Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-11
PRESIDE FRAoMENTs.

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 --Mildew may be removed by rubbing common yellow soap on it, then salt and starch over that; rub all in we'll and lay in the bright sunshine.
 A good remedy for damp, moist hands is four ounces of cologne water and one-half ounce of tincture of bella donna. Rub the hands with this sew eral times day.
 When your face and ears burn SO terribly, bathe them in very hot water, as hot as you can bear. This will be more apt to cool them than any cold ap- plication.
 -Steaming the face at night over a bowl of very hot water, and then bath ing it with very cold water, is simple method of giving it Russian bath, and will tend to make the skin winter and smoother and the flesh firmer.
 For lemon sauce easily made take one cupful of sugar and one-half cupful of butter, beat till creamed; squeeze the juice of one lemon into one-half pint of water, stir together and let it boil up once or twice.
 For chocolate pie, beat together the yolks of two eggs, six tablespoonfuls of sugar, three tablespoonfuls corn starch and four tablespoonfulso of grated choco- late. Mix the ingredients and stir in a a pint of boiling water. Bake the un- dercrust, then add the custard, and, when baked, put the beaten whites on top.-N. Y. World.
 Dreamed Oysters.-One pint of milk; when boiling, add two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, salt and pepper, and one tablespoonful of butter Take fine pow dered crumbs, and scatter over the bot tom of a well-buttered dish. Put a layer of oysters, then layer of cream, next crumbs, then oysters, cream, and so on, having crumbs on top Brown, or rather cook as for escalloped oysters. It is a change from the latter dish. - Boston Budget
 -Colored tennis flannels should be washed in water about the temperature of the room they are washed in, with good white soap of any kind, and rinsed thoroughly in water of the same tenn perature, and wrung out as dry as possi- ble. They may be hung up for a short time in the house, but should be taken down while still damp and ironed dry. Some laundresses never hang them up, but wiring them so dry that the iron completes the drying.
 Eggs with fine Herbs: Boil five or six eggs about five minutes, then plunge them into cold water, and afterwards take off the shells, cut the eggs in two and pour over them while hot the fol lowing sauce: Mix smooth two table spoonfuls of butter and one of flour, put ] it over the fire in a saucepan with lit klo o6 o,,1 salt and pepper; heat it and moisten ! with enough white wine vinegar to make of the proper consistency 1 Orange Judd Farmer.
 Orange Custard: Peel and slice four oranges in an earthen dish you wish to serve it in. Sift fine sugar over each layer as you slice them. Make a cus | tard, using two whole eggs and the yollxs of two more, well beaten, one quart of milk and two-thirds of a cup full of sugar. Flavor with vanilla steam until done, then pour over the or. ange. Beat the whites of two eggs and sweeten with fine sugar, pour over the custard when cool and set in oven five minutes. A little vanilla or orange | juice in the frosting improves it.-House keeper.
 Puff paste may be made with butter for shortening, or by using one-hal, butter and half lard; an extra teaspoon full of salt will be required if lard i. used. Stir the beated yolk of an ege into half a cupful of ice water and witt this moisten the flour, into which one half pound of butter has been chopped making stiff dough. Use for the whole one pound of shortening to on' pound of flour. Roll out the paste haste with one-third of the remaining
 butter. fold closely and roll out again repeat the process till the butter is uset up. Roll very thin and set in a colo 1 place for ten minutes before using
 Brush over with beaten egg while hot
 IN. Y. World.