Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Add your fuel to the fire slowly. Herrings are very strengthening. Do not make your bread too light. Stale bread may be steamed into freshness. Scalded skimmed milk will go as far as fresh milk. Salt meats should be simmered; they should not be fiercely boiled. To Prevent Scorching.—To prevent scorching, the secret is simply to keep a basin or cup of water in the oven. The steam generated not only prevents scorching, but makes the meat cook nicer. Destroyer of Bed Bugs.—The quickest and. best cure for them, I find, is to wash the bedstead with cold water and then sprinkle well with red or best black pepper, and also sprinkle well where there is any sign of bugs. Pound Cake. Eight, eggs beaten separately; not quite one pound of butter; one pound of powdered sugar; not quite one pound of prepared flour, or flour with two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the yelks, sugar and butter together, then add the beaten whites and flour by degrees, alternating till both are stirred in; flavor with lemon. Chocolate Cake.—Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, four eggs, one cup of milk, scant three cups of flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, bake in layers. For the chocolate mixture, grate one cake of sweet chocolate; beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth and add a cup of powdered sugar. To Get Rid of Bird Lice.—To keep insects off birds put the least little bit of kerosene oil under each wing, say as much as remains on the little finger after you have let the drop fall off; do this every ten days until all are removed; clean the cage well every day; scour it in hot water; use powdered borax, but no soap. 1 o Purify the Complexion.—Eat an orange or two every morning before breakfast, drink plenty of lemonade not sweetened; never drink tea, coffee, nor any kind of stimulants; do not use soap on the face or neck; take a sponge bath every morning, either cold or tepid, in water made soft with powdered borax, a teaspoonful in a quart of water. Hard Soap.—Pour four gallons of boiling water on to four pounds of washing soda, and three pounds of unslacked lime; let it stand until clear and then drain off; place it on the fire in an iron pot; put in six pounds of good, clean fat; boil two hours—stir most of the time; pour one gallon of cold water on to the mixture of soda and lime that has been once used; let it settle clear, and add this cold solution to the boiling soap whenever it is in danger of boiling over; add only a pint or so at a time; trv the soap by cooling a little in a saucer; about thirty minutes before removing from the fire, add four ounces of borax; wet a tub to prevent sticking; turn in the soap and let it stand until solid; cut into bars.

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