white
sugar. Add the water and rinds and
three quarts of boiling milk. Mix and
strain through a jelly bag Put it on
ice to use on the day after it is made,
1t will keep two days.
There is no more delightful way Of
serving cold mashed parsnips left from
dinner for breakfast than in balls. Mix
up the cold parsnips with the white Of
an egg and little cream to hold it in
shape, and mold it into little balls,
which should be dipped one by one into
the beaten yelks of an egg, and finally
dropped into gently steami1lg hot fat
and fried three or four minutes till they
are of nice brown color.-Exchange.
Copper saucepans are by far the
best utensils in which to cook, but it is
not enough to keep them clean and
bright outside. The inside requires
just as much and more attention, espe-
cially to the thinning of them, which
must be renewed at least once year or
oftener, according as they are much
used or not; too much attention can not
be paid to this point, for as every one
knows whole family can be poisoned,
or at any rate made uDpleasantly ill., by
an nl-kept copper saucepan, the timing
of which is worn out. A safe rule is
never to put any thing in the larder in
copper saucepan. This applies equally
to any other kind of saucepan
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