The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-06-11
HOUSEHOLD.

JOHNNIE CAKE.--Take three table
spoonfuls Of corn meal, six tablespoon
faIs Of -four, two tabIespooniuls Of
melted butter, one tablespoonful Of
sugar. q little salt, one heaping tea
spoonful Of baking powder.
CREAM PIE.-Bake your pastry
take thick sweet cream, beat to a stiff
froth, sweeten, and flavor if desired;
pour on the crust, cut thin slices Of
apple jelly and place over the cream
| in the pies. 1t is then ready for use.
BUcKwHEAT CAKES. s.-To one quart
OF buckwheat flour, add three heap.
ing teaspoonfuls Of flour, two table
spoonfuis of melted butter, one table
spoonful of sugar, a little salt, one
heaping teaspoonful Of baking pow
der.
How TO MAKE PUDDING QUICK.
Split few crackers, lay the surface
over with raisins, and place the halves
together again, tie closely in cloth
and boil fifteen minutes in milk and
water With rice sauce it is excel.
lent.
BIscUIT.-Take one quart OF flour
two heaping teaspoonfnls Of baking
powder, half teaspoonful of shorten.
ing and half teaspoontul of salt;
mix with sweet milk or water; mix
soft and do not knead; bake in q
quick oven.
BROOM HoLDER.-Take large ring,
such as one used in the back of a
picture-frame, costing abouttwo cents,
and screw it into the end of the broom
handle; then drive lath or shingls
nail, or what is better, small hook,
where you wish to hang your broom
BOILED INDIAN PUDDING.-For
boiled Indian pudding, take two tea
cupfuls OF Indian meal, scald it with
q pint of boiling milk; add to tia cup
of -four; cool off with more milk; a
large eupful of beef or veal s1et
chopped fine, half gill of moIasses,
two cupfuls of dried apples, and
spoonful OF salt. Mix all this to-
gether; tie the cloth so as to let the
pudding swell one-third, and boil it
four hours, or steam five.
WHOLE WHEAT.-One pint Of
whole wheat, one tablespoonful Of
soda salt. Pick and wash the wheat.
Put it 10 a steamer, with cold water
sufficient to cover it well. Add soda.
Boil until soft, then drain, and put it
in cold water, rubbing it well with
the hands. Wash it again in cold
water. Then place it on the stove
where II will get hot slowly. Salt to
taste. Let it boil until il is very ten.
der. TO be eaten hot or cold with
cream.
RYE RoLLs.-Take one pint OF
milk, two well beaten eggs, q little
salt, tablespoonful Of lard and three
tablespoonfuls of sugar, and stir into
il enough rye flour to make very
stiff batter, then put wheat flour on
your hands, and take up as much as q
large spoonful of the dough, and roll
1t out on the board as you do twisted
doughnnts; and when rolled long
enough, twist il up into a round cake
like tumble, and bake on fiat tins
A delicious roll for supper.
GUMBo.-Take chicken or fowl
cnt It up as it to be fried, lay II in a
pot with a spoonful of butter, just
enough to brown il little; then pour
as much water to it as will make
soup enough for a small family, say
two quarts; add thin slice of bacon
lean as you can get it--a little on
ion chopped fine, and some parsley
Stew il gently from early in the morn
ing until dinner time, taking care to
mash the bones of the chicken before
Il is put in the pot. About twenty
minutes before the soup is ready to
serve, make thickening OF a large
tablespoonful Of pounded sassairas
leaves; this is mixed smooth in a
bowl with some Of the above soup
liquor o little rice improves ii, II
your chickens are young and small
take two for the above quantity, or
one large pullet, which would be
equivalent.
AVALUABLE REcIPE,-The Jour
nal Of Chemistry publishes a recipe
for the destruction Of insects, which,
IL it be one half as efiicacious as it is
stated to be, will prove invaluable
Hot alum water is a recent suggestion
o. an insecticide, II will destroy
red and black ants, oockroaches, Spi-
ders and oil the crawling pests which
infest our houses. Take two pounds
Of alum and dissolve il in three or -four
quarts Of boiling water lot it stand
on the fire till the alum disappears
apply il with bruSh, while nearly
boiling hot, 10 every joint and orev'
loo in your closets, bedsteads, pantry
shelves aud the like. Brush the crev
ices in the floor or the skirting OF
mop. boards il you suspect that they
harbor vormin. Ii, in white washing
ceiling, plenty of alum is added L
to the lime, il will also serve to keel
insects at distance. Cockroacho
will flee the paint which has beer
washed in cool alum water,
To HULL Corn IN TEN MINUTES
Heat pot half full Of water will
bali the amount Of good hard-woo'
ashes siAed in. Pour the shelled corr
INTO it-as much, II you wish, as thi
I've will cover. Boil il as quickly ai
\ you can, and for five TO seven minutes
| o. until the hull is eaten off, whicl
may he BY this time half or all jelly
and the kernel not saturated or swell
ed any, Then wash it inn colande
set IN a small tub, pouring in gradual
" about Two pals Of water Will
ennaaziny The corn throntyh the hands