The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-04-21
1ni,te and Garttt.
Household Notes.

Cocoa COOKIES. Two cups sugar, one cup
butter, two eggs, half grated cccoanuS
make lust stiff enough to roll out; roll thin.
SURPRISE CAKE.-One egg, one cup sugar,
hall cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three
teaspoons baking powder; flavor to taste:
Make it a scant half cup OF butter, one ana
q half cups of -four. This is good recipe for
doughnuts.
HoARsENEss.-Bakee q lemon or sour orange
for twenty minutes in q moderate oven, then
open IL at one end and dig out the inside,
and sweeten it with sugar or molasses and
eat This will cure hoarseness and remove
pressure from the lungs.
To MAKE ONION SoUP.-For ten plnts OF
soup cut four large onions into little pieces,
brown them in two tablespoonfuls of beef
dripping or mutton gravy; add TO this five
spoonfuls of -four; pour some warm water
upon il aud let it boil. In serving the soup
add some slices of bread, according to the
quantity of flour, making the soup more or
less thick.
To MAKE FISH FRITTERs Take the re-
mains of any fish which has been served the
preceding day; remove all Of the bones, and
mince fine; add equal quantities OF bread
crumbs and mashed potatoes; stir IL two
beaten eggs; season with pepper and add
enough cream to make the mass of the proper
consistency to mold into little balls, and
fry them in boiling lard.
To CLEAN GLOBES If the globes on gas
fixture are mucn stained on the outside by
smoke, soak them in tolerably hot water in
which little washing soda has been dissolv-
ed. Then put teaspoonful of powdered am
monia in a pan OF lukewarm water, and with
q hard brush scrub the globes until the
smoke stains disappear. Rinse In clean, cold
water. Tney will be as white as If new.
ONELEr-Twelve eggs, twelve tablespoon
fuls of fresh milk, one lump of butter the
size of an egg, pepper and salt to the taste.
Beat up your eggs thoroughly, whites and
yolks separately; add the milk, pepper and
salt to the yolks, and then beat in the
whites. Put the butter into the pan, and,
when melted, pour in the eggs. Do not stir
them, but let them brown. When the eggs
are cooked, fold over the omelet, and let its
own heat cook the inside.
CHOCOLATE MARBLE CAKE.-Two cups sugar,
onehalf cup butter, one cup sweet milk,
two and one-half cups flour, two eggs, three
teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon
lemon extract. Dissolve two blocks choco-
late in little boiling water Tor half cake);
add half a cup sugar, one teaspoon vanilla;
10 this add two teaspoons OF the cake and
stir well; marble it through the cake, first
little of the white cake. then the chocolate
until the pan Is full. Bake rather slow and
even.
wIsr BROOM HoLDER-To make pretty
ten inches long, eight inches across the top;
cut two wedge-shaped pieces three inches
long and one at the top, for the sides. Cover
with black lady's clio b, and line with blue
flannel. After joining together work around
the edges with gold-cOlOred silk in button
hole stitch. Oa the front work with gold
colored silk some pretty pattern in chain
stitch; in the center work your monogram.
Hang with blue cord and tsssels.
CHEAP INDELLIBLE INK-Braconnot recon-
mends the following: Twenty rarts of potas-
sa are dissolved in boiling water, ten parts of
fine-cut leather chips and five parts of flowers
of sulphur are added, and the whole heated
in an iron kettle until it is evsporated to
dryness, Then the heat is continued until
the mass becomes soft, care being taken that
1t does not ignite. The pot Is now removed
from the fire, allowed to cool. water is added,
the solution strained and preserved In bot
ties. This ink flows easily from the pen.