The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-12
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Hash Cake: Make three layers
sponge cake, chop one cup each OF
raisins and hickorynut meats, and mix
with the beaten white of an egg to
which has been added two tablespoon.
fuls sugar. Put between layers Of cake
and frost the top.-Orange Judd Farmer.
TO cure chapped hands, apply the
following ointment: Melt one-fourth Of
a pound of mutton-t allow, add One-hal1
ounce each of gum camphor and ely.
cerine, let it boil two minutes, stirring
constantly, then put away to cool. Be.
fore going to bed, wash the hands thor.
oughly in hot water, rub on the ONT
ment and draw on a pair of old kid
gloves.
Stuffed Eggplant Having washed
the eggplant, put it into boiling water
and cook halt an hour. Then cut it in
two and scoop out the soft part, leaving
the skin unbroken. Mash the eggplant
smooth, seasoning with butter, salt and
pepper. Put this back into the skin,
place it in pan. sprinkle with grated
bread-crumbs and bits of butter and
place in the oven.-N. Y. World.
"A solution for replating silver knives,
forks and spoons with silver may be
made by dissolvinS a quarter dollar in
three ounces nitric acid, then adding
three ounces quicksilver, and when the
latter is quite dissolved, adding a quart
of rain water. Dip the silver article to
be replated in the solution and let it re.
main there a short time. Then rub
with sponge wet in the solution and
polish with chamois skin.
Cream Toast: Toast half a dozen
slices of bread a nice brown. Put two
and a half cupfuls of sweet milk Oh
stove to heat; mix three even teaspoon.
fuls of -four with cold milk to paste
and stir into the milk when boiling; add
two spoonfuls of butter and a half a
cupful of cream; let it cook few min.
dish. Serve Immediately. Bread dried
in the warming oven awhile before
toasting digests easier. -IIousekeeper.
To have good burnt almonds, take
two pounds of fine sugar and boil I'M
til, on gently dipping the tip of your
forefinger into the sirup and applying
it to your thumb, the sugar forms a fine
thread on being pulled apart. Take one
pound of Jordan or Valencia almonds,
blanched and dried, and put into the
pan with the sugar. Stir, take from
the fire, and make the almonds imbibe
as much sugar as possible. The sweeter
you desire the nuts, the longer continue
hn o.,
water.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Beef Rissoles: Take some slices OF
rather lean cold roast beef and mince
it very fine; season it highly with pep
per and salt, and add a few savory
herbs chopped fine and the peel of half
a lemon, with little more than halt
the weight of the beef in bread crumbs
nix all well together and bind it with
two eggs we'll beaten into thick paste;
form this into balls; sprinkle them with
egg and bread crumbs, and fry them a
nice brown and serve with good brown
gravy poured around them.-Boston
Herald.
Why is it no one ever seems to have
"rule" for lemonade? 1t is first a lit.
tie more water--then another half-lem-
on, then another teaspoon full of sugar,
then possibly more lemon, or more wa.
ter-more tasting, more experimenting,
until one hardly knows what the con-
coction does need. OF course lemons
vary in size and amount of juice; but
good formula for lemonade in general
is one average-quality lemon to glass
of ice water. and five teaspoonfuls Of
graduated sugar. For an invalid's
drink, use four teaspoonfuls of sugar
instead of fve-N. Y. Tribune.