The Hickman courier., 1872-11-23
HOUSEHOLD.
PLAIN cusTARD.

Three well beaten eggs, one pint
OF milk three or four tablespoons
fuls OF sugar. stir well together and
bake twenty.
Pie erusts are usually so full Of
shortening as to be unWholesome
and the under cruss IS like putty or
cementor salve. Here is a recipe for
a fine crust that VIII be fit to eat.
GOOD PIE CRUST.
Sweet cream made into a soft
dough with either fine or coarse
-four bake Immediately in quick
oven, VIII make a good crust for any
kinds of pies.
Those who are about to travel for
a few days are sometimes puzzled
TO know what kind of cake to take
IN the haver-sack for n lunch By the
way, Such will fnd the following
most excellent and substantial
JOURNEY CAKES.
One pint CT sweet cream, half tea
cup of sugar, stirred into coarse flour
10 form a stiff dough, roll out to one
fourth inch thick bake in quick
oven.
ICING FOR WEDDING CARE.
Beat the white of four eggs to a
stiff froth then add to them half
pound of ground or powdered white
sugar, beat well until it Will stand (
ike foam. Flavor with vanilla, /
lemon or rose. This viii frosts the I
tops Of two ordinary sized cakes .
Heap as much as you deem sufficient f
in the centre oi the cake, then DIP .
broad-biaded knife into cold water,
and spread the icing over the whole
surface.
= Use FOR OLD MUSLIN.
There IS nc economy in using old
muslin when it viii be exposed to I
much wear, but for some purposes
it IS "as good as new. A lady
writes rs that for years she has
made her partially worn sheets into
simple window curtains. From the
center Of the sheet she tears the
worn portion this leave two strips
each cf two and one-half yards in
length and from three fourths of a
yard to yard in width. She then
sews the two selYedge edges togeth- I
er, and turns the raw edges back to
form a seam. All around the cur.
tain she now stitches, at about an
inch from the edge, narrow strips of /
some pretty and washable cam brio /
or calico tor trimming, putting an
extra row of stitching through that |
OH the upper end to make q place T
for tape to be run in.-Heath and +
Home.
LABOR SAVING ITE8I.
Many ladies prefer to attend to
the more delicate parts OF cookery
themselves, as the pie and cake
baking, etc. they have natural
fondness for il, or they feel that it is
well for them to take exercise of
this kind. But what an unintention-
al disturbance they sometimes make
in poor Bridget's dominionsl OF
course it is the part ef well train
ed domestic to run at her mistress's
beck and call to supply all her needs, /
70 t.clean up after her." and to
rnnlxe no remarks but, on the 9th
er hand. every lady should do her
work as neatly and with as little
disturbance of kitchen routine as
po slble.
1t is a mistake, for instance. to
suppose nat each distinct operation
in cake making, to be neatly done,
requires the use of a separate utensil
Here are sugar. Hour, butter and
milk to be measured, eggs to be
beaten and soda to be dissolved.
One cup may be used first for sugar
and -four, as they both are dry, and
afterwards for the butter and milk.
Soda may be dissolved Ia the bowl
IL which the eggs are beaten, after
the eggs have been added to the
lake. When all is finished it will
&c found that very few dishes have
0een soiled. This is of course a
mall item, butt .'tells in the long
,un. Hearth and Home.
APPLE SHORT CAKE.
To one quart of sifted -four added
wo teaspoonfuls of cream tartar
nd one of soda, half teaspoonful
i salt. quarter of pound of butter,
iweet milk or cream enough to mix 2
t. Have the dough rather st fl, roll e
nd bake In a sheet. As soon as L
aked, split open the whole cake, 4
bread one piece quickly with butter t
over with well-sweetened apple b
auce, pour over some thick sweet T.
ream, CRATE on nutmeg = place he P
tner half on this (crust side down a
Oread with butter, cover the apple a
suce- cream and pufmeo S;
FARMERS FRUIT GALE.
Three cups of dried apples, wash Il
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