The Portland daily press., 1893-07-11
THE HOME.
SALT RISING BREAD.

SALT RISING BREAD.
A Southern housekeeper makes this
kind of bread in the following manner:
Overnight, prepare leaven by pour
ing cup of boiling milk over two table
spoons of corn meal. Mix thoroughly
and place in warm spot to rise. When
the leaven has risen pour into suitable
vessel cup of sweet milk, a heaping
tablespoon of sugar, a pine h of salt and
a cup of boiling water. Stir in flour
sufficient to make a thick bate and
then add the leaven, which thins the
yeast to proper consistency. Place the
vessel of yeast into pot of warm water,
which must be kept warm. The yeast
will rise, ordinarily, in an hour. When
the yeast has risen sufficiently, add as
much warm water as is desired, tea
spoon OF salt, a tablespoon of lard, and
mix into dough that is well kneaded,
but not too stiff. Put into awarm place to
rise and when risen, bake with good.
steady fire until the bread leaves the
pan. 1t is we'll to note: /. That the
leaven must be made fresh each time
bread is made. 2. That the leaven is
treated exactly as one would cup of
milk that she wished to clabber, and if it
is allowed to get too hot it acquires an
unpleasant odor that will be impaired to
the bread. 8. That too much salt add
ed to the yeast will prevent its rising.
4. That thorough beating of the leaven
and of the yeast is essential. 5. That
it is necessary to keep the yeast and ris-
ing dough warm.
SPOTS AND STAINS.
The careful housekeeper looks over
her laundry for the general wash to dis
cover stains of coffee, tea, fruit, mildew
and paint, which are so frequently found
and SO often ''set'' by being soaked in
cold water before they are seen. The
stains of coffee and tea so often found
in tablecloths may be easily and success
fully treated if taken in time, but if neg
lected leave permanent defacing mark.
The treatment of these stains should
always be kept in mind, as they are dia-
metrically opposite to each other. For
coffee stains, soak the spots in clear,
cold water for at least twelve hours, add
ing little borax to soften the water,
and the subsequent washing will general
ly remove the stain. A tea stain, on the
contrary, must be taken out when it is
fresh with boiling water poured through
the fabric.
Fruit stains, SO common in the summer
time may be removed by pouring boiling
water over them, when they gradually
disappear. Where they have been
washed into' the goods, they may be
removed if the fabric is pure white by
soaking them in sour milk for several
days and then rubbing them with the
hands in this liquid. If the fabric is col
ored, especially if it is blue, the greatest
care should be taken in using the sour
milk, or the color will certainly be re-
moved as well as the STAIN AS this is
due to the acid in the milk, it may some
times be remedied by an application of
weak ammonia.
Alkali stains caused by lime or soda
may often be removed or the color re-
stored by an application of vinegar or
lemon juice. A grass stain is one of the
most difficult to get out of all the spots
that bother the patience of the laun-
dress. A correspondent recommends for
this purpose a solution of chloride of
tin, used warm and Immediately washed
out with clear, cold water. This is pow
erful remedy and should be purchased
from druggist, who is able to furnish
the solution in proper strength Machine
oil is very difficult to remove if it is not
treated before tits "set''. Each spot of
oil should be we'll soaked and then
washed out in clear, cold water, Ink is
one of the most troublesome of stains if
it is left alone to dry in the fabric If it
is washed out in clear, cold water or in
milk while it is fresh, it may often be en-
tirely removed Stylographic or strained
ink, which possesses no heavy parti-
cles to hang in the fabric of the cloth.
may always be taken out in this way.
Where ink has become dried in the
cloth, it may be removed by soaking in
the sweet milk until the milk becomes
sour, and then leaving it in the sour milk
for two or three days.
A treatmentof sour milk will general
ly remove mildew stains, but if they are
obstinate, a tablespoonful of oxalic acid
and a tablespoonful of lemon juice dis
solved in half pint of rain water will
usually remove them, if the spots are
thoroughly rubbed in this solution and
then rinsed in clear cold water Iron
rust stains may be easily removed from
white goods, even of long standing.
They should be spread across board
or plate, wet with thick paste made. of
salt and lemon juice and sdread out in
the strong summers sun, which will
draw out the spot in wonderfully short
time. Tar spots must first be rubbed
with lard or some other grease, and then
washed out with soap and water, or
treated with benzine. Paint stains are
always removed with turpentine.- Y.
Tribune.
WASHING COTTON DRESSES.
In washing colored cotton dresses and
aprons, the greatest possible care should
be used to prevent their fading.
If any of the prepared powders for
making washing easier are used for
white clothes, prints, cambrics, ect.,
should be washed in an entirely separate
water. No chemical preparations