Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-03-23
Recipes for the Housewife.

CHOCOLATE CAKE.-One. half cup
Of butter; two cups of sugar; four
eggs; one cup Of milk; three and
one half cups Of -four; two tea
spoonfuls of cream tartar, one tea
spoonful of soda, and one tea.
spoonful of vanilla.
BATTER MUFFlNs. Take quart
of milk, warm it, and add table
spoonful Of salt; beat up five eggs
and stir in, half a cupful Of yeast,
then stir in flour enough to make
stiff batter let it rise and then drop
into rings and bake them.
A NICE DEsERT.-Make a crust
as il for pie, only do not roll as
thin; line a pie tin, pare, quarter
and core good tartapples ; lay them
nicely together in your dish; pour
over them cup Of good, sweeten-
ed cream CRATE on a little nutmeg,
bake to q nice brown.
SODA CAKE.-Take one cup of
sugar. one egg; three tablespoon
fuls of lutter, one tablespoonful Of
soda; two tablespoonfuls of cream
tartar; little salt; two and a half
cups of flour; season with lemon
and bake in quick oven.
PoTAro SoUP.-Put two quarts
of pared and sliced potatoes into
a kettle, and pour on two and
half quarts Of boiling water Boil
them until soft, and then skim out
the potatoes mash them and put
them back into the water; add one
pint and a half of milk, and butter,
salt and pepper to the taste,
To THREAD A NEEDLE Gut the
thread diagonally with a pair Of
scissors, Thread with the finger
the point thus made. This method |
obyiates the blunt end, made by
the usual method Of cutting, and
prevents the troublesome "hiar"
left in breaking the thread
QUICK PUpDING -ScaId a quart
Of milk, take three tablespoonfuls
of cold milk, three Of flour, and
three eggs rob well together, and
pour the batter in while the milk is
hot, then bake half an hour But
ter and sugar, beaten to O cream
for dressing; favor with nutmeg,
BOILED GEMS. -- Old fashioned,
hard wheat meal Tor Graham hour)
dumplings Of good size, put into
boiling soft water and cooked from
twenty, Ave minutes to u half ain
hour, are delicious. Must be eaten
while hot with fruit and molasses,
etc. win bear boiling up again
once or twice. They prove very
light.
CooKlNa PoTAToEs. - Wash and
wipe the potatoes dry. Place them
n a flat. bottomed cast iron pot on
he back of the stove, covering the
.ettle with a close. fitting iron or
IN cover. The steam Of the pot
! sufficient moister for them. They
vii cook in an hour and ten min
tes, and are very nice and health {
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HoMlNY CAKES. - One pint Of
oiled hominy well mashed, one 4
alf pound OF sifted -four, one egg,
ne tablespoonful Of melted lard =
i butter, sweet milk enough to ]
lake a rather thin batter, a table.
poonful of salt, one teaspoontul I
{ soda, sifted with the flour, and Al
70 Of cream tartar Drop the
after small on the griddlo, 4
COUNTRY SoAP,-Six pounds Of
ida ash, six pounds Of grease,
Tree pounds stone lime, four gal.
ms Of water. Boil the soda and
me in tho water until the soda Is G
issolyed, then pour it out and let +
settle, When the dregs are all
the bottom, pour the top Of in.
, an iron pot, add tile grease and
oIl until il is soap; when sufficient
0th'os, pour into pans to cool, and Z
1t into bars.