Smyrna times., 1879-01-15
Household Recipes.
Powdered potash will drive away rats.

To brighten stove zines, rub with kero.
sene
Lamp Wtcks.-Lamps wcks soaked for
quarter OF an hour in vinegar and then
dried before being put into lamp will not
smoke.
&leer Cake.-Two cups sugar. onehalf
cup butter, one cup water, whites Of four
eggs after they are all well combined stir
in three cups flour and two teaspoonfuls
Royal baking powder, one teaspoonful
vanilla.
Soda Btscadts.-Six cups Of -four, two cups
of sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter,
one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoon
fu of soda and three of cream tartar. Dis
solve the soda in the milk and rub the
cream tartar in the flour.
One cupful Of butter, one cupful Of
powdered white sugar and four well beaten
eggs. Bake a light crust, pour in the mix
ture and place back in the oven a few
minutes until it becomes stiff will make
! good transparent jelly pie.
Bread GriINe Cakes-Soak about four
slices OF stale bread over night in three cup
fuls Of sour milk or buttermilk. In the
morning mash fine, add two well-beaten
| eggs, three teaspoontuls of soda, and flour
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Fry like ordinary griddle cakes.
CalueS Feet Fricasseed.- Soak them three
hours; simmer them in equal proportions
of milk and water until they are sufficiently
tender to remove the meat from the bones,
in good-sizcd pieces; dip them in yolk Of
egg; cover with fine bread crumbs; pepper
and salt them; fry beautiful brown, and
serve in white sauce.
Ntsh for Ffy;ng.-Put quart Of water on
the fire to boil; stir a pint Of cold milk
with one pint of corn meal and one tea
spoonful of salt. When the water boils
pour in the mixture gradually, stirring all
we'll together. Let it boil for half an hour,
stirring often to prevent it from burning.
Ii browns better when made in this way.
Lobster Onelet.-Slice quantity of the
flesh Of lobster, equal in bulk to two eggs;
, season with pepper, salt and nutmeg; mix
= on the fire some butter and a little flour;
moisten with little stock add the lobster
and stir in, off the fire, the yolk of an egg
beaten up, with the juice Of half lemon.
Insert this ragout III the fold of a plain
h omelet. Turn out in a dish and serve.
: To Renovate Black ,Sk.-Rip your dress
i apart and dust well then wash the silk in
hot soap suds by dipping up and down,
water prepared as follows: Boil two ounces
> of logwood chips in five quarts of water, add
!. quarter of an ounce OF copperas, strain
through an old bit of calico, dip your silk
in this dye; hang on the line by the
corners until it is nearly dry; iron between
l. old silk.
IS Graham GcmS.-One teacupful of Graham
-four, one teacupful Of white -four, two tea
rs spoonfuls of baking powder, one tablespoon
e iul of brown sugar After stirring, add one
e beaten egg, one large spoonful melted
~ =. butter, and sweet milk to make a rather
- thin dough that will fall easily from the
% spoon. Drop into hot buttered gem irons,
~ and bake on the upper CRATE of the oven.
~ If made according to directions the gems
ry will be very tender and light
NJ Rice Water.-It may not, perhaps, be
e- generally known that the water in which
IN rice has been boiled answers the purpose OF
ot starch. In India the natives use nothing
~ else for stifEening linen, etc, but cngee, as
s. -. it is so called by them, and the DhO6ie8 (the
- men who perform the work Of laundresses)
of get up linen in frstrate style. Although
m much saving may not be effected by its use
90 instead of starch, yet those who are eco
nomically disposed may perhaps try the ex
pertinent.
Cream Cakes.-Melt half cup of butter
IL in one cup of hot water. When boiling
~ stir in one large cup of -four; then take OF
en- the stove to cool. When COOL stir in three
et eggs, without beating. Bake twenty-five
'!' minutes in a moderate oven, but not toC
:. moderate. The above is just enough fol-
-, one dozen. Do not smooth over on top
he but leave as rough as possible. When colo
,r, fill with this cream, that can be made while
ost the cakes are baking: One-half pint o
of milk, one egg, three tabespoonfuls Of sugar
two large tablespoons of flavor with lemon
ors or vanilla Cut a place carefully on ont
ary side of the cake to put in filling. If de
of sired a soft frosting could be added.
su- The GOVERNOR OF MAINE-The Boston
ph Herald describes DR.. Alonzo GarcelOn, tn
ara Democratic Governor of Maine, as tall
ur- spare, soberlooking man of about sixty-iv
years of age. He is native OF Lewiston
n n@' where he now resides. He graduated a
Hs Bowdoin College in 1886, and subsequent
=, attended the Ohio Medical College. ID
'O was one of the original Republicans, bu
left that party after the impeachment c
re. Andrew johnson. He is regarded as
tees plain, practical, sagacious business mar
ana His Democracy is of the old-fashioned type
"Our greatest difficulties now he say
"are from our high protective tariff. In
Bland silver dollar is fraud II pears II
upon the face of it." He recently e!
pressed the opinion that we have to
much currency now; that irredeemab
currency brings woe to any country, an
that the resumption of specie payments
'no- desirable and necessary. He thinks tn
national bank system a great improvemer
:, upon the old State bank system, but thinl
iS they are making too much money now an
need regulation.
The Spanards, who were the first to dl
,.,u cover America, are the last to apprecla
'A' the full value of their dicovery. The r
cent importations Of wheat from tn
country at the port of Barcelona have bee
received with as much incredulous wond
ebb as the natives taken back by Columbus fro
the West Indies. 1t was not deemed pc
sible that grain grown in the United Stat
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