Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT

Summer Screen Easily Made. Even the hottest days may develop a drafr. In every family there Is r.pt to he one member at least who is susceptible to currents of air that sweep around corners and enter through open doorways; therefore, a screen Is desirable quite as much during the long summer days as when closed windows and steam make the winter home into a hothouse. The design shown in this illnsiration Is intended for homomakiug and is peculiarly well suited to the pop-

ulnr blue and white room. The erase for delft and delft decorations Is still an active one aud for warm weather nse, no la tter, cooler scheme of color tan be devised. The model from which the drawing was made was a threefold frame of bamboo. The material used for the I winds is heavy, unbleached cotton cloth or muslin, but cotton shectlug or any heavier stuff of warm, cream color can be used If preferred. To make the panels first cut the necessary size, with a margin to allow for making the edges secure and possible fraying during the work. On each piark the exact size of the panel and stretch it out on a fiat hoard. For both the border and the delft scenes use oil color In delft blue, thinned with turpentine. The stylo of ♦he border, Is known ns waves and Is only a combination of curves and lines. Freezlinr Ice Cream. Do not draw any water from the Ice while freezing unless water raises to top of can. The can should be only two-thirds full of milk, as It will raise one-third while freezing. After the milk has pppu placed into the can, put the freezer-together ready for operation, mash the lee and sprinkle coarse salt «u until It stops (‘racking. (The ice may be previously prepared!. Then put the lee around the can and add more salt. When tilt freezing is completed, Hunovo-tli'.' heaters and cover the freezer with carpet or woolen cloth and let the Ice cream harden one-half lionr before serving. After frozen, beating tho cream with a• large hikmui or wooden paddle wllklmprove It. After standing several hours it should be beaten before serving. Dipping a spoon In lukewarm water before serving each plow (>;’ cream aud turn once around, will rut a very nice form.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

Gooseberry Pudding. To one pint of ripe gooseberries mid (.lx slices, of stale bread, oik* cupful of milk, lialf a cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, melted. Stew tho froosi'lierrlcs slowly ton minutes, cut the slices of bread to lit tlio dish and toast j. light brown; dip each piece, while hot, In milk and spread with the melted butter. Cover tlie bottom of the dish ino toast, next put on a layer of gooseberries, sprinkle thickly with sugar, another layer of toast, then ber’Hos, alternating until your dish Is full. Cover Closely and steam In the oven thirty minutes. Turn out upon a hot dish and j>our over It a rich pudding sauce. Raspberry Shortcake. To one quart of flour add two teaspoonfuls of larking powder and ono teaspoon!ul of salt; rub thoroughly Into 'Jits two tablespoon f tils of butter; add milk enough to make a soft dough; roll out about to one inch In thickness; put in your pans and bake in a quick ofen twenty minutes. While hot cut the edge and break apart, butter tho under crust and cover with berries that have been lying in sugar half an hour, put oil tho upper crust, and put plenty of berries over it. Picnic liiMcuitx. Dissolve a half cake of compressed yeast iu one cupful of thin cream, add two cupfuls of warmed flour and beat very thoroughly. Put in a warm place until well risen, then add sufficient flour to make a very soft dough; divide Into two tortious; roll each portion to about one-rialf-lneh thickness. Spread one sheet of dough with chopped figs or nilslns, cover with tho other; cut into biscuits of fancy shapes; allow them to rise until very* light, and bake. Hints to Housewives. Paint upon window glass may bo easily removed by rublug with a cloth wet in hot strong vinegar. To remove tar from any kind of cloth, saturate the spot and rub it well with turpintloe and every trace of the tar may be removed. If brooms are dipped in a pail of hot siids for a minute or two once a week it, will make them tough and pliable, and they last much longer. It Is said that if camphor gumds put in the drawers in which silver is kept that is but seldom used that the camphor ~*lll prevent the sliver from becoming tarnished. 1 n making green apple sa nee pi t a few da!te& cut tiieiu Ihto quarters, and add them to the sauce just before removing from,the fire. They will be a great improvement to the sauce. . An idea evolved by ,an ingenious woman; whose dainty tete-a-tete set lost both its saucers was to tie the two matchless (‘nips'together witii a bow of fancy ribbon, and convert them to the service of used apd unused matches, Home-tried lard is better and firmer than that which cari bt bought and does not require, a great deal of time. To prevent laid from becoming raheld add «jome table salt to the lard when it ifl’hot, in proportion of one teaspoonful of salt to each quart of liquid lard, and cook a few moments after the salt £» added. ,

GIVES SAFETY FROM DRAFT.