Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-06-10
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Molassss Sponge Cake.-Two cups OF mo-
lasses, two eggs. two tablespoonfuls of soda.
three. quarters Of cup Of cold water, five
cups OF flour.
Cleaning Mica The mica iii stoves can
be cleaned by taking equal parts of vinegar
and water. Wash when little warm.
Wipe with dry cloth. 1t will look nearly
as good as when new.
Ingro,oing Nasts-Take little tallow and
put it into spoon and heat it over the
lamp until 1t becomes very hot; then put i'd
on the sore or granulation. The effect will
be almost magical The operation causes
very little pain ii the tallow is perfectly
heated. U k#
Apple Shorteake. Fill a square bread tin
ttree-quarters full OF sliced sour apples
makes thick batter of halt cupful of sour
cream. half a cupful of buttermilk, one tea
spoonful of saleratus, o little salt, and flour
to make quite stiff---a little sitter than cake.
Turn this over the apples; bake 40 minutes
and serve with sauce, or cream and sugar
favored with nutmeg.
Strawberry Pudding.-t'ream, cup Of
beaten yolks of five eggs and two cups Of
fine bread crumbs soaked ina quart Of sweet
milk. Flavor with lemon or Vanilla Pour
into a deep pudding dish and bake until the
custard is ''set.' Roll Il pint of nice straw
berries in powdered sugar, spread over the
pudding and cover with meringue made of
beaten whites and three tablespoonfuls Of
powdered sugar. Return to the oven until
the top is delicately Drowned.
Whiteaoash Paint-One bushel unslaked
lime. 20 pounds Spanish whiting, IL ponnds
rock salt, u pounds brown sugar. Mix
lime with 40 gallons of water, and then add
the other ingredients and stir we'll together.
Put on two or three coats with whitewash
brush. 1t does not wash nor rub off. but
looks well and preserves the wood. 1t can
be mixed with yellow ochre. Indian red.
raw umber or lampblack to make it any
color desired. Tie amount given is sut-
ticient to paint all the out hL.ses and yard
fences on All ordinary tarm.
Home Soap Making.-Soft Soap from Con-
centrated Lye.--Dissolve pound of con-
centrated lye in three gallons OF water. Boil
it with four pounds OF clear soap fat, and
when the grease is all cut, set 1t away to
cool. Add gallon of Not water to this So
luton and stir it in well in the course Of .
few hours put In another gallon, and con-
tnue adding water until the soap is of the
desired consistency. To make hard soap Of
this, stir III common salt, but an easier way
would be to substitute washing soda for =
portion of the potash and use some lime
with 1t.
Neaoport Pudding plain mould in
ice; put in thin layer of clear jelly at tho
bottom. which decorate tastefully with dried
F cherries and pistachios cover with another
layer of jelly, decorate the sides in the sama
!, manner, dipping the cherries. ETC., in jelly
} first to make them adhere; place q mould
, lining within, and fill the space between the
; two moulds with jelly by degrees; when
? set, fill the lining with warm water, and
: quietly withdraw it; fill up with following
custard: Make hot custard of one pint OF
cream and six yolks of eggs, sweetened and
: Favored to taste add about one ounce OF
: clarified isinglass; Serve with cold German
- sauce round the base.