The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-01

THE TABLE.

! Gun Of sweet milk, teaspoonful Of
soda. 2cups -four. 2 teaspoonfuls cream
tartar. Dissolve the soda In the milk
md stir the cream-tartar into the -four.
Flavor as you wish.
Brown Bread quart buttermilk, 4
,eacup.ul molasses, teaspoonfuls SALE
rs,us' teaspoonful salt. Stir in corn
meal and I coarse -four, until sitter than
= batter. but not stiff enough to pile up.
Steam 2 hours, then put into the oven
long enough TO brown.
Cream for Coffee: The members of
nv family (says q correspondent Of the
Pyral Ntp Yorker prefer the following
made cream for their coffee TO the genu-
inc article. Beat egg TO foam, add
: tablespoonful Of white sugar, and
ronr over pint of boiling hot milk
stirring briskly as it is poured over the
egg. Prepare al night for the morning.
Gold Slaw: Slice or chop very fine
head Tor enough for family use) OF cab
haze and season with salt and pepper.
Beat 5 eggs well together; mix with II
4 teacupful Of vinegar, ] tablespoonful
n unmixed mustard, tablespoonful Of
sugar and tablespoonful Of butter.
BRING to the boiling point and pour over
the cabbage.
To Cook New Potatoes Wash,
NH the skin of, and drop into sailed,
boiling water. When tender, drain,
ciye a shake and set on the back of the
stove to dry, with the cover little ut
one side 10 allow of the escape Of steam.
Roll some milk; put in large table
spoonful Of butter and thicken with
slittle nour; wet smooth in milk. Take
no the potatoes into vegetable dish and
pour over the gravy.
--Molasses Cookies: teacup Of New
Orleans molasses, the same OF white sug-
Ar. cup OF hot water, in which ] table,
spoonful of soda Is dissolved, Of a cup
n shortening (some prefer butter, but
Iuse meat-fat or lard), and egg. Stir
n A. much flour a. possible, then place
upon the board and mix in just enough
% have them roll out nicely--they must
be quite soft. Roll them about one
fourth Of an inch thick, and bake in q
quick oven. Ginger, II liked.
String Beans for Winter Use: Wash,
take of the strings and cut into pieces
an inch in length. Put them into a
stone jar, first layer Of beans, then
LAYER Of salt, and 50 on. until the jar Is
full. Put plate with weight on top,
and pour over cold water until recover
ed. Keep in the cellar. When wanted
for use, throw as many as are needed
into a pail or pan of cold water, and let
freshen for half day. Change the wa
ter twice or thrice Cook the same as
II newly gathered. When packing, use
plenty Of salt.
Cucumber Pickles: Take fresh from
the vines, wash carefully, put them into
an earthenware jar, pour sailed boiling
water over them for three or four morn
ings in succession and the last time drop
lump Of alum into the water Then
turn of the wafer and pour over weak,
no: vinegar and let stand overnight. In
the morning drain and cover with hot
spiced vinegar. Cover with horse
radish leaves and they will keep for a
year.
Vanilla Ice-cream: ? quarts Of
cream aud I Of good milk; the milk Is
first put on slow fire; in this place
my vanilla bean, which l have cut into
small bits; now, most Of the books in
sist that You shall use some flour or ar
row root: II your cream Is cream, there
i no use for IL; do, however, take the
whites and yelks of eggs, which 1
beat up in some cold milk and pour in
to the hot milk, when the milk is boiled,
keeping il continually stirred; pass IL
through fine sieve; then, while It Is
hot, pour il into the cream; ! use 3
pounds Of white sugar; l let IL all cool
before freezing; in freezing, l make II .
point to stir the contents Of my freezer
at least half-dozen times before II be-
comes thick.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An infusion Of hay will keep the
natural color in buff linens, and an in
fusion Of bran will do the same for
brown linens.
French chalk is a specific for grease
spots. II should be scraped on the spot
and left on until il absorbs the grease.
Two or three applications are some
times necessary for the purpose.
To clean black cashmere: Place
the dress in strong borax water, made
lukewarm; let it remain in soak all
night, then take out and hang on the
line to drip, and when nearly dry, press.
DO not rinse or wiring.
"A recipe for hoarseness Take .
lemon and slice il into q tea-cup, and
add couple or three tablespoonfuls Of
loaf sugar. Take q teaspoonful Of the
mixture every little while till the OBJ
struction Is removed.
When black or navy blue linens are
washed soap should not be used. Take
instead two potatoes grated into tepid
soft water CATER having them washed
and peeled), into which teaspoonful