The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-28
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A Few Don'ts to Remember-How to
Prepare Oysters DaintiIy.

IA rev bOntS TO mOcf- To
Prepare oysters DaintiIy.
CANNED APPLES.-One pound of
sugar, four pounds of apples, the
grated rind of one lemon, one quart of
water. Pare the apples; throw them
into cold water. When you have
enough to fill one or two jars. take
them from the water, put them into a
porcelain lined kettle, cover them
with boiling water and stand them on
the back part of the stove, where they
will scarcely bubble, until tender.
While they are cooking put the sugar
and water into another kettle. stir
the sugar until 1t is dissolved, add the
lemon rind and boil three minutes.
When the apples are sufficiently ten
der to admit a straw, lift them care
fully with a strainer from the water
into the strip, bring to a boiling
point, skim and can.
When coughing at night is parti-
cularly troublesome the thorough
warming of the bed previous to its
being occupied will often avert an
attack. The taking of a warm drink,
preferably a glass of hot milk before
retiring, or better, after getting in
bed, is equally good. The oppor-
tunity to warm a bed is not always
possible, but it is generally very easy
no procure q hot drink of some kind,
to matter where one happens to be.
One of the incest ways to warm a
bed is by ironing the lower sheet and
as much of the upper one as is thrown
back when the bed is opened. After
this is done, quickly draw up the bed
clothing and place the bottles of hot
water or the old fashioned warm log
or bricks in between the ironed sheets.
Persons with consumption and heart
disease will secure untold comfort and
many restful nights If they always go
to warmed beds to seek repose.
Don't use a greasy pan or whisk to
beat up egg whites for meringue.
Don't incorporate your baking pow
der without sitting it with the flour,
SO as to get it thoroughly mixed.
DON'T use unwashed and unpicked
currants in cakes. They have a very
disagreeable taste on being eaten.
Don't put all your eggs in a mixing
without smelling them. A single
1nusty egg will spoil a bushel of good
ones.
Don't use a dirty cloth or brush in
buttering baking tins and pans. The
bottoms of the cakes will soon tell
people of your neglect.
In preparing oysters for an invalid,
the eye, or tough white piece il each,
should be removed. A palatable and
nutritious dish is creaned oysters.
which, made for n person, calls for
halt a dozen oysters heated in their
own liquor. Remove carefully any
scum which rises. Boil half a cup of
milk with a pinch of salt, and a dust
of cayenne and a scrap of mace.
Thicker to a cream by stirring in a
t~easpoonful of flour wet with a little
cold cream. When smooth, pour over
the hot oysters and serve with squares
of dry toast from which the crust has
been cut.
The unsightly marks caused by
drippings from the faucets in marble
basins may be easily removed with
pulverized chalk moistened with a
few drops of ammonia. Apply with
an old toothbrush. and they will
quickly disappear.
Instead of proudly pushing a pre-.
%cocious child in his studies we hold
him back behind his mates, and seek
to restore harmonious balance of his
brain with his body by an abundance
OF pure air, nourishing food and zest-
full play. We thus save him from be-
coming a dullard or an imbecile.A
In the s's~pareroom" the bed should
be made with only the spread and
shams over until needed, when the
sheets and bedclothing may be put
on.
1t is a great mistake to allow child
rem to get the idea that there is any
other place in the world as desirable
as home. 1t is not always easy to
make the fathers house so pleasant
that the children will go there in pre-
ference to all other places; built is
well to leave no effort untried to sur
round the domestic freside with
allu rements which shall prevail
against all the world. But
this is never done by fault
finding complaints, bad temper and
the ever-present idea that ''childr en-
and their toys are such a nuisance
and make such a litter" The boys
and girls are well worth caring for,
and anything and everything that
will afford healthful and rational en-
tertainment should be sought after,
and made a part of the home equip
ment. Never allow the idea to pre-
vail that the home is a place for
drudgery and discomfort, or that if
n is going TO have a good time, one
must go elsewhere for it.
Why ManysWomen Love TO shop.
While the professional wits brim
Owe with such unbridled raiIIery
about the women who spend much of
their time in shopping, there is quiet
another view of the subject, full on
one side OF the plainest prose. and on
the other of a simple poetry and small