The Osceola times., 1876-04-15
SEASONABLE RECIPES.


SEASONABLE RECIPES.
RICE BATTER CAKEs.-Nsix onc-fourth
wheat -four TO three-fourths Of rice -four;
add little salt raise and bake IN buck
wheat cakes.
INFANTS FooD.-Mix the rice -four
with cold milk and stir IL into boiling
milk until the proper thickness sweeten
with loaf sugar. ,~
RICE MUFFNs.-To one quart Of sour
milk add thre well beaten eggs, little
salt, teaspoonful of soda and enough of
rice -four TO thicken TO stiff batter.
Bake in rings.
RICE CUsTARD.--Intoa quart Of boil
ing water stir two tablespoonfuls of rice
-four, dissolved in little cold milk add
two well beaten eggs TO boiling mixture;
sweeten and flavor TO taste.
RICE SPONGE CAKE.-Three-fo -fourths
pound of rice -four, one pound white su-
gar, ten eggs beat the yelks with the
sugar and Hour together little at time;
flavor and bake in shallow pans.
ROLLED JELLY CAKE.-Onc cup SUI
gar, one cup -four, three eggs, one table
spoonful sweet milk, half teaspoonful
soda, essence, etc. Beat sugar and eggs
slightly, then put all together and beat
thoroughly.
COCOANUT CANDY QUICKLY MADE
Crate the meat of cocoanut, and hav.
ing ready two pounds Of finely sittcd
white sugar, the beaten whites of two
eggs and the milk Of the nut, simply
mix all together, and make into little
cakes. In short time the candy will
be dry enough TO use, and found to be as
good as if boiled.
HoT SLAw.--Butter the size of an egg
half cup of milk, yellow of two eggs
teaspOonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoon
ful of pepper, small level teaspoonful q
dry mustard and three tablespoonfuls ol
vinegar. Put the butter into the skillet
with the fine. cut cabbage and the Other
Ingredients, and stir all the time until
the cabbage heats well through.
CRACKERS FOR INvALLDs.-One quart
of -four, two eggs, one tablespoonful OF
sugar. The eggs and sugar must be
beaten well together. One large spoon
full of butter and lard, mixed, to be
rubbed well into the -four. Mix all to
gether, and beat long and well. Roll
oiit as thin as wafer, and prick with a
fork before putting into the oven to
bake.
To MEND CHINAwARE.-Take very
thick solution of gum arabic and stil
into II plaster of Paris until the mix
ture is Of proper consistency. Apply il
with brush to the fractured edges O.
the chinaware and stick them together
In few days il will be impossible t,
break the article in the same place. Th'
whiteness of the cement renders it dsu
bly, valuable.
LEMON PIE.-Yelks of four eggs an,
one whole one, nine tablespoons of gran
ulated sugar, juice of two lemons, AM
the grated rind of one, three pounde,
milk crackers soaked in one tumbler o
milk, mix and bake; then beat tn,
whites of the four eggs with four table
spoons of powdered or fine granulatet
sugar, and spread and put in the oven :,
brown. This makes two pies.
GERMAN CRIsrs.-Iwo cupfuls sugar
one cupful butter, three eggs, and tn,
rind and juice of one lemon. Mix thor
oughly, either with a spoon or the hand
adding sufficient -four to make then
thick enough to roll out; roll very thin
and cut in small cakes with cutter
after placing in the pan rub the tops
with egg, and sprinkle with white sugar
Two eggs are enough for the tops of tn,
cakes. They only require few min
utes to bake.
CoCoANUT CAKE.-Four cups o.
flour, three of sugar, enc cup of milk
five eggs, beaten separately (save tn,
whites of three for icing), one cup o.
butter, two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar
one teaspooniul of soda, the half of q
cocoanut grated and put into the cake
the other half put with the whites o
three eggs and half cup of powdered
sugar, with little orange water or lem.
on juice for the icing; bake the cake in
jclly-pans; when done, spread the icing
between and on top put in the oven for
a few minutes.
SUNpRY USEFUL HINTS. - A few
drops of carbolic acid in pint of water
will clean house plants from lice in a
very short time. If mosquitoes or other
blood-suckers iniest our sleeping rooms
at night, we uncork a bottle of oil OF
pennyroyal, and these insects leave in
great haste, nor will they return 50 long
~ the room is loaded with the fumes of
that aromatic herb. If rats enter the
cellar, little powdered potash thrown
into their holes, or mixed with meal and
scattered in their run-ways never fails to
drive them away. Cayenne pepper will
keep the buttery and storeroom free
from ants and cockroaches. If mouse
makes an entrance TO any part Of your
dwellings, saturate rag with cayenne
in solution and stuff 1t into hole, which
cannot he repaired with either wood or
mortar; no rat or mouse will eat that rag
for the pupose of opening communica.
tion with depot of supplies.