Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-11-18
HINTS TO HOUSEWIVES


Serve venison steak with currant
jelly.
Rice jelly is an admirable dish for the
nursery table.
Clean vinegar bottles with crushed
egg shells in a little water.
Straw mating is best cleaned with a
cloth wet with salt water; wipe dry
Try to be- happy while you eat; there
is nothing like il as an aid TO digestion.
Serrated cake knives can be had in
silver as we'll as in the coarser kitchen
metal
To keep your feet warm and healthy
put on fresh pair Of stockings every
morning.
A tablespoonful OF cornstarch is said
to be good substitute for an egg in
cookies and doughnuts.
Keep a channels with which TO rub the
knives, forks and spoons each night, as
they are laid fer dinner.
The French make a chestnut stufing
for both turkeys aud geese. Aloin OF
veal, stuffed with chestnuts, is a tooth
some dish.
Make starch with soapy water and
you will find IL q pleasure to do up your
starched goods. 1t prevents the iron
from sticking, and makes glossy sur
face.
Rave a box Of parsley growing 10 the
kitchen window this winter, with which
to garnlsh even the commonest dishes
you will be many times rewarded.
To restore color in silks taken out by
acids-sal volatile or hartshOrn will sur
fee for this purpose. 1t may be dropped
on silk without doing any injury.
To clean enamel saucepaus wash In
side and out with hot water and soda
and scOur with mixture OF salt and line
ashss.-tWO parts ashes to one OF salt.
Rinse with hot water aud dry.
Did YOU ever want to tint the cake
frosting? Lemon juice will Whiten it,
the grated rind Of an orange strained
through q cloth will give il q yellow
tint and strawberry or cranberry juice
will produce q pretty shade OF pink.
When it is necessary for you to have
your hands more or less in soapy water,
YOU will fnd that borax used in connec-
ton with the soap will not only very
much asSistin the cleansing but prevent
your hands from getting rough.
The annoyance OF 4 rough griddle
when baking cakes may be overcome
bv rubbing it with slice OF raw turnip.
Those who have used il say that II
makes the yriddle smooth as glass, and
cake baking therefore, an easy opera
ton.
There is little doubt that in reality a
dinner OF good substantial dishes, with
home made desserts, nuts, fruits and
Ices with good talk. is enjoyed by the
majority OF people far more than the
most elaborate spread with French en-
trees.
The best cement for joining glass and
metal together is pure alnm melted in a
spoon held over hot Goals. As kerosene
will not penetrate 1t, il Is better than
pl sister Of paris for uniting the bulb Of
lamp 70 It's base where these are only
loose.
To clean gold lace trimming and
fringe, soak the articles in benzOline,
take out wet and scrub lightly with 8
small brush, using little plaster Paris
/ dry on the brush. After brushing,
rinse in some clean benzOline and dry on
/ clean rags
CaRdied rose petals seem like great
! luxury. but any one can make them.
Get about twenty cents worth OF bar
gain roses. Revive the flowers with
Tesh water; then strip of the petals
nd spread them on clean paper aud
them slightly for one or two hours.
Ike a SyrRp wish q hall pound Of
pulated sugar and hall pint OF Va
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