Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

To Behove Dandruff. —Wash the hair thoroughly in rain water, with a good deal of borax dissolved in it Pumpkin-pie Made of Squash.— Take a good-sized crooked-necked squash one-quarter of a pound of butter to a milk-pan of squash; Sweeten to taste. A bottle of cream; one quart of milk, unless too thin. Season with mace, a little nutmeg, brandy and rosewater. One dozen eggs and a little salt—eggs beaten. A Cube for Stammering. —A correspondent says: Go into a room, where you will be quiet and alone; get some book that will interest but not excite you, and read for two hours aloud, keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three days, or once a week, if very tiresome, always taking care to reed slovily and distinctly, moving the lips, but not the teeth. A Nice Dish. —Two eggs, one pint of milk, bakers’ bread—as it is more porous—cut into thin slices; dip the bread into the batter and fry each side brown in butter. Then boil one cup of sugar in two cups of water, and, after adding vanilla or lemon flavoring, pour over the bread, and cover dish so as to' steam and keep hot. It is well to reserve part of the sauce to put on each slice when serving. To Make Book Oakes. —Break six eggs in a basin, beat them till very light; add one pound of pounded sugar, and when this is well mixed with the eggs dredge in gradually half a pound of flour; add a few currants. Mix all well together and put the dough with a fork on the jbaking-tin, making it look as rough as possible. Bake the cakes in a model ate oven for half an hour. When done allow them to cool, and store them away in a tin canister in a dry place^ To Soften Hard Water. —Take two pounds of washing soda and one pound of common lime, and boil in five gallons of water for two or three hours; then stand away to settle, and dip ofl the clear water from the top and put into a jug. Gan be used for washing dishes or cleaning, and one teacupful in a boiler of clothes, put in after the water is hot, will whiten the clothes and soften the water, without injury to the hands or clothes. I use an old iron pot to make it in. Sweet Potato Pudding.—lngredients : Two pounds of raw sweet potato, half pound of brown sugar, one-third of a pound of butter, one gill of cream, one grated nutmeg, a small piece of lemon-peel, and four eggs. Boil the potato well and mash thoroughly, passing it through a colander; while it is warm mix in sugar and butter; beat eggs and yelks together, and add when the potato is cold; add a table-spoonful of sifted flour; mix in the grated lemon-peel and nutmeg very thoroughly; butter a pan, and bake twenty-five minutes in a moderately hot oven. May be eaten with wine sauce.