The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-16

To renovate scratched furniture dis
solve beeswax in turpentine, making 4
Of the consistency Of molasses; spply
with . WOODEN cloth, then rub briskiy
with dry piece Of flannel The inn
provement Is wonderful
-Citron Cake.-One cup Of butter,
two cups of sugar. three eggs, beaten
light one cup OF milk. teaspoonful OF
cream Of tartar, four and one-half cups
Of -four, one small nutmeg, four ounces
Of citron sliced thin Boston Globe.e
Keep celery fresh by rolling 1t in
brown paper sprinkled with water, then
in damp cloth, and put 1t in cool dark
place. Before preparing 1t for the table,
submerge it in cold water and let it
stand for an hour. 1t will be found very
crisp.
People in the country xho4are an
noyed by flies should remember that
clusters of the fragrant clover, which
grows abundantly by nearly every road
side, If hung in the room and left to dry
and shed its faint fragrant perfume
Through the air,-will drive them away
For reaches make -four paste into
which has been stirred. while hot, phos-
phorus, in the proportion Of dimes
worth OF the phosphorus to q half-pfnt
Of paste; when nearly cold add quar-
ter as much grease. Put on pieces Of
board where the reaches are. They will
die while eating the paste.
Fruit and Bread Dessert Heat any
kind Of fruit either fresh or canned,
Ea;1 I, nnt-
ter thin slices of bread, with which line
the bottom of deep dish, and cover it
with ME hot fruit Add other slices Of
bread and layers of fruit, until the dish
is full having fruit on the top Eat
while it Is warm. Monthly.
Veal Balls. Chop enough raw veal
very fine to make one and half cup
fuls; chop small slice Of salt pork very
fine, and mix it with the veal; add one
scant teaspoonful of summer savory, one
and half OF salt, two-thirds of pepper
and one-half of sage. Mix thoroughly,
binding with an egg, and make into fiat
balls Let them fry slowly in lard or
drippings. for half az hour.-House-
keeper
Orange Circles. Two cupfuls sugar,
one rupful butter, one cupful milk,
whites Of four eggs ana yelks Of five,
two spoonsful Of baking powder, a
spoonful of lemon flavoring and flour
to make smooth batter; bake quickly
Ia round baking powder box covers.
Take the white of one egg, and beat
Btiff with sugar. add the juice of one
orange. Place two cakes together with
the icing between, and ice the top. The
grated skin may be used, ii desired, in
the icing Ladies' Home Journal.
Cherry Rolypoly.- hall pound
Of flour into a bowl, add one-quarter
Of a pound OF suet, chopped fine,
about a quarter of a teaspoonful Of
salt and just water enough to make q
dough that can be rolled out on a
board Stem-an seed one pint Of
cherries. Roll the crust nearly an inch
thick spread the cherries evenly over
it and dredge them lightly with -four.
Roll it up, put it in Toured cloth and
pin it securely. Put it in pot of boil
ing water and boil it, without stopping,
two hours.
ALL ordinary china or earthenware
is porous, and the fine pores will fill up
with grease or fatty substances, which
in time, becoming rancid, will give an
offensive odor and taste 20 any food put
into such vessels. SOAP shevsd not be
used for washing ordinary china or
earthen vessels THE solution of soda is
better), and all vessels should be after
wards we'll rinsed with clean, not water,
free of any fatty substance. Soda
forms with any grease on the vessels a
soapy compound, but, acting stronger
than soap, it will remove the grease
more thoroughly