Isle. If you happen to have a bit of salt-petre, dissolve it with
the brine. Dairy-women say that butter comes more easily, and has a
peculiar hardness and sweetness, if the cream is scalded and strained
before it is used. The cream should stand down cellar over night,
after being scalded, that it may get perfectly cold.

Suet and lard keep better in tin than in earthen.

Suet keeps good all the year round, if chopped and packed down in a
stone jar, covered with molasses.

Pick suet free from veins and skin, melt it in water before a moderate
fire, let it cool till it forms into a hard cake, then wipe it dry,
and put it in clean paper in linen bags.

Preserve the backs of old letters to write upon. If you have children
who are learning to write, buy coarse white paper by the quantity, and
keep it locked up, ready to be made into writing books. It does not
cost half as much as it does to buy them at the stationer's.

Do not let coffee and tea stand in tin. Scald your wooden ware often;
and keep your tin ware dry.

When mattresses get hard and bunchy, rip them, take the hair out, pull
it thoroughly by hand, let it lie a day or two to air, wash the tick,
lay it in as light and even as possible, and catch it down, as before.
Thus prepared, they will be as good as new.

It is poor economy to buy vinegar by the gallon, Buy a barrel, or half
a barrel, of really strong vinegar, when you begin house-keeping.