The comet., 1880-05-01
RECIPES.

The following are about as valuable
and useful recipes, as we have ever
seen collected together:
CooKIEs.-One cup of cream, two
cups of sugar, one-half teaspoonful of
soda, seeds OF nutmeg.
PERFUME forlinen, etc., can be made
with rose leaves dried in the shade,
mixed with powdered cloves and
scraped mace, put in bags.
LAMP wick soaked for a quarter of
an hour in vinegar, and then dried
before being put into lamp, will not
smoke. Try 50 simple cure.
JUMBLEs.-Three pounds flour, two
pounds sugar, one pound butter, eight
eggs, one teaspoonful OF soda; little
milk if the eggs are not enough.
BUTTER SPONGE CAKE.-Fourteen
eggs, their weight in sugar, eight in
flour, six in butter, the rind of one
and juice of two lemons. Bake
quickly.
To CLARITY HoNEY.-Melt the
honey in vessel standing in boiling
water, and strain through flannel
previously moistened with warm
water.
If brooms are wet in boiling suds
once IL week they will become very
tough, will not cut a carpet, will last
much longer, and always sweeps like
new broom.
BROWN BREAD.-Three cupfuls of
cornmeal, two cupfuls of rye flour,
two-thirds of cupful of molasses,
three and one-half cupfuls of warm
water, and one teaspoontul of soda.
Steam four hours.
To REMOVE starch or rust from fiat
irons. Have piece of yellow bees
wax tied in coarse cloth when the
iron is almost hot enough to use, but
not quite, rub it quickly with the
beeswax and then with clean coarse
cloth.
WHITE CAKE.-One and half
cupluls of sugar, two-thirds Of q cup1ul
of butter, one cupful Of sweet milk,
the whites of four eggs, two and half
cupfuls of flour, two teaspoontuls or
baking-power. This never fails if
baked in deep dish-like two-quart
basin.
SPICE CAKE.-One and half cups
butter, two cups sugar, two eggs, one
teaspoonful soda dissolved in one cup
cold water four and half cups of
flour, one tablespoon each of cinnamon
and nutmeg, thrco-fourths spoonful
cloves-as that is a stronger spice.
Fruit is great Improvement.
GINGER SNAPs.-One cup molasses,
one cup sugar, one cup butter, two
teaspoonfuls saleratus, dissolved in
three tablespoonfuls of hot water, one
large spoonful ginger, one large spoon
full cloves, onelarge spoonful CHINA
mon. These will retain their crisp
ness.
To REMOVE iron rust, saturate the
iron rust with lemon-juice and i'm
mediately, while damp, hold over a
steaming teakettle. / have seen IT
removed in less than two minutes.
Another way: When the clothes are
ready for the boiler, put on cream of
tartar, roll the articles up and boil.
ANGEL CAKE.-To make "angel
caIle,n take whites of II eggs well
beaten, one cup and a half granulated
sugar, and pinch of SALT take one
cupful of flour and one teaspoonful
cream tartar, sift together fonr times,
flavor with vanilla and mix all
together; bake from 40 to GO minutes
in a deep round pan, which should
not be creased let it cool Cunning it
upside DOWN in the pan before re-
moving. This is very delicate cake
when well made.
The Prairie Farmer gives this recipe
for "potato puff"
Boil the potatoes in salted waite,
drain off the water and dry them
few minutes, then mash them perfect
ly smooth. To pint of mashed
potato put two tablespoonfuls of melt
ed butter and beat with large fork
until the whole is light and creamy;
add the yolks OF two eggs, a cupful of
rich milk, and lastly the whites of
two eggs cut to a froth. Beat each
ingredient in before adding the next,
put in more salt if needed, and pour
the mixture into a buttered baking
dish. Bake in quick oven until the
surface is nicely Drowned. The sue
cess of this dish depends on the faith
fuIness with which it is beaten.