The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-22
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
THE TABLE.

/ add enough water to make II Sur like
pancake batter, season with . little salt
and bake in . shallow pan for 20 min
utes in hot oven.
-Oat meal Puffs: 10 quart Of sweet
milk allows well beaten eggs, q tea.
cups of Graham flour and . little salt;
beat all thoroughly together and bake
in hot gem irons.
Stuffed Tomatoes: Cut in halves
| and hollow out in center; take what
ever cold meat You have, chop with
onion, some herbs, crumbs Of bread, and
add to it 2 yelks Of eggs; I'LL up your
tomatoes and put in buttered pan; let
them bake slowly. .
| Baked Egg Plant: Pare, cut into
slices Of about half an inch in thickness
and place in cool. sailed water for 2
hours. Then drain, wipe with cloth
and boil until tender enough to mash
like potatoes. Make very smooth, add
or tablespoonful Of sweet cream.
salt and pepper with little chopped
parsley. Turn into . buttered baking
dish, cover the top with bread-crumbs
and bake half an hour.
Rhode Island Succotash: Good sue
cotash wants tender young corn. Have
. dozen ears, and remove with . sharp
knife the kernels. II your corn Is
tough, do not cut too close to the cob.
String quart of young beans and cut
them in three. Boil the beans with the
corn, in pint of water. Boil for
quite three quarters Of an hour. When
cooked, cover closely, add . piece of
butter, . teaspoonful of salt and some
pepper. If cream is obtainable, add
pint at the conclusion.
Apple Bread: Peel and chop very
fine pint of nice apples and put to
quart of Indian meal that has been
sc aided and left to cool. Beat to q cream
1 egg and 1 teaspoonful of butter, and
add to the meat with 1 teaspoonful of
salt. If the apples are sour, add 2 IA
blespoOnfuls of sugar, but sweet apples
are much the best. Mix with rich milk
If sweet apples. with cold water il sour,
to rather stiff dough. and bake imme-
diately.
Potato Bread: Boil 5 or 6 large po-
tatoes, mash them smooth while hot,
add q piece of butter the size of an egg,
| q tablespoonful of sugar, teasp0onful
of salt, and pint of warm water. Beat
8 teacups of flour with another pint of
warm water, till free from Jumps, and
then mix with the potatoes. Dissolve
cake of yeast and a. teaspoonful of
soda, each in teacup of warm water,
and beat all well together. 1t makes
thin batter and should be set in q warm
place over night. In the morning sift
quarts of -four into the bread pan,
/ lskk1A oa1k DNsSvp tha
which will be full of bubbles if the yeast
was good, into cavity in the middle
and knead for five or ten minutes. Gov
er with q cloth and set into . warm
place for an hour or longer, or until it
has risen to double its usual size. Then
divide into four loaves and knead thor
oughly and put into tins; when light
again, bake in . moderate oven, half or
three quarters of an hour.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The taste of fish may be removed
very effectively from steel knives and
forks by rubbing with fresh orange or
lemon peel.
"A mixture composed of one part of
powdered borax and two parts of pow
dered sugar sprinkled upon the floor
where cock caches frequent win soon
eradicante them.
To Renovate . Black Chip Hat: Add
to pint cold water . teaspoonful of
spirits of ammonia; use with . soft
tooth or nail brush; when clean rinse
with cold water and place in the sun to
dry. Do not soak or scrub sufficiently
to destroy the shape. It will look as
good as new.
Glass jars will not be broken when
boiling hot fruit is poured into them if
they are placed on the folds of . cloth
wet in either warm or cold water. A
silver spoon placed in . jar or glass be-
fore boiling hot water or fruit Is poured
in it will also keep the glass from frac-
ture.
| ink and fruit stains may be remov-
ed by soaking in sweet milk before wash
j ing the milk does no injury to the most
delicate colors. After washing, salts of
lemon will answer for taking stains out
of white goods, but If used on any thing
i colored, It will remove the color as well.
Ammonia will restore color taken out
by acids.
Sweeping, though . common prac-
tice, should not be done according to
the rule laid down for all great achieve
ments in l1e-do not ''begin at the bot
tom of the ladder Tor the stair, as the
case may be,) for ascension to the high
est part Of your dwelling. Begin at the
top Of the Is topmost " room. and. with
hair and hands protected, sweep the
walls well, destroying the "skillful >"
spider, who tolls and spins that you may
find no leisure for idling. Having closed
all doors of wardrobes, closets and con-
Meeting rooms, dsmpened the broom,
sprinkled the floor III carpeted, with
damp meal, otherwise, with water),
sweep the dirt into the hall. closing the
door behind you. When each room has
been treated, sweep the hall and stair
way, each room below, and lastly, the
hall below, taking the dirt out the back
door on to . dustpan, or box set with
one side beneath the projection Of
porch, or last step. By this time the
dust will have settled above, and you
may 90 to work vigorously with q
duster made of the soft feathers Of .