The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-03-21
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CoCoANUT DROPs.-Take pound of
grated c0coanut, dried in the oven. or
the same weight Of desiccated cocoanut,
l pound OF fine sugar, and the whites of
eggs beaten to stiff froth; add the
sugar to the eggs, then the cecoanut,
and bake on buttered paper.
FRUIT CAKE.--1 pound butter, 1
pound sugar, l pound -four, 10 eggs,
pound citrOn cut in small pieces, 9
pounds currants well washed and dried,
pounds OF seeded raisins, I Tablespoon
full each of mace, cloves and cinnamon,
nutmegs grated, 1 gill of brandy.
CRISP COOKIES. Stake 1 pound of
sugar, l pound of flour, pound of
butter, of nutmeg and eggs. Cream
the butter, add the sugar and yelks of
the eggs; beat until light; then stir in
the stiff beaten whites, the nutmeg and
flour. Flour the board, roll, cut, and
bake in quick oven.
TAPIOCA PUDDING.-Take 1 CUP of
tapioca, and after washing in two or
three waters to remove the earthly taste,
put to soak over night. Next morning
put it on to boil, as you would rice, be-
ing careful to stir often, to prevent
burning; when soft, add 8 or 4 well
beaten eggs, Il cups of sugar and 2
tablespoonful of butter; flavor to suit
the taste; bake as you would rice pud-
ding, and eat hot or cold, with or with
out sauce, as you prefer.
ORANGE CREAM.-Take 8 gills of
cream, 2 gills of sugar, 1 gill of orange
juice, the grated rind Of / orange,
ounce of gelatine, and the yelks of 2
eggs. Soak the gelatine / hour in
gill of cold water; soak the orange rind
1 hour in the orange-juice; melt the
gelatine in the basin in which it was
soaked, ove- boiling water; add the Juice
and rind. and when quite hot the yelks
beaten with the sugar; stir until it thick
ems add the cream and strain into q
mold wet with cold water. 1t is best
served when cold.
CREAM SAUCE.-Put 8 ounces of but
of flour and dessertspoonful Of chop
ped parsley, q grated white onion, pep
per and salt to taste, and q pinch of
nutmeg grated, if liked. When the but
ter is melted, and all the ingredients well
mixed together, add pint Of got d sweet
milk, and let it boil / of an hour, stirring
continually. When served with fresh
fish pinch of horse-Iadish may be add
ed the sauce without it will be found
very nice in salt fish or in vegetables.
Swiss PUDDING.-Sift together 4
pound of flour, heaping teaspoonful of
baking powder, and of salt; rub to-
gether ounces of granulated sugar and
2 ounces of butter, and when they are
well mixed, SO as to be granular, but
not creamy, add the flour gradually I'M
til ali is used; make q hollow in the
middle of the flour, put into it egg, 1
teaspoonful of lemon .fiavoring, and 4
pint of milk; mix to smooth paste,
put into well buttered and Toured mold,
and set this into a large pot, with boil
ing water enough to come two thirds up
the side of the mold; steam the pudding
three-quarters of an hour, or until
broom-splint can be run into it without
finding the pudding sticking to the
splint. Turn the pudding out of the
mold and send it to the table with the
following sauce: Stir together over the
fire ounce each of flour and butter; as
soon as they are smooth pour into them
/ pint of boiling milk, add 2 ounces of
sugar and ! teaspoonful of lemon fla
voring, and use with the pudding as
soon as it boils up.
HOUSE CLEANING.-In the spring
women's thoughts turn soberly to
house-cleaning; and where there are
not many hands to make light work of
it, it is indeed hard work; and it will |
pay well to hire woman to help with |
the heaviest part of it, such as the wash |
ing of windows, paint, bedspreads,
blankets, and the like. The men ought |
to be willing to lend helping hand in |
putting down the carpets, as well as in
shaking them. 1t is not needful to take
up all the carpets; only those rooms that |
are in constant use require such thor
ough cleaning. In the other rooms, if |
moths are to be feared, it is well to
[ooDn all the edges of the carpet and
sweep out all the dust that has collected
under them, and wash the floors with
strong soapsuds, in which a little coal
oil has been mixed, and then tack down
he carpets, keeping the windows open
until the disagreeable odor has vanish
I'd. The moths will not attack the car
pets this year, when thus treated. 1t is
n the corners and along the edges of
he walls that their attacks are always
o be dreaded; and if tho millers can
DC kept away by any pungent sub
stances, such as red pepper, powdered
,amphor, borax, or alum, there need be
10 fear of them. Upholstered furni-
ure can be kept free by washing out the
parts, where the backs and
eats meet, with strong alum water, and
t will also brighten the color of the
,reens and reds. But before the cover
ngs are washed they must be thorough
y cleansed from all dust and smoke by
brushing them we'll with q stiff brush,
viping off the dirt with q damp cloth.
Boiling hot alum-water can also be used
o scrub carpets that are infested with
moths, and it will surely kill all Larvae.
straw mattings can be made to look
resi- aud clean by sprinkling corn-meal
'ver them, then sweeping up, and at.
erwards washing the breadths with a
Voolen cloth, wrung out in strong salt
md water.