Dora's cook book

Antimony is corrected by very strong green tea, and alum water. After all these remedies, empty the stomach by a clear warm water emetic, and keep the patient in bed on a raw egg diet for thirty hours. SUNDRIES. MOULDINESS. Fruit jellies may be preserved from mouldiness by covering the surface one-fourth of an inch deep with powdered sugar. Thus protected they will keep in good condition for years. KNIVES. Clean with a soft flannel and bath brick, if rusty use wood ashes rubbed on with a newly cut bit of potato. This will remove spots when nothing else will. TO TEST NUTMEGS. To test nutmegs prick them with a pin, and if they are good the oil will immediately spread around the puncture. TO WASH FLANNEL. To every pail of water add one tablespoonful of ammonia, and the same of beef gall, wash out quickly and rinse in warm water, adding a very little beef gall to the water. TO REMOVE TAR. Rub well with clean lard, afterwards wash with soap and warm water. TO WASH DOUBTFUL CALICOES. Put a teaspoonful of sugar of lead in a pail of water, and soak fifteen minutes before washing. ICY WINDOWS. Windows may be kept free from ice and polished by rubbing the glass with a sponge dipped in alcohol. TO KEEP EGGS FOR WINTER USE. Take a pint of unslacked lime and a pint of salt, put them into a-pail of water ; the eggs must be well covered with the mixture. TO REMOVE IRON RUST. To remove iron rust from white clothes spread the garments in the sun and cover the iron spot with salt, then wet with lemon juice. If you put soda in the water with which you are to wash windows you will find that finger marks, puttystains, etc., will be much more easily removed than if clean water alone is used. ~< Tea stains and many fruit stains may be removed with boiling water; pour the water through the stain in order to prevent it from spreading through the material. SUNDRIES, 287 Kitchen tables may be made white as snow if washed with hard soap and wood ashes. To make good starch mix with cold water until it thickens; then add a dessertspoonful of sugar and a small piece of butter. This makes a stiff and glossy finish equal to new. A few drops of hartshorn put into a little water will clean a hair-brush very nicely. If very dirty use a little soap also. After cleaning rinse in clear water, tie a string around the handle and hang it up to dry. This is said to be an excellent remedy for hoarseness: Beat the white of an egg to a stiff froth, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, the juice of one lemon, and a glass of hot water. Wine stains can be removed by putting the articles in milk that is boiling on the stove. TO PREVENT RED ANTS. fo ‘Put one pint of tar in an earthen vessel, pour on it two quarts of boiling hot water, and place it in your closet. (CSL ERR CoOL ON Ee eee Ra EE nt TO CLEAN MICA. Mica in stoves when smoked, is readily cleaned. by taking it out and thoroughly washing with vinegar a little diluted. If the black does not come off at once allow it to soak a little. ‘ CHOKING. A piece of food lodged in the throat may sometimes be pushed down with the finger, or removed with a hairpin quickly straightened and hooked at the end, or by two or three vigorous blows on the back between the shoulders. HARD SOAP. Pour twelve quarts of boiling water on two and onehalf pounds of unslacked lime; dissolve five pounds sal-_ soda in twelve quarts of hot soft water, then mix and let them remain from twelve to twenty-four hours. Pour off all the clear fluid, being careful not to allow any of the sediment to run off, boil three and one-half pounds clean grease and three or four ounces of rosin in the above lye till the grease disappears ; pour into a vat and let it stand a day to stiffen and then cut in bars.