Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Huckleberry Bread. —One quart flour, one pint sour milk, one teaspoonful soda, one and a half pint berries; mix as stiff as biscuit dough. It is worth knowing that if one volume of castor oil be dissolved in two or tfhree volumes of spirits of wine it will render paper transparent, and, tlie spirits rapidly evaporating, tlie paper in a few minutes becomes fit for use. A drawing in pencil or in India ink can thus be made, and if the paper is placed in spirits of wine the oil is dissolved out, restoring the paper to its original condition. Scalloped Oyster-Plant. —Boil oys-ter-plant or salsify till very tender; drain off all the water and rub through a colander; add butter, pepper, salt, and milk, and mix avoll together. Put iu a baking-disli, cover tlie top Avith bread-crumbs, Avitli here and there small bits of butter. Bake a delicate brown. Celery-salt may be used lor a flavor, but not quite as much as one would of common salt.— Christian Union. Removing Tea Stains. —The stains will come out of buff liuen luuch cloth y being put iu the boiler in a suds made two pailfuls of water, a teacupful of soft soap, and a tablespoonful of the “Magical Mixture” for Avashing. Let these ingredients boil together five minutes ; then put the boiler on the comer of the range and put the cloth in, stirring it around, but not letting it boil. The color will not be injured in the least by this process. A Home-Made Carpet. —An Eastern lady says : Have any of you a spare bed-cliamber, seldom used, which you would like to carpet at little expense ? Go to tlie paper-hanger’s and select a paper looking as much like carpet as you can find. Having taken it home, first paper the floor of your bedroom with brown paper ; then over this put doAvn your wall-paper. A good way to do this will be to put a good coat of paste upon the width of tlie roll of paper aud the length of she room, and then lay the paper, unrolling and smoothing at the same time. When the floor is all covered, then size and varnish, only dark glue aud common furniture varish being used, and the floor will look all the better for the darkening these will give it. When it is dry, put down a few rugs by the bedside and toilet table, and you have as pretty a carpet as you could wish.