River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-21
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


Stains on ivory knife handles may
be removed with salts of lemon.
To color white pasteboard the color
of leather, soak in solution of copperas
and then in ammonia.
If dish gets burnt in using do not
scrape it. Put little water and ashes
in it and let it get warm; it will come
off nicely.
When butter is put into the ice
chest or refrigerator cover it tight
and it will not absorb doors from the
other contents.
Strong brine may be used to great
advantage in washing bedsteads. Hot
alum water is also recommended for
this purpose.
Two tablespoonsful of washing soda
in a gallon of boiling water makes a
good disinfectant for the kitchen sink.
Pour it in at night when it is still az
boiling point.
Paint the tongues of your fever
patients with glycerine, says a physi.
clan; it will remove the sensation of
thirst and discomfort felt when the
organ is dry and foul.
Make a list in the order in which
you pack them of the contents of your
wooden chest and paste it on the out
side. Then the articles at the head of
the list will be in the bottom of the
box.
-Cocoanut Jumbles: One cup butter,
two cups sugar, two eggs, one large cup
grated cocoanut; use flour enough to
make dough that can be rolled bake
the cakes in quick oven.-Old Home
stead.
Beef Pudding: One pint chopped.
boiled beets, four eggs, well beaten;
one quart milk, one tablespoonful but
ter. Mix all together, add salt and
pepper, and bake half an hour.-House-
keeper.
Golden Pudding: Three ounces Of
bread crumbs, two ounces of suet two
ounces of brown sugar, two ounces of
marmalade, one egg, one teacupful of
milk; mix well, and boil two hours -
Good Housekeeping.
--Huckleberry Griddle Cakes: Mix
together one pint of flour, two teaspoon
fuls of baking-powder, and one pint of
milk, and stir in one beaten egg. Pick
over a pint of fresh berries, wash, roll
in -four, and add to the batter. Pour
from pitcher on to Z CREASED griddle.
When furnishing a home, do not
neglect to purchase pictures. They
serve to recall pleasant memories and
scenes, and when hung to harmonic
with the furniture and in keeping with
the use of the room, they are highly
ornamental. Buy good ones or none.
- Chicken Cream Soup: Three pints
of the water in which a chicken has
been boiled, with all fat removed, one
pint of rich cream, four eggs, one cup
full of bread crumbs, salt, pepper and
celery salt Heat the water to the boil
ing point Boil the eggs twenty-five
minutes and mash the yelks with the
bread crumbs, which should be softened
in little milk. Heat the cream to
near boiling, stir it gradually into the
eggs and crumbs, poor the mixture into
the chicken water and boil five min
utes. Budget
Cabbage Salad: Half-pint of vine
gar, hot, but not boiling; stir two
beaten eggs, two teaspoons sugar. one
teaspoon of salt, piece of butter size OF
an egg, beaten all together; also two
tablespoons of flour, mixed with malt
cup of milk, and stir into the hot vine
gar when it commences to thicken.
Take from the fire and put in small
tablespoonful of mustard, first mixing
the mustard with little water; use
about one quart of cabbage chopped
fine; stir the cabbage into the mixture
on the stove, and cook little, with
out the mustard. Better to eat day
or two after making. Very nice with
meat-Boston Globe.