River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-14
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Lettuce: Serve the lettuce In .
Said howl, with French dressing of
oil and vinegar. or addressed allowing
each person to prepare it for himself.
Winter squash, may be baked,
boiled or steamed till tender, scraped
from the she'll when done, mashed fine
and seasoned well with butter and salt
to observation-disclosures.
Baked Smells: Cut off the heads.
Split and dip the smelts in melted but
ter and then in -four. Lay on pan in
the oven. Bake from eight TO ten min
utes. Serve with eighth of lemon and
cayenne.-Boston Budget.
To make an impermeable glue, soak
ordinary glue in water until it softens,
and remove it before it has lost its
primitive form. After this, dissolve it
in linseed oil over slow fire until 1t is
brought to the consistency of a jelly.
This glue withstands water.
Solution for Cleaning Silver and
! Brass: To one quart of rainwater add
two ounces of ammonia and three
ounces of precipitated chalk. Bottle
and keep well-corlSed, and shake before
using. Wash silver in hot soapy water
and rinse in clean, hot water.
To Glaze Pastry: When the pastry
is nearly baked, brush it over with the
beaten yoll1 of an egg, and put back in
to the oven until it is glazed. This is
for meat pies. To glaze the pastry of
apple and berry pies, take half cup of
sweet, thick cream. and beat into it
-four (sifted) enough t. keep it from
running. When the pastry is nearly
baked, brush it over the cream glaze,
and put back in the oven. Let it come
to light brown, or remove sooner, as
you like.-Boston Budget.
Boiled Eggs: This is perhaps the
most popular mode of preparing them for
the table. If dropped into boiling wa
ter and kept at the boiling point, two
and one half minutes will suffice to
render them of the consistency enjoyed
| by most persons. Three minutes will
harden them little more. Others drop
them into boiling water, at once with
draw the saucepan from the fire, cover,
and lei stand just four minutes. Still
another mode preferred by many is to
place them over u quick fire in cold wa
ter, and as soon as it comes 70 boil
they are DONE Orange Judd Farmer.
Apple Pudding: Pare and slice two
| quarts of tart apples. Stew them with
a cup of boiling water until they can
| be beaten smooth with a spoon Add
the yolSs of four eggs, well beaten, IA
tablespoonful of lemon-juice, and sugar
to taste. Mix thoroughly, and bake
half an hour in a hot oven. Draw the
| pudding to the edge of the oven and
cover it with a meringue of the whites
whipped to a stiff froth, with "a table
! spoonful OF powdered sugar and a tea
spoonful Of lemon-juice. Leave il in
! the oven long enough to brown, and
serve either hot or cold Ladies' Home
| journal.
brilliant light makes even a scanti-
| ly-furnished room look cheerful. But
there are some people who know not
how to make their lamps burn we'll A
! lamp should be Thoroughly cleaned every
( fortnight. The oil should be poured
! out of the fount, leaving no dregs on
the bottom. The fount should then be
washed in strong soap-suds, rinced in
warm water. and dried 1t should then
be filled with fresh oil. The burner
should be boiled i'm soda and water I'M
| from dirt and dust. If the wick has be-
come clogged with the sediment, re-
place it with new one.