The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-07
FIRESiDE FRAGMENTS.

Mix stove polish with vinegar and
a teaspoonful of sugar and rub with a
newspaper instead of a brush.
Tea Ice: Make the tea as usual,
add equal parts of cream and new milk
(half pint of each to quart of teal,
sweeted to taste, and freeze. Y.
World.
Orange Ice: Take the juice of six
oranges and grated rind of three, and
the juice of two lemons, with the same
proportion of sugar and water. Pre-
pare and freeze as lemon ice.-Good
Housekeeping.
To destroy flies boil the parings of
potatoes in little water for an hour.
Skim them out and boil the water down
to few tablespoonfuls. Sweeten
with molasses and turn into plates. 1t
is deadly poison. Another method is
to steep quassia chips to strong de-
coctiOn, sweeten and proceed as above.
Old Homestead.
Salt is a most excellent thing to use
in sweeping carpets. 1t not only gath
ers up the dust and leaves the carpet
bright and clean, but there is always
enough of the finer particles left in the
carpet to act as a prevention to moth.
OF course the very cheapest, coarsest
salt may be used.
Salad: Slice cucumbers sprinkle
salt over them, and set them away for
fifteen minutes Slice few onions and
cold boiled potatoes, mix them, and
season with salt, pepper ard vinegar.
Just before serving, rinse the salt from
the cucumbers, and mix with the salad
Slices of cold boiled eggs may also be
added. -lIouseliceper
Fried Chicken: Chop one onion
quite fine and fry it until brown in
little butter. Roll piece of butter the
size of an egg in flour. Add to the
onion, and in this fry the chicken cut
into convenient pieces. Take up on
buttered toast and place in the oven.
Add milk, pepper and salt to the grease
in the skillet, pour over the chicken and
serve at once.-Detroit Free Press.
If people knew the good of hasty
sponge bath every night before going to
bed they would avail themselves of this
simple means of obtaining a good
nights rest The water needn't be cold,
as some suggest, but warm enough to
be comfortable. TO wash the face,
hands and feet is to do ones self untold
good, and that anyone can go to bed
without having performed these three
ablutionS seems to the user of water a
thing as impossible as it is improbable.
And the feet should have the preference.
Baked Caulifiower: After being
washed in cold, sailed water the cauli-
flower can be put over the fire in sailed
boiling water, boiled only until tender,
without being broken, and then trans
ferred to a balling-dish, covered with
cream sauce, busted over with bread or
cracker crumbs and dotted with butter;
season the crumbs with salt and pepper
and then brown the surface in the oven.
The caulitlower can be prepared to the
point of browning in the oven at any
convenient time and finished just before
serving. -Springfeld Republican.
banana Cream Pudding: Melt one
cup of sugar in one pint of hot milk.
Mix two tablespoons corn starch with
milk, stir it into the boiling milk, and
cook fifteen minutes. Add two table
spoons of butter. Leaf the whites of
three eggs stiff, stir into the thickened
milk and cook again for five minutes.
Turn into deep dish to cool. When
ready to serve, cover the cream with red
bananas sliced Mix few grains of
salt with half a cup of powdered sugar.
Sprinkle this over the bananas. Serve
with cream and jelly sauce, made of
one-fourth cup of apple or strawberry
Jelly, beaten into one cup OF thick
cream.-Boston Budget