Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-07-28

Homemade Macaroni.- two
eggs, J cup OF milk, quart of wa
ter, a small piece of butter, pepper and
salt (the latter can be omitted); make
this up very stiff with flour; roll out
extremely thin; spread out to dry
When nearly dry cut up in strips
about the size of narrow tape; now
dry thoroughly by shaking about oc-
caslonally. Then take as many as
are required for a meal; place in a
pan of boiling water, and allow them
to cook Is minutes. Have pudding
dish buttered; then place in it layer
of macaroni, pepper and salt, and a
layer of grated cheese, another layer
of macaroni, &C., till the dish is fill
ed, placing grated cheese on top;
add a small quantity of milk, to keep
moist; bake 20 minutes in a hot
oven. Sometimes we take it after
boiling as above, have ready about a
pint of bread crumbs, place III pan
with sufficient melted butter to brown
them, then add the macaroni and
cook all up together; season to taste.
Hints for Dessert.-Pulverized
sugar is better than granulated for
sponge cake. Boiled custards with
lemon jelly are excellent for tea
Make rich, well-fiavored soft Gus
tard, and with box Of Cox's Spark
ling Gelatine, prepare stiff jelly,
from receipt given with the box
When needed for tea, turn the jelly
out of the mould into a handsome
glass dish, and pour the custard all
around it. You can leave out sever.
al of the whites of the eggs used for
the custard, and beating them to a
stiff froth, ornament the custard with
them, and bit of red jelly or jam
can be placed on top of each spoon
full of froth.
Bean Soup.-Soak one quart of
white beans over nj ght in warm wa
ter. Turn it off in the morning, and
add three quarts of boiling water and
one pound Of pork, and boil four or
five hours. AS the water evaporates,
add more. When the beans are we'll
pulped, strain through a sieve, and
serve the pork on separate DISH
Season with pepper, and, if liked,
flavor with an onion and carrot chop
ped fine, added when the beans are
first put on to boil. This is a very
appetizing dish, and highly rellshed
ymany who cannot eat baked beans.
A Dried Apple Pie.-Soak the APP
Piles all night in warm water, setting
the pan on the back of the stove. In
the morning pick them over, and cut
out all cores and spots. Place in
preserving kettle and stew until soft,
adding little cider instead of water
to soften them. When cool, sweeten
we'll, adding grated lemon peel,
and the juice Of lemon to every
two pies. Put several bits of butter
into each pie, and bake with a flakey,
short, upper AMI under crust.
Bleaching Cotton.-I know of
nothing that is quite as nice as I've
soap, but I have seen people use a
solution of one quarter of a pound of
sal soda and two ounces of chloride
of lime dissolved in three pals of
water. Wet the clothes in pure cold
water before putting into the solu-
ton, then bring it to boiling. Let
them stand till cool enough to wiring
out, and spread upon the grass; dip
the clothes into the solution each day
and spread in the sun. They will be
very white, but I think the soda is
apt to cause all cottons and linens to
turn yellow if laid away. do not
like to use it on that account. An
other thing that 1 have learned by
experience, may be acceptable to all
to know; it is this: all new bleached
cottons, napkins, tablecloths, should
be wet in cold water and soaked
thoroughly, if you wish to keep them
white. 1t is very much easier to
keep them pure, than it is to whitcn
them after they are yellow.
Cleaning Bedticks.-Put the bed
on blanket, and shake the feathers
to one end of the tick, into rs small
a compass as possible, and tie strong
cord round the tick just above them;
wash the empty end in warm suds,
and after rinsing thoroughly, dip it
into pail of good starch and wiring
it out as dry as you can; now unite
the cord and shake the feathers into
the end just washed, and tie up as be-
fore; pin the blanket about the clean
end and proceed to wash the other
half; when done take off the cord
and shake the feathers even in the
tick. Dry in the sun, turning the
bed frequently, that the tick may not
streak, and when thoroughly dry the
bed will be as fresh and light as when
new Country Gentleman.