The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-04-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

BATTER PUDDING.-One quart sweet
rich milk, twelve tablespoonfuls flour,
little salt, eight eggs. Beat the eggs sep
arately, very light, and have the batter
perfectly smooth. Bake quickly, and
send to table Immediately. Serve with
butter sauce.
ENGLISH MUFFINs.-Make sponge
over night as for bread, using nothing but
yeast, flour, little salt, and tepid water
In the morning heat it up well and pour
into muffin rings upon the griddle. The
batter should be just stiff enough to drop
mot run) from a spoon.
SNOWFLAKE CAKE.-Three eggs, one
cup and half sugar, half cup butter, halt
cup milk, hall teaspoontul soda, one tea
spoonful cream tartar, two cups Hour,
whites of two eggs, half cup Of sugar,
beaten together. Bake in jelly cake tins,
frost each layer, and sprinkle with grated
cocoanut This is excellent.
A FIRE LIGHTER-A tire-lighter Is
now in use of the shape and size OF an
egg, with a wire fastened in it, to be
dipped in coal oil to kindle fires. 1t is
made as follows; Ordinary potter's clay
is mixed with sulphur or other intiamma-
BILE substance, moulded into the desired
form, and thoroughly burned. 1t will
then be found to be exceedingly porous,
and will absorb, by capillary attraction,
large quantity of WeSterm R~raI.
THE following is sad to be reliable
remedy for chills: Take the JUICE Of
one lemon, put it in a cup of clear, strong
| coffee and drink il before eating break
fast, for seven consecutive days. Take
five grains of quinine twice daily, one
hour after eating. The Quinine should be
pulverized and placed in gelatine cap
suIcs, such as are kept by druggists AL
ways cake quinine in this form, as you
can depend upon its being genuine and
of good strength, which is not the case
when purchased in the form Of pills.
BOILED APPLE DUMPIING.-One pound
of suct; one pound of flour; heaptng tea
spoonful of salt; chop the suet in little
| flour to prevent its caking; chop very
| fne-as fine as meal then add flour and
mix thoroughly; then add cold water
enough to make paste; roll as thin as
pie-crust; pare dozen large apples, quar-
| ter and core them, keeping each apple
| by itself; place the quarters together again
and cut the paste in a square to cover the
apple; tic each dumpling in a square
cloth, lca7ing very little room to swell.
Boil an hour putting them into boiling
water; serve with hard sauce.
! FLoATING ISLAND.-Separate the whites
| from the yclks Of six eggs, and put the
| whites in very large bowl; beat the
| yclks smooth and pour upon them one
quart Of sweetened milk we'll boiled
stirring to the right until the consistenCe
of cream; a little salt in the CuAard; to
flavor, pare the yellow rind of lemon as
an apple is pared, and drop it into the
boiling milk; let the CUstartl become cold
For the float beat the whites with one very
large tablespoonful of currant jelly until
the whip or egg-beater will stand erect
Any other kind Of jelly is too sweet and
insipid. Drop the float on the custard, Ii
| properly beaten it will pile very high.
CO-0PERATICN OF THE WIFE.-No mar
ever ProsPcrcd in the world without tn,
cooperation Of his wife. If she unite.
in mutual endcavors, or rewards his la
bors with an cndearing smile, with VIVA
confidence will he resort to his daily toll
meet difficulty and encounter danger, i
he knows that he is not spending hi
strength in vain, but that his labor viii
be rewarded by the sweets Of home! Sole
itude and disappointment enter the histor,
Of every mans life; and Ne is only hal
provided for the voyage who finds but Al
associate for happy hours, while for LII
months of darkness and distress no sym
pptlizing partner is reParcd.-ErcA"7qe