A Few Recipes For
A Few Recipes For Fireless Cookery Beef Stew. 4 Pounds Beef, 2i Quarts Cold Water, 2 Carrots, 2 Onions, 11 Quarts Sliced Potatoes, I Cupful Rice, 1 Tablespoonful Salt, 4 Chili Peppers. Choose A Slice Of Beef From The Top Of A Round, Containing A Bit Of Mar Row Bone. ...
A Word About Baring
A Word About Baring Powder Every Housekeeper Should Underevery Housekeeper Should Under- Stand The Nature Of Baking Powder. This Is Important For Two Reasons: First, To Insure Palatable Food, And, Second, To Avoid Danger To Health. A Perfect Baking Powder Is One That Will Produce The Most Leavening Gas In ...
Adhesives
Adhesives Adhesives.—adhesives Are A Class Of Substances Capable Of Attaching Themselves To The Surface Of Solid Bod Ies, And Thus, When Interposed Between Them, Of Uniting Such Bodies. Vari Ous Substances And Compounds Have Adhesive Or Sticky Properties. Among These Are The Gums Arabic, Tragacanth, And Senegal; Dextrin, Gelatin Or ...
Alabaster Gypsum
Gypsum, Alabaster, Etc. Gypsum. — Gypsum Is A Mineral Which Is Found In Nature In Several Forms. Chemically It Consists Of Bi Hydrated Calcium Sulphate. It Occurs In Translucent Crystals, As Selenite; In Massive Forms And Opaque Crystals, As Gypsum; In Fine-grained Partially Translucent Masses, As Alabaster, And In A ...
Almond Milk Cream And
Almond Milk Cream And Paste Almond Preparations.—the Prime Favorite Among All Ingredients Of The Various Toilet Preparations Is Proba May Be Utilized. Preparations Of Al Monds For Toilet Purposes Are Va Riously Known As " Milk Of Almonds," " Almond Cream," " Almond Paste," And The Like. They Are Likewise ...
Aluminum And Its Alloys
Aluminum And Its Alloys Aluminum.—a Large Part Of The Crust Of The Earth Consists Of This Met Al. It Is Most Abundant In Different Varieties Of Clay, But Occurs In The Rock Known As Feldspar, And Also In Corundum, Emery, And In The Precious Stones Sapphire And Ruby. Improved Methods ...
And Varnishes
And Varnishes Paint, Including Painting And The Care Of Paints, Is An Important Sub Ject. Both The Inner And Outer Walls And The Floors Of Houses And Most Articles Of Furniture Are Painted. Hence A Knowledge Of The Nature And Properties Of Paint, Both Before And After Its Application, Enables ...
Antimony And Its Alloys
Antimony And Its Alloys Antimony. — A Brittle Silver-white Metal, Having A Peculiar Taste. It Oc Curs In Nature Combined With Nickel, Silver, Oxygen, And Sulphur. The Com Mercial Metal Is Known As " Regulus Of Antimony." The Principal Source Of Supply Is Borneo And Singapore, Whence The Ore Is ...
Aromatic Vinegar
Aromatic Vinegar Aromatic Vinegar, Or Toilet Vine Gar, Is A Toilet Preparation, The Active Principle Of Which Is Acetic Acid—in The Form Of Glacial Acetic Acid, White Wine Or Other Vinegar, Or The Like. It May Be Perfumed According To Taste And May Serve As A Vehicle For Va Rious ...
Artificial Illumination
Artificial Illumination Use Of Systems Of Illumination.— Artificial Light Is The Third Most Im Portant Of The Necessities Of Civiliza Tion, Taking Rank After The Items Of Clothing And Shelter. A Comparative Statement Of The Annual Value Of Illu Mination In The United States Shows The Following Results: Acetylene (esti ...
Bailey
Bailey. Lemon-meringue Pudding. 9 Cupfuls Stale-bread Crumbs, 9 Cupfuls Cold Water, 1 Lemon, Cupful Sugar, 3 Eggs, Cupful Chopped Suet, 3 Tablespoonfuls Powdered Sugar. Soak The Crumbs In Water Thirty Minutes, Then Add Juice And Grated Rind Of The Lemon. Beat The Yolks Of Eggs Till Thick And Lemon-colored, Add ...
Baths And Bathing
Baths And Bathing Historians Say That The Civilization Of A Community Can Be Estimated By The Quantity Of Soap It Consumes. Similarly The Refinement Of A Family Is Indicated By The Amount Of Water It Uses. Records Of Cities Show That The Amount Used Each Day On An Average By ...
Beverages
Beverages We Speak Of Beverages, It Includes Such Daily Drinks As Tea, Coffee, And Cocoa, Also The Delicious Fruit Punches, Which Are Easy To Make And, In Hot Weather, As Cooling To The Blood As They Are Palatable. In Preparing All Hot Beverages, Fresh Ly Boiled Water Is A Necessity, ...
Black And Red Ants
Black And Red Ants Ants. — The Means Employed Keep The House Free From Ants Are Of Three Sorts: Preventives, Poisons, And Mechanical Methods. To Get Rid Of Ants.—place Lumps Of Gum Camphor In Their Runways And Near Sweets Infested By Them. Or Scatter Snuff In Their Runways, Or Branches ...
Blacking Leather
Blacking Leather Blacking For Leather.—the Pig Ments Chiefly Used In Making Shoe And Harness Blackings Are Lampblack And Ivory Black. Logwood Is Some Times Used In Liquid Blackings, And Indigo And Prussian Blue Are Some Times Added In Small Quantities. Lampblack Is Finely Powdered Car Bon, Resulting From The Imperfect ...
Bleaching Vegetable And Ani
Bleaching Vegetable And Ani Mal Fibers Bleaching.—bleaching Is The Proc Ess Of Treating Materials In Such A Way As To Whiten Them. Bleaching Is Commonly Applied To Textile Goods, As Linen, Cotton, Wool, And Silk; Also To Paper, Pulp, Straw, Ivory, Wax, And Animal And Vegetable Oils. The Oper Ation ...
Bleeding
Bleeding To Be Efficient In Stopping A Hemor Rhage It Is Necessary To Know That Blood Comes From Two Sources, Name Ly, Arteries And Veins. It Must Also Be Remembered That Blood In An Ar Tery Comes From The Heart, And That Blood In A Vein Is On Its Way ...
Bluing And Sprinkling
Bluing And Sprinkling Bluing.—it Is Very Difficult To Rinse Clothes Quite Free From All Traces Of Soap Or Other Washing Compounds. The Minute Quantities Of Alkali Left In The Fabrics Tend To Give White Arti Cles A Dingy Or Yellow Tinge. The Ob Ject Of Bluing Is To Correct This. ...
Boiling Sirup For Candy
Boiling Sirup For Candy To Clarify Sugar.—to Make Good Candy It Is First Advisable To Clarify The Sugar By Boiling It To A Thin Sirup With Half Its Own Bulk Or More Of Water And The Addition Of The White Of Egg, Gum Arabic, Or Gelatin. This Precaution Will Cause ...
Bonbons
Bonbons To Prepare Bonbons It Is Necessary To Have Suitable Lead Molds Oiled With The Oil Of Sweet Almonds, Or Starch Prints Of Various Shapes And Sizes. These Are Filled By Means Of A Suit Able Funnel With Sirup In The State Known As The Blow. To Test The Sugar, ...
Boots And Shoes
Boots And Shoes Care Of Boots And Shoes. — The Great Enemy Of Leather, Especially Patent Leather, Is Heat. Extreme Heat Tends To Rob The Leather Of Its Vital Ity And Causes It To Break And Crack. Damp Shoes Should Never Be Placed Near A Stove To Dry, Since If ...
Brass Copper And Its
Copper And Its Alloys, Brass, Bronze, Etc. Copper.—copper Is A Very Ductile And Malleable Metal, Melting At A Point Somewhat Lower Than Gold, But Higher Than Silver. It Is The Best Known Conductor Of Electricity, Weighs About Nine Times As Much As Water, Is Hard, Elastic, Tough, And Of A ...
Bread
Bread In Every Household Is De Manded Good Bread. Not Hit-and Miss Bread—fair At One Baking, Poor At Another—but A Sweet, Wholesome, Nutty-flavored Loaf, Beautiful Chest Nut Brown All Over, And So Perfectly Baked As To Be Palatable When Ten Days Old. The Very Best Flour Is The Cheapest; It ...
Breads Made From Sour
Breads Made From Sour Milk Milk Or Cream Used For Baking Is Best When It Sours Quickly And Does Not Separate, But Remains Thick And Smooth. The Usual Measurement To Use In Every Recipe Where Lightness Is Desired Is 1 Level Teaspoonful Soda To 2 Cupfuls Sour Milk Or 1 ...
Brick And Stone To
To Clean Marble, Brick. And Stone To Clean Marble.—to Clean Marble Mantels, Table Tops, Tops Of Bureaus, Washstands, And Other Polished Marble Surfaces, Wipe Them With A Cloth Mois Tened In Kerosene. Or Mix 9 Ounces Of Common Soda, 1 Ounce Of Pumice Stone, And 1 Ounce Of Fine Common ...
Burns
Burns Burns Are Caused By Contact With Fire, The Rays Of The Sun, Very Hot Bodies, Or Chemicals. Filcher Divides Them Into Three Classes, According To Their Degree Of Severity: (1) Mere Painful Redness; (2) Formation Of Blisters; (3) Charring. In Severe Burns There May Be Considerable De Struction Of ...
Cake Fillings And Icings
Cake Fillings And Icings Whipped-cream Filling. Pour A Cupful Double Cream Into A Bowl And Whip With A Dover Egg Beater Till Stiff. Stop As Soon As It Begins To Be Quite Thick Or It Will Change To Butter. Sweeten With 2 Tablespoonfuls Powdered Sugar And Flavor With Teaspoonful Mcilhenny's ...
Cakes Cookies
Cookies, Cakes, And Doughnuts Maple Hermits. / Cupful Maple Sugar, / Cupful Butter, 2/ Cupfuls Flour, 1 Egg, 1 Tablespoonful Milk, / Teaspoonful Cloves, 1 Teaspoonful Cinnamon, / Teaspoonful Soda, / Cupful Currants. Beat The Butter To A Cream, And Gradually Beat In The Sugar And Spices. Dissolve The Soda ...
Cakes Made From Sour
Cakes Made From Sour Milk Mrs. Moberly's Sour-cream Cake. 1 Cupful Sugar, 9 Eggs, 1 Cupful Sour Cream, -a. Teaspoonful Soda, 2 Cupfuls Flour, Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder, 1 Teaspoonful Lemon Extract. Beat Sugar, Egg Yolks, And Cream Very Light; Sift In Flour, Soda, And Bak Ing Powder. Flavor, Add Whites ...
Cakes Raised By Yeast
Cakes Raised By Yeast Old-eashioned Raised Cake. / Pound Currants, 6 Cupfuls Flour, 9 Cupfuls Warm Milk, / Yeast Cake, Teaspoonful Salt, / Cupful Butter, 2 Cupfuls Sifted Brown Sugar, 4 Eggs, 1 Tablespoonful Mixed Spice, 1 Cupful Raisins. Mix Salt With Half The Flour; Add Yeast, Then Gradually Warm ...
Candies And Candy Making
Candies And Candy Making Candy Making Should Be Taught And Acquired As One Of The Most Use Ful Of Womanly Accomplishments. Like Every Other Art That Calls For Skill And Intelligence, It' Has An Edu Cational Value. And The Universal Fondness For Sweets Renders The Candy Maker A Popular Favorite. ...
Candles And Candle Making
Candles And Candle Making Candles.—a Candle Is Often Referred To As A Symbol Of The Past, Yet The Candle Industry Of The United States Is Greater At Present Than It Has Ever Been In The Past And Is Increasing Rap Idly From Year To Year. Professor Thompson, A Celebrated Electrician, ...
Canned Goods For Market
Canned Goods For Market Money In Preserving Pruit.—in Addition To The Importance Of Pre Serving Fruit For Home Use There Is A Large And Constantly Increasing Mar Ket Both Locally And In The Large Cities For A Fine Grade Of Homemade Canned Fruit And Preserves. Prices Ranging From Seventy-five Cents ...
Canning And Preserving Fruit
Canning And Preserving Fruit The Art Of Preserving And Canning Fruit Is Much More Important Than Is Usually Realized. Preserved Fruit Is, Perhaps, Most Often Classed With Candy And Other Sweetmeats As An Expensive Luxury. But Fruit, Prop Erly Put Up, Is Not Necessarily Expen Sive And May Be Regarded ...
Caramels
Caramels To Make Caramels In General Boil Clarified Sugar Until It Is Very Brittle Or To The Point Where It Begins To Gain More Or Less Color And Give Off An Acrid Smell. But Care Must Be Taken Not To Burn The Sugar Or Dark En It Beyond A Light-brovvn ...
Care Of Glassware And
Care Of Glassware And Cut Glass To Wash Glassware. — Glass Is A Very Poor Conductor Of Heat, And More Valuable Glass Articles Are Broken By Hot Water, Perhaps, Than In Any Other Way. To Prevent This Various Precau Tions May Be Used. Place The Glass On A Steel Knife ...
Care Of Ironing Utensils
Care Of Ironing Utensils Ironing Utensils. — Various Im Proved Implements And Machines Have Been Perfected For Ironing, But The Old-fashioned Flatiron Heated On The Range Is Still A Well-nigh Universal Favorite. Mangles, Or Large Heated Cylinders Revolving Under Pressure For Ironing Garments, Have Bcen In General Use In Laundries ...
Care Of Jewelry
Care Of Jewelry To Keep Jewelry At Its Best It Should Be Properly Stored When Not In Use And Occasionally Cleaned And Polished, Or Recolored, When Necessary, To Restore Its Original Luster. Most Jewelry Contains More Or Less Alloy Which Will Tarnish, And Articles Of Sil Ver Are Especially Likely ...
Care Of Kitchen Wares
Care Of Kitchen Wares To Beep Ironware Clean. — Rub Soap Thickly On The Bottom Of An Iron Kettle Or Saucepan Which Is Placed Di Rectly Over The Fire Of A Coal Range; This Will Prevent The Soot Burning On. Lard Or Other Grease May Also Be Used, But Is ...
Care Of Paints And
Care Of Paints And Brushes To Keep Paint Fresh.—any Paint Left Over After Using Must Be Sealed. Or It May Be Kept Fresh In An Open Can Or Pail By Merely Filling Up The Vessel With Water. When The Paint Is Again Needed The Water May Be Poured Off. But ...
Care Of Silverware
Care Of Silverware The Problems Connected With The Care Of Silverware Are The Daily Clean Ing, The Daily And Weekly Polishing, The Prevention Of Stains And Discol Orations, And The Removal Of These When Formed. It Is Advisable To Have A Regular Time For Polishing Silver Each Week, According To ...
Care Of Sinks And
Care Of Sinks And Disposal Of Garbage Care Of Sinks.—stretch A Piece Of Picture Wire Or Cord Over The Kitchen Sink. Over This Hang Old Newspapers. Crumple One Of These In The Hands And Use It To Wipe The Grease From Frying Pans, Pots, Etc., Before Putting Them Into The ...
Care Of Walls
Care Of Walls To Clean Wall Paper.—brush Down The Walls With A Hairbrush Or Dust Cloth, Then Cut A Loaf Of Yeast Bread Two Or Three Days Old Once Vertically Through The Middle, And Again Cross Wise. Hold These Pieces By The Crust And Rub The Wall Downward With Long, ...
Carpet Beetle Or Biiffalo
Carpet Beetle Or "biiffalo Moth" The Destructive Habits Of These Common And Injurious Pests Are Well Known. The Mischief Is Done By This Insect In Its Larval Stage, When It Feeds Upon Woolen Goods, Particu Larly Carpets. It Is Then Rather Less Than A Fourth Of An Inch In Length, ...
Cement
Cement Armenian Or Diamond Cement.— Dissolve To The Consistency Of Thin Cream 6 Lumps Of Gum Mastic, Each About The Size Of A Large Pea Or About Dram Each, In 3 Drams Of 95 Per Cent Alcohol. Fill A 2-ounce Vial Loosely With Isinglass Broken In Small Pieces And Cover ...
Cereal
Cereal Left—overs Appetizing Dishes Which May Be Evolved From A Small Left-over Of Any Cereal Are Many. Even A Few Spoonfuls Of Well-cooked Cereal Can Be Utilized In Gems Or Griddlecakes, Or Can Be Fried In Butter And Eaten Hot With Maple Sirup. Set It Away Carefully, Covering Tightly. An ...
Cereals And Flour Paste
Cereals And Flour Paste Include The Grain Foods From Cultivated Grasses, Containing Every Variety From Oatmeal To Maca Roni, Which Is A Paste Made Of Wheat Flour Rich In Gluten. Among Them Are Most Valuable Foods,—rice, For In Stance, Which Is The Staff Of Life For Certain Nations. In What ...
Chamber Work
Chamber Work To Air Beds.—emanations From The Body Are Absorbed By The Sheets And Through These Contaminate The Other Bedding. Moreover, At Times The Air In Unheated Rooms Contains A Good Deal Of Moisture, And This Penetrates All Parts Of The Bedding. When The Weather Changes, The Surface Of The ...
Chimneys And Flues
Chimneys And Flues Chimneys Have A Twofold Object— To Remove The Smoke And Gases Pro Duced By Combustion, And To Produce A Draught To Increase The Rate Of Com Bustion. They Were First Introduced In Europe About The Twelfth Century. The First Chimney In Rome Was Built In 1368. Chimneys ...
Cleaning Bric A Brac And Mis
Cleaning Bric-a-brac And Mis Cellaneous Objects To Clean Brass Furniture.—brass Bedsteads And Brass Fittings On Fur Niture May Be Cleaned By Moistening A Cloth In Sweet Oil And Dipping It In Powdered Whiting Or Rotten Stone Pulverized Finely And Sifted Through Cheese Cloth. Or Mix Finely Powdered Tripoli With Linseed ...
Cleaning Kitchen Stoves And
Cleaning Kitchen Stoves And Other Metals To Clean Stoves.—first Examine The Stove Or Range To See If Any Parts Need Replacing. Make Cl Note Of These, And Obtain New Ones From The Manufactur Ers Or Some Local Merchant. Remove Clinkers, Clean The Grate, Fireplace, Spaces Under And Over The Oven, ...
Cleaning And Care Of
Cleaning And Care Of Gloves To Clean Gloves. — For Cleaning Gloves, Gasoline, Benzine, Naphtha, And Soap Used With Either Milk Or Water, Fuller's Earth, With Or Without Pow Dered Alum, Cream Of Tartar, Pipe Clay, French Chalk, Bread Crumbs, And Corn Meal Are All Recommended; For Fruit And Acid ...
Cleaning And Polishing Stoves
Cleaning And Polishing Stoves Care Of Kitchen Range. — Remove Cinders And Ashes Each Morning, Brush Out The Inside Of Fire Box And Flues, And Brush Off The Outside With Wings Or A Hair Brush; Wash Off The Stove, If Greasy, With Soda And Water And A Piece Of Flannel. ...
Cleaning And Refinishing Wood
Cleaning And Refinishing Wood Floors Cracks In Floors. — Place In A Saucepan 1 Pound Of Pastry Flour And Rub Up With A Little Cold Water Un Til Free From Lumps. Add 3 Quarts Of Boiling Water, Place On The Stove, Bring To A Boil, And Stir In 1 Table ...