Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-07-18
Salad Dressing.

Salad Dressing.
To one well beaten egg. add one. half tea
spoon musturd, one-half teaspoon salt,
one-ha!f teaspoon celery salt, one table
spoon butter, two tablespoons sugar, two
tablespoons cream and cupful vinegar.
Put over a quic kfire and let come to a boil
Mrs. Cort.
Tomato Soup.
One can or quart of tomatoes cooked
until done. Season with salt, pepper and
butter and add pinch of common soda to
prevent curdling, then add a quart of rich.
sweet milk. Sweeten. if necessary, before
servng.-Mrs. Cort.
suet Pudding.
Three-fourths cupful molasses, cupful
of sugar, y cupful OF butter, one cupful of
sweet milk. y teaspoon OF soda and 2ls cup
fuls -four. Add one cupful OF raisins, and
spice to taste.-Mrs. Cort.
Favorite Cookies.
One-half cupful OF butter and 2 cupfuls
sugar rubbed together, two eggs well beat
-four with lemon or nutmeg flour to make
rather a soft dough. Roll thin and sprinkle
sugar over the top.-Mrs. Cort.
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Applying lard to bruise to prevent dis
coloration.
Using two or three spoonfuls OF kerosene in
the water to wash windows, mirrors and
lamp chimneys.
Cleaning zinc with kerosene.
Preserving lemons by packing in salt.
Soaking mildewed clothes in buttermilk
and spreading on the grass in the sun.
Whitening yellow linen by boiling half an
hour in one gallon of milk in which has
been melted one pound of fine soap; then
washing in suds and rinsing thoroughly
in blueing water.
Washing oilcloth with a flannel cloth and
warm water, wiping dry and rubbing milk
over.
Purifying jars from grease by soaking in
strong soda water.
Adding little vinegar to the rinsing water
for pink and green calicoes.
Adding little soda to the rinsing water
for washing purple or blue calicoes.
Soda water for washing ceilings blaekened
by a kerosene lamp.
| Hell full Hints.
Ink stains may be removed from any
white goods by using oxolic acid dissolved
in boiling water. The acid must be washed
out of the goods thoroughly before it has
time to rot it. Spread on the grass in the
sun to dry.
Articles of old furniture are sometimes
made to look new by washing them with
lime water and then applying a coat OF oil
II a screw is soaped before it is put into
wood, it will be found much easier to put
it in.
A teasponful OF powdered bora added to
the cold starch will tend to give the liner
an extra stiffness.
Banana peel will clean tan shoes as well a,
any regular dressing.
Rain water and white CASTLE soap in {
luke warm suds are the best mixture TO
washing embroideries, or any delicate fab
RIGS.
!. For a very bad burn, melt beeswax an,
pour in sweet oil until it makes a salv
which will spread easily. Keep every par
covered with the salve.
Bits of toilet soap, though quite small
may be utilized by putting into a small ba
OF Turkish toweling and used like a cak
of soap.
: Two uses of eggs are not generally know
} or appreciated. A fresh egg beaten an
thickened with sugar, freely eaten, will re
, lieve hoarseness, and the skin OF a boile
, egg, wet and applied to a boil will reliev
and draw out the soreness.
. 1t pays to do the mending before the art
Gle goes into the wash, since the process {
washing tends to enlarge the holes. and
is better and more agreeable to wear il tn
washing follows the mending.
cocoanut Pudding.
, Let IL pints OF milk come to a scald
thicken with tablespoons cornstarch, We
with little milk. Add pinch OF salt,
cup sugar and stiffiy beaten whites Of thr,
/. eggs, one small teaspoon vanilla and or
= large cup cocoanut- Pour in mould I
e set. When ready to serve turn out m
pour over it plenty OF whipped cream swee