The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-09
FlREslpE FRAGMENTS.

-Mildew may be removed by rubbing
common yellow soap on 1t, then salt and
starch over that; rub all in well andlay
in the bright sunshine.
"A good remedy for damp, moist
hands is four ounces of cologne water
and one-half ounce Of tincture Of BELLA
donna. Rub the hands with this sew
eral times day.
When your face and ears burn so
terribly, batke them in very hot water,
as hot as you can bear. This will be
more apt to cool them than any cold ap-
plication.
-Steaming the face at night over
bowl of very hot water, and then bath
ing 1t with very cold water, is a simple
method of giving it Russian bath, and
will tend to make the skin whittier and
smoother and the flesh firmer
For lemon sauce easily made take
one cupful of sugar and one-half cupful
of butter, beat till creamed; squeeze
the juice of one lemon into one-half
pint of water, stir together and let it
boil up once or twice.
For chocolate pie, beat together the
yolks of two eggs, six tablespoonfuls of
sugar three tablespoonfuls corn starch
and four tablespoonfuls of grated choco-
late. Mix the ingredients and stir in a
a pint of boiling water. Bake the un-
dercrust, then add the custard, and,
when baked put the beaten whites on
top.--N. Y World.
Dreamed Oysters.-One pint of milk;
when boiling, add two tablespoonfuls OF
cornstarch, salt and pepper, and one
tablespoonful of butter. Take fine pow
dered crumbs, and scatter over the bot
tom of well-buttered dish. Put a
layer of oysters, then layer of cream
next crumbs, then oysters, cream, and
so on, having crumbs on top. Brown,
or rather cook as for escalloped oysters
1t is change from the latter dish. -
Boston Budget.
-Colored tennis fannels should be
washed in water about the temperature
of the room they are washed in, with
good white soap of any kind and rinse6
thoroughly in water of the same tenn
perature, and wrung out as dry as possi
BILE. They may be hung up for short
time in the house, but should be taker
down while still damp and ironed dry
Some laundresses never hang them up
but wiring them so dry that the iror
completes the drying.
Eggs with fine Herbs: Boil five ol
six eggs about five minutes, then plunge
them into cold water, and afterward!
take off the shells, cut the eggs in tive
and pour over them while hot the fol
lowing sauce: Mix smooth two table
spoonfuls of butter and one of flour, pu
it over the fire in a saucepan with lit
tie finely chopped onion and parsley
salt and pepper; heat it and moister
with enough white wine vinegar t.
make of the proper consistency
Orange Judd Farmer.
Orange Custard: Peel and slice fou
oranges in an earthen dish you wish tx
serve it in. Sift fine sugar over eacl
layer as you slice them. Make a Gus
tard, using two whole eggs and th'
yolks of two more, well beaten, on,
quart of milk and two-thirds of cup
full of sugar. Flavor with vanilla
steam until done, then pour over the or
ange Beat the whites of two eggs ant
sweeten with fine sugar, pour over tn
custard when cool and set in oven fiv
minutes. A little vanilla or orang
juice in the frosting improves it.-House
keeper.
Puff paste may be made with butte
for shortening, or by using one-hal
butter and half lard; an extra teaspoon
full of salt will be required if lard
used. Stir the beated yolk of an eg
into half cupful of ice water and wit
this moisten the flour, into which one
half pound of butter has been chopped
making stiff dough. Use for tn
whole one pound of shortening to on
pound of flour. Roll out the paste
baste with one-third of tie remainin
butter, fold closely and roll out agalr
repeat the process till the butter is use
up. Roll very thin and set in a col
place for ten minutes before using
Brush over with beaten egg while ho