Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — AROUND THE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE HOUSE.

To removclnk stuins from a carpet use javelle water. To remove paint from a garment, me, with benzine, rub with a woolen doth then wet and rub again. The Cahe of the Oven. —The condition of tho average stove oven in which food and pastry are baked is not such ns to inspire admiration. In tact, a perfuuctory sort of sweeping is about all the cleaning our stove ovqns ever receive. In a great many cases remnants of dishes whioti have boiled over remain forroontha charred on the oven bottom. Now all this negligence in the care of the oven undoubtedly affects the food cooked in it. In some parts of England where brick ovens are used, the walls of them are whitewashed. This purifies them, an common whitewash, it is well known, is an excellent disinfectant. Of course, it would not be possible to treat an ordinary iron stove oven in this wny, as the lime would corrode the oven. In some part;# of Europe, the ovens are tiled and these may be easily washed cleou. There is no possible objection to washing out the oven of an iron range. If this is done systematically at least once a week from the beginning, tho oven will never get in the black sooty condition in which it is so frequently found. When anything boils over in tho oven, it should lie allowed to burn to a char, as it then may bo easily scraped off and brushed oat. After this tho oven should be thoroughly aired. It is a great mlatako to buke a delicato dessert or cake or pie in tho same oven with a dish of meat which has been flavored with onions or strong spices. Tho flavor of the meat will invariably affect the moro delicate dishes. Tho shallow closet under the baking oven, commonly called the heating closot, where dishes may be temporarily kept warm after thoy are cooked, should be kept as clean as the stove oven. It is certainly a very disagreeable and a hard job to clean a stove wlucb has been uoglected, but it is u small matter to keep u stove clean, if you begin at the begiuuiug and uover allow it to become clogged with »oot and dust and tho debris of food. The fluos of every oven should bo cleaned out once a month.