Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — Household Hints. [ARTICLE]

Household Hints.

Whiting wet with aqua ammonia will cleanse brass from stains, and is excellent for polishing faucets and doorknobs of brass or silver.

Ham relish may be made by seasoning highly with cayenne pepper a slice of dressed ham, then broiling it, and adding butter, mustard, aud a little lemon juice. Salt will curdle milk, therefore in preparing milk toast, sauce, scrambled eggs or anything of which milk is the foundation, do not add the salt till the pan has left the tire.

Try this recipe for a pie: The pulp of one lemon, chopped tine, with half a cup of raisins; add two tablespoonfuls of flour, one cup of sugar anu one of water. Bake between two thin crusts. Baking powder and soda biscuits should be put into warm pans, and baked in a quick oven; a little warm water rubbed over them just before putting into the oven will give them a nice color. To remove fruit stains from a cambric handkerchief or other white goods, dip the stain in boiling milk; if tnis is not effectual, apply a very weak solution of chloride of lime, being careful to boil the handkerchief afterward.

Typhus fever is marked by short, delirious, broken dreams. Scarlet fever by realistic dreams, excited by surroundings. Remittent fever by long, delirious, painful dreams. Herein are suggested some suitable points in diagnosis. The fat of chickens is said by a cake maker of great experience to be superior to the finest butter for making the most delicate cake. If the fat of boiled chickens is to be used, cook them without salt, and there will not be the slightest flavor of fowl. Keep a pin-cushion in the kitchen. If none is at hand, a pin picked up is laid on the window-sill, or stuck in the dress, to fall, perhaps, into the next batch of bread kneaded. Each child should be taught to pick up every pin it sees and put it in its proper place.

Potato Sofflet. —Bake the potatoes, cut off one end, take the inside out, saving the skin; mash the potatoes with grated Parmesan cheese, butter, salt, pepper and mustard, and replace in the skin and bake, standing them upright in a dish. A capital savory for after dinner. An excellent and simple disinfectant for sinks and waste pipes is made by mixing one large tablespoonful of copperas with one quart of boiling water. This solution is odorless and deodorizes instantly. The copperas may be bought at any druggist’s for eight or ten cents a pound. For soft frosting, use ten tea,spoonfuls of powdered sugar and one egg; beat thirty minutes. For frosting and meringue, powdered sugar should always be used. Lay the frosting on with a knife, which, if frequently dipped into cold water, will give the icing a gloss. A little cream of tartar —just a mite — will hasten the hardening.

A writer in a medical journal says buttermilk is a good remedy in eases of irritation of the stomach. He adds: “I have had some experience recently with it quite satisfactory in a few instances. Four cases of persistent vomiting occurring in succession, intolerant of any other treatment, gave way kindly to this.” If medicine is mixed with very cold water, and a few swallows of the water be taken as a preparatory dose, the nerves of the organ of taste become sufficiently benumbed to make the medicine nearly tasteless. The method will not disguise bitter tastes, but acts well in oils and salines. To cure a felon, fill a tumbler with equal parts of fine salt and ice; mix well. Sink the finger to the center, allow it to remain until it is nearly frozen and numb, then withdraw it, and when sensation is restored renew the operation four or five times, when it will be found the disease is destroyed. This muit be Hone before the pus is formed.