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.-MaSc sponge
over night as for bread, using nothing but
yeast, flour, a 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 spoon.
SNOWFLAKE CAHE.-Thrce eggs, one
cup and half sugar, half cup butter, hall
cup milk, hall teaspoontul soda, one tea
spoonful cream tartar, two cups flour,
whites of two eggs, half cup of sugar,
beaten together. Bake in jelly cake tins,
frost each layer, and sprinkle with grated
cocuanut. This is excellent.
A FIRE LioHTER.-A tire-lightcr is
now in use of the shape and size of an
egg, with 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 inflamma-
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, a
large quantity ofoil.-W Western Rural.
The following is SAID to be reliable
remedy for chills: Take the juice of
one lemon, put it in 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 Qutnine should be
pulverizcd and placed in gelatine cap
Sulcs, such as are kept by druggists. AL
ways lake quiniEe 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 DuMPLING.-Onepo pound
of suet one pound of flour; heaping tea
spoonful of salt; chop the suet in little
flour to prevent its caking; chop very
tine-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 square to cover the
apple; tic each dumping in a square
cloth, Learning very little room to swell.
Boil an hour, putting them into boiling
water; serve with hard sauce.
FLOATING IsIAND.-Separatet the whites
from the yelks of six eggs, and put the
whites in very large bowl; beat the
yelks smooth and pour upon them one
quart Of swcetened milk well boiled,
| stirring to the right until the cOnsistence
of cream; Il little salt in the custard; to
| flavor, pare the yellow rind Of a lemon as
an apple is pared, and drop it into the
| boiling milk; let the custard become cold
| For the float beat the whites with one very
large tablespoonful of currant Jelly until
the whip or cgg-Dcater 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.
| COOPERATION OF THE WIFE.-No MAJ
ever prospcrcd in the world without the
cooperation Of his wife. If she unite
in mutual endcavors, or rewards his la
bors with an cndearing smile, with villa
confidence will he resort to his daily toll
meet difficulty and encounter danger, i
he knows that he is not spending his
strength in vain, but that his labor viii
be rewarded by the sweets Of home! Sole
itude and disappointment enter the history
Of every mans life; and he is only hal
| provided for the voyage who finds but IL
associate for happy hours, while for hi
months Of darkness and distress no sym
ppthizing partner is preparcd.-EEclanqe