The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-28
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


: Pastry made with lard, although it
looks better, is not as healthy or as
good as that made with butter.
"A little kerosene oil rubbed briskly
over the spots on dark clothing will
brighten the garments and remove the
stains almost like magic.
For oatmeal blancmange wet two
tablespoonfuls of oatmeal in cold wa
ter and stir into u scant quart of boil
ing milk. Salt to taste, pour into
molds and when cold eat with cream
and sugar HouselSceper.
--IIoarseness or tickling in the throat
may be relieved by taking small
quantity of dry powdered borax, let
ting it slowly dissolve on the tongue
and run down the throat 1t is also
good to keep the throat moist at night
and prevent coughing.
Lemon Cookies: Eight cups of flour,
two cups of sugar, one cup of butter,
one cup OF sweet cream, two eggs; fla
vor with lemon; one teaspoonful cheap
1ng) baking powder Roll out thin, and
when ready to cut. sift white sugar
over the dough. Cut out and bake in
quick oven.-Detroit Free Press.
Dried Pumpkin for Pies: Cut n
pumpkin in half lengthwise, take out
the seeds, pare off the rind, and cut it
in slices about an inch thick. String it
on fine Irvine, and hang it in a dry
place. In the winter stew and use it ms
green pumpkins. The chcese-shaped
pumpkin is the best kind for diving
Boston Budget
The simplest way to stain n floor,
and probably the most satisfactory, is
to use a ready mixed stain, applying it
with an ordinary hogs-hair paint brush
After 1t has become quite dry it can be
rubbed up with a mixture made of bees
wax and turpentine, to which n little
resin may be added, and the whole care
fully warmed; when cold, rub on the
liquid with cloth, and polish up with
brush.-N. Y. World
Apple CreamCalse: One egg and
the yolk of another, one cupful of sugar,
one tablespoonful of butter, one half
cnpful of milk, one teaspoonful of
cream of tartar, one half-teaspoonful
of soda, two cupfuls of flour. Bake in
three tins. For filing, use one grated
sour apple, the white Of one egg, and
one cupful of fine sugar. Beat together
and spread between and on top of cake.
--Demorest's Magazine.
-Iioarhound Candy: Boil two ounces
OF dried hoarhound in pint and a half
OF water for about half an hour. Strain
and add three and half pounds of
brown sugar. Boil over n hot fire until
sufficiently hard; then pour out into
Hat, well-grcased tins, and divide of,
INTO sticks or small squares with n
knife as soon as cool enough to retain
it's shape. Follow the same directions
for wintcrgrecn candy.-Latlies' Home
Journal
Tomatoes with Rice: Scald and peel
three large smooth tomatoes Cut them
i'll halves, scoop out the seeds and Juice.
without breaking the pulp. Scald the
juice enough to strain out the seeds. To
the jdice add sugar to taste, and mix
with it rs much warm boiled rice as it
Will absorb; add salt and little butter.
Fill the tomatoes with the mixture.
Place each half tomato on round OF
bread buttercd Put them in u shallow
pan and bake ten minutes, or until the
bread is Drowned. Budget.
-Roast Rabbits: Skin and clean with
great care, and wash n pair of fat rab-
bits; stuff with force meat of crumbs
and chopped fat pork seasoned with
onion, thyme, pepper and salt; sew IN
with fine thread, bind the legs to the
body IN n knccling posture and place in
n dripping pan; pour over them one
cupful of boiling water, and invert an
other pan over them to keep them in;
haste twice with butter, with their own
gravy twice, then twice again with but
ter; just before you take them up
dredge them with flour and give final
haste with butter; dish when threads
have been cut and drawn out; thiclsen
and season the gravy and serve in n
gravy boat.-Boston Herald.