Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — About, the House. [ARTICLE]

About, the House.

Currant Pie. —Four table-spoonfuls of currants, five of water, four of sugar, and one of Hour, will make one pie ; bake in two crusts. Lemon Cake. —Four cupfuls of flour, three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of butter, one cupful of milk, live eggs; season with lemon. To Clean Collars and Wristbands. —Grease the soiled parts before wetting with any kind of fat or dripping ; let them remain a few hours, or over night; wash with soap in hot water. They will become wonderfully clean. Coooanut Cake. —One cupful of butter, two of sugar, four eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream tartar, in one cupful of milk ; one grated cocoanut should be .mixed with flour and the whites of the eggs-.,beaten to a stiff froth. Flour enough should be used to make it as stiff as pound cake.

Hoav to Paint Woodavork.— ln painting woodwork, a priming coat followed by a dark coat, such as chocolate or purple brown, and finished oft’ with'a coat of common varnish, is cheaper than, and as durable as, four coats of common color; it looks better, is more readily executed, and bears avu slung well.— Economist. How to Preserve Ice.— During illness ice is generally needed in the sickroom. The following method of preserving it is highly recommended, and is certainly worth trying: Cut a piece of flannel about nine inches square, and secure it by ligature round the mouth of an ordinary tumbler, so as to leave a cupshaped depression of flannel within the tumbler to about half its depth. In the flannel cup so constructed pieces of ice may be preserved many hours, all the longer if a piece oi flannel from four to five inches square be used as a loose cover to the ice cups. Cheap flannel, with comparatively open meshes, is preferable, as the water easily drains through it and the ice is thus kept quite dry. When good flannel with close texture is employed, a small hole must be made in the bottom of the flannel cup, otherwise it holds the water, and facilitates the melting of the ice. Placed in a cup of this kind, two ounces of ice has been known to last for nine or ten hours.