Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Indian Cake.—Two cups sour milk two tablespoons good molasses or sugar, one teaspoon soda, a little salt, half cup flour and Indian meal to make a very thin batter. An egg improves it. Bake a nice brown. Oyster Omelet.—Whisk four eggs to a thick froth, then add by degrees one gill of cream; beat them well together; season the eggs with pepper and salt to taste. Have ready one dozen fine oysters; cut them in half; pour the eggs into a pan of hot butter, and drop the oysters over it as equally as possible. Fry a light brown and serve hot Something Better than Short-Cake. —Make nice, light, white gems by mixing flour and milk nearly as soft as for griddle cakes, and bake quickly in hot gem-pans. Break, not cut, them open and lay in a deep platter and pour over strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, or even nice stewed apples, mixed with sugar and a little rich cream, if you have it. Ten times better than any pastry or short-cake, and you get rid of soda or baking powder and shortening.—Laws of Life. To Bake a Beef’s Heart.—Cut it open, remove the ventricles, and let it soak an hou? in lukewarm water to free t from the blood. Wipe dry with a cloth and parboil in a little water for twenty minutes. Make a rich stuffing, fill the heart with it and secure it with a string. Let it bake an hour and a half or two hours, with a half pint of water, in the oven or dripping pan. The gravy will not need any thickening. Serve in a chafing-dish, and with currant or acid jelly. It is wrong to hold up a fainting person, and especially to keep the head erect. Fainting'is caused by a want of blood in the brain, the heart failing to act with sufficient force to send the blood against the laws of gravitation. If, then, you place a person sitting whose heart has nearly ceased to beat, his brain will fail to receive blood; if you» lay him down with the head lower than the heart blood will run into the brain by the mere force of gravity, and, in fainting, in sufficient quantity, generally u to restore consciousness.

A Useful Hint.—Very often a screw hole gets so worn that the screw will not stay in. Where, glue is handy, the regular carpenter makes the hole larger and glues in a large plug, making a nest for an entirely new hole. But this is not always the case and people without tools and in an emergency often have to fix the thing at once. Generally leather is used, but this is so hard that it does not hold well. The best of all things is to cut narrow strips of cork and fill the hole completely. Then force the screw in. This will make as tight a job as if driven into an entirely new hole. The Miller’s Toll.—People who send grain to the mill are often disposed to grumble at the small quantity of flour or meal which they receive after the grinding. That there are many dishonest millers there is no doubt, just as there are a good many dishonest farmers; but probably honest men are often unfairly blamed. Farmers who are careless as to the conditien of their grain are often the most apt to find fault. It is surprising how effectually a little chess or trash will reduce the weight of a bushel of grain. Every one has an easy safeguard against rascally millers at his disposal in weighing the grain before it is ground, and afterward weighing the flour, bran, etc. Allowing say two pounds per bushel for waste, the combined weight of the grist should equal the weight of thegrain. No honest and fairly good-tem-pered miller should object to an occasional double weighing to oblige a customer.— Wooneocket (R. I.j Patriot.