Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To Pickle Eggs.—Boil the eggs hard, remove the shells and cover.the egg* with vinegar in which blood beet* have been pickled. For a picnic these are very nice and showy. Excellent Tea-Cake. —One cupful of white sugar, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, three tablespoonfuls of butter, one egg, half a teaspoonful of soda, one tea spoonful ofcream tartar. One-Egg Cake.-—One and one-half cups sugar, one or two eggs, butter the size of an egg; beat smoothly together; one cup sweet milk, two to two and one-half cups fleur, two teaspoonfuls baking-powder. Spiced Gooseberries.—Eight pounds gooseberries, four pounds brown sugar, half pint pure cider vinegar. Boil one hour and a half. When done add cinnamon and cloves. They will keep without sealing and are very nice. To extract ink from cotton, silk and woolen goods, saturate the spots with spirits of turpentine and let it remain several hours, then rub it between the hands. It will crumble away without injuring either the color or texture of the article. lowa Ginger Snaps.—Take a coffeecup, put in three tablespoonfuls of boiling water, one teaspoonful of ginger, half a teaspoonful of soda, three tablespoonfuls of butter or lard, find fill the cup with molasses. Mix up and roll out thin. These are favorites of all who eat them.

To remove cake from the tins set the pan on a damp cloth a few moments, then loosen by striking the edge of the pan gently on the edge of a table. Care should be taken to place the hands safely under the cake to prevent its falling to the floor. Delicate cake should be handled lightly. Apple Snow.—Pare the apples, halve and core them, put to boil with a little water and one cupful of white sugar. When the apples are cooked lift them out without breaking, boil down the sirup and pour over. On the top place a few spoonfuls of whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth and seasoned with lemon. Flowers.—ls you wish to obtain fresh flowers in winter attend to the following directions: Cut the buds of the flowers you wish to preserve just as they are nearly ready to open, leave about three inches of stem, cover the ends with hot sealing-wax. In a few days the buds will begin to look wrinkled; wrap each bud separately in paper, pack them away carefully in a box, and keep them in a dry place. When you wish to have your flowers in bloom cut off the ends of the stems at night and put them in water with a little niter, and the next day the flowers will expand, and smell as sweetly as if gathered in the garden in summer. Cucumber Pickles.—For 300 small cucumbers use three quarts of dry, fine salt. Put the pickles in a wooden vessel and cover them with the salt; let them stand a day or two to form a brine of their own, which they will do without the use of water. Scald this brine nine mornings in succession and throw hot over the pickles. After this salt process is over, take two gallons of pure cider vinegar, one-half ounce each of mace, cloves, allspice, cinnamon and one small red pepper. Let it boil thoroughly; and pour hot over the pickles. If you follow this recipe you will have pickles that are always nice and ready for use. I assort mine before I put the vinegar on them, putting the very small ones in glass cans, and make them airtight ; the larger ones I put in stone crocks. I prefer this to having them all together. Tie the spices in a thin muslin bag, or make as many spice bags as you have jars of pickles, and put one in each. Be careful and have the vinegar entirely cover the pickles. This recipe is used by the very best housekeepers we have, and is an excellent one.— Cor. Cincinnati Times.

Hale the lumber used in this country is spruce and pine, of which 6,000,000,000 feet were cut in 1874. Of 98,206 children of school age in St. Louis only 25,000 attend school. 1 Save Money and Health.—The reputation of the Wilson shuttle sewing machine is so thoroughly established that no word in its commendation is necessary. The plan adopted by the manufacturers of this famous machine of placing their prices so low as to come within the reach of the poorer classes certainly entitles them to the gratitude of those who are really most in need of such an article. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county, free of transportation charges, if ordered through the company’s branch house, 197 State street, Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application. This company want a few more good agents. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Advertising Agents, No. 41 Park Row, New York. As the proprietors of the first and most extensive of these agencies in New York they are well qualified to furnish information. The details of the work transacted by the agency, and the way it is done, the perfection of the arrangements for facilitating the act of advertising by relieving the advertiser of trouble and expense and bringing before him all the various mediums throughout the country, with the necessary knowledge pertaining to them, are given with a minuteness that leaves nothing to be desired. All the particulars respecting the character and position of a newspaper which an intending advertiser desires to know are placed before him in the most concise form.— New York Timet, June 7, 1874.