Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1878 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

English Bread Sauce.—-Cut some light bread in small pieces ; boil sufficient milk with a good-sized onion in it to thoroughly soak it; and mix and let stand awhile, then boil and add butter, pepper, and salt and a few black peppercorns ; take out the onion before serving. Cement for Mending Table Knives. —Cutlers’ cement, for fastening the blades of dinner knives in their ivory handles, consists of resin, four parts; beeswax, one part; brick-dust, one part. Fill the hole in the handle with the cement, heat the tang of the blade and press in. Wedding Cake.—One pound of powdered sugar and one pound good butter, rubbed to a cream ; next the well-beaten yelks of 12 eggs ; mix well before adding one-half pound sifted flour; then one table-spoonful of cinnamon, two table-spoonfuls nutmeg, one teaspoonful cloves ; then the well-whipped whites of 12 eggs, added little at a time with another one-half pound of sifted flour; next one pound well-washed and dried currants, dredged with flour, one pound of raisins, seeded, dredged with flour; one-half pound citron cut into slips, dredged ; at the last, one wineglass of good brandy. This recipe makes two large cakes. Bake two hours or longer in a moderately hot oven in deep tins well-buttered paper. To Keep Loose Sashes from RatJour one-sided buttons of wood arid screw them to the heading vyhich is nailed to the casings of the window, making each button of proper length to press the side of the sash outward when the end of the button is turned down horizontally.

Miss Rosella Rice communicates to The Practical Farmer a statement of her successful experience in keeping butter : For the thirty-five pounds put down in rolls wrapped in thin muslin, she made a brine so strong with salt that it will float an egg. Into this is put one pound of brown sugar and onefourth of a pound of saltpeter; let it come to a boil, skim well, and, when cold, pour it OVer the butter, which is kept in a clean, well-scalded oaken cask made for that purpose. Miss Rice adds: “The last roll of butter, which will be used in March, will be as fresh and sweet as this is now. My neighbor puts down her butter on a different Elan altogether. She packs hers in gal»n crocks, and then she puts on a layer of salt about two inches thick. She hoots at me, and thinks my way is not half so nice as hers. Now, any woman will see the difference in appearance of the slice of butter ojj my neighbor’s

plate and mine. Of course her way is good, but I think my way is preferable. The slice on my plate will be clean, and whole and dewy; hers broken and uneven, with bits of salt sticking to it”