Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1842-12-03
USEFUL RECEIPTS.
FOR The LADIES.

FOR The LADIES.
Hard Gingerbread ID. tlouf IA ID.
butter, l-2 ID. sugnr, 8 eggs and ! ounce
ginger. Mix thoroughly, roll thin and
bake on tin sheets.
Common Gingerbread c,ipful Of
butter one do. cream or milk, in which
dissolve a ten spoonful vi sulaera,us, 2 do
molasses, season 10 your tuste with cara.
way seed or ginger and flour sufficient to
make q soft paste, roll rather thin and
cut into small cakes.
Sugar Gingenbread.-Six cups Of flour,
one al butter, two Of sugar, one oil cream,
:. small tea-spooniul saiaera,us, season
! xegfose water, nuline or caraway, roll
Go6ut half an inch thick aud bake on tin
sheets.
Molasses Gingerbrcad.-Six cups Of
dour, one do. Of butter or lard-one and
Z hull do. Of molasses-one Of milk,
(sour is best) two tea spoonluls OF salae-
yaius--lwo table spooniuIs ginger and q
little salt. $500,
Dough Nuts.-Half pint Of cream,
two eggs, one tea cup Of sugar little
salt, halt a nutmeg aud -four sufficient Is
maxe stiff paste.
Another.-One cup sweet miik-onc
cup sugur-tea spoonful oi cinnamon aud
I li,,le salt. and mix -four until the dough
] will not stick to the board:
Pastry l-e lbs. ilour--l4 ID. lard
rubbed in dry with the hands-lhs white
q two eggs beat to a froth, mix with
sweet milk or water and roll into the
pas;e 4 ID. Of butter at three times roll
ing it and drudge on little -four each
time.
Toast without butter.-Prepare your
bread in the usual way--rut into the pan
one pint OF new milk aud mix IN little
cold milk, two table spoonlu's OF flour
and when the milk in The pan .boils, pour
it'in and add tea spoonful Of salt and
Lot it scald but not boil, then pour il over
your bread. This is good and whole
some substitute for fal or butter gravy 10
eat on baked potatoes or other vegeta-
bles.
Cider Cakc.-Cider Cake is very good
TO be baked in small loves. One pound
and q half OF flour, half q pound OF 81
gar, quarter Of pound OF butter, half a
pint.of cioer, one tea spoonful Of pear
lash, spice to your taste. Bake till it turns
easy 10 the pans. should think about
haitian hour. !.
Carawsy Cakes.-Take one pound Of
flour, three quarters Of a pound .! sugar,
half pound of butter, . glass Of rose wa.
tor, four eggs, aud a half q tea cup Of car
away seed the materials we'll rubbed
together and beat up.-Drop them from
. SPOON on tin sheets aud bake them brown
ia rather slow oven.. Twenty minutes
or ha.f an hour is enough 70 bake them.
Indian Cake. Tive cups oi Indian
meal, one table spoonful lnolasses, two
cups milk, q handful OF fou-, little sal.
aeratus, mixed up thin, poured into but:
tered bake kettle; hung over the fire Uni
severed unit; you can bear your finger
upsn il, and then set down before the fire.
Bake half an hour.
Tea Cake.-rhere 10 kind Of tea cake
still cheacrr.--'rhrce cups sugar, three
eggs, one cup Of buttor.. on: cup Of milk a
spoonful Of dissolved pearlash and four
cups Of -four we'll bea, up. lit is SO still
i will not stir easily, add q little more
milk.
To take grease out Of silk --If little
powdered magncsia be applied on the
wrong side ot the silk soon as tho spo!
i discovered il is never failing REMEDY
tho stain disappearing as ifb by magic
II, To remove panes Of glass:-Put soap
on the putty for few hours. and it be
comes as soft as i( just put on. though the
putty had become as hard asa stoiie.
To ERADICATE CoREs Take 4 small
piece Of flannel which has not been wash
Cd, wrap or sew it around the corn ane
toe, one thickness will be sufficient. We
the flannel, where the corn is night ant
morning. with fine sweet oil. Renew thu
tho corn, which will soon disappear.
Asciens Egypt. Egypt comprehended
anciently, within limits Of no very grea
axtent. no fewer than k,pc,siu thousand in