Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-11-06
Helpful Hints tor Housewives,

WILD GRAB aPPLE-COVer the fruit
with water, and boil until soft, then strain ::
add one pound of sugar to each pint of
| juice, boil from fifteen to twenty minutes.
| DELICATE CAKE.-The whites of four
eggs we'll beaten, one cup of sugar, ore
cup of flour, one-half cup of sweet milk,
| three tsblespooniuls of butter, ore tea
spoonful of soda, and three teaspoonfuls
Of cream of tartar.
Dish FOR BREAKFAsr.-Take half a
Dozen or as many as necessary, good
cooking apples, cut them in slices of about
a quarter Of an inch thick-have ready a
pan of fresh hot lard Drop the pieces
in and fry brown. A little sugar sprinkled
over improves them. Serve hot.
To MEND CHlNA.-Take a very thick
solution OF gum arabic in water, and stir
into 1t plaster of Paris until the mixture
becomes Of proper consistency. Apply
1t with Il brush to the fractured edges of
the china, and stick them together. In
three days the article cannot be broken in
the same place. The whiteness OF the
cement rendersit doubIy valuable
WASHING FLUID.-Three tablespoon
fuls OF sodo, the same quantity of dissolv-
ed camphOr (the same as kept for family
use), to quart of soft water; bottle it up
and shake it up before using For large
washing, take four t4blespo onfuls of the
fluid, and boil them just fifteen minutes,
then rinse in two waters.
BOHEMIAN CREAM Take four ounces of
any fruit you choose, which has been ston
ed, soft and sweetened; pass the fruit
through sieve, and add one and half
ounces or melted or dissolved isinglass to
Il half pint of fruit; mix it we'll together
then whip Il pint of rich cream, and add
the fruit and lslnglass to 1t gradually.
Then pour it all into q mold, set it on ice
or In Il cool place, and when hardened or
set dip the mold a moment in water, and
turn it out ready for the table
SALLY LUNN.-One quart OF flour, one
pint ofmllk, one egg, one tablespoonful of
butter, one of sugar, two teaspoontuis of
cream tartar, and one of soda (unless pre-
pared -four is used, then no soda or cream
of tartar is needed). Sift cream tartar
with the -four, beat butter, sugar and egg
to foam; then stir flour to the milk, add
the butter, sugar and egg, dissolve the
soda In a spoonful of milk, cold, aud stir In
the last. Bake In u quick oven, but be
careful not to scorcn, as that destroys the
flavor.
HOMEMADE YEAsT.-Daisy Eyebright,
in the Country Gentleman, recommends
the following: "Boil two handfuls of
hops, tied in small bag, in six quarts of
water slice six large potatoes, and boil
them with the hops; when they are soft,
skim them out and mash perfectly fine :;
add to them one and a half pins of wheat
-four stirred to smooth batter with cold
water; turn over the whole the boiling
hop liquor, first taking out the bag and
squeezing it dry; than hang it aside to use
another time, for it will make two patches
of yeast. Stir into this mixture two
tablespoonful of sugar, one of ginger. and
one of salt. When mil warm, add a
teacupful OF yeast, set in warm place to
rise, and it will be ready to put in Jug
by the next morning. Keep in cool eel
lar or ice-house, and it will last good for
SIX weeks or more. Always shake the
jug before using any of It's cortents. A
teacupful of yeast will make three loaves
of bread and,,a pan of rolls. Ishall surely
try the recipe of Southern corn meal,
which always use in preference to the
yellow meal. y