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Useful Hints and Recipe.
PLAIN LEMON PIE - Two lemons, peel and cut in very thin slices, the rind to be chopped, one and a half cups of water, three-quarters of a cup of flour, one cup of brown sugar, one cup of molasses. Bake with two crusts in a moderately hot oven.
ORANGE JELLY. -Soak one box of Cox's gelatine in a pint of cold water for an hour, then add a pint of boiling water, a pint of orange juice, and a pound of white sugar; bring to the boiling point, strain through a jelly-bag, and pour into moulds.
OLD NEWSPAPERS will put the finishing touch to newly cleaned silver, knives and forks, and tin ware, better than anything. Rub them well, and make perfectly dry. They are also excellent to polish stoves that have not been blackened for some length of time.
FISH PIE.- Three pounds of fish, one onion, water enough to boil them both together. When done, pick from the bones, mash the onion with it in the dish it is to be baked in, add pepper and salt, scald one quart of milk, thicken it with one tablespoonful of flour dissolved in cold water, pour over the fish, cover with pieces of butter, and cover thick with cracker crumbs. Bake until brown.
A FINE PASTE for scrap books can be made from alum water and flour. A teaspoonful and a half of pounded alum dissolved in enough cold water to make a pint of paste. Pour the water, when the alum is all dissolved, on to enough flour to thicken it as stiff as common paste, bring it to a boil, stirring all the time, and when done, add a few drops of the oil of cloves. The alum prevents fermentation, and the oil of cloves will prevent or destroy all vegetable mould.
HOW TO GET RID OF RATS. - A writer in the Scientific American tells how he clears his premises of rats. He says: "In every crevice where the rat might tread we put the crystal of the copperas, and scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice. Since that time not a footfall of either rats or mice has been about the house. Every spring a coat of yellow wash is given the cellar, as a purifier as well as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the family."

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Useful Hints and Recipe. PLAIN LEMON PIE - Two lemons, peel and cut in very thin slices, the rind to be chopped, one and a half cups of water, three-quarters of a cup of flour, one cup of brown sugar, one cup of molasses. Bake with two crusts in a moderately hot oven. ORANGE JELLY. -Soak one box of Cox's gelatine in a pint of cold water for an hour, then add a pint of boiling water, a pint of orange juice, and a pound of white sugar; bring to the boiling point, strain through a jelly-bag, and pour into moulds. OLD NEWSPAPERS will put the finishing touch to newly cleaned silver, knives and forks, and tin ware, better than anything. Rub them well, and make perfectly dry. They are also excellent to polish stoves that have not been blackened for some length of time. FISH PIE.- Three pounds of fish, one onion, water enough to boil them both together. When done, pick from the bones, mash the onion with it in the dish it is to be baked in, add pepper and salt, scald one quart of milk, thicken it with one tablespoonful of flour dissolved in cold water, pour over the fish, cover with pieces of butter, and cover thick with cracker crumbs. Bake until brown. A FINE PASTE for scrap books can be made from alum water and flour. A teaspoonful and a half of pounded alum dissolved in enough cold water to make a pint of paste. Pour the water, when the alum is all dissolved, on to enough flour to thicken it as stiff as common paste, bring it to a boil, stirring all the time, and when done, add a few drops of the oil of cloves. The alum prevents fermentation, and the oil of cloves will prevent or destroy all vegetable mould. HOW TO GET RID OF RATS. - A writer in the Scientific American tells how he clears his premises of rats. He says: "In every crevice where the rat might tread we put the crystal of the copperas, and scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice. Since that time not a footfall of either rats or mice has been about the house. Every spring a coat of yellow wash is given the cellar, as a purifier as well as a rat exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or fever attacks the family."