Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1877 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Bad cooking spoils good food. Eat licorice to sweeten the breath. Apply common baking soda to bums. There is no dignity in work half done. Bottom heat is not good to raise bread. Cold* comed beef is best for making hash. Eat what your appetite craves if you can get it. Do not entertain visitors with your own domestic troubles. Husbands must not expect their wives to make good, white bread from poor flour. A place for everything, and everything in its place, is the secret of good housekeeping. One-half cup of corn starch improves any common cake; less flour, however, must be used. Fever and Ague.—Sweet fern tea has cured chills and fever at the South, where it is very prevalent. Make a tea of the leaves and drink of it freely every day. Fried Scollops.—Dry the scollops in a towel; beat an egg, and roll soda crackers very fine; dip the scollops into the egg, and then roll in the cracker dust; have very hot equal parts of butter and lard, and fry the scollops in it. Ox Gall.—One table-spoonful of gall in one pail of water will set the color. To make the goods look bright and clear use borax when washing; do not mb soap on, but have a weak suds made; rinse in clear water. Cold Rice Pudding.—Three table spoonfuls of rice; five table-spoonfuls of sugar; a piece of butter as large as a hickory nut and a little salt. Let the rice boil up three or four times in a gill or more of water, then stir in the sugar, butter and salt, and add one quart of milk: boil one hour. Let it get cold the ice-box is the best place—grate nutmeg over it and serve. Cure for Dyspepsia.—Half an ounce rhubarb, half an ounce snake root, two ounces wild cherry, one cubebs, two ounces sweet fem, one ounce pricklyash bark. Put these into two quarts of water and let it slowly simmer until reduced to a pint, then put it into one

quart of the best gin, and take a 'wineglassful before each meat Baked Tomatoes.—Skin the tomatoes put into a baking dish a layer of rolled cracker and small pieces of butter, then a layer of tomatoes, sliced; add another layer of cracker and butter, with pepper and salt to the taste; then a layer of green corn, cut from the cob; repeat until the dish is filled. Bake three-quar-ters of an hour. I want every mother in the land to know what is a certain cure for cut or bruise, or any kind of hurt. Soft hot water is. Immerse the injured part into as hot water as can be borne, until the pain and inflammation is relieved. I knowa little 2-year-old upon whose tender, soft little hand a heavy window came crushing. In its frantic efforts to get the hand out, the poor little fingers were so terribly lacerated and torn that amputation was deemed inevitable. The mother would not listen to it, but kept the hand for hours in a basin of as hot water as the child could bear. In a few days the fingers healed beautifully,without scar or fester.— Cor. Chicago Tribune.