Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-06-26

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lath, tapping under wires two inches.
This makes cheap, durable, pretty
fence, that is seven feet ten inches
high, and fowl.tight. Wires should he
left somewhat slack, Us Interviewing
laths will take it.up.
Helpful Hints for Housewives.
SURPRISE CAKE.-One egg. one cup
Of sugar, onc-half cup shortening, ono
cup of sour milk, tcaspoonful soda.
Season to taste.
WASHING LIQUOR FOR COARSE AHr1
Giles OR FLooRs.-Slakcd limo, half a
pound soda, one pound water, six
quarts. Boil two hours, let it settle,
and strain.
To TELL Coop Eaas. If you wish to
be certain that your eggs are good and
fresh, put them in water. Ii the butts
turn up they are fresh. This is an in
fallible rulo to distinguish u good egg
from a bud one.
TOMATO SouP.-Boil ono pint canned
tomatoes for twenty minutes in one
pint water; then add ono pint milk
very gradually, that it may not curdle !;
season as for oyster soup, and serve
with hot crackers or squares of toasted
bread.
KEEPING HoNEY.-To keep honey all
the year round, let it run through a
line sieve to separate 1T from particles
of wax ; then boil it gently in an earth
en- vessel, skim off tho foam which
gathers on top and cool it in jars. After
covering these tightly, set them away
in Cool cellar.
CLEANING Stoves. lustre,
when mixed with turpentine and ap-
piled in the usual manner, is blacker,
more glossy and more durable than
when mixed with any other liquid.
Tie turpentlne prevents rust, and
when put on an old rusty stove will
make it look as we'll as new.
Conn BREAD.-To I'LL who do not
already use this recipe we will give it,
as we think it the way, to make corn
bread. Take two pints of sweet milk,
two-thlrds of o cup of molasses, two
cups of flour and four of meal add
nearly teaspoonful of soda. Bake
slowly two hours, SO the crust will be
tender when taken out.
BATTER PUDD1Na.-One pint milk {:
four eggs; two even cups flour; one
teaspoonful salt pinch of soda. Bake
in buttered dish three-quarters of an
hour. Eat hot with rice sauce. Or.
you may boil in buttered tin or
Toured bag-aouring very thickly.
Boil two DEMONSTRATING care the boil
ing does not cease for q moment until
the pudding is done.
QUAKMa Plum PUDp1Ne.-Take
slices of light bread, spread thin with
butter, and lay in a pudding.dish LAYERS
OF this bread and raisins till within an
inch of the top. Add five eggs well
beaten and quart of milk, and pour
over the pudding. Salt and spice to
taste. Bake it twenty or TWENTY-FIVE
minutes, and eat with LIQUID sauce.
Before using the raisins boil them in O
little water and put it all in.
SHAKE Your CARPErs.-Wool CARPETS
should be taken up and shaken once q
year, and if the room is q common one,
twice or more. Whenever a carpet is
taken up it should be examined, and
II any places are burned or worn they
should be carefully darned with the
dwellings to match. A carpet can be
saved very much by guarding the en-.
trance doors with mats, ETC., especial.
~ the door leading from the kitchen.
ORANGE Pn:-Two eggs, great
spoonful of butter, cup Of sugar, 2
spoonsful cornstarch, juice and grated
peel OF one orange. Cream the butter
and sugar, at the same time stirring in
the cornstarch. Turn into this one cur
of hot water. When cool stir in the
beaten yolks and orange. Beat Tie
whites to o stiff mcringue with three
spoonfuls powdered sugar. When the
pie is done, take it from the oven lust
long enough to spread the meringue
over the top, and set back for three
minutes.
A Good APPLE DuNP11Na.-Peel and
core the apples and put them in two.
quart basin. Make a crust of eithe,
sour cream and soda or with baking
powder, the same as for rich biscuits.
Put water enough to cook the apples,
and cover with crust. Put an over.
tapping cover over the basin and cook
on top of the stove, or bake in the oven
If you prefer. A sauce made of butter,
sugar, water, and nutmeg, or lemon, is
excellent, as is also sweet cream where
the apples are not acid. Twenty-Five
minutes is long enough to cook ordi
nary apples. This is sometimes called
"Brother Jonathan" Peach cobblera
arc made similarly, with peaches instead
Of apples, and are best with cream for
sauce.