The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-17
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

AN old fisherman says: "Wrap
your trout in brown paper, put him
into the ashes with a few live Goals
atop, and iii fifteen minutes he will be
fit for king to eat
LONDON PIE.-One cup sugar; one
cup sweet milk; grated rind OF one
lemon; the yelks of four eggs, beaten
with the juice of lemon; the whites
beaten separately, with which little
white sugar may be added; the whites
and sugar to be laid over The pie when
nearly baked.
CENTENNIAL SPONGE CAKE: Two
cups sugar; two cups flour; four tea
spoonfuls baking-powder; four eggs;
one cup boiling water. Mix the eggs,
sugar, flour and baking-powder thor
oughly together; add the boiling water;
stir quickly; put into pans and bake
Immediately. If desired to be very
moist, bake in "quick oven"
DANDY PUDDING.-One quart milk,
yelks four eggs, two tablespoontuls
flour mixed with little cold milk;
when the milk begins to boil, add the
eggs, well beaten, and the flour;
sweeten to taste flavor with vanilla or
lemon; boil ten minutes put in dish,
and when cold drop in islands on top
the well beaten whites of eggs put i'll
oven and brown; for mirangues put
one tablespoonful sugar to one white
of egg. Most delightful.
PLUM BUFTER.-M. NJ, Dubuque,
Iowa, sends the following: Look over
the plums carefully, discarding any
specked one; put into sufficient hot
water to cover them, adding one tea
spoonful of soda to every half bushel
of plums; boil until the skin cracks !;
drain and rub through colander; take
pint for pint of the pulp and granulat-
ed sugar, heat in a porcelain kettle
slowly twenty minutes, stirring to
keep from burning; store in crock in
any cool place.
A WRITER who is familiar with the
use of celery says that he has known
several men and women, who, from
various causes had become so affected
by nervousness that when they stretch
ed out their hands they shook
like aspen leaves on windy days,
and by a moderate daily use of the
blanched footstalks of celery as salad
they became as strong and as steady in
limb as other people. He has known
people cured of palpitation of the heart
by the use of celery.
BREAKFAsT-CAKE.- and a half
coffee cups of light bread dough; two
cups of white sugar; one-half teacup
of butter; three eggs one-half teaspoon
of soda; one teacup of stoned raisins
Cloves, cinnamon, or nutmeg to taste.
Rub the raisins in flour. Stir the bat
ter with the hand, and if not thick
enough add a small bit of flour. Put a
layer of the batter in a deep, round
baking pan, then a layer of raisins,
until all the batter is III the dish.
Place the pan in warm place for two
hours, or until the mixture is light
bake.-EGchange.
OUNCES PRESERVED WHOLE.-Pare
and put them into a saucepan, with
the pairing at the top; then fill with
hard water, cover close and set over a
gentle fire till they turn reddish let
them stand till cold; put them into a
clear, thick sirup: boil them for a few
minutes; set them on one side till
quite cold; boil them again in the
same manner: the next day boil them
until they look clear: if the strip is
not thick enough boil it more when
cold put branded paper over the fruit.
The ounces may be halved or quar-
tered.