The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-12-19
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.

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ButtermiIk Cookies.-One and oue-ousz.
ter cupiuls OF butter. two thirls Of cup
ful Of butternilk, two cupfnls Of sugar
and one teaspcoutul each Of saleratus and
lemon extract.
Cream Cookies.-One and half cupfuls
OF thick sour cream. one and half cuy-
fuis of sugar, one egg, one teaspoonfus
each Of salt, salerasus, and caraway seeds.
Roll quite thick; enough for forty or City
cookies.
Pop Com Balls-These are easily made.
10 one gallon Of pop corn take half .
pint Of molasses or sugar: pot into q skillet.
let II boil up oncr; pour il over the corn.
grease your hands with sweet butter, ana
make the whole into balls Of such sise a.
you please.
Molasses Cookies.-0ne cupful Of mo-
lasses, one cupful Of sugar. two thirds
cupful OF hot water. two thirds cupful Of
lard or butter, one egg. one teaspoenful Of
alum. one tsaspoonful ofsalerafus and two
teaspoontuis of ginger. These ingredients
Will make 30 or loo cookies.
Pickle For Ham.-l0O pounds Of meat.
ounces saltpetre. > pounds brown sugar,
4 gallons water. : pounds salt. Rub the
hams wellwith fine salt and pack in caAks;
let them stand two days, then boil the
picket and turn over. Leave in brine s,y
weeks. Dry two days and smoke.
Maccaroni in Cream.-Wash pint of
maccaroni; then put in basin with cold
milk; set this into another basin With
some water and let il stand on the FIRE
twenty minutes, then take OF; when il
gets cold STIR IN one teaspoonful Of salt
and three well beaten eggs: turn this into
a shallow dish. and bake twenty nun
u;es.
Good authority asserts that one pound
of besns will support life IN action as long
as four pounds OF nee. Two pounds Of
beans will help to do more muscular work
than three pounds of wheat. The reason
why beans require stronger powers Of di-
gestion than wheat is that they contain
case,n instead of gluten.
Sausage.-To 10 pounds meat add :
ounces salt. ounce ground pepper. ta-
blcspoons sage. one spoonful ginger. To
salt beef that will keep year: Loo pounds
beef. pounds sugar, ; pounds salt.
ounces saltpetrc. Lay a layer of meat.
pound tight, then sprinkle on same Of tho
compound. then another layer Of meat.
II will make It's own brine.
Silver Cloths. Housekeepers sometimes
wish to give silver little frightening
without going through all the ceremonies
OF "A formal cleaning. am this can he ga
sily managed by the use Of SILVER cloth
Take two ounces of powdered hartshorn
and boil il in pint of water. Dip small
squares Of cloth in the liquid and nang
them up to dry without wringlng.
Harvard Sponge Cake. Two cupfuis 81
sift.'l Hour. two of powdered sugar. four
weli-beaten fresh eggs whites aud yolks
beaten SEPARATELY. one-balf tsacupfuI
cold water. one teaspoonfui cream tartar
lsifted IN the four, one half t-aspoonful
soda tdissolved IN a very little hot water;
flavor with the Juice and grated rind 81
bali a lemon; bake twenty minutes IN
shallow tins,
English Plum Pudding One bowifnl
suet. two bowlfuls bread crumbs. one
seen chopped ine and seeded half bowl.
ful citros. cnt IN small pieces: Sax sggs,
.wo large wineglassiuls brandy, two nut
negs; boil four hours and serve with wine
,auce. II is better TO boil two hours ON
me day, and the remaining time the day
IN which II is 10 I've eaten.
Plaster rigures.-As FAR AZ real beauty
: concerned plaster Squire Is as satisfae-
DRY "a marble, but the cheap material be-
rays It's inferiority by turning yellow and
-aihering dust TO an extent tina, MAKES IL
'ery unlike the thing ofbeauty which II is
meant 10 he. A coating # whiting and
cry thin glue. applied with brush. will
estore it, whiteness and maze II once
more a real ornament.