Year: 1877

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 It is well worth the trouble to have this thing of putting away woolens right ly done. We do not believe in using to- bacco for the purpose, for we have known of carpets being greatly injured by moths when perfect line of the tobacco leaves was placed around the edge for protection. A line of salt around the edge is better, and good sweeping now and then is the best preventative for tfe rest. Persian insect powder, too, is very efficient. If carpets are raised and well beaten at the proper season of the year, and that is during the spring house cleaning, there will be little danger of moths; but blankets and woolen cloth ing laid away through the summer are apt to show the depredations of the millers and the fsasts of the moths in the fall. If the millers have left ne eggs in the woolens. anything that will keep them away is all that is required -linen, box closely pasted up, or even a news. paper closely pinned around the articles, but the mischief is done before the ar ticles are put up, and we fail to dislodge the millers' eggs, or we must apply some odor strong enough to kill the moths as they come from the eggs. Brush the articles very briskly with a whisk broom, then do up with camphor or black pepper in linen cloth or news paper. The eld-fashioned way to pre- serve woolens was to keep large whisky hogshead for the express purpose, and use it for the same purpose year after year. It will hold the blankets and all tne woolens of an ordinary family. It should ke kept in dark, ccol place, and we'll fastened up. It should not be washed, but merely wiped dry before be- ing used. The odor of the whisky is the preserving quality, and the idea is not a bad one.

 SOUTHERN MODE OF PRESERVING ORANGES

 Boil the fruit whole in soft water un- til you can easily run straw through the skin; clarify three-guarters of a pound of sugar for every pound of fruit ; take the oranges from the water, pour over them the hot syrup and let them stand in it one night; next day boil them in the syrup till it is thick and clear; then take them up and strain the syrup upon them. It is one of the few varieties of sweetmeats, with the making of which we are not familiar, but we have been given some orange preserve, made after this receipt, in South Caroli- na, and it was just splendid--tEaRspar- ent and delicious.

 The following common delicacy, pre- pared from oranges, we accidentally omitted in former chapter:

 ORANGE WATER ICE.

 To four pounds of best loaf sugar, al- low one quart of water and four dozen large, ripe, deep-colored oranges; having rolled the oranges on the table under your hand, to increase to quantity of juice, wash and wipe them dry; take pieces of the sugar and rub them on half the oranges till you have taken of, ,on the sugar, their yellow rind; then put that sugar, with the remainder, into a porce- lain kettle and pour on one quart of water, into which has been beaten the white of an egg; when the sugar is quite melted, set the kettle on the fire and boil and skim till the scum ceases to rise and the yellow of the orange is quite dis solved; then stir in gradually the juice of the oranges and when all is in, take it at once off the fire, lest the flavor of the juice should..be weakened by boiling. Let it cool, stirring it we'll; put in a com mon freezer and freeze. Ifno freezer is to be had pail surrounded by ice and salt will answer the purpose. It should be set in as cool place as possible, and flannel thrown over all to confne the cold air.

 BREAKFAST PUFFs.

 Stir two well beaten eggs into pint of milk, with little salt, and piece of butter, melted. Then pour all into pint and half of flour, 80 as not to have it lumpy. Stir up thoroughly, then butter the cups into which the batter is poured, filling them two thirds full. To preserve potatoes till spring put a quantity of powdered charcoal into the bottom of the potato bin;s it will pre- serve their flavor, and prevents the sprouts from shooting out as early as they otherwise would.

 LEMON JELLY.

 Take one box or two ounces of gela- tine, which should be first soaked in water for two hours; drain off the water; then take two quarts of cold water, one and half pounds of sugar, put in the beaten whites of three eggs, the juice of three good sized lemons, the yellow rind pared off in strips, from one, stick of little nutmeg or other spice 'tir all the ingredients together when | cold, then boil the whole mass together