The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-10-17
FiREsIpE FRAGMENTS.

To clean willow furniture use salt
and water. Apply with q nail brush
and scrub thoroughly.-Detroit Free
Press.
Oyster shells is good to clean the
1rebrick of the stove. Lay number
of them on top of the hot Goals, and
when the fire burns down It will be
found that all the clinkers have scaled
off the bricks.
"A very good shampoo is made OF
salts of tartar, white CASTLE soap, bay
rum, and lukewarm water The salts
will remove the dandruff, the soap will!
soften and clean the hair thoroughly,
while the bay rum will prevent taking
cold.
inexpensive Fruit Cake: One-half
cupful of butter, two cups of -four
three-quarters of cupful of sugar, one.
half cupful of milk, less than one-half
cupful of molasses, two eggs, one-half
teaspoonful of soda in molasses to foam,
one cupful of chopped raisins, little
cloves and cinnamon. National Pres
byterian.
Flour can not be too cold for pas
try, cookies or kindred doughs, while
for yeast bread it should be warm
enough to favor the growth Of the yeast
plant For the same reason warm
water should be used with yeast, while
with cream tartar and soda it would
hasten the escape of the gas, and cold
liquids only are allowable.
Apple Pudding: Pare, quarter and
core enough tart apples to fill pudding
dish half full, and season with nutmeg
water and piece of butter as large as
| two hickory nuts Make a crust as you
would make baking powder biscuit,
roll it out half an inch thick and cover
the top of the pudding, cutting holes
| through it for the escape of steam.
Cover with basin of the same size,
stand on the top of the stove and cook
fifteen minutes, then remove the cover
and place in hot oven until nicely
Drowned Serve hot with hard sauce. -
Boston Globe.
Boiled Chicken with Oysters: Pre-
pare the chicken as for roasting, adding
chopped oysters to the stutfing. Put the
fowl in tin pail, tightly covered, and
place the pail in pot of cold water.
Boil for an hour and half or two
hours, as required. Make gravy from
the liquor in the pail adding to it some
of the oysters. Take half dozen oi
the largest oysters, cooked until theil
edges curl, and lay over the chicken
Put over it little of the gravy ano
serve the rest in a bowl-Good House
keeping.
| pAt
one pint of beans in half gallon o
water, to which has been added pincl
of soda, half an hour. Then pour of
water, put the beans in large pan
pour over them half a pail of cold wateI
and wash thoroughly. Repeat this sew
eral times, until the skins of the beam
are all washed off. Place the beans il
a half gallon stone jar or crock, cove
with water, add pound of fat pork OF
bacon, a tablespoon of molasses, ant
a little salt, and bake all day. Must b.
kept covered tightly, and if it gets to,
dry, add more water - Detroit Fre
Press.
-Creamed Dried Reef: There come
in pound and half'pound boxes SHAVED
dried beef of good quality. In cooking
for three people use one-quarter of
pound of this beef, one generous table
spoonful of butter, gill and a half o
milk, one level teaspoonful of flour, an
a little pepper, if liked Put the bee
in bowl and pour pint of boilin
water on it. Let it stand ten minutes
then drain well. Put the butter in tn
granite-ware dish and place over tn
lighted lamp. When the butter is hot
add the beef and stir with n fork unit
the slices begin to curl Now add on
gill of the milk. Mix the remaining hal
gill with the flour. When the milk be
gins to boil, stir in the flour and mil
mixture. Continue stirring until thi
boils; then serve.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal,