Sharp County record., 1879-08-21
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
THE TABLE.


coda, 2 cups flour, teaspoonfuls cream
tartar. Dissolve the soda in the milk
and stir the cream-tartar into the -four
Flavor as you wish.
Brown Bread: / quart buttermilk, 3
teacupful molasses, 2 teaspoontuls sale
ratus, teaspoonful salt. Stir in corn
meal and Z coarse -four, until sitter than
a 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
my family (says a correspondent OF the
RuraI Nea0 Yorker prefer the following
made cream for their coffee to the genu.
inc article. Beat egg to foam, add
tablespoonful of white sugar, and
pour over pint of boiling hot milk
Stirring briskly as it is poured over the
egg. Prepare al night for the morning.
Cold Slaw: Slice or chop very fine l
head (or enough for family use) of cab.
bage and season with salt and pepper.
Beat 8 eggs well together; mix with it
a teacupful of vinegar, l tablespoonful
of unmixed mustard, tablespoonful of
sugar and tablespoonful of butter.
Bring to the boiling point and pour over
the cabbage.
To Cook New Potatoes Wash,
rub the skin off, and drop into salted,
boiling water. When tender, drain,
give a shake and set on the back of the
Stove to dry, with the cover little at
one side to allow of the escape OF steam.
Boil some milk; put in a large table
spoonful of butter and thicken with
little flour; wet smooth in milk. Take
up the potatoes into vegetable dish and
pour over the gravy.
-Molasses Cookies: 1 teacup OF New
Orleans molasses, the same of white sug-
ar, J cup of hot water, in which l table
spoonful of soda is dissolved, ] of cup
of shortening (some prefer butter, but
I use meat-fat or lard), and l egg. Stir
in as much -four as possible, then place
upon the board and mix in just enough
to have them roll out nicely-they must
be quite soft. Roll them about one
fourth of an inch thick, and bake in
quick oven. Ginger, if liked.
String Beans for Winter Use: Wash,
take off the strings and cut into pieces
an inch in length. Put them into a
stone jar, first layer of beans, then a
layer of salt, and so 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 pail or pan of cold water, and let
freshen for half day. Change the we
ter twice or thrice. Cook the same as
if newly gathered. When packing, use
plenty of salt.
Cucumber Pickles: Take fresh from
& the vines, wash carefully, put them into
an earthenware jar, pour salted boiling
water over them for three or four morn
inps in succession and the last time drop
lump of alum into the water. Then
turn off the water and pour over weak,
hot 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
year.
Vanilla Ice. cream: 2 quarts of
cream and l of good milk; the milk is
first put on a slow fire; in this | place
nv 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; if your cream is cream, there
is no use for it; l do, however, take the
whites and yelks of 3 eggs, which l
beat up in some cold milk and pour in
4 to the hot milk, when the milk is boiled,
keeping it continually stirred; pass it
through a fine sieve; | then, while it is
hot, pour it into the cream; | use 3
pounds of white sugar; let it all cool
before freezing; in freezing, make it a
point to stir the contents of my freezer
at least a half-dozen times before it 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 specific for grease
spots. 1t should be scraped on the spot
and left on until it 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
luke e-warm; 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 a
4 lemon and slice it into tea-cup, and
add a couple or three tablespoonfuls of
loaf sugar. Take teaspoonful of the
mixture every little while till the OBJ
struction is removed.