The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-26
S~EASONABLE RECIPES.

a Membrane Of extraordisar firmness
may be obtained by dissolving collodion in
equal volumes Of ether and absolute alc0-
hol, 10 which = small quantity OF balsam Of
copaiba Is added.
Cooking Oatmsai.-Mix oatmeal smooth
In cold water, then pour into boiling water,
adding a little salt To season. Keep this
water at the boiling point for 2 hours, and
just before IL Ia thoroughly cooked add a
little milk 10 thicken and improve the
flavor. Stir thoroughly at intervals.
Furniture Poiish.-An excellent furni-
ture polish IL made Of 10 cents worth Of
beeswax placed in a tin cup and melted In
a hot oven. Into this pour 2 ounces OF tur-
pentine and let Ii stand. to cool. Apply
II briskly TO the furniture with a wooden
rag, and give il a finishing rub with an old
silk handkerchief. This polish Is almost
equal TO a coat of varnish.
Snot0.-Pour a ~teacupful of cold water
over | ounce of gelatine, and let it stand
20 minutes. Then add l pint of boiling
water. When IL is dissolved let IL cool.
but not CONCEAL. Beat the whites Of 8
eggs very light, mixing in 2 teacupfuls Of
white sugar. Then pour in the gelatine,
and season to ~taste-vanilla or rose Is very
nice. Beat hour, and then put into blanc
mango molds, previously dipped In cold
water. When turned out, snow Is eaten
with whipped syllabub or custard, and is
generally admired as a dish no less good
than pretty.
French Cream Cake.-Beat 3 eggs and !
cup OF sugar together thoroughly; add 2
tablespoOnfuls OF cold waller /; stir a tea
spoonful Of baking powder into IL cups
OF flour sift the flour in, stirring all the
time i'm one direction. Bake in 2 thin
cakes, split the cakes while hot, and fill
with prepared cream in the following man.
ner To a pint Of new milk, add 2 table
spoonfuls of corn-starch, l beaten egg, !
cup OF sugar +; stir while cooking. and when
hot put in a piece of butter the size OF an
egg; flavor the cream slightly with lemon,
vanilla or pine apple.
Cheese FrItters.-Slice thin a half-dozen
large tart apples, and prepare half as many
thin slices OF cheese. Beat up / or 2 eggs,
according TO the quantity required, and
season high with salt, mustard. and n lit
tie pepper. Lay the slices of cheese TO
soak for a few moments in the mixture,
then put each slice between 2 slices of APP
pie, sandwich style, and dip the whole
into beaten egg. then fry in hot butter like
oysters, and serve very hot. These frit-
tiers are an addition TO any breakfast table.
Composition Cak..-This recipe Is in
valuable, especially at those seasons when
eggs are scarce. IL Is economical, anC. get
preferable in the opinion Of many TO real
fruit cake. II pounds of -four, pound
Of butter, II pounds of sugar brown or
white), II pounds of raisins or currants,
4 eggs. a te~aspoonful of b~icarbonate of
soda. a pint of milk, and l large nutmeg.
Mix together as you choose. only be SUR
that each article Is severally prepared
nicely, viz. the fruit must be well Toured,
ly creamed. and the cake carried TO the
oven as soon as possible after the addition
Of the milk and soda. which must be
stirred in last. This quantity fills a one
pound mold, besides making s or 10 little
cakes.