Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-25
gARM AND AlIousEHo1D.
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

CREAM P'l.-one cup cream (sweet, and
- thick as You can get it, two tablespoon.
fuls sugar. ard one egg. Use one crust.
making it the usual way.
To PROCURE SLEEP.-Twenty grain. Of
carbonate Of soda, taken the last thing on
going to bed, will frequently procure sleep.
when all seda.ives have failed.
Corn CAKE.-One quart Of sour milk,
three eggs. one teacrpful of -four, yellow
corn meal enough to make batter as thick
as for pancakes. Bake quickly in pans well
buttered.
DELICATE SPONGE CAKE Use the whites
OF ten eggs, one and one-half tumblers OF
Hour, teaspoonful OF cream of tartar. half
teaspoonful Of salt; lemon to suit the taste,
Bake about IS minutes or more.
WASHINGTON PIE.-One cup of sugar, one
Tablespoonful Of butter, four tablespoonful
sweet milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda.
one teaspoonful cream of tartar, one cup
-four. Bake in two layers, with Jelly. fruit
OF cream between.
BARLEY SouP.-Two pounds of shin of
beef, quarter Of pound of pearl barley,
large bunch Of parsley. four onions, six pota-
toes, salt and pepper. four quarts of water.
Put in all the ingredients, and simmer
gently for three hours.
QUEENS On (FoR THE HAIR)-Oil OF
ben, one pint; civet three ounces Italian
oil Of jasmin, three fluid ounces; otto of
roses, three minions. If otto of roses is
not to be had, ten or twelve mnims of COM
mon oil Of roses may be substituted.
LEMON PIE.-The juice and rind of one
lemon grated into one cup o. water, cnpfu,
Of loaf sugar, the yelks Of two eggs, table.
spoonfuls flour. Frosting-beat tn. whites
of two eggs, add four tablespoonful white
sugar, spread on the pic, and bake lightly in
the oven.
HIcKoRY-NUr CAKE.-One cup of butter.
two cups Of sugar, one cup of mix, foul
eggs, one teaspoonfulof soda. two teaspoon.
fuls Of cream Of tartar, one pound of raisins.
seeded; one large pint of hickory-nut kcr.
nels, -four TO stiifen, us in other cakes pat
in the fruit and nuts last; bake one hou,
and half.
APPLE JELLY.-Cut the apples in quart.
ers. Do not pare or core them dip eaci,
quarter into clean water. and put them in a
jar, and place them in the oven to cook
until quite tender. Strain off the juice as
usual, and boil with q POUND of sugar to
pint Of juice. The most delicious Jelly will
be the result, with the full, pure Favor Of
the apple.
Corn DoDGERs.-Onc quart Of corn real,
tablespoonful OF lard, two eggs, a table
spoonful of Salt; scald the meal with the
lard in it with boiling water, cool with
little milk, add the eggs Qbcaten Light; beat
very hard for ten minutes; make them thin
enough with cold milk to drop CT the spoon
and retain their shape in bo.Eig Lard
serve hot; have the lard boiling hot when
you drop them in.
To PICKLE RED CAB3AGE.-Take a fine
large closely grown cabbage, strip the out.
side leaves off, cut it across in rather thin
, slices, and lay them on dish, strewing salt
equally all over them. Cover with cloth,
and let them remssiin so for twenty hours
Then drain tie cabbage, and put it in jar
with allsSice, whole pepper, and little
ginger sliced pour cold white-vinesar ove1
it, and tie closely from the atmosphere.
Most people. in cleaning lamp chimneys
use either brush made of bristles twisted
into wire, or rag on the point of scissors
Both of these are bad; for without great
care the wire or scissors will scratch the
glass as diamond does, and under the ex.
pansive power of heat it soon breaks, as al
scratched glass will. If you want neat
little thing that costs nothing, and will save
half your glass. tie a piece Of soft sponge
the size Of your chimney. to pine stick.
PLASTER OF PAR1s CAST OF A PERSONS
FAcr.-The person must lie on his back. anG
his hair be tied behind into each nostri
put conical piece Of paper. open at eact
end to show of breathing. The face is to be
lightly oiled over. and the plaster being
properly prepared, is to be poured over the
face taking particular care the eyes are
shut) till it is quarter of an inch thick |
In few minutes, the plaster may be re.
moved. In this, mould is to be formed |
from which q second cast is to be taken |
that will furnish casts exactly like the orr |
ginal.
CHICKEN SALAD.-Turkey is more eco
nouical and better for salad than chicken
one turkey weighs more than a pair o:
chickens, and costs much less. To "a turke,
weighing about nine pounds allow nin'
eggs-seven hard-boiled, and two of then
raw, yolks and whites beaten separately
To each egg allow two tablespoonful O.
salad-oil. perfectly pure and sweet. one salt
spoonful Of salt, the same of mustard, ane
two Of Cayenne pepper to the whole; celer,
to taste, lettuce leaves, if in season, using
only the heart, and the juice Of two large
lemons or three smaller ones.
vIc1oRIA BuNs.-Two ounces Of pounded
loaf sugar, one egg. one ounce and a half o
ground rice. two ounces Of butter, one ounce
and half Of currants, few thin slices O.
candied peel. and -four. Whisk the egg
stir in the sugar, and beat these Ingredient
well together; beat the butter to cream
stir IN the ground rice. currants. and can
died peel. and Is much -four as will make i
Of such consistency that it may be rollet
into seven or eight balls. Put these on t.
. buttered tin. and bake them from half tt
three-quarters Of an hour. They should b
put into the oven Immediately, or they vii
become heavy; and the oven should bt
tolsEably brisk.
CHuucAL Soar. - Take one pound q
white on soap, CRATE it down fine. add to i
K-pound Of fine rice powder, two ounces
Il bismuth. both in powder. Previous t.
mixing with the soap. put the powders init
, basin. with three ounces Of orange flower
vatG, and haN-ounce Of essence Of amber
grie; when these are well mixed. the rica
novde and soap are to be put in, and thu |