River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Freshly-cut grass is far better than
wet tea-leaves to use when sweeping a
carpet. The latter are apt to leave
slight stain, whereas the grass gives
very bright, fresh appearance.
Picked Onions = Pour boiling
brine over the small button onions, let
them stand twenty-four hours, then
drain and cover with hot vinegar
spiced to taste.-Orange Judd Farmer.
-Salpicon de Carne.-Cut equal por-
tons of cold meat and cold boiled po-
tatoes into half-inch cubes; mix well,
and dress with plain salad dressing.
adding chopped parsley and fresh mar
joram. Over this place rounds of on
ions which have been previously soak
ed in vinegar for two hours.-Harper's
Bazaar.
-Huckleberry Pudding.-Beat two
eggs without separating, add one tea
cupful of sweet milk, one and one-half
cupfuls of -four, one tablespoonful of
melted butter and bea' vigorously.
Stem, wash and dry on towel one
pint of buckle cherries, dust them with
two tsblespoonfuls of flour, stir them
into the pudding. add a heaping tea
spoonful Of dry baking-powder, put in
to a creased pan and steam one hour.
Serve hot-Farmers' Review.
Apple Jam.-Half fill a Jar with
water, cut some apples into quarters,
remove the cores, and fill up the jar
with the apples, tie paper over the
top, and put into slow oven. When
quite soft, pulp them through q sieve,
and to each pound of pulp add three
quarters of pound of preserving SUI
gar, and boil gently until it jellies. Put
into jars, and tie down in the usual
way. In dry place it will keep three
or four yeara-Leed's Mercury.
Veal Cutlets.-Cutlets for breading
should be cut thin, and then cut in
pieces the proper size for serving. Gov
er them with boiling water. and allow
them TO stand for five minutes Drain
and dry. Dip them into beaten egg
and bread crumbx Beat the egg only
enough to blend the yolk and white
and add one tablespoonful of water 10
each egg. Saute in dripping, using not
enough fat to cover, but fry first on
one side and then on the other. When
the outlets are dipped so that the egg
covers them fully, as well as the bread
crumbs, IL the grease is hot enough the
covering will adhere.-Boston Budget
Grab Apple Jelly.-Wash and quar-
ter large Siberian crabs, but do not
core: cover with two inches of cold
water and cook into a rnush; pour into
coarse. cotton bag as a strainer and
when cool enough press hard to extract
all the juice. Take a piece OF fine mus
lin or crinoline, wiring ont of water,
spread over G colander placed over
dish ano dip the juice slowly in with
cup. allowing plenty of time to run
through. repeat this process twice.
rinsing OFT the muslin frequently. To
the juice of one peck of apples allow the
strained juice of four lemons Boil the
juice from ten to twenty minutes. and
while boiling sift in the sugar slowly.
allowing one pound sugar TO every
pint of juice. and one pint Of water to
every five pounds apples. As soon as
the juice jellies roll the tumblers
quickly in boiling water and fill them
with the boiling liquid. Then, If you
use jelly tum blers, put on the lids, il
not cover with two thicknesses of It's
sue paper and paste the edges down
over the edge of the tumbler.-Orange
Judd Farmer.