The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-03-14
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AN "EGGLEss CAKE."-2 CUPS sugar,
4 cup butter, 2 cups milk, cup raisins,
4 cups flour, teaspoon soda; spice to
taste.
CLEANING STOVES. -Stoye-polish.
when mixed with spirits of turpentine
and applied in the usual manner, is
blacker, more glossy and durable than
with any other liquid.
DOUGHNUTs.-2 cups sugar, 2 cups
sour milk, 2 eggs, tablespoonful but.
ter, l nutmeg, little salt, 1 teaspoonful
soda. 1t is too much butter which
causes them to soak the lard.
WAFFLEs.-3 teacups milk, 8 eggs, !
cup butter, 2 heaping teaspoons cream.
tartar, One-tbird the quantity of soda;
add flour to make stiff batter. If you
have cream, use one-half cream.
MEAsUREs.-Wheat flour, pound is
quart. Indian-meal, l pound 2 ounces
are l quart. Butter (when soft), 1
pound is pint. White powdered sug-
ar, pound ounce are quart. Best
brown sugar, l pound 2 ounces are l
quart. Ten eggs are pound. A com.
mon sized tumbler holds pint. A ia
blespOonful is 4 ounce. Sixty drops
equal l teaspoonful. Four tea
spoonfuls equal l tablespoonful.
SUET PUDDING.-1 cup molasses, l
cup sweet milk, cup suet chopped very
fine, cup raisins, teaspoon soda, 1
teaspoon cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg;
steam 3 hours; flour to make batter
thick enough to drop from the spoon.
Eat with liquid sauce. This pudding
may be baked if more convenient, and
teacup of lard or butter may be used
instead of the suet.
Snow PUDDING.-Half box of gel
atine, pint of cold water; put the gel
atine in the water, let it stand an hour /;
then add pint of boiling water; after
it is cold add the whites of 8 eggs beat
en- to stiff froth. Scald II pints of
milk, stir in the beaten yelks of eggs,
sugar to taste; let it get cool, and pour
around the pudding. Jelly is nice with it.
SOFT GINGERBREAD.-1c cup molas-
SEES, cup brown sugar, l cup sour milk,
3 cups flour, heaping tablespoonful of
butter, 2 teaspoonfuls of soda, dissolved
in hot water, 2 teaspOOnfuls ginger, l of
cinnamon; mix the molasses, sugar,
butter and spices until they are several
degrees lighter color than when you be-
gan; add the milk, then the soda, lastly
the flour; beat very hardly 5 minutes
bake in one Tor two) shallow pans.
Try it warm, for tea or luncheon, and
you will soon repeat the experiment.
A SMILE WASHING FLUID.-A sim
pie washing fluid is made by putting
pound of saleratus, or soda, in gallon
| Jug: fill up with water; let stand one
week, and it's ready for use; to use it,
put 9 pals of clear water into your tub,
put teacupful of the fluid in, and all OF
the clothes it will wet nicely; let soak
% or 80 minutes; wiring out suds and
boil as usual; add little more fluid to
the water left in the tub, and put your
calico clothes through the same. 1t will
not fade them at all, but loosens the dirt
so nicely.
USE FOR OYSTER CANs.-Open them
at the top, paint them, and they are
very convenient for house plants, as
they occupy but small space. Open
them On the side, hammer the edges
down neatly and they are nice dishes to
bake small Ioaves of cake or bread in
Farmers will find them the best kind OF
dishes to give chickens drink from.
Take one, open on the side, with ham.
mer and nail perforate the other side,
and you will have an excellent crater to
use for that tear-producing condiment,
hors e-radish. Then again, take one
opened at the end, make q few holes in
it, sink it near any choice plant or in
the center of a group of flowers in the
ward, and YOU will find it fine thing
when drouth comes; for it may be
filed with water, which will leak out,
moistening the earth about the roots OF
the plants, and doing more good than
when thrown upon the surface.