River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-24
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Stained Ivory: Emery powder will
remove ordinary stains from ivory knife
handles.
Spots of grease may be most effect
ually removed " the application of
Luckwheat flour.
An excellent drink for warm
weather is made of lemonade to which
half teaspoonful of bicarbonate of
soda has been added The soda alters
the taste very little. but it makes the
liquid foamy and delicious.
Very Good Coffee; Take one-half
cup of ground coffee, one egg, a little
cold water; stir together; add one pint
of boiling water and let boil ~; then
add another pint of boiling Iter and
let settle. Enough for six.-Detroit
Free Press
If you want to make squash pies
and eggs are scarce and dear. substitute
rolled soda crackers for the eggs, say
one to each pie. Season particularly
well, don't forget the salt, and if not
just as good as the original, it is excel
lent, nevertheless.
To check bleeding at the nose, place
small roll of paper or muslin above
the front teeth under the upper lip, and
press hard on the same. This will ar
rest the bleeding, as it will check the
passage of the blood through the arte-
ries leading to the head. -pralxe's Mag
azine.
"A correspondent of the Scientific
American says that in filling glass bot
ties or jars with anything hot, such as
preserves, If the vessel to be filed is
placed on wet cloth folded in four or
six ply, there will be no danger of
breaking the glass no matter how hot
the liquid.
To aliay itching in some cutaneous
affections very pleasant application
consists of the freshly-expressed juice
of lemon diluted with four or five
times its bulk of water, to which a few
drops of cologne have been added or the
same quantity of rose-water. This is
very cooling.
Olive Dolly: Olives look the pref
test and most inviting when in cut
glass dish, and under the dish is an oil
i've dolly about ten inches wide, worked
in two shades of gas-light green flo
silk. The leaves tipped in the lightest
shade. and the olives worked in the
darning-stitch in the other shade of
grcen.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Cheese Fondee: One-fourth pound
cheese, one-half cup bread crumbs
one cup sweet milk. two eggs, beaten
separately, one teaspoonful butter, n
little salt. Cut the cheese in small
pieces, and add it to the milk and
bread and yollss of eggs Stir to-
gether, adding whites of eggs last, and
pour into a shallow tin. Bake for fif-
teen minutes in very hot oven. This
is a nice dish for tea or breakfast
Housekeeper.
bread and Butter Pudding: Cut a
small loaf of bread in very thin slices;
spread with butter. Pick over one tea
cupful of currants. Put layer of
bread in the bottom of the pudding
mold; sprinkle thick with currants; put
another layer of bread and currants I'M
til all are used Beat three eggs and
half cupful of sugar together; add one
pint of milk; flavor with nutmeg. Pour
this custard over the bread and bake
fifteen minutes. Serve cold with cream
sauce. -Ilousekeeper.
To make good lemon extract,
CRATE off enough of the outside yellow
peel of lemons to fill a small bottle and
cover it with pure alchol. Do not allow
any of the white part of the rind to get
in when grating. This will require
care. but neglect in this particular will
give bitter flavor to the extract that
is not desirable. Strain the contents
of the bottle after three weeks, and use
an even teaspoonful of the extract to
flavor quart of custard or any similar
dish in which it is used. IN. Y. Trib-
une.