Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — DOMESTIC ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

The skin of a boiled egg is the most efficacious remedy that can be applied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply it to the part affected. It will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours. To take out tea stains, put the linen in a kettle of cold water; rub the stains well with common castile soap; put the kettle on the side of the stove and let the water get gradually warm; wash it thoroughly in warm soap suds, then rub the stain again with soap; then rinse. Chicken Cheese. —Boil two chickens till tender; take out all the bones, and chop the meat fine; season to taste with salt, pepper and butter; pour in enough of the liquor they are boiled in to make moist. Mould it in any shape you choose, and when cold turn out and cut into slices. It is an excellent traveling lunch. , Home-made Yeast. One pint of mashed potatoes, with the water they were boiled in, one cupful of salt, one cupful of flour, one cupful of strong hop tea; add four quarts of boiling water; when cool add one pint of baker’s or other yeast; Jet it stand and work twentyfour hours; then skim, strain and put in a jug. Pan Doddlings.—This is a New England dish, and is nice at the places where appetites are expansive. Take three cups of fine rye meal, three cups Indian meal, one egg, and three tablespoonfuls of molasses; add a little salt and allspice and enough rich sweet milk to make a batter stiff enough to drop from a spoon. Fry to a good brown in hot lard. The bridges across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs and Omaha comprise eleven spans, each span is 250 feet in length, or in all 2,750 feet. There are three spans to the St. Louis bridge, the center being 520 feet, and the other two each 502 feet in length. The bridge cost about $9,000,000. Orange Salad.—Peel eight oranges with a sharp knife, so as to remove every vestige of skin from them; core them as you would apples, and lay them either whole or cut in slices, in a deep dish; strew over plenty of powdered sugar, then add four red bananas cut in small round slices, the juice of a lemon, and a little more sugar. Keep the dish covered close till the time of serving.

Excellent Coffee Cake.—This is one of the best of plain cakes, and is very easily made. Take one cup of strong coffee infusion, one cup molasses, one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one egg and one teaspoonful saleratus. Add spice and raisins to suit the taste, and enough flour to make a reasonably thick batter. Bake rather slowly in tin pans lined with buttered paper. For Chapped Hands.—The nicest preparation for chapped hands is composed of quince seed and whisky. There is no rule as to proportion. Put the seeds in a bottle, and pour in enough whisky to cover them. As this thickens add more whisky until it is of the right consistency. This healing preparation is far superior to glycerine, as it dries off quickly and leaves a most agreeable odor. Corned beef left over for the next day should be put back in the liquor it was boiled in. Instead of the hard, brown woody substance that is sometimes, served as cold corned beef, kept in this way, it will always be juicy, as it reabsorbs much of the richness from the liquor itself. Skim the liquor, of course, before setting it away, and it will keep as well in the pot it was boiled in as anything else.