Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-04-07
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
STEAMED BROWN BREAD.


Take two quarts of sweet skim milk, one
tablespoonful Of saleratus, one Of salt, half
cup Of molssses; put in equal quantities OF rye
and Indian meal until the dough Is as stiff as
can be conveniently stirred with spoon, then
put 1t in two two-quart tins. Place sticks
across the bottom Of the kettle to keep the
water from the bread; place one of the tins on
these, and the other in a tin steamer placed on
the top of the same kettle, and let it steam
three hours. Care should be taken to keep
the water boiling while the bread is cooking
When done, put it in a warm oven long enough
TO dry the top Of it, not bake it. Yeast can be
used instead of saleratus, if any prefer it; but
the bread must rise well before putting ii in
the kettle.
BUCKwHEAr CAKES.
Stir buckwheat -four into lukewarm water /;
it will take nearly quart of -four to pint Of
water add small eupful of yeast; set il to
rise over night, if wished for breakfast; leave
plenty Of room in the vessel containingi it, or it
will overrun; if it should be sour in the morn.
ing, add soda until it is sweet ;.these cakes
should not stand after baking so as to sweat,
as that destroys the crispness, which should be
part Of their excellence: they should be
served when taken from the griddle. Use
part Of the last batter TO rise the next, when
you have them daily.
TO HARDEN rALLow.
Mrs. Gage, in the Field Notes, gives the fol
lowing hints on hardening pot skimmings, So
as 10 make them into candles Boil in clean
soft water for two ST three hours, then cool,
and when fully cold, take all the un1eT sedi.
ment from the cake, and boil it again till il is
white, clear, and hard. Should il still need
hardening, add alum and saltpeter 10 the
water, in the proportion of one pound Of each to
twelve pounds Of taliow. Dissolve these in the
water first, add the tallow, and boil the water
neariy cut, stirring the tallow well while boil
Ipg, to xix them.
TO CURE DIPTHERIA.
A gentleman who has administered the fol
lowing remedy for diptheria, informs us that
1t has always proved efectual in afording
speedy relief. Take a common tobacco pine.
new place live coal within the bowl, drop
a little tar upon the coal, and let the patient
draw smoke into the mouth and discharge il
through the nostrils. The remedy is safe and
simple, and should be tried whenever occasion
Rsy require. Many valuable lives NAV be
saved, our informant confidently believes, by
prompt treatment as Unconstitutional Ga
zetts
NUsH CAKES.
A correspondent Of the Germantown Tele-
graph furnishes the following as the way to
make corn-meal griddle cakes, or Mush Cakes,
as she styles them:
before tureen Of good mush, made by stirring
Indian meal int water slowly, and boil II
thereafter well for three hours. In the morn.
ing for breakfast, with say two quarts of the
mush left from supper, flor family Of six, J
stir into it three pints Of warm milk beat
we'll two eggs and add, with half q teaspsonful
of soda; then with a dash Of wheat -four in
your fingers add TO the batter to make the
cakes adhere, stir all well and bake in cakes
upon hot griddle, and send to the table in
parties Of six. .....
There never yet, Mr.. Editor, has been seen
the child or grown person upon my premises
who failed to do ample justice to these mush
cakes They are in fact the only perfec,
cooked griddle cake ever made, for the reason
that the material thereof is cooked the night
before in the mush. They are perfectly
healthy, therefore. There is a twinkle In the
eye of our little ones when mush is announced
for supper, knowing we'll as they do that Il
fOretells mush cakes for breakfast next morn;
i0g.