The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-19
HOUSEKEEPING DEPARTMENT.

| To GET RID OF RED ANTs.-To get rid OF
red ants, wash your shelves clean, and while
damp rub fine salt on them quite thick1y
let it remain OH for q time, and they will
disappear.
SPONGE Recommendations cup of but
ter, one OF light molasses, one of sugar. two
eggs, three and a half cups of -four, one tea
| spoonful of soda, one cup of milk, and gin
ger as desirable. 1t is very nice dropped
thin on buttered pans.
| How TO CURE A FELON.-When indica-
lions OF a felon appear, take piece of rem
net and soak it i'll warm milk until it be-
comes soft, then apply it to the part affected,
renewing it occasionally, and keeping it on
until Il cure is produced.
IMITATION APPLE PIE.-Use raw pumpkin
instead of green apples; slice thin add
equal parts of vinegar and water, thicken
with wheat -four, season to suit the taste,
! and bake thoroughly. 1t requires more salt
and longer baking than apple pie, but when
done is in no respect inferior.
CLEANING KNIvEs.-A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman says: ga small
clean potato, with the end cut off, is q con-
venient medium of applying brick dust to
knives, keeping it about the right moisture,
while the juice of the potato assists in re-
moving stains from the surface. We can
get better polish by this method than by
any other we have tried, and with less labor.
RICE BREAp.-Boil quarter of a pound
of rice till quite soft, put it on sieve to
drain, when cold mix it we'll with three
quarters of a pound of -four and a spoonful
of yeast; let it stand for three hours to rise,
then knead it up and roll it in about q
to put in the oven; about an hour and a
quarter will bake it. 1t should not be cut
till a day or two old, and then it looks like
honey comb.
HOP YEAsT.-Into three quarts of boiling
water put one pint of hops tied up in Il muslin
bag. Add one teaspoonful of salt and boil
half an dour. Then in another vessel stir
water. Take out the bag of hops and stir
the paste into the hop water, which is still
| oyer the fire. Let it come to boil, stirring
al the while. When nearly cold, add a
it is ready for USE. Half Il teacuprul of
yeast is enough for a loaf of bread.
TEA MUFFINs.--One cup of milk, butter
size of an egg, one tablespoonful of sugar,
two eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar
stirred in the flour, half a teaspoonful of
soda in tablespoonful of hot water, and
about one pint of flour, or enough to make
n batter sitter than usual for cake. Drop
it into we'll creased muffin pans or rings,
and bake in hot oven fifteen minutes.
First mix the butter, sugar, and eggs to-
gether; then add the milk, then flour, and
the soda last.
CHowDER.-Fry three slices Of salt pork.
crisp, in deep kettle take them out and
lay in slices of cod or paddock, which must
also be Toured and peppered. Put in al
ternate layers of potatoes and fish, with
flour, salt, and pepper, till it is all laid in
Pour over it boiling water almost enough to
cover it. When it boiIs up, dredge in more
flour. Dip n few crackers in cold water and
lay over the top, and cover the kettle close.
Boil it three quarters of an hour. Use ship
bread if it is preferred. Some people add n
cup Of milk just before it is served. Add
part of fresh lemon if you like.
CoDrIsm BALLs.-Peel the potatoes the
night before you wish to make the balls,
and put them in clean water. Put the cod
fish also in water to soak. In the morning
boil both, and after picking up the Goldfish
very fine and MASKING the potatoes, mix
about two thirds of potato with One-third
of fish, and fry the balls with thin slices of
nice pork just taken from the brine. The
making of the balls from fresh cooked po-
tatoes and fish adds very much to their ex-
cellence. When warmed up they are called
Goldfish balls, but arc quite another article.
SAVOY CAkE.-To make this cake with q
hot mixture of the ingredients: Take one
pound of loafsugar, powdered, one pint of
good eggs, and fourteen ounces of flour.
Warm pan, free from grease, with the
sugar in it, in the oven until you can
scarcely bear your hand against it then
take it out and pour it in the eggs; whisk
the whole together with birch or wire
whisk until it rs quite light and cold, when
it will be white and thick. If it should not
whisk up well, warm it again and beat it as
before; or it may be beat over the stove
fire until it is of the warmth of new milk.
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY YEAsr.-Grate
twelve large potatoes and boil in three
pints of water. Boil handful of hops in
two pints of water, and strain then wash
the hops with one pint of hot water, and
strain Then mix the boiled potatoes and
hop water together, and stir in one good
sized teacupful of salt, and one of brown
sugar and let them cool. Then take of this
mixture one pint, and add one pint yeast to
it, and let it rise; then pour all together