The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-31
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


Warm dishes for the tablo by inn
mersing them in hot water. not by stand.
Ing them on hot stove.
Lemon Pie: Two lemons, two cups
OF sugar, thrce eggs, one cup of milk,
threo teaspoonfuls Of corn-starch; bake
between two crusts. Boston Globe.
Raspberry Pyramid: Crush n pint
OF ripe raspbcrrics with pint Of sugar;
beat tho whites of four eggs; mix all
together until it stands in pyramid.
"A frying-pan should mover touch
water Scour them out with salt tho
moment they arc dono with, aud wipo
clean with cloth. a washed omelct-
pan makes poor omclet
Add Il tablespoonful of borax to a
pan OF hot soapsuds; put your table sill
yer Ill it, and let it stand two hours.
klnso it with clear water and polish
with soft cloth or chamois.
What is more disagrceable to uso
than rusty flat-iron? Rub them with
hno emery dust and sweet Oil. If you
can not make them smooth, scnd them
to Il factory and have them ground.
Tho stains of ink on books and on
cravings may be removed by applying
solution of oXalic acid. citric acid or
tartaric acid upon tho paper without
fear OF damage. These acids take out
writing ink, but do not interfere with
the printing.
berry Mush: Stew quart OF bcr-
rios in a pint Of water swceten to taste,
ana Stir in heaping tcaspoonful of
corn-star;h, wheat flour, or arrowroot,
to give the berries consistency Servo
cold. with cream. If made sitter. tho
mu>h can be cooled in molds for sum-
mcr dish.-Dcmorcst's Monthly.
Pearls: Two cupfuls white sugar,
onc-half cnpful butter, ono cupful sweet
milk, white Of seven eggs well beaten,
two spoonfuls baking-powdcr. three
small cnpfuls Of flour; flavor with al
mond or rose. lake in small round
tins and ice thicllly.-Ladics' Homo
Journal.
Take ono curful Of salt Goldfish and
pick IL into small pieces: frcShcn it a
few minutes in lullcwarm water drain
ii from the water and add one cuplul of
milk ihickcncd with Il dcsscrtSpoonful
of -four and Il tablespoonful of butter.
and pepper To suit taste; when it beginS
ovcr four pieces of buttcrcd toast; rar-
nish with slices of hard-boiled egg
Eoston Herald.
-Spiccd Bread: Sift into pan ono
pound of -four, put into II half pint of
warm milk half pound Of butter: stir
the milk and butter into tho -four and
a wincglas,Tul of COOL yeast and a lit
tie salt; mix these wolf together, and
sit in warm place, but not too warm to
rise; let il rise full hour, then add :,
hai!-poGnd of sugar, a hali-gratcd nut
meg, large spoonful of cinnamon and II
wInegiaSs OF rose water: mix these well
INTO Il sponge, POUR into n pan, and SGT
to rise again; let it rise Il half-hour and
bake in slow oven.-Boston Budget.
Any woman may spot dishonest
milkman with very littlo trouble. Let
her take Il long slender bottle, cleanse
1T thoroughly ana lot it dry out. If,
then. it is filled with milk and allowed
to stand in IL cool-not cold-placc for
forty-cight hours, all the foreign fluid
will be rccipitatcd-thati is, it will set
tie to the bottom Of tho bottle. The
sourcd milk will then fill the middle of
the bottle and the fatty substance Will
Do floating on tho top. Sometimes tho
top will he layer of cream. then will
come layer of albumcn-another arti-
fetal device to make tho milk look rich
then will come the sourcd milk and
at tho bottom will como tho foreign
water