Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-27
HOUSEHOLD BREvITIEs.


For polishing furniture beeswax and
t<rpentine are very good, but plenty of
elbow grease is essential.
Keep spice cans, bottles of extracts,
etc, well labeled, so that mistakes will
not occur when one is hurried.
New tins should be set over the fire
with boiling water in them for several
hours before food is put in them
Ladies' Home journal.
If flannel cloth dipped in kerosene,
then wrung dry, be used in rubbing off
dirty finger marks from paint the CRATE
full housekeeper will repeat the expert
ment often.
Indian Rice Cakes.-Equal quanti-
ties of meal and cold rice. Moisten with
milk, and knead well. Form into fiat
cakes and bake on hot griddle. Serve
with butter and sugar.
-Prune Pudding.-Well beat two
eggs, stir them into one quart of milk;
add flour enough to make a thick bat
ter, a saltspoon of salt and half a tea
spoonful of baking powder; soak cup
full of prunes half an hour, wipe them
and roll them in flour; stir them into
the batter; pour the mixture into pud-
ding bag, and boil; serve with sauce
Boston Herald.
To make sausages which are tooth
some and not as rich as those bought of
butcher, take one and a half pounds of
lean and one pound of fat pork and free
it from all skin and sinew. Chop it fine,
then mix it with three-quarter pounds
of grated breadcrumbs (which have been
scalded) and pass it through the mincer,
and when quite fine season it with pep
per, salt and little powdered sage.
The following is very good recipe
for making pretzels: Mix one-fourth
| pound of sugar, one-half pound butter,
the yel1s of two eggs and the white of
one, one-half pound of flour, table
spoonful of sweet cream and little
grated lemon peel; mold the paste in
to small wreaths; brush these over with
white of egg, sprinkle with pounded
| sweet almonds and bake till nicely
| colored.-N. Y. World.
-''Rose PASTE for fiavoring cakes is
something quite new, and is said to be
superior to the ordinary extracts. 1t is
made as follows: Chop sweet-scented
r0se-leaves into q smooth mass with
white sugar, and put them in the oven
long enough to heat thoroughly, but not
| long enough to entirely melt the sugar.
The proportions are one cupful of rose
leaves to three of sugar. This paste
must be kept in air-tight jars and should
stand six months before being used. A
very small quantity will flavor cake
N. Y. Ledger.
-Leafdale Cal1e.-Two cups powdered
sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet
milk, three cups sifted flour, two heap
ing teaspoons baking powder, white of
six eggs, beaten to stiff froth, and
added last. Filling.-Boiled frosting,
made by taking two teacups white
sugar, add a little water and boil until
it threads; beat the whites of two eggs
very stiff, pour the hot sugar on eggs
and beat until cold, add one cup cocoa.
nut, one cup seeded raisins and one cup
English walnuts; spread between layers
and on the top.-Detroit Free Press.
-Court-Plaster Case.-Take bit of
pale pink ibbon, about eleven inches
long by three wide, fringe at both ends,
double it over and tack inside a card
four inches long by two and halt
wide, attach several pieces of court
plaster to it, then draw a narrow pink
ribbon through the card and ribbon, ty-
ing SO it will form a loop to hang by.
On bit of bolting-cloth not quite as
large as the ribbon paint child's head,
the top of her arm just showing; on it
paint tiny inflamed spot, and right
/ there stick the least morsel of black
rt-plaster.-Good Housekeeping.