The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-13
Useful Family Recipes.


To Make Icing Stick-Sift flour over
the cake, and then wipe off with a,nap-
kin.- Miss e. A., New Castle, Ind.
To Drive off Vermin-Cayenne pepper
will keep the pantry and storeroOms free
from cockroaches and aunts.-[S., Cin-
cinnati.
French Cake-One-haH pound butter,
two oupfuls sugar, one cuptul milk,
three eggs, three cupfuls flour, one tea
spoonful. baking POWDER Mrs. NJ, Dali
malta, Pa.
| A Cure for Toothache-Take equal
parts of alum and common salt, with
suHicientwater to dissolve; then take
| some cotton, wet with the solution, and
put in hollow Of the tooth.-[F., Cincin-
natl.
Corn Mufins-Six ounces -four, three
ounces Indian meal, Two tab espoonfuls
sugar, one tablespoonful melted butter i,
one egg, one-lalt pint mills, three tea
spOontuls baking-poWder.-L Miss Il. s.,
| Akron, Mo.
Apple Pudding-Eight fine apples,
grated, about the same quantity OF stale
bread, three eggs, one ana one-nalf pint
milk, sugar anu cinnamon. Bake one
hour and eat with cream.-[ Miss r. E.,
New Albany, Ind.
Old-tashioned Gingerbread-Two cup :
iuls New Orleans molasses, one cuplul
melted butter, two eggs, two even table
spOonluls soda dissolved in hot water,
one tablespoonful ginger, little salt,
and Hour sufficient to roll out; bake in
two square tins; mark with knife half
an inch apart on top Il. r. R., Cincin-
natl.
| Coffee-cake, Without Eggs-One and
one-hait cuptul cold coffee, the same OF
| sugar, one cupful butter, naif a cuDtu
molasses, heaping teaspoonful soda,
lone cuptul each OF raisIns and currants
a wine-glassiul wine or brandy, little
citron and spices to tasJe; stir with
-four stiff as fruit cake Mrs. l. Il. H.,
Richmond, Ind.
Brandy White Grapes-Cut the white
grapes from the stem, place in a glass
jar, and cover with white brandy; lei
them stand long enough to let the brandy
penetrate, then pour over them one pint
of the sirup OF preserved ginger; CORK
tightly, let stand two weeks, OF longer il
the ginger has not favored tnem.-[S. s.,
Moscow Mills, o.
Icing-To one pound OF pulverize ed
sugar add tunIbler Of cold water, and
boil till it ropes. Beat the whites oil
h9
fast into the boiling water and sugar
stir till nearly cold, favor with lemon,
and when perfectly cold frost the cake
TEis frosts the whole seven loaVes oil
the above receipt.-[J. A., Dayton, o.
Minute Pudding-Eight even table.
spoonfnls of -four, one pint cold milk
with piece of soda the size of a pea
dissolved in it; stir in the -four gradu-
ally with the milk to the consistency OF
thin starch; add four well-beaten eggs:
on sitting down to dinner put it in the
oven; butter the dishes well, and put
the mixture in one-eighth of an inch
| thick, as it rises so rapidly; serve hot
from the oven with cold sauce.-[M. NJ,
Rodney, ..
Water RIsfngs for Bread-Take a
quart pitcher and spoon, scald them
I'LL the pitcher half-full OF boiling wat er;
let the water cool to the temperature OF
good, hot dish-water; stir in -four to
make a batter as thick as for pancak es
add quarter-teaspoonlu of salt and as
| much soda; cover closely; SET where it
will keep quite warm, stirring OCCASION
ally; IL Will rise in five or six hours.
| Some prefer this to hop or brewers
yeast.-[L., Newport, Ky.
Meat and Rusk Puddings-Chop any
kind Of cold meat with salt pork or ham
season it well with butter, pepper and
salt, and add two or three beaten eggs.
Then make alternate layers of wet r1 ) k
| crumbs, with milk, or cold boiled homi
ny or rice, and bake half or three-uuar.
ters OF an hour. Let the upper layer be
crumbs, and cover with a plate while
baking, and when nearly done take it off
to brown the top Mrs. X. Covington,
Kentucky.
English Plum Pudding-A half pound
bread crumbs, half pound wheat flour,
a hall pound suet chopped fine, a hall
pound Valencia raisins, halt pound
seedless raisins, a half pound currants, a
half pound mixed orange and lemon peel,
a hall pound citron, halt a nutmeg, d
| quarter pound blanched almonds
| chopped fine, half q teaspOonful salt. a
| wineglassiul brandy, six eggs, and half
a pound sugar; mix thoroughly, and boil
| eight hours without tintermissiou.-TM
NJ. W arsaw, Mimi.
| Delicate Bread Pudding.-Take four
rolls; steep in one quart OF tepid milk
lhtll dissolved; then place over the fire
until nearly boiling; take off and pour it
INTO DoWl containing the yo.ks Of three
| eggs and quarter OF pound of sugar.
beating rapidly the while. AS soon as
quite cold beat the whites 10 a stiff
| iroth: add 10 The mixture very careful Ily
a teaspoonful Of vanilla; bake in but
tered cups stood in baking-pan half
| fun OF boiling water until on withdraw
ing straw IL comes out free and clean,
Use the following orange sauc6: Place
On the hre In porcelain saucepan quar-
| ter OF pound OF white sugar, hali-pint
water, juice OF one large orange, and the
rind cut off exceedingly thin; boil five
minutes, strain, add one glass of white
wine OF eau-de-vie.-[Mrs. w., Dayton,
KY.
To do up Point Lace-FllI a goblet. or
| any other glass dish, with cold soap
suds made OF the best quality of was b.
ing soap; put in your lace and place in
a strong sunlight for several hours. Of
ten squeezing the lace, ana chan ging the
water II 1t seems necessary; when
Oieached, rinse gently in three or four
| waters, and, If you wish it ecru, or ye-
owish- white, dip it into a weak solution
of clear cold coffee liquid; ii you desire
stiffen it slightly, dip it into very
thin starch; provide yourself with pa
per OF very fine needles, recall The
| form and looks OF the collar
when first purchased; take GOOD piu-
cushion, arrange your collar in the right
form, and gently pick into place and Sc
cure with the needles oyery point and
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