Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Oyster Stuffing. —Oysters for stuffing turkey should be bearded and chopped fme; a little mace should be added. University Night-Cap.— Take half a tumblerful of tea, with a wine-glassful of milk and sugar to taste, to which add a wine-glassful of brandy; beat one egg, and mix. Albany Punch.— One wine-glassful brandy, half wine-glassful Jamaica rum, a table-spoonful arrack, quarter of a lemon, a table-spoonful sugar, then fill the tumbler with crushed ice and water, mix thoroughly, and drink through a traw. Smoky Chimneys. Trouble with smoky chimneys caused by their being used for two or more stoves may be averted in m»st cases by inserting vertically in the flue a piece of sheet iron so as to divide the flue in the center for about two feet above the point where each pipe enters,, and turning the bQttorq of tbe sheet iron under the pipe so as to shut it completely off from the part of the flue below it,— Springfield Union. How a Water Pipe May Be (Cleaned. —A correspondent of Forest and Stream tells of a novel method employed to cleanse a two-inch water pipe which had become choked with mud. A sizing was passed through a hole punched in the tail.of a smsdl was straightway put into the pipe. An occasional jeak reminded the eel that it was incumbent on him to advance, which he did, arriving at the lower end of the pipe with the string. A bunch of rags was tied to the string, and tbits tfie pipe was cleansed. Chocolate Cake.— One cupful of best butter, and two cupfuls of sugar, beaten to a cream; one cnpful of sweet milk, three and one-half cupfuls of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, sifted in the flour; one-half teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a very little hot water, the whites of four eggs well beaten and the yelks of six; make a frosting with the whites of two eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of powdered sugar, six table-spoonfuls of grated chocolate, one teaspoonfnl of vanilla; frost when the oake is warm. Rotrtoo vs. Square Cheeses. —We have wondered, and it seems that somebody else has wondered, too, why cheeses should always be made round. We have seen a square cheese, one foot long and four inches high and wide, weighing ten pounds. This is just the cheese for family übc. It weighs jnst about enough, and the consumer can begin at one end and cut off a slice as thick as is required. No fresh surface is exposed 'except’ the - end where the cutting has begun; this can easily be coveted so that flies cannot get at it,‘and meanwhile the cheese will not dry up.— Rural Neto Yorker.