The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-09

wooden vessels This is mistake. Earth
enware is too great conductor OF heat Tor
butter. Hence all butter diaries adopt the
wooden vessels.
Many persons who are obliged to keep
their hands for a long time daily in warm
water suffer from their chapping or swelling.
A few drops of glycerine will, If rubbed over
the hands at night, entirely restore the SKIN
to its normal state.
A piece of red pepper the size of your fin
Ter nail put into meat or vegetables, when
first beginning to cook, aids greatly in killing
the unpleasant odor arising therefrom. Re-
member this for boiling cabbage, green
beans, onions, chickens, mutton, etc.
SrRAwBERRY AND CURRANr SALAD.-A pref
ty dessert dish may be made of mixed early
fruits, strawberries, white or red currants,
gooseberries and cherries, all carefully
picked, placed in alternate layers, strewed
with sugar and piled up with taste. Simple
cream should be poured over the salad.
LEMON SHoRTCAKE-To the juice of six
lemons add three eggs, three-quarters OF a
pound of white coffee sugar, the grated rInd
of three lemons, and quarter of pound Of
good butter. Put the pan holding these into
boiling water and STIR till it thickens like
honey, without letting it boil. Spread
thickly between layers of shortcake and
serve hot from the oven, without cream
CENTENNIAL BIscUITs. good corn
mush, just if you were going to eat 1t
with milk. When it is lukewarm take a
quart of it and work in flour enough to make
a stiff dough; make into biscuits, put in your
bakepan and set in warm place over night;
bake in a very hot oven, and you have the
best and sweetest biscuit you ever ate. Eat
while hot for breakfast.
To preserve EGGs.-When the eggs are
taken from the nest, if they are brushed en-
tirely over with solution of gum arabic and
laid in a cool place they viii keep perfect
two years, and chickens have been Matched
from eggs so treated at the end of that time.
If farmers as soon as they gather the eggs,
would cover each one with fresh melted
mutton suet-just enough TO cover the pores
of the shell-they would confer a boon upon
thousands
BREAKFAST OR LUNCH DIsH.-An excellent
way of using up the odds and ends of steaks.
roasts, chops, or any bits of cold meat, is to
cut the meat from the bone, emitting the
gristle and fat If desired. Chop as fine as for
mince meat; place in pan; cover with water,
adding frequently if it dries; let it simmer
or gently boil for two hours; season with
salt and pepper; toast to delicate brown
any bread you may have, STALE or fresh, and
when spread in single layers over your meat
tray pour meat and gravy over your toast,
or you can send to the table without adding
the bread.
FRUIT SHORT CAKE.-One quart of sifted
flour, one-quarter of pound of butter, or
butter and suet together, chopped fine in
the flour, two heaping spoonfuls of white
sugar, two spoonfuls of baking powder, all
wet with cold milk or water to the right
thickness to roll thin as for jelly cake. Bake
in sheets in quick oven till just done,
without browning, then spread fruit of any
kind between, twice the thickness OF the
layers, alternating cake and fruit till the
whole is as thick as desired. Strawberries
should be mashed an hour before and
sprinkled with sugar 10 be In the best state
for cake, thenrthe juice flows freely and fla
vors the whole. Return to the oven, with
the fruit, and brown the top and sides, then
serve with cream.