Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — HOUSEHOLD HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

New linen may be embroidered more easily by rubbing it over with fine white soap; it prevents the thread from cracking. To remove grease from wall-paper, ay several folds of blotting-paper on the spot and hold a hot iron near it until the grease is absorbed. 'To take ink out of linen, dip the ink spot in pure melted tallow ; then wash out tiie tallow, and the ink will come out with it. This is said to be unfailing. If brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week they will become very tough, will not cut a carpet, will last much longer, and always sweep like a new broom.

To remove rust from a stove-pipe, rub with linseed oil (a little goes a good way); build a slow fire at first till it, is dry. Oil in the spring, to prevent it from rusting. To clean brass, immerse or wash it several times in sour milk or whey. This will brighten it without scouring. It may then be scoured with a woolen cloth dipped in ashes.

Boston Cocoanut Pie.—Take one cocoanut and grate; add the milk and two eggs, till the mixture is as thick as custard pie. One nut makes two pies.

To curl plumes, put some coals of fire on a shovel, sprinkle some brown sugar on the coals and hold the plumes in the smoke. One application will be sufficient to make them as nice as new. Another way: Take a little salt and sprinkle it upon the hot stove and hold the plume over the smoke a few minutes.

A tabde-spoonfud of black popper will prevent gray or buff linens from spotting if stirred into the first water in which they are washed. It will also prevent the colors running in washing black or colored cambrics or muslins, and the water is not injured by it, but is just as soft as before the pepper was put in. Mary Huff’s Bread and Butter Pudding.— Butter the bottom of your pudding-dish and strew with currants, then a layer of bread, cut very thin and buttered; repeat until the dish is nearly full; make a custard of one quart of milk, two eggs, seasoned with vanilla and salt;

pour on the bread and let it stand one hour, and bake. Old-fashioned Tapioca Pudding.— Two eggs, one quart milk, one cup tapioca; spices of nutmeg and cinnamon to taste; also sugar and a bit of salt, and small teaspoonfid of butter melted. Wash and soak the tapioca in very little water till rather tender; then put it in the milk, and place on back of the stove and soak one hour; then melt butter in dish and pour in the beaten eggs, milk well sweetened, and spice; bake one hour quite slowly.