Soft
soap is so slippery, that it wastes a good deal in washing clothes.
Instead of covering up your glasses and pictures with muslin, cover
the frames only with cheap, yellow cambric, neatly put on, and as near
the color of the gilt as you can procure it. This looks better; leaves
the glasses open for use, and the pictures for ornament; and is
an effectual barrier to dust as well as flies. It can easily be
re-colored with saffron tea, when it is faded.
Have a bottle full of brandy, with as large a mouth as any bottle you
have, into which cut your lemon and orange peel when they are fresh
and sweet. This brandy gives a delicious flavor to all sorts of
pies, puddings, and cakes. Lemon is the pleasantest spice of the
two; therefore they should be kept in separate bottles. It is a good
plan to preserve rose-leaves in brandy. The flavor is pleasanter
than rose-water; and there are few people who have the utensils for
distilling. Peach leaves steeped in brandy make excellent spice for
custards and puddings.
It is easy to have a supply of horse-radish all winter. Have a
quantity grated, while the root is in perfection, put it in bottles,
fill it with strong vinegar, and keep it corked tight.
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