HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 20, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 33.

HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.

Mix stove blacking with spirits of turpentine. It will take off the rust, polish easier, and stay glossy longer than when water is used.

A simple cough remedy is made of an ounce of flaxseed boiled in a pint of water, a little honey added, an ounce of rock candy, and the juice of three lemons, the whole mixed and boiled well.

If jelly does not “form” the next day after being made, it is useless to cook it over. If it does not become firm when first cooled, standing it in the sun before covering it will sometimes assist in hardening it. Jelly should be well covered and kept in a cool, dry place.

Always sift all kinds of meal and flour, taking a wire sieve, as a hair sieve is too fine, measuring before sifting, unless otherwise directed. It makes a great difference for corn bread what kind of meal is used. Always use the yellow bolted meal for brown bread, and for any recipe for corn bread, unless white meal is specified.

A cement which will adhere perfectly to glazed surfaces, repair broken minerals, or, in fact, stick to anything, is made by taking 2 ounces of clear gum arabic, 1½ ounces of fine starch, ½ ounce of white sugar. Pulverize the gum arabic, and dissolve it in as much water as the laundress would use for the quantity of the starch indicated. Dissolve the starch and the sugar in the gum solution. Then cook the mixture in a vessel suspended in boiling water, until the starch becomes clear. The cement should be as thick as tar and kept so. It can be kept from spoiling by dropping in a lump of gum camphor, or a little oil of cloves or sassafras.—Selected.