Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Borax Hair Wash.— To cleanse the hair and scalp: Borax, one ounce; camphor, one half ounce; boiling water, one quart. When cold filter for use. Burt Carr.— One pint of milk, one quart of flour, one quart oi berries, one cup of sugar, two eggs, a little salt, butter size of an egg, one teaspoonful of soda or three of yeast-powder. Currant Marmalade.—Pick over the fruit nicely, and allow mi equal quantity of white sugar; put a layer of each alternately in a preserving-kettle and boil ten minutes, or boil them the same length of time in a rich sirup boiled like candy. ' A simple mode of keeping butter in warm weather is to set over the dish containing it a large flower pot or unglazed earthenware crock, inverted. Wrap a wet cloth around the covering vessel, and place the whole where there is a draft of air.

A dark house is always an unhealthy, mi ill-aired house and a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house; and if they become ill they cannot get well in it. Lamb Patties.—Mince cold cooked meat, season with pepper, salt and nutmeg. Line a pie pan with good rich crust, put in your meat and some rich gravy or bits of flour and butter worked together, nearly fill the dish with water, cover with a crust and bake.

Common Preserved Cherries.—To twelve pounds of good cherries, stoned, add six pounds of nice brown sugar; cook slowly for two hours. These are very good for common use, but wilk not keep so long as where one pound of sugar is allowed for one pound of fruit. Ginger Cookies.—One teacupful of butter, one teacupfal of molasses, one and a half teacupfuls of sugar, one teacupful of sour milk or cream, a tablespoonful of ginger, and one tablespoonful of soda dissolved in warm water. After the rest is added, roll and bake quickly. An excellent, Well-recommended pickle for caring hams is made of one and a hilf pounds of salt, half a pound of sugar, one-half ounce of saltpeter and one-half ounce of potash. Boil all together till the dirt from the sugar has risen to the top and is skimmed. Pour it over the meat and leave the latter in the solution for four or five weeks. Scalloped Veal.—Take three veal steaks, and boil very soft; take them out and save the water in which they were boiled. Chop the meat very fine; put into a deep dish, with alternate layers of the meat and bread crumbs, salt and pepper each layer, and add small lumps of butter. When the bowl is quite full add the liquor, of which there should be about a pint, and a teacup of milk. Yorkshire Cakes.—One pound of flour, one-fourth of a pound of butter well rubbed in, one-fourth pound of currants; beat one egg to a froth, add a teacupful of cold milk, and mix well with the flour with a wooden spoon to alight paste. Lift t out with the spoon to a floured board, cut it into six pieces, and notch them around the edge with a knife. Then have the oven very hot, and put them in immediately; in a few minutes they will be done; take them out, split them, and butter them. The only way to have them light is to avoid touching them with the hands. —The Queen.