About The House

IN order to sollen Hard water, tiier boil it for sometiine or add a quantity of clean linie water. Sal soda is ! times used, Irut it will color the clotlies yollow. Fok salt ïhetim, the following cuired m old friend wbo had been a sufferer for years : A tea made of clover blossorc s. I have reoommended this receipt to others, wlio have tried it with good refrults. Bice Muffins. - To oue quart of sour inilk. three well-beatcn eggs, a little salt, teaspoonful of soda, and enougb rice flour to thicken to a stifl' batter. Bake in rings. Washing Black Oolicoes - Take boüing suds, and rub out ns quick as ' oool enougli íor the hands; nnse in cloar water, and stiften in skim milk ; iron on the wrong side, and they wiU look as fresh as new goods ; and not grow ruety. A Plain Sauce. - This sauce will be found e.xeilent, and quite good enough for ordinary use. It is made by cutting a larga lipful of oelerj iine, and boiling tiil soft in a sint of water. Thicken it with butter and flour, and season it with sait, pepper and mace. Inbian Triple. - Boil in a quart of new milk with a large stick of cinnanion ; thicken it with rice flour, first inoistened with cold milk, and sweeten to your taste. Pour it into a dish, and when cold cut it into the shape of a star, or any other shape you please ; take out the rice and till the place with custard. Ornament with slit almonds and spots of currant jelly. Cracked Wheat Porridge. - Si ft the fine flour all out of it; then add suffi cient water to the wheat to cook it in. Sfcir it to cause the bran to rise to the surf ace; pour off the bran into a sieve, saving all the water, and return this to the wheat. Continue to wash until all the bran is removed. Separate the wheat from the water, and bring the water to a boü, continuing to stir occasionally; then add the wheat and stir constantly until it comes to a boil. Then set it on the stove cover and let it boil very slow for an hour. Now stir in the flour and salt to taste. It is good hot or cold, in milk or with sweetened cream. Ladies will find that a pretty sittingroom ornament is made by taking a spruce cone and baking it in an oven till the scales open out equally. It is then filled with equal paris óf sand and grass seed, a string tied to the top, and the whole put in the darkin a jar, with water enough to come half-way over the cone. In a week it is placed in the sunlight, when the seeds sprout rapidly, and in a month fill a gallon jar completely. It is then taken out and hung in the rindow. Every moruing it should be thoroughly seaked in warm water.