The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-14
HON &, FARa AND GARDEN.

NhAdAM DISCUlIS.-4O q QudIv VI
graham flour add sufficient thick, sweet
cream to make a stiff dough, beat until
light, and bake in moderately hot
oven. C
HYGIENE GRIDDLE CAKEs.-Three
cups purified middlings, one cup graham
-four, one egg, one teaspoonful salera-
tus, little salt. Mix with sour milk.
Use a hot griddle and serve immedi-
ately.
COCOANUT DROPS.--Beat the whites
of two eggs stiff with four ounces of
sugar, then stir in four ounces of dessi-
Gated cOcoanut If the fresh is used, it
must be grated, and dried in porcelain
kettle until like flour; add third of
cup of fine cracker crumbs; mold the
mixture into small pointed cones, and
bake until light brown on the top and
bottom.
To CLEAN BLACK MATERIALs.-Take
the article you wish to clean, on the
side you intend to make up as the right
side; brush well all the dust out of it;
then take piece of black flannel or an
old black wooden stocking Git must al
ways be black); dip it into cold coffee,
and sponge well the material all over
alike; then fold up each piece or breadth
nice and even, and let it remain damp
for three or four hours. Iron on the
wrong side, and the old dusty, shabby
dress will look just as fresh and bright
as new.
BRoILED SHAD.-One shad. two
ounces of butter, one half teaspoonful
of pepper, one-half teaspoonful of salt.
Split the shad, when cleaned, directly
through the backbone with strong
sharp knife Grease the broiler slightly,
place the fish between its leaves, and
broil over a quick fire for ten minutes.
When done, remove quickly from the
broiler, dress with. the butter, pepper
and salt, and sendit to the table as hot
as possible. The dish may be garnished
with lemon quarters and a sprig of
parsley at either end.
ROLL JELLY CAKE.-Sift two tea
spoons of cream of tartar with two cups
OF flour (measured after sifting.) Dis
solve one teaspoon of soda in three ia
blespoons of hot water. Beat six eggs,
whites and yelks separately. Add two
cups OF sugar to the yelks, put in half
the -four, then the soda, the balance of
the flour and the whites of the eggs.
Bake in a thin, even sheet in a large
dripping pan; when done turn onto the |
molding board, spread with jelly and
roll up without delay. Wrap a napkin
about the roll to keep it in shape.
Rock CREAM.-Boil teacupful of
the best rice till quite soft in new milk,
sweetened with powdered loaf sugar,
and pile it upon dish; lay on it in diff
ferent places, square Jumps of either
kind; beat up the whites of five eggs to
a stiff froth, with little powdered |
sugar. and favor with either orange |
flower water or vanilla; add to this, when |
beaten very stiff, about teaspOonful of |
rich cream, and drop it over the rice,
giving it the form. of a rock of snow. !
This will be found to be very orna-
mental as well as delicious dish for a |
supper table.
RAISING WATERMELoNs.- a |
good piece of ground-sod is the best. |
Plow it well and then harrow and roll |
it. Now mark it off twelve or thirteen |
feet each way. This allows the vines
to run only six or six and half feet |
each way, which is not too much. The |
seed should be soaked about twenty
four hours; then planted, putting half |
dozen seeds in hill. They should be
thinneG afterward to three in a hill. |
Plow and hoe them well, but do not |
leave the dirt loose. 1t should be
pressed tight around hill and vine with |
your feet. When you think the vines |
have run far enough pinch off the ends.
This vii! cause them to stop running
and to bear more.
PAINTED FLoORs.-A correspondent |
of the Country Gentleman writes: l
should like to tell how we got our paint
ed floor hard and dry, so that it will
stand the wear of a large family. Our
floor is made of narrow yellow-pine |
planks, clear of knots; a splendid floor
for kitchen, and we have always kept
it painted. This winter we treated it
as follows: As fast as the floor was
painted we laid strips one inch square
on the painted surface, and on these
strips boards were laid snug, using as
long boards as the spaces would allow;
where the doors interfered very thin
pieces of board were laid to step on.
At intervals of two weeks second and
third coat was applied. When this was
sufficiently dry we covered the floor
with heavy sheets of straw-board paper;
over this paper carpet was spread.
Now, after two months protection we
find the painted floor very hard, and
ready to stand long time before it
will need repainting.