The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-05-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

LOVE CAKE.-One and half cups OF
sugar; a half cup Of butter; one cup OF
sweet milk; two cups of flour; two eggs;
one teaspoonful of soda; two teaspoontuls
of cream of tartar; flavor 10 taste. This
makes good jelly cake.
PuFFs.-Six tablespoonfuls of flour, one
pint of milk, two eggs. Bake IN cups not
quite half full, or in gem pans. Put IN
the oven when you sit down to dinner, and
they will be ready for dessert. Serve with
cream and sugar, or sauce.
PocKET-BooK RoLLs.-Take one tea
cup yeast, one pint new milk, one egg
we'll beaten, three tablespoons sugar, one
half cup lard. Flour stiff enough to roll
out, then put in warm place to rise.
When light, roll into sheet, spread but
ter as for pastry, double it over and cut
with a round tin lid. Bake in moderate
oven.
DYEING WooD MAHOGANY CoLoR.-Ob-
tain quantity of mahogany shavings or
sawdust and boil in soft water. This
liquor makes an excellent dye for light
colored woods which it may be desirable to
give dark or mahogany shade. Eastwood,
poplar, pine and similar light-colored
woods may be made 10 look like mahogany
with this dye.
DAT MEAL FOR THE SICK.-No food is
more palatable and nourishing to the sick
than we'll prepared oat meal. Mix ia
| blespoonful of the meal with little cold
water until it makes smooth paste; pour
this gradually into pint of boiling water,
and boil slowly for twenty or thirty min
utes, stirring all the time; do not let it
scorch one bit Add a little salt.
To SHAPE ROLLS LIKE THE BAKERS
Roll out the risen dough when it is ex-
ceedingly light and puffy, and cut it into
rounds with a tumbler. Put feather
into some melted butter and rub it lightly
over the rounds, then fold them into half
moon, prick them on the top, and lay on
a flat tin to rise. When they are very
light, bake in a hot oven about twenty
minutes. The oven should be so hot
you cannot hold your hand in it and count
over twenty.
TIE H0usekeeper says: We have found
from our own experience that potatoes are
very watery from the month of March till
the market offers us new ones. In our
| kitchen we overcome the soggy DISPOSE
ton of these valuable vegetables by soak
ing them a few hours in cold water, and
putting them into hot water to boil, with
out salt; then, wheh they are tender near
ly all the way through, turn the water of
and refill the saucepan with cold water.
Put in salt and boil till they are quite
done; drain off that water also, cover a.
tightly as possible, and set on the back OF
the range to steam, lifting the cover for
an instant once or twice; then, with one
hand holding down the lid, shake the
saucepan gently, quickly and steadily for
a moment, and serve your potatoes hot
If rightly managed they will be like snow
balls.
LAWS OF LIFE gives the following
recipe for cleaning kid gloves, etc. Get
gasoline, which can be procured at the
drug stores at forty cents gallon. Lay
your glove in ii long, tlat-bottomed dish,
like a common vegetable dish, and cover
it with the gasoline; rub soiled spots with
a clean white rag, squeeze, not wiring ii
with your hand, as dry as you can, lay il
on clean old muslin, take one corner OF
the muslin and rub the fingers and thumb
out smooth, rub soiled spots if any re.
main, initiate by blowing into it, then pin
on cloth out of doors to dry. The
process should be gone through with
quickly, as the glove is injured by re
naming in the liquid; not more than ter
minutes being occupied in cleaning the
pair of gloves. This will be found ex
cellent economy. Clean Cashmere lace
by dipping or rinsing it in the gasoline
being careful not to rub it so as to get the
meshes and figures out of place. Dry i
out of doors, then lay it on a cloth il
good form, and place between the leaves
OF book to press.