The Portland daily press., 1892-05-21
SUGAR AND SPICE.

serviceable for everyday purposes of life
than cheap kid.
SUGAR AND SPICE.
Before beginning to make cake be sure
What the oven is ready and the utensils
and materials collected.
If deep pans are to be used and you are
afraid the cake will stick, paper it and
butter the paper; otherwise butter the
pan dredge on flour, and shake out all
that is superfluous.
The whites of eggs are. better if well
chilled and if time allows set them in
the refrigerator little while before using.
Never beat the whites of eggs and let
them stand while putting the rest of the
mixture together. 1t is always safest to
break eggs one at time. W
Use pastry or ST. Louis flour in cake
making. Measure flour for cake after
sitting and do not dip the cup into the
-four. thereby taking a greater amount
than is called for by the rule.
When a cake is baked do not take it to
an open window or into a draft but let
it remain in the pan a few minutes
where it is warm
IL you WALTZ ID lOdl II even thickness
do not heap the mixture in the pan.
In baking cake divide the time in four
quarters. In the first let the cake rise
slightly; in the second rise and brown
slightly; in the third rise to it's full
height and brown finally in the last quar-
ter it.sett1es and shrinks from the pan
and the bubbling sound begins to- cease;
if this sound had entirely ceased the
moisture would be entirely extracted.
Do not be afraid to look at the cake in
the oven, turrit if it, needs, turning, but
do not open and close the oven with a
bang, throwing current of cool air
across the cake. Each housekeeper
must learn the peeuliarities of her own
oven.
Use confectionery sugar for frosting,
fine granulated for cake. $3.50
THE SUBJECT OF MOTHS.
1t is an old subject, but now the moth
lays her eggs. and matches the grub into
its devastating feed season of from one
to three weeks, to the period of it's CO.
coon stage. 1t is well to remember, says
the Upholsterer, that the moth never de-
sroys woolens; it is the worm. It is
well to remember that camphor and all
other vile odors in the world will never
protect fabrics in the least. fla woman
puts garment away that has so much as.
one moth egg a ton of camphor won't pre-
vent that egg from Matching, if there's
any hatch to it. The only way to pre-
serve garment from the ravages of the
moth is to be absolutely sure in the first
place that moth has laid no eggs in it.
and this is not easy to discover, because
with the mother instinct it creeps in dark
crevices, the more obscure the better.
and its eggs are as small as the point of a
pin. 1t coats these eggs or incrusts them
with covering, and you might beat and
the garment and not in the slightest de-
gree hurt the eggs. Now you can put
that garment away in a camphor chest
and heap ton of eamphor on. top of it,
yet if one of these eggs matches worm.
that worm will start in to feed. The only
way to be sure that none eff these eggs
are put away in garment is to keep
the garment out under constant surveil-
lance for two or three weeks before nut
ting it away, and in that time any newly
Matched worm will develop into a size
that can readily be seen. Once gar
nent is absolutely free of the egg or the
worm, it can then be tied up in a paper
parcel, or anything else that will keen
the living moth out. with perfect impun-
ty for moth will never bore it's way in
to anything.
TO RECOVER FURNITURE.
With screw-driver, remove carefully
all the old tacks, and take off the old
cover for a pattern. If the cover is to
be put on smooth, it is a very simple mat
ter. If it is put on with buttons, it is
little harder; but is still possible. Take
some pieces of Irvine about 10 inches
long. Thread piece into a long darn
ing needle, and draw the Irvine through