One can Babbit's lye, one ounce lump ammonia, one ounce
salts of tartar, pour on these six quarts of boiling water✪ Washing Fluid; put into
bottles or jug and keep well corked. Directions for using:
Shave one-half bar of soap and melt it; add to this one tea cup
of the fluid: Put this into luke warm water and soak clothes in
it over night. Wash same as usual. Mrs. H. N. Mudge.
Stale bread, if cut in slices, then laid together again, folded
in a dampened napkin, slipped into a paper bag, and laid in a
hot oven for fifteen minutes, will come out like fresh bread.
When ironing, turn a pan over your flat irons while they
are on the stove. It is an excellent way to save fuel, as you
can keep them hot with half the fire.
When using stale bread for puddings or dressing, always
soak it in cold water. Hot water makes it heavy.
A tablespoon of strong coffee put in the gravy of melted
butter, pepper and salt to be poured over beefsteak, imparts a
delicious flavor to gravy and meat. It makes the gravy a rich
-brown.
In seeding raisins, take a cupful at a time; put them in a
bowl and pour boiling water over them; let them stand a
moment, then proceed as usual to remove the seeds, which will
easily drop out of the raisin perfectly clean, without sticking to
the ringers in the usual way.
Put a little kerosene in the water with which you wash
windows and notice the shine.
Clean leather-covered books with white of egg, rubbing it
on with a soft cloth. It is the best paste for torn and bruised
places in leather.
_ Butter well the top of any kind of hot mush set away to
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cool, especially for frying; it prevents a tough skin from form-
ing.
Use a knitting needle (keep clean and dry for the purpose)
to try cake, instead of a broom splint.
Use of Kerosene.
THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH HOUSEKEEPERS CAN UTILIZE IT.
Marks on tables caused by hot dishes may be removed by-
kerosene rubbed in well with a soft cloth, finishing with a little
cologne water, rubbed dry with another cloth. When giving
the final polish to stoves, before putting away for the summer,
mix the blacking with a little kerosene instead of water, to pre-
vent rust. Tarnished paint may be cleaned by rubbing with a
cloth wet with kerosene. Black walnut or any wood finished in
oil may be kept bright by polishing with kerosene. Pour a tea-
spoonful of kerosene into each quart of boiled starch, for a
gloss; this will also prevent irons sticking to thin goods. Kero-
sene will brighten silver. Rub lamp chimneys with newspaper
on which has been poured a little kerosene. This will make
them much cleaner than if soap is used; they will also be less
liable to crack. To remove rust from steel, rub with kerosene,
and soak for a day, polishing with emery dust and kerosene.
Rub rusty flat-irons with kerosene. Kerosene will soften boots-
and shoes hardened by water and render them as pliable as new.
Brighten zinc with kerosene. A tablespoonful of kerosene in a
boiler of clothes will greatly facilitate the rubbing. Iron and
polished steel, when not in use, may be kept from rusting by
wiping with a cloth on which a little kerosene has been poured.
Oil-cloth may be brightened by rubbing with kerosene. All
soiled spots found around doorknobs on light-painted doors may
be removed by kerosene on flannel cloth, with no injury to the
paint.
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Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
One can Babbit's lye, one ounce lump ammonia, one ounce salts of tartar, pour on these six quarts of boiling water; put into bottles or jug and keep well corked. Directions for using: Shave one-half bar of soap and melt it; add to this one tea cup of the fluid: Put this into luke warm water and soak clothes in it over night. Wash same as usual. Mrs. H. N. Mudge.
Stale bread, if cut in slices, then laid together again, folded in a dampened napkin, slipped into a paper bag, and laid in a hot oven for fifteen minutes, will come out like fresh bread.
When ironing, turn a pan over your flat irons while they are on the stove. It is an excellent way to save fuel, as you can keep them hot with half the fire.
When using stale bread for puddings or dressing, always soak it in cold water. Hot water makes it heavy.
A tablespoon of strong coffee put in the gravy of melted butter, pepper and salt to be poured over beefsteak, imparts a delicious flavor to gravy and meat. It makes the gravy a rich -brown.
In seeding raisins, take a cupful at a time; put them in a bowl and pour boiling water over them; let them stand a moment, then proceed as usual to remove the seeds, which will easily drop out of the raisin perfectly clean, without sticking to the ringers in the usual way.
Put a little kerosene in the water with which you wash windows and notice the shine.
Clean leather-covered books with white of egg, rubbing it on with a soft cloth. It is the best paste for torn and bruised places in leather.
_ Butter well the top of any kind of hot mush set away to
New Century Cook Book.
cool, especially for frying; it prevents a tough skin from forming.
Use a knitting needle (keep clean and dry for the purpose) to try cake, instead of a broom splint.
Use of Kerosene.
THE MANY WAYS IN WHICH HOUSEKEEPERS CAN UTILIZE IT.
Marks on tables caused by hot dishes may be removed by kerosene rubbed in well with a soft cloth, finishing with a little cologne water, rubbed dry with another cloth. When giving the final polish to stoves, before putting away for the summer, mix the blacking with a little kerosene instead of water, to prevent rust. Tarnished paint may be cleaned by rubbing with a cloth wet with kerosene. Black walnut or any wood finished in oil may be kept bright by polishing with kerosene. Pour a teaspoonful of kerosene into each quart of boiled starch, for a gloss; this will also prevent irons sticking to thin goods. Kerosene will brighten silver. Rub lamp chimneys with newspaper on which has been poured a little kerosene. This will make them much cleaner than if soap is used; they will also be less liable to crack. To remove rust from steel, rub with kerosene, and soak for a day, polishing with emery dust and kerosene. Rub rusty flat-irons with kerosene. Kerosene will soften bootsand shoes hardened by water and render them as pliable as new. Brighten zinc with kerosene. A tablespoonful of kerosene in a boiler of clothes will greatly facilitate the rubbing. Iron and polished steel, when not in use, may be kept from rusting by wiping with a cloth on which a little kerosene has been poured. Oil-cloth may be brightened by rubbing with kerosene. All soiled spots found around doorknobs on light-painted doors may be removed by kerosene on flannel cloth, with no injury to the paint.
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