The Times' Recipes by Author

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Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

T O C LEAN O LD B LACK S ILK. —Grate two potatoes into a quart of water; let it stand to settle, and then drain it off clear. Lay a breadth of the silk—from which you have wiped off all the dust with a flannel rag—outside upward on a clean cloth spread over an ironing blanket. Sponge it across the breadth well; fold it up, taking care to keep the wetted side upward. Do all the breadths, laying them each aside; then iron them with a hot iron, having a thin piece of linen, or an old handkerchief, spread over the silk under the iron; this will prevent the silk from shining. Chloroform will cleanse the finest silks, and remove spots without injury to the fabric.

T O R EMOVE C LINKERS. —Stoves may be freed from clinkers by putting into the fire two or three oyster shells.

T O R AISE H YACINTHS IN W ATER. —Put the bulbs in glasses or earth and set them in a dark closet to sprout. If in glasses the water should not be higher than one inch below the bulb, until the roots have reached the water, when the glasses may be filled up, a piece of charcoal put in the water, and the plants set in the sun to grow.

S CRAP-B OOK P ASTE. —Dissolve a teaspoonful of alum in a quart of water; when cold, stir in as much flour as will give it the consistency of thick cream, being particular to beat up all the lumps; stir in as much powdered resin as will lay on a dime, and add also six cloves; have a teacupful of boiling water on the fire, pour the flour mixture into it, stirring well all the time. It will soon be like mush. Let it cool and keep it cool. Lay a cover on it. For use, soften with warm water. It will keep twelve months.

T O C LEANSE R EFRIGERATORS. —Scald with hot suds; rinse with vinegar and water first, and after with scda in clear cold water, and wipe thoroughly dry.

S ICK C ANARIES. —The following treatment completely restored a fine singer which I had quite dispaired of, as he had been sick and silent for months: Leave off seed entirely. Make a paste of sweet milk and bread crumbs, throwing the crumbs into the milk while boiling, and stir until quite smooth; add a pinch of cayenne pepper, varied occasionally by some finely-minced clove or garlic; dissolve in the drinking water, a little black currant jelly, a bit of fig, or half a potash lozenge. I used all of these and my bird is well; so to which the preference should be given I know not, though I incline to the jelly. It may take a long time to cure the bird, and if the trouble arises from hardness of the tongue, it must be painted daily with strong borax water. If he sneezes, a little olive-oil must be gently put up the nostrils.

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