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INDIAN CAKE, OR PoNE.-1 quart of /
buttermilk, teacupfuls of Indian meal, /
. of wheat flour, 4 tablespoonful of mo- 7
lasses or brown sugar, ! even table
spoonful each OF soda and salt. Bake in /
a quick oven. This rule makes two |
handsome cakes.
BATTER PUDDNG.-1 quart sweet
rich milk, u tablespoonfuls flour, lit
tie salt, 8 eggs. Beat the eggs separate
ly, very light, and have the batter per-
fectly smooth. Bake quickly, and send
to table Immediately. Serve with but
ter sauce.
SPONGE CAKE.-12 eggs, the weight
of 10 in white sugar, the weight of 6 in
flour, the juice of l lemon. Beat the
yelks of the eggs with the sugar till
very light, add the whites, beaten to a
stiff frOth, lastly the flour. This makes
large cake.
SILVER CAKE pound white sugar,
pound flour, ounces butter, whites
Is eggs. Rub butter and sugar togeth
er, add eggs, well beaten, then flour, in
to which put measure of HorsfOrd's
Bread preparation. Flavor with bitter
almond.
To CLEAN THE INSIDE OF A TEAPOT.
If the inside of your teapot or coffee
pot is black from long use, fill it with
water, throw in small piece OF hard
soap, set on the stove and let it boil
from half an hour to an hour. 1t will
clean as bright as a new dollar, and
| costs no work.
SCoLLoPED VEAL.-Chop cold cook
ed veal fine, put layer in baking
dish, alternating with layer of pow
dered crackers, salt, pepper and butter,
until you fill the dish. Beat up eggs,
add pint of milk, pour it over the veal
and crackers. Cover with plate and
let the top brown.
OLD-FASHIONED INDIAN PUDDING
Scald l pint of milk, turn it on to cup
of Indian meal; l egg, ! cup Of molass-
es, salt and cinnamon to taste. Add
pint of cold milk, and bake about
hours, stirring two or three times while
cooking, so as to make it wheyey.
TEA CAKE pound flour, / pound
butter, pound sugar, 3 eggs, ! teacuT
sweet milk. Put into the flour tea
spoonful baking-powder. Flavor witt
vanilla. This baked in jelly-cake pan:
makes 3 cakes, and with jelly between
is very nice for tea.
! CLEANING KNIvES.-A small, clear
potato, with the end cut off, is a very
convenient medium of applying bricl
dust to knives, keeping it about thu
right moisture, while the juice of the
potato assists in removing stains. from
the surface.
To REMOVE MOTHS.-MOths vii
work in carpets in rooms that are KEEP
warm in the winter as well as in tn
summer. A sure method of removin!
the pests is to pour strong alum-wate
on the floor to the distance of half
ward around the edges before laying tn
carpets. Then once or twice durin!
the season sprinkle dry salt over tn
carpet before sweeping. Insects do no
like salt, and sufficient adheres to tn
carpet to prevent their alighting upon 1t
To PREVENT FLAT-IRONs FROM Rust
ING.-Melt ! ounce of camphor, and
pound of fresh hogs lard over a SLOW
fire; take off the scum, and mix a
much black-lead with the composition
as will bring it to the color of iron
Spread this over the articles for whicl
it is intended Let it lie for "A hours
and then rub it well with a dry line
cloth. Or smear the iron over wit
melted suet, and dust thereon som
pounded unslaked lime from a muslin
bag. Cover the irons with baize in
dry place when not in use.