Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1876 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Cheap Cvbtadw.—One of the most agreeable material*- for curtaining windows is-coarse unbleached cotton. The irregularity ,of tl e> thread and the rough* nessof the surface- gives its soft folds much the charm of a Russian crash, and its hue warms the Mght of cool, north windows almost to the glow of —/louukeeper. To Cook Oatmeal, Etc —ln cooking oatmeal, hominy, wheaten grits, cracked wheat, or any of those nice breakfiwtdish* es, cook it in a covered tin dish set in a kettle of boiling, water;.in this manner there is no danger of scorching. Cons* starch pudding, sea-moss, farina and alb other articles mixed with milk, can ba cooked in the same way. Beam Porridge.—When the beans are skimmed from the kettle to be put baking, leave a teacupful or more of the beans iu the kettle. Set the kettle oa the top of the stove where the beaus will slowly cook fine. Then season the broth with sufflcient salt, pepper and butter, to make it relish, ana, with goad-Graham bread;it makes a soup fit for a< king or a dys* peptic. , Meat axd RuskPbddikg.—Chop any kind .of cold meat with salt pork or. ham, season it well with butter, pepper and salt, and add, two of three beaten egg». Then make alternate layers of wet rusk crumbs, with milk, or cold boiled hominy or rice, and bake half or three quar-ters-of aa hour. Let the upper layer be crambs, and cover with a plate while baking, and when - nearly done take it off to brown the top.

1 Fruit Cans,—Those who have emptied their fruit cans of their, first contents, and are fortunate enough, to have green applesmay.now fill them with apple-sauce for future use. Flavored with lemon, or black raspberries, and put np hot, like other fruit, this sauce is preferable togeod. dried apples. Soma chop cabbage fine and pack tightly in glass cans, covering it with cold cider vinegar, seal them up, and, find them an excellent resource when the warmer season comes on. It keepswell in this way.— BtAange. ’ To Coox Beans.—When beans are kept .over a year or more they become rather difficult to cook, tender. One way to accomplish it is-to soak them.over night In .soft water, and ijLtbe morning put them, to boil, putting a.qnarter of a teaspoonful of soda Into the Water. Tbs water must be turned off as soon as- it boils, and changed two or three times. Haveateto kettle of boiling water ready to coverthem when the other. is poured off; as cold wa* ter hardens them.again. After they begin to crack open, they should beputin. the oven, with a piece of pork previously freshened, and water enough to keep them from burnlng,.and bake a couple of hours. Beans are abealthful and-convenient dish andjahould often appear on a farmer’s table, being, as good or better when, cold than they are when just cooked—Qw. Rural New Yorker.