Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-12-16
HOUSE HOLD,
A few slices of potatoes put In tho l,

Whlle ifylnS dougnnuts Will keep them
from burning.
Bluffs: One egg, teaspoonful any
powder yeast, one gill milk, one
pint flour, salt, and butter size of wal
nut.
Plain corn bread: One pint of sour
milk, two eggs, one teaspoon soda, salt,
make soft enough with corn meal TO
pour out.
The color of ferns can be preserved, we
are told, by dipping them in strong
brine colored with verdigris-in short
by picking them before drying.
Sage pudding; Two tablespoonfuls
sago, four or six apples, four tablespoon
fuls sugar, one quart water, flavor with
wine and rosewater, bake in deep
! dish.
Tart paste: One-half cup water, one
half cup of lard, white of one egg, three
tablespooniuIs white sugar, one teaspoon.
ful cream of tartar. one-half of soda,
| flour.
Elias cake: Two eggs, one cup OF
sugar, two cups milk, one-half cup but
ter, one teaspoonful soda, one and one.
half cups flour, flavor with lemon or
vanilla.
The following recipe makes a most
| agreeable wash for clearing the complex
ion; Benzoin, two ounces; pure alco-
hol, one pint. A tablespoonful TO ba-
sin of water
In washing silk handkerchiefs wash
in water in which the best white CASTLE
soap has been lathcred Then snap be.
tween the fingers until nearly dry, fold
and press under weight. Never iron.
Spice cake; One-half cup molasses,
onc-half cup of sugar, butter size of an
egg, one egg, one-half cup sour milk,
salt, one teaspooniul soda, one cup OF
raisins, chopped, two cups flour, spice
! to taste.
Ginger cookies: One-half cup mo-
jasses, one cup sugar, one-half cup sour
milk, one cup part lard and part butter,
one teaspoonful soda, salt, one and one.
half teaspooniuls ginger, -four to roll
out and cut.
Stewed oysters: One quart oysters
and one pint of water; boil until oysters
are done, then strain, putting the liquor
back on the stove and adding to it one
| punt of milk, piece of butter and salt and
pepper. Heat boiling hot, pour over
| oysters and serve.
To remove grease spots from bright
| co,ored carpets, scrape French fuller's
/ earth on the spot, let it remain several
/ hours. then brush it off with clean
brush and apply hot flat iron over q
| piece of ordinary brown wrapping pa
pc. unit. all the grease is on the paper.
Doughnuts: Two eggs beaten with
| one cup OF fine granulated sugar, salt
and nutmeg; add three teaspoonfuls
baking powder or two Of cream tartar
and one of soda; stir into the egg and
sugar, then add one cup milk and stir in
flour at once. Mix not very hard ii
they should soak tat. roll in n little
more.
Delicious pumpkin pie: Pumpkin
the size of n two-quart bowl, steamed
and sifted, three pints Of milk. one cup
Of cream or two tablespoonfuls Of butter.
| four eggs, quarter of tcaspoonful ol
| cinnamon, the same of ginger, one-half a
| nutmeg, sugar and salt to the taste.
| Bake in n slow oven one hour and a
! half.
/ Learn to cook without scattering
/ about, for your own comfort and ease.
and without gathering many utensils
around. After a while thought and
| practice will simplify the work, and one
/ is surprised to see how few things arc
necessary to work efficiently and well.
and how much confusion and running is
saved by little management.
Strip barberrics, cover them with wa
ter, put them over the fire and be care
ful they do not burn don't boil them,
but when cooked squeeze and strain
them carefully; to one pint of warm
| juice add two pints of sugar; put the
swcctcned juice into n pitcher. which
pitcher put into hot water until the
| juice is dissolved; then bottle it.
A nice way to cook chickens: Cut
the chicken up, put it in pan and cover
it with water; let it stew as usual,
/ when done make n thickening Of cream
and flour, adding piece of butter and
pepper and salt; have made and baked n
pair Of shortcakes made as for pie crust,
but roll thin and cut in small squares /;
this is much better than chicken pie and
more simple to make. The crusts should
he laid on dish and the chicken gravy
| put over IL while both are hot.
Cream pie Outside-three eggs, one
| cup white sugar, one Gun Of four ono