The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-12-03

BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.-Two cups
new buttermilk !; one egg; soda sufficient
to sweeten the milk Indian meal to make
batter; boil one and one-half hour in a
bag; serve with sauce.
BoRAX SOAP FOR BLEACHING
CLoTHEs.-Oneo ounce borax, eight quarts
water, three pounds of soap. Put the
borax i'm the water and let it boil.
After it boils add the soap in small
pieces.
CASTOR OIL FOR CoRNs.-The South
ern Medical Record says that castor oil
applied to the corn, after pairing closely,
each night before going to bed, softens
the corn, and it becomes as the other
flesh.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One-half
cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three
cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk two
eggs, and four spoonsful of baking pow
der; stir together without separating the
eggs.
GREEN SALvE.-One-quarter pound
lard lone ounce raisins; ounce beeswax;
one drachm verdigris; melt we'll and stir
well. This is one of the salves known for
old sores, ulcers, cancers, scrofulous sores,
cuts, and wounds.
RICE PANcAKEs.-Boil halfa pound of
rice to jelly. When cold, mix with it a
pint of cream, four eggs, a little salt and
nutmeg. Stir in eight ounces of butter,
Just warmed, and add as much flour as
will make batter thick enough. Fry in
as little lard as possible.
BALTIMORE Corn BREAD.--One quart
milk, one pint Indian meal, three eggs,
one quarter pound butter. Boil the
milk, and with it scald the Indian meal (;
stir in gradually the meal and butter ;
when cold add the eggs. Bake in square
tins, and half an inch thick of butter
when put in pans. An excellent recipe.
APPLES AND RICE----Core and pare as
many apples as will fill a pudding-dish
stew them SO that they are nearly soft.
Boil half teacup of rice; when nearly
soft, add sugar, salt, and pint of milk.
Place the apples in the pudding-dish,
turn the rice over them, filling up the
core of each apple with sugar before put
ting in the rice. Bake until it is nice
brown. Serve with cream, or without
any sauce.
To MAKE HAIR CURL.--The method
employed by professional workers in hair
is az follows: Wet the hair to be curled,
wrap it smoothly around cylindrical
stick or tube of proper size, tie itin place,
then put it in water and boil it two OF
three hours, remove it from the boiler
wrap it carefully in newspaper and bake
it in a moderate oven for an hour
Thus treated, it will stay in curl per
manently.
To BAKE RICE.--Take one-half gallon
new milk, and two-thirds of cup of Cali
fornia rice; sweeten to suit the taste
Place in hot oven, and bake until the
crust which forms OH top becomes thick
Then remove this crust with a spoon, and
let the baking rice continue in the over
until another crust forms and becomes
brown. Now let it get cool, and it vii
be found almost equal to ice cream.
CHAPPED HANDs..--The easiest anC
simplest remedy is found in every one'
kitchen closet, and is nothing more thai
common starch. Reduce it to an i'm
palpable powder, and put it in muslin
bag, keep it in the table drawer. When
ever you take your hands out of the dish
water or suds, wipe them dry with sof
towel, and while yet damp, shake thu
starch bag all over them and rub it in
The effect is most agreeable.