Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Never allow drinking water to be drawn from a cistern supplying a wstorcfoflet. Adulteration of soap by starch is shown by dissolving the soap in alcohol, which leaves the starch behind. Avow wearing heavy overcoats or furs for hours in succession; the tendency is to weaken the powers of resistance of the wearer, leaving him liable to inflammation of the throat and lungs. Molasses Pound Cake. —Two cups of molasses, two of brown sugar, one cup of butter, one of milk, two spoonfuls oL ginger, six eggs, one teaspoontul of saleratus; make as stiff as pound cake. Apple Pudding.—Eight apples grated, about the same quantity of stale bread, three eggj, one and one-half pints of milk, sugar and cinnamon to taste. Bake in a slow oven one hour. To be eaten with cream. Mildew From Linens.—Mix soft soap with starch powdered, half the quantity of salt, a piece of lemon, and lay it on both sides with a painter’s brush. Let it be in the open air—on grass is preferable —till the stain is removed. Baked Indian Pudding.—One quart sweet milk, scalding hot and poured over seven even tablespoons of corn-meal, one small teacup molasses, then add one cup cold milk. Bake three hours in a greased dish or pan.— Law» of Life. To wash calico without fading, infuse three gills of salt in four quarts of water. Put in the calico while the solution is hot and leave until the latter is cold. It is said that in this way the colors are rendered permanent and will not fade by subsequent washing. Eggs a la Creme.—Hard boil twelve eggs; slice them in thin lings. Have ready a plateful of grated bread crumbs. In the bottom of a large baking-dish place a layer of the crumbs, then one of the eggs; cover with bits of butter and sprinkle with pepper and salt. Continue thus to blend these ingredients until the dish is full; be sure, though, that the crumbs cover the eggs upon the top. Over the whole pour a large teacupful of sweet cream and brown nicely in a mod-erately-fieated oven. Suet Apple Dumplings.—Chop about a pound of suet very fine. Add a little salt and flour enough to make a dough, when wet up with cold water. Knead them as little as possible—only enough to roll them out and cut them. Pare, core and quarter tart apples. Cover each apple with dough and wrap white cloth about it, first wetting the cloth in hot water. Pin each dumpling tightly up and drop them into baHinf/ water. Do not let them cease boiling until done. An hour’s time is ample. Make a sweet sauce for them, or eat butter and sugar upon them. When cold these dumplings are quite hard, but a little while in the steamer makes them as nice as at first.

—To Cook Cabbage.—Chop the cab-bage-head fine, or cut it as small as you can well with a knife. Half of an average head is sufficient for a meal. Put it into a kettle, and pour over it about a pint of boiling water. Cover it and keep it boiling steadily (not letting it burn dry by too hard boiling) for half an hour. Pour off what water remains—the cabbage itself supplies some water in cooking—and pour in a teacupful—or two if you like—of good milk, salting to taste. Let all boil up together, and it is done. If you put in considerable milk it will be much liked if poured over “ white gems” split in two.— American Agriculturist. Bedbugs are said to be most readily destroyed by nqx vomica in the form of tincture, combined with liquor ammonia, which mixture is to be freely applied to the joints and cracks of the bedstead. It is equally efficacious against cockroaches, water-bugs and other vermin, and if applied to the harness of horses the animals will be no longer annoyed by flies. As mix vomica is also destructive to human life, care must be taken to avoid accidents in its use. The tincture should be procured as needed and not kept about the house.