Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1880 — HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Miss Pod’B lectures are full of Uttle bits of information that might fairly be called culinary proverbs. Here are a few of them: There is a greenness in onions ana potatoes that renders them hard to digest For health’s sake put them in warm water for an hour before cooking. The only kind, of a stove with which you can preserve a uniform heat is a gas stove; with it you can simmer a pot for ah hour, or boil it at the same rate for twenty minutes. Good flour is not tested by its color. White flour may not be the best The test of good flopr is by the amount of water it absorbs. In cooking a fowl, to ascertain when it is done, put a skewer into the breast, and if the breast is tender the fowl is done. A few dried or preserved cherries, with stones out, are the very best thing possible to garnish sweet dishes. Single cream is cream that has stood on the ipilk twelve hours. It is best for tea and cofieC. 'Double cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and cream for butter frequently stands forty-eight hours. Cream that is to be whipped should not be butter cream, lest in whipping it change to butter. To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and also freshens them. In boiling eggs hal’d put them in boiling water. It will prevent the yolk from coloring black. You must never attempt to boil the dressing of a clear soup in the stock, for it will always discolor the soup. Tn making any sauce, put the butter and flour in together, and your sauce will never lie Jumpy. Whenever you see your sauce boil from the sides of the pan you may know your flour or corn starch is done. Boiled fowl with sauce, over which grate the yolk of eggs, is a magnificent dish for luncheon. Tepid water is produced by combining two-thirds cold , and one-third boiling water. To make maccaroni tender, put it in cold water and bring it to a boil. It will then be much more tender than if put into hot water or stewed in milk.

The yolk of eggs binds the crust much better than the wliites. Apply it to the edges with a brush. * Old potatoes may be freshened up by plunging them into cold water before cooking them.. > Never put a pudding that is to be steamed into anything else than a dry mold. Never wash raisins that are to be used in sweet dishes. It will make the pudding heavy. To clean them wipe with a dry towel. To brown sugar for-sauce or puddings, put the sugar in a perfectly dry saucepan. [lf the pah is the least bit wet, the sugar will bum, and you will spoil your saucepan. ] Cutlets and steaks may be fried ns well as broiled, but they must be put in hot butter or lard. The grease is hot enough wh%n it throws off a bluish smoke. The water used in mixing bread must be tepid. If it is too hot. the loaf will be full of great holes. To boil potatoes successfully : When the skin breaks, pour off the water and let them finish cooking in their own steam. In making crust of any kind, do not melt the lard in flour. Melting will injure the crust. In boiling dumplings of any kind, put them in the water one at a time. If they are put in together they will mix with each other. A man near Houston, Tex., made S6OO per acre this year from the cultivation of domestic blackberries. The yield was 3,000 quarts per acre, which sold at 20 cents per quart.

The oldest friends are to-day the staunchest friends of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. They have proven its great worth in all cases of Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Tickling in the Throat, Irritation of the Bronchial Tubes and Lungs, etc. Jean Luie, who was convicted of perjury at the trial of the Ticliborne claimant, and sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude, has completed his term. [Pottsville (Pa.) Evening Chronicle.] For sixteen years, writes Mr. Joseph Alber of this place, I had suffered with Dyspepsia, and spent many a dollar to find relief, but in vain. I was advised by Mr. F. Altstadt to take Hamburg Drops. I had taken scarcely one of the little bottles before I felt better, and soon got well altogether. I am now a wann advocate of Hamburg Drops. Lexington, Kv., has the oldest living graduate of West Point Military Academy in Wright Merrick, of the class of 1822. He is a native of Massachusetts, is 83 years of age, and is the only survivor of his class. [Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer.] Capt. Henry M. Holzworth, Chief Detective Force, Cleveland, 0., says: St. Jacobs Oil gives surprising relief, does a world of good and conquers pain. It completely cured me of Rheumatism. Gen. Burnside owns a fifty-acre farm at Bristol, R. 1., and is voted a success as an agriculturist by his neighbors and visitors, with whom he is very popular.