The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-24
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

-Lime.water is good for chilblainA
Use it both strong and hot. A satur.
ated solution of alum in water, used
hot, is also very efficacious.
"A piece of flannel or napkin folded
lengthwise and dipped in hot water
and wrung out, and then applied
round the neck of the child that has the
Group will sometimes bring relief in ten
minutes.
Canned Sardines make very nice
sandwiches. Remove skin and bones
and rub the fish fine. Mash the yolk Of
a hard-boiled egg, add little melted
butter and lemon juice, and mix to .
paste with the fish, and then spread be-
tween thin slices of buttered bread.
"A pretty idea in house furnishing is
to hang the pictures with ribbons of
color to harmonic with the decorative
motif in the room. A youthful mistress
of a pretty country home recently
furnished has in her own particular
apartments walls of pale rose color, up
on which pictures in white and gold
frames are hung with delicate blue
ribbons.-N. Y. Sun.
Pineapple Ice Cream: Slice two
large pineapples in thin layers, scatter
between the layers two pounds of pow.
dered sugar, and let stand three hours.
Then chop and cut fine and strain
through a seive into three pints Of
cream, beat this gradually and freeze.
1t is improved by reserving few
pieces of pineapple until the cream is
ialf frozen. Then cut into bits and add
with pint of whipped cream. Very
delicate. Free Press.
Shrimp Salad: Line glass dish
with crisp lettuce leaves. Mix together
one plate prepared shr.mps (boiled and
picked), two stalks of celery, pinch Of
salt. Place among the lettuce leaves.
Over this pour d dressing made as fol.
lows: One gill of cider-vinepar, tea.
yolk of one hard-boiled egg, well
mashed. Bring to boil, then cool.
Cut white of egg into rings, place an
olive in each, and arrange about the
salid.-Ladies' Home Journal.
French Pancakes: Six eggs, one
the whites and yolks of the eggs sepa-
rately; beat pint of cream till it is
stiff; then beat the eggs and cream to-
gether; put little piece of butter into
an omelet pan over quick fire; put into
it a spoonful Of the mixture, fry livery
quickly; but it into dish in the oven,
rolling 1t as you take it from the pan,
putting little grated sugar between it;
the pancake will rise in the oven; do
not fry them till they are required, as
they must be served very hot.-Boston
Herald.
Cheese straws are also made from
puff paste. Roll out some paste until
it is about as thin as fifty-cent piece.
Cut it into strips about four inches long
by an inch and half wide. Put lit
tie rich English cheese down the center
of half the strips, and lay the Other
half of the strips over them. Brush
the straws with a little white of egg,
put them in the oven, and bake
them till the paste is thoroughly done.
Serve the straws hot or cold, and gar
nish the plate containing them, if you
desire, with little green parsley.
-Blueberry Cake: For one sheet o
cake use one generous pint of flour.
half pint of milk. one gill of sugar, one
egg, two heaping teaspoonfuls of bak
ing powder, half pint of blueberrle
and two tablespoonful of butter. Mi
the baking powder, sugar and salt wit
the flour and rub through a sieve; the
work the butter through the fou
Beat the egg till light and add the mill
to it. Add this to the dry ingredient
stirring as little as possible. Spree
the mixture in well-buttered shallov
baking pan, having it about an inc
and half thick. Bake in moderate
ly-quick oven for about twenty-fiv
minutes, and serve hot.-Boston Budget