Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD.

Dysentery. —Parch brown a table spoonful of rice; put into a cup of cold water and let it come to a hard boil; sweeten a little. i r• -,f. j- »• i \ j ' Potato Noodles. —Grate one dozen of boiled potatoes, add two eggs, a little salt, half a cupful of milk, enough flour to knead stiff, then cut in small pieces, then roll long und round, one inch thick; fry in plenty of lard to a nice brown.

Two eggs, cup aud half cup of sugar, two-thirds cup butter or fara, one cup currants, one teaspoonful each of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, one teaspoonful of soda. Roll out like cookies; roll the currants in flour, sprinkle sugar on top before baking. r . Take one pint of sour milk, one-half pint of sweet milk, one teacupful of molasses, one-half teacupful of butter, two teaspoonfuls of salaratus, one large teaspoouful of salt, three eggs, one pint of wheat flour, one quart of yellow Indian meal; bake in a deep tin basin in an oven of same heat as for cake, for one and a half hours. An Odd Scrap Basket. —Take a peach basket and paint it black on the outside, paste, on scrap pictures to suit your taste; cover the handle and line the inside with red flannel, putting a box plaiting of the same around the edge. Lemon Jelly. —Take a paper of gelatine and let soak in a pint of cold water for one, hour, but the longer it is soaked the better. Then add to it a quart of boiling wafer, the juice of two or three lemons and a pint and a hal f of sugar. Set it away without cooking at all. in a form to cool, and an excellent article of jelly will be the result. Roast Capons. —Roast two fat capons, dish them with a small boiled tongue between them, pour over them a perigord sauce, and garnish them with boiled cups of new turnips, filled with boiled cups of new turnips, filled with olives or green carrots and green peas alternately. Cup Fruit Cake,— One cup of* butter, two cups of raisins seeded and chopped fine, four cups flour, two cups brown sugar, one cup sour cream, three eggs well beaten, one teaspoonful of soda, one of cloves,,four of cinnamon . Bake slowly, aud serve hot or cold, with sauce. J Napkins.— A new way of ornamenting table napkins is by drawing designs upon them in indelible ink. A clump of reeds with a stork; a mingling of flowers aud vines, or a tiny comic figure may be placed in one corner with very good effect. Erabrodiery is more artistic, but requires more time and does not display any more inventiveness. ~ ■■4%*- ]% To Boil Chickens without Burning Them. —Remove occasionally from the fire, and baste them with a gravy prepared as follows: Simmer together one half cup of vinegar, a piece of but- * ter the size of an egg, and salt and pepper to the taste. Keep it hot to use. Sick Headache. —This distressing complaint can generally be relieved by soaking the feet in very warm water in which a spoonful of powdered mus tard has been stirred. Soak as longa possible, or till the water gets cool; i draws the blood from the head.