Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-03-05
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

TO preserve apples through the win
ter. select nice. sound ones. and i'm
merse them in shelled corn. which is
not spoiled by contact with the apple
Detroit Free Press.
Recipe for Cooking Goldfish: Take a
large bowl of milk, heaping table
spoon of sour. thick cream from your
cream pail, a spoonful of -four, little
salt and small piece of butter Please
try this and report success. 1t viii not
be sour: mine never was and / have
cooked 1t SO for years.
-Beefsteak and Kidney Pudding:
Line basin with moderately thick
paste, fill with the steak and kidney
cut into pieces. season well with pepper
and salt, pour over it a cupful of beef
gravy, cover with paste, tie IN cloth
and boil for two-and-a-half hours. If
liked, mushrooms may be added
Ladies Home Journal
Excellent iron-holders are made of
soft old merino. as well as cast-of
hosiery. but they should be covered
with new drilling to make them serv-
lceable- Housekeepers need to provide
all these homely necessities: for. by
often find themselves quite unable to
furnish suitable materials to work with.
-Okra Soup: Boil together slowly
for two hours three quarts of water,
one pound of partially minced beef. one
onion that has been sliced and fried a
nice brown in two ounces of butter,
then add two cupfuls of okra sliced.
Allow all to stew very slowly for an
hour and half or two hours. After
straining, season to suit the taste and
serve hot--Detroit Free Press.
Most people make mush by simply
stirring meal into boiling water, but
when 1t is to be used for frying l like it
much better made as follows: Mix a
pint of cornmeal with a pint of cold
milk and teaspoonful OF salt. Heat a
quart of water to boiling and pour the
meal mixture in gradually. stirring
well, and let it boil half an hour. STIR
ring often to prevent burning.-N. y.
World.
The room which demands most care
full attention is the sleeping apartment
Bedrooms should be light. sunny and
spacious, and there should be constant
change of air, window. either in the
bedroom itself or in an adjoining room,
being partly opened at night. Babies
clothing should not be hung up to dry
in a bedroom, nor should soiled clothes
be kept there Plants and flowers in
large numbers should not stand in the
bedroom. as they exhaie carbonic-acid
gas during the night.
BY no means throw away old kid
gloves. Cut off the hands and save the
long Suede arms of your soiled, worn
ball gloves. Use them Tor polishing
silver mirrors. cut-glass and Jewels.
Sew two OF the long pieces into irregu-
larly-shaped bags for carrying the
pieces of silver toilet set when travel
ing. 1t preserves the silver from scratch
ing and furnishing. Out of old tan or
gray gloves you can make charming
bags for carrying your opera-glasses in
Cut the kid IN the same pattern as is
used for these silk and velvet bags, line
it with China silk, and trace in pen and
water-colors. or silk. your initials on the
outside.
breakfast bacon is SO appetizing
and SO convenient that a supply should
always be, kept on hand. Here is
recipe for curing it: Cut the sides of
fresh pork into about three strips each
and pack them in jars Make a pickle
of three gallons of soft water, four and
half pounds of salt, course and fine
mixed. a pound and a half of brown
sugar, an ounce and half of .saltpeter,
two quarts of good molasses, and half
an ounce of salaratus. Boil the MKT
ure, skim it well, and when cold pour it
over the meat This recipe can be i'll
creased or diminished according to the
amount of meat used, SO it is kept in
the same proportions. There should
always be enough to quite cover the
meat, which will be ready to hang up
| and smoke in from four to six weeks.
| and should then be put in close paper
sacks for keeping.-Old Homestead.