The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-10-31

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10 clean them, tie in bunch and boil in
the soup.
Gems: Four big spoonfuls corn
meal. two Of fine Hour, one cup Of sugar,
one-half cup Of butter, one cup Of sour
milk, soda 10 swceten il, salt 10 taste,
two eggs, yclks and whites beaten sepa-
ratcly. This will make twelve gems.
Sweet Potatoes: Boil the potatoes
until tender, peel, cut lengthwise, put
fiat side down on creased pan and
place in a hot oven. As the potatoes
begin 70 crust, haste with little melted
butter. Repeat until nicely Drowned.
Raised Biscuit Make a sponge with
one quart Of water, and one yeast cake,
little SALT when light, add half tea
cupful Of melted butter, one egg, and
knead well but not too stiff with flour;
let II rise, and then make into biscuit,
and bake on tins.
Boiled Potatoes: Wash the pota-
toes. leave the skins on and throw into
boiling, sailed water. When fork will
easily pierce them, throw in small dip
perful Of cold water. Let stand two
minutes, throw off the water and stand
on the back Of the stove. with the pot
lid half removed, until the steam is evap-
Grated. Take up, peel and send 10 the
table in an open dish.
Baked Egg Plant: Cut II into
slices thrce-fourths Of an inch thick and
lay in salt water for an hour or more
Wipe the pieces dry and dip into beaten
egg, then into bread-crumbs or cracker
dust; have the fat hot in your pan. just
enough to prevent sticking and put
them into the oven until done. This
will be found better way than frying,
and they are very light and delicious.
Season 10 taste before cooking.
Bride Cake: Ten eggs beaten sepa-
rately, one pound Of butter, one Of white
sugar, two Of almonds, blanched and
chopped fine, one Of seeded raisns, half
pound citron. shaved fine; beat butter
10 cream, add sugar gradually; then
the well beaten yelks: stir all till very
light, and add the chopped almonds I;
beat the whites stiff, and add gently
with the flour; take little more flour,
and sprinkle over the raisins and citron,
then put in the cake-pan first layer Of
cake-batter, then layer Of raisins and
citron. then cake, and so on till all i
used, finishing off with layer Of cake.
Bake in moderate oven two hours.
Saratoga Potatoes: Pare the po-
tatocs and cut into slices so thin that
for breakfast, prepare them the night
before and let stand in a dish Of icc-cold
water. just before frying drain them
from the water and wipe them dry with
a cloth. Fry only few at time in
boiling lard as You would doughnuts
Before putting in the potatoes, separate
the slices from each other and do not
attempt 10 cook more at time than yor
can keep separate. Tend with fork
tossing them over and over unit
Drowned evenly and delicatcly. Take
up with skinner and place on sieve
Sprinkle with salt.
miscellaneous.
Save your washing suds for the gar
den; II they are poured over the root
Of the plum trees they will kill the cur
cuio; il turned at the roots Of gerani
ums, roses, etc, they will enhance theil
beauty tenfold.
A beautiful square for a rug may b,
madc-or indeed whole carpet-b,
taking several old ingram carpets, cut
ting them into strips three or four inch
e. wide and raveling out each edge, ther
sewing into balls and weaving after III,
manner Of RAG carpets The result vii
be an imitation Of mixed Brussels car
pet.
-Tea-leaves stepped. not boiled, fol
half an hour in tin pan, and strained
through a sieve. viii give liquid usefu
20 wash all vanished paint. II removes
spots. and gives frcsher, newer ap
used For white paint. take up a small
quantity Of whiting on damp piece Q
old white flannel. and rub over the sur
face lightly. and II will leave the pain
remarkably bright and new.
Kiln-dried fruit taken from the kill
and put into empty salt-barrels an,
headed in. will be perfectly secure from
|, worms. Fruit dried in the sun shoul,
be covered with cloth every evenin,
before the sun goes down, 10 keep tn
, moth away until the fruit dries, and the
put in empty salt barrels. Any worm
\ in the fruit will be destroyed and III
moth will not 20 there to deposit II
eggs.
There Is but one paint suitable 70
floors. French ochrc. First, II the board
have shrunk. clean out the joints well
and. with small brush, give them
heavy coat Of boiled linsecd-oil, the
putty up solid. Now paint the Who'll
floor with mixture Of much oil and Iii
tie ochre, for the first coat, then after
l. well dried, give two more coats B
, much ochre and little oil, finally fms