Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-30
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Lettuce: Serve the lettuce in a
said bowl, with a French dressing of
Oil and vinegar, or undressed, allowing
each person to prepare it for himself.
Winter squash, may be baked,
boiled or steamed till tender, scraped
from the shell when done, mashed fine
and seasoned well with butter and salt
to taste. -Housekeeper.
Baked Smells: Cut off the heads.
Split and dip the smelts in melted but
'er, and then in flour. 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 impermea BILE glue. soak
ordinary glue in water until it softens,
and remove it before it has lost it's
primitive form. After this, dissolve it
in linseed oil over a slow fire until it 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-corked. 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 yolk 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. aEo beat into it
-four (sifted) enough to 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 a light brown, or remove sooner, as
you lilSe.-Boston Budget.
Boiled Eggs: This is perhaps the
most popular mode ofpreparing 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 let stand just four minutes. Still
another mode preferred by many is to
place them over quick fire in cold wa
ter. and as soon as it comes to n 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 yolks of four eggs, well beaten. a
| tablespoonful of lemon-juice, and sugar
| to taste. Mix thoroughly, and bake
| half an hour in hot oven. Draw the
pudding to the edge of the oven and
cover it with a meringue of the whites
whipped to stiff froth, with a table
| spoonful of powdered sugar and tea
| spoonful of lemoniuice. Leave it III
! the oven long enough to brown. anG
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 well. \
/ lamp should be Thoroughly cleaned every
fortnight. The oil should be poured
out of the fount, leaving no dregs or
the bottom. The fount should then be
washed in strong soap-suds. rinced il
warm water, and dried. 1t should Their
be filled with fresh Oil. The burner
| should be boiled in soda and water I'm.
! til the network that crosses it is freed
from dirt and dust. If the wick has be-
come clogged with the sediment, re-
| place it with new one.