Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-30
Household Recipes.

PLAIN Loaf caks.-Tske half cup butter and
cups white sugar, ii never use brown sugar Tor
together; add eggs, well beaten; Dissolve 4
teaspoon OF soda in cup OF sweet milk; ; caps
siited -four with teaspoonIuls cream tartar.
Flavor with lemon or vanilla. | always beat
or two small loayes.
Sponge Cake.-Beat 6 eggs, yolks and whites
together, two minutes, add cups sugar and
beat five minutes; cups four with two tea
spoons cream tartar aud beat two minutes, I
cup cold water and I teaspoon of saleratuS dis
solved in IL, and beat one minute. tiavOr salt,
add more cups flour, and beat another min
ute. Observe the time exactly and bake IN deep
pans. Makes two good sized loaves: is very
good, and az cheap a cake can be made. TO
have good sponge cake, good, steady heat is
required, but not too hot an oven. Too much
heat bakes IL before il has attained It's iihtness,
and causes II TO fall aud be heavy.
Bread Cdke.-Aftcr kneading your bread, save
dough sufficient % nil 2 tcacGps; add & cups
sugar, cup butter, eggs beaten, 1 cup seed
less raSins, grated nHtInee' work with tho
hands all together very thoroughly. After pus-
ting in Your pans let il stand in a warm place
for hslf an hour before baking. Make into one
.Sarer cake.-Half cup butter. q, cups white
sugar. \ cup sweet milk, with ! teaspoon soda,
the whites of eggs beaten 10 "A frOth, large
cup nour, with teaspoon cream tartar. Flavor
20 taste.
GOldcdke.-one cup sugar, a. cGp butter,
yolks OF four egg, cup OF sweet milk, with <
teaspoon soda, y cups hower, teaspoon cream
tartar. These cakes are good. and when both
are made, are nice for cake baskets, puttinx
both in one basket. When 1 use the whites OF
eggs tor frosting, use the yolks for gold cake.
NJ. G1c5erTy JstLy.-A correspondent desires %
know how TO harden strawberry Jelly. The
juice contains ninety parts OF water, aud C an
only he reduced by an hours boiling. EyapOr-
alton II more essential In making this ielly than
in that made from any other fruit. Placing Il
In the sun-closely covered with mosq alto net
ting TO protect IL from fies-lngv produce
the same effect as boiling. The air and the
heat Will sometimes harden IL.
Hair ToEic.-A correspondent desires the eV-
act proportions. Take one pint or bOiiing
tCr-pour 10 upon a dozen large branches OF
fresh sage, or a large handful OF dried leaves,
and cover rt tightly for an hour. Pat into a
bottle ore ounce OF iron filings. nails, OF any
bits OF iron, also piece Of bOrsx large a. a
walnut; turn the sage tea upon it. In two or
three days IL Is ready for use. IL - the receipt Of
a famous ''dermatologist.".-CO Country Gegflemza.
Cough SyBp--As summer colds are con-
siderCd about the worst kind. will give you a
very good cough remedy Boil some elecsm-
pane root with piece Of horse-radish and a
small piece OF ginger root; when pretty well
boiled down pour il of and thorw out the roots,
and after rinsng the vessel return the liquid
with sufficient molssses, and stew until quite
syrup. Take a couple OF spoOnfuls occa-
sion may require. We efound Il very efiectual.
Tomato CdtsUp.-fwo quarts Of ripe tomatoes;
peel and put them In pan; stew until SOFT,
then add one tablespoon of salt, one Of black
pepper, one OF ground mustard and one of all
spice; when cold add one pint of good vinegar.
and strain through a wire sieve; set il on the
when cold bottle for use.
To PiokIe Red Cabbdge.-Cut a head of the
dar kest red cabbage, and slice il very thn shake
on it little coarse salt, and let il rest twenty
four hours to drain. Boil an ounce OF black
pepper and an ounce OF allspice in quart Of
vinegar, and when cold pour it over the cab
bage, then pack IL close and keep il well-cOy-
ered--GermaHfOcn telegraph.
GROSS OUTRAGE on A CHILD Threats #
Lynch Ldr.-The young man, John schmidt,
whose arrest was noticed yesterday, on the
| charge Of having committed a brutal outrageon
The Pe1son Of little sig aged about ys yes ~
restaurant, No. ~ 12Pennsylvsnia avenue, had =
hearing before Justice Meizel yesterday and
was committed TO jail for the action OF the
Monday evening last, and az the nearing yester-
day the accused admitted his guilt and plead
crowd gathered around the magistrates ONCE
during the examination, and on hearing that
4 Schmidt confessed the crime he was threatened
with lynch Law, and rope was soon procured.
| The intention Of the crowd or excited Germans
was frustrated, however, by Sergeant Spaugler
and several policemen, n, and the accused removed
afterwards to the City Jail.-Baitimore Gazette.
JRTKR PHILLIPS AeAIx-Anotker ISensation.-
A strange story comes TO ms from Orange coun-
ty. There is woman there who claims 70 have
been married 10 Jeter Phillips during the war,
Of age, which she says is the fruit oftheir union
The reason assigned By her for not setting up
claim to her truant husband sooner Is that She
did not know where he was until he was ar
rested for the murder committed on Drinkers
farm, and that she did not care TO have any-
thing to do with him afterwards. Her story is
corrooorated by the testimony and belief of the
neignpornood- We are not much inclined 20
put our trust in this new sensation, but still II
may be true, and We look anxiously tor addition
al Information from the country where this
alleged marriage took place.-Ricamond Ea3a.r-
er, July %.
The Rondout Courier gets the following
STORY nom telegraph operator in that VILLAGE
member Of the Masonic order teleeraphed to
acompanion Down the river somewhere-~Make
room for ten Royal Arch MAsons. Coming to-
oay." when the companions arrived they found
q pen had been built for their Accommodation;
the telegram at its destination reading-"MAke
room Tor ten A Ms. Coming to-day"
0Only two per cent OF the Prussian army m
unable to read and write. The percentages Of
ipnorance In the French army e very much
greater,