Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To PRESERVE soap-grease fill a cask half full of good strong lye and drop all refuse grease therein. Stir up the mixture once a week. . s- ’ V Preparing Small Fish.—Any kind of small fish may be prepared in the following manner: After being well washed and wiped it is put in a pan with a little batter and sprinkled over with pepper, salt and crumbs of bread scraped from a crusty loaf, with an onion chopped small, and fried in the oven twenty minutes to half an hour. An Excellent Pudding. —One-half pound suet, shred fine; one-half pound grated bread-crumbs; one-quarter pound loaf sugar, the yelks of four eggs and whites of two well beaten; two tablespoonfuls of orange marmalade or sliced citron, if preferred. To be put into a but-ter-mold and boiled for two hoars. To be erved with wine poured over it, or sauce. 8 diced Tomato Pickles. —To one gallon of sliced tomatoes that are just turning white, and have been scalded in salt and water sufficient to make them a little tender, mix a tablespoonful of ground pepper, one of mace, one of cloves, one of ground mustard, one of cinnamon, four of white mustard-seed, two of celery-seed or celery-salt, one pod of green peppers, four onions chopped fine, half pint grated horseradish. Mix all together and put a layer of each alternate; add one pound of sugar and cover with vinegar. A Nice Cream Pie.— One cup white sugar, two-thirds of a cup of, cream, two two cups flour, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, half teasjfoonful of soda. This will make seven thin cakes, between which spread the cream. For the cream take half a pint of milk, put into a basin of hot water on the stove, beat one egg with white sugar enough to sweeten, and add two teaspoonfuls of corn-starch; stir this into the milk when hot, and flavor with vanilla and cinnamon. When cool put between the cakes. — Cor. Rural Neu> Yorker. Plants kept in the windows should be turned every morning, or the light, striking on one side only, will draw the plant to that side so that all its branches and leaves will turn toward the window. The water in the saucers should never be applied to the plants. In cutting slips of any plant always choose the youngest branches; and cut off the slip at the junction of a joint or leaf, since the roots shoot more readily from such joints. If you follow these directions and put sufficient sulphate of ammonia to just taint the water applied to your plants, you may cultivate with success almost any plant, even though you are an entire novice.— Scientific American.