Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A little alum dissolved in store polish adds very much to its efficacy. Fob CoenvENEss or Children.—The blossoms of the common elder made into a tea and sweetened a little. A few tablespoonfuls in the course of twentyfour tears will soon prove a cure.— ExFarmbr’b Podding. —One cup of pork chopped fine, one-half cup of molasses, one-half cup of sugar, one cup of raisins, one cup sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, and spice to taste. Steam three hours. , To remove starch or rust from flatirons, have a piece of yellow beeswax tied in a coarse cloth. When the iron is almost hot enough to use, but not quite, rub it quickly with the beeswax and then with a clean, coarse doth. Light Cake. —One egg, one cup of sugar, one-half cup of sweet milk, one and one-half cups of flour, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar and one-half teaspoonful of soda. Very nice for tea. Spiced Currants. —Five pounds of ripe currants, four pounds of brown sugar, one pint of vinegar, one tablespoonful eaqh of allspice and eloves, and a little nutmeg; boil one boar or until quite thick. To be eaten with meat. As some have inquired about canning strawberries, I will give my recipe: I fill the cans with berries and then dissolve the sugar in a little water and pour it in, not filling them quite full, then put them in a kettle of cold water and let them boil fifteen;or twenty minutes. After I take them from the kettle I fill them up with boiling sweetened water and then screw the tops on and let them stand until cold and then screw them up again. I have no trouble with mine and they are very good when I open them.— Cor. Household.

Tea Cake.— Take one pound of flour, one pound of sugar, three-fourths of a pound of butter and ten eggs; cream the flour and batter together, beat the eggs light, the yolks and whites separately, leaving out the whites of two eggs; mix and beat well. Take one-third of the mixture and pnt it in a square pan and bake it plain; take another third and mix with it slips of citron and bake in a square pan; with the remaining third put French currants well washed, dried and rolled in flour, and bake as above; take a cup of sugar to the whites you reserved and make an icing for your cakes, which spread on while warm, and mark into squares or diamonds with a knife to make it cut better.' This will make two cake-baskets full for tea-drinking.

Alexander Stephens says the next President will be a newspaper man. That is the first kind word the boys have had for many along day. Keep on, old man, and the boys will scratch something nice over your tombstone, if you’ll let them know who it is. —The Sioux evince a willingness to sell the Black Hills outright to the United States, the only question being that of price. Whoever bays a Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Organ may be snre he has got the best instrument of the class in the world, and this at the lowest price at which it can be afforded by the makers having greatest facilities |pr manufacture. Still thb cbt is for the Wilson shuttle sewing machine. And why? Because it is the most perfect and desirable sewing machine for family use and manufacturing yet invented, and ia the cheapest. The constant demand for this valuable machine has made it almost impossible for the manufacturers to supply the demand. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house at 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application. This company want'® few more, good agents.