The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-07-02
HOUSEKEEPER.

HUUDrIsn DINER vodi4Gsth i should
FIRST be soaked in cold water, change the
water every few houres until it is frech
enough. 1t should not be entirely freshened-
ed, but left just salt enough to be palatable.
It is then put into kettle, covered with
water, and brought up to boiling point,
but net boiled. Let it simmer gentle for Is
or 20 minutes, and il is ready 10 serve. As
accompaniments to the fish there are Of
course potatoes, and many add plain boiled
beets, parsnips, and carrots and hard
hoiled eggs. We have sometimes seen small
bits ofsalt pork fried crisp and served with
some of the pork fat. The proper sauce is
butter, which is sometimes simply melted,
but more usually made into sauce with
flour and water. They may be made into
an egg sauce BY adding chopped hard boiled
eggs. The fish, vegetables, cts, are served
separately, each one being helped to bis fancy
the sauce being served last Mustard, pep
per. and horsc-redish are the condiment most
frequently used.
MEASURE CAKE.-One quart of sifted
-four; one emp Of butter two cups Of sugar;
one cup of sweet milk two eggs; two small
teaspoonfuls of cream tartar rubbed into the
-four; one teaspoonful saleratus dissolved in
a little Of the milk. Bake in loves, or little
tins The white of one egg can be saved
on, and beaten up with three tablespoons
Of sited sugar for frosting, which improves
every cake.
EYES PUDDING ounces Of suet, SIX
ounces Of bread crumbs, six ounces Of cur
rants, six ounces of apples, six ounces Of
sugar, six eggs, rind Of one lemon, little
nutmeg and allspice, a. glass Of brandy.
Chop the suet very fine, and add to il the
grated bread, with the currants washed and
dried, the apples minced up, the sugar
pounded, the grated lemon peel, and the
spice stir it all thorouhly together, and mix
il with the eggs well beating Boil in a
buttered basin three hours.
Soft SoAP.-Put ten pounds Of potash in
half barrel next day -dd twelve pounds
grease, stir it well and then add one gallon
of boiling water. Add the same quantity
boiling hot every day nutil the barrel is full,
stirring it all the THE time. If you wish to
make less, use three pounds Of grease and
two and a half pounds Of potash.
EGG PUFFs, or OAK BALLs.-Five eggs
beaten very light, one pint Of milk, FIVE table
spoonsfull Of flour and a salt spoonful, Of
salt, beat all well together. Have ready
twelve cups in bake pan, the cups well
oiled with fresh butter the siz Of hazel-nut
IN each cup, divide the butter equally among
the cups, put in a quick even and bake till
done light brown. For breakfast serve
plain, for dessert they are very nice with
dressing of butter and sugar well beaten
together and favored with nutmeg.
TIE immense iron frigate Sultan, which
mas been in process of construction for long
VII le. was launched at London June L. She
was constructed for the Turkish Cove ment
being the most powerful armor-clad hrosdside
fripate ever built She is Of SO 0 tons
burden, with most powerful p opelling force,
her engines being capable Of exerting the
strength Of 7 900 horse power. A novelty
iu her arrangement is the battery-deck, viii b
is built overhauging the upper deck. She
mounts on the upper tier eight eighteen ton
400 Founders. The central main deck bat
terry is composed of two twelve aud half ton
30O-pounders. The bow and stern are pierc-
ed for two 300 Founders, as chssers. Under
the forecastle will be a battery comprising
nine 20 pound Armstrong guns This arma-
ment is the most formidable ever placed in
any vessel Of war, and the caliber of the
principal guns Of the battery bas probably
never been exceeded by the armament Of
any vessel