Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Make a paste of soft soap and emery for polishing steel. Dip candle-wicks into spirits of turpentine and then dry before using. Old paint-pails and cans may be thoroughly cleaned with strong, hot lye. A small quantity of turpentine added to stove-blacking will make the stove easier to polish. To keep stoves frbm rusting during the summer, rub with kerosene and wrap well in papers. A bottle of flaxseed oil, chalk and vinegar mixed to the consistency of cream, should be kept in every house for burns, scalds, etc. Sponge Cake.—One cup of sugar; three eggs ; one cup of flour; one half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of cream-of-tartar. To Make Boots Water-Proof.— Four parts mutton tallow to one part resin—mutton tallow alone is excellent —put on the tallow after the boots are blackened with common blacking. Jelly Cake.—Two eggs; one cup of sugar; butter, the size of a walnut; twothirds of a cup of butter-milk ; and onehalf teaspoonful of soda; three cups of flour; flavor to taste. Bake in layers. Ginger Bread.—One pint of molasses ; one cup of sugar ; one cup of butter ; four eggs ; six cups of flour; one pint of butter-milk ; two table-spoonfuls of ginger ; one thole-spoonful of cinnamon ; two teaspoonfuls of soda. Cream for Cake.—One cup of sweet milk ; put one half on to boil, thicken the other half with a beaten egg and a little flour, and pour into the milk on the stove, stirring constantly; let it boil up, then remove from the fire, sweeten and flavor to taste. To Make Yeast.—Boil one handful of hops in two quarts water till strength is exhausted; in the meantime grate tliree good-sized potatoes; pour on the hop water, boiling hot, which forms a starch; add one-third cup of salt and two-thirds cup of sugar, one table-spoonful of ginger ; when milk-warm stir in one cup or less good yeast; set in warm place to rise. This yeast will keep longer than any other I have ever used. Relief for Burning Feet.—To relieve burning feet, first discard tight

w 8 JL S MMK Mt MB jML JB*. boote; then tike ana pint at bran and one ounce of bi-oarbonate of soda, put in a pail, and add" one gallon of hot water; when cpol enough, eoak your feet in this milubfe for fifteen minutes, The relief la inßtantMwVß. i *Hmr must be repeated every for a 'week, or perhaps mora »• inmtfot bicarbonate should be made fresh after a week’s tiafc Bicarbodpb of soda can be purchased, for" about 10 cents a pound* from wholesale, druggists. The burning sensation is produced by the pores of the skin .being dosed, so that the f ept do not perspire.