The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-11-07
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.


tomatoes, three pounds brown sugar,
one cup vinegar, one ounce cinnamon;
boil together slowly five or six hours;
do not strain, bottle or can air-tighi.
Kentucky Potatoes: Raw potatoes,
peeled, sliced very thin; put IN pudding
dish and cover with milk; add pepper
and salt and teaspoonful Of -four, wet
bake till nicely Drowned; do not put
them in water after they are sliced.
To Make Good Sausage Meat:
Take onc-third fat and two-thirds lean
pork and chop them, and then TO every
twelve pounds Of meat add twelve large
spoonfuls Of powdered salt, nine Of sift-
ed sage and six Of sifted black pepper.
Keep in a cool, dry place.
To Roast Calls Liver: Wash
thoroughly and wipe dry; cut long
deep hole in the side; stuff with crumbs,
bacon, and onions chopped; salt and
pepper to taste; bit Of butter and one
egg; sew or tie together the liver; lard
il over and bake in the oven, basiing
frequently; serve with gravy and cur
rant jelly.
Delicate Cake: Take half pound
Of butter. one pound Of sugar, one pound
water, four eggs. Beat the butter and
sugar 70 cream. then add the beaten
eggs, then the milk or water, then the
flour; mix thoroughly and put the bat
ter into your pan; sift the sugar over
the top and bake Immediately in mod
crate oven.
Beef and Potato Pie: Take deep
dish. butter it and put in il layer Of
mashed potatoes, season with butter,
salt and minced onions. Take slices Of
beef, season them with pepper and salt,
and lay them with pieces Of salt pork
over the potatoes, then I'LL the dish with
alternate layers Of potatoes and meat,
having the upper one potatoes. Bake
about All hour an fifteen minutes
Home Pudding: One quart milk,
four eggs, beaten separately, eight Ia
blespoonfuls flour wet with milk. little
salt. four teaspoonfuls baking-powder.
onc-half cupful sugar. Bake IN creased
pan thirty-fivc minutes. Sauce for
home pudding nc-half pint milk.
three tableSpoonfuls sugar. one table
spoonful butter, one small tablespoonful
flour; heat milk boiling hot, and mix
sugar. butter, and flour. previously well
beaten together, into IL. Flavor with
vanilla
Lemon Pies: Beat four eggs very
light, add 70 them, gradually, quarter
Of pound Of fine sugar, whisk these to-
gether for few minutes. strewing light
~ in one ounce Of corn-starch flour:
then stir i'm BY degrees three ounces Of
melted butter: beat the whole well to-
gether. and stir in the juice and grated
yellow rind If one large lemon. Line
your pie-di<h with q good puff paste
rolled thin, fill them two-ihirds full II
the mixture. and bake for twenty min
uics in q moderate oven.
New Suct Pudding: -Four eggs.
half pound suct, one pint brcad-crumbs.
one quart milk. half tcaspoonful each Of
cinnamon and nutmeg. two tablespoon
fuls a flour: chop the snet very fine.
and beat the eggs thoroughly; heat the
milk scalding hot, and pour il over the
crumbs, mix the suct, cinnamon. nut
meg. and -four Ohc latter wet little 10
prevent lurcp-), and beat all together:
add eggs; swecten % taste: add salt
and brown in oven half an hour.
short E~-ay on washing.
Experienced housckecpcrs very sell
dom give clear and positive instructions
IN homework. Their success seems TO
be the result II some uncOmmnnicable
knack. Years Of experiment and I'M
certainty appear 10 be required III reach
ing positive knowledge in regard I'd
honsework. and that knowledge which
must die with the disc0vcrer.
Whose desires 10 escape all uncer-
tainty in one important department of
homework, j. recommended 20 read the
following complete guide to the whole
art ofwashing:
To begin with, clothes should not be
soaked over night: II gives them gray
look, and the soiled parts lying against
the clean portions strcaks them. Be
fore beginning "a wash, the clothes
should bc assorted, and the fine ones
kept separate all through the washing.
Hub the clothes in watcr-not hot wa
ter. Hot water sets, instead Of extract
ing. the dirt. Turn them and rub till
perfectly clean in the first water II the
water becomes much soilcd. throw ii
out and take fresh, for il the water i
allowed 10 become very much soilcd the
clothes Will be dingy The clothes
should then be rubbed ont as thorough
" in the second a. in the first water
No amount Of boiling will ever make
clothes white which have not been thor
oughly rubbed ont
After the second rubbing. put the
clothes in cold water 10 boil. without
rubbing soap on them or putting soap
~ the water; they are soapy enough.
Too much soap makes clothes yellow
and stiff As soon a. they begin 10 boil,
remove them to the :. sudsng --watcr.
II they boil long, they will be yellow.