Sharp County record., 1880-02-19
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Table.

lasSeS, one-haf cup OF sugar, one-half
cup of butter, one teaspoonful each of
salt, soda, and ginger. Mix hard.
Sugar Cookies: Two eggs, two cups
of sugar, one-half cup of milk, one cup
of butter, one teaspoonful of ginger, and
One-half teaspoonful of soda. Mix hard
and roll thin.
Corn Bread: Beat two eggs light,
mix with one pint of sour milk, add a
teaSpoonful of soda, one pint of corn
meal, and one tablespoonful of melted
butter.
Coffee Cakes: One heaping cup of
brown sugar, two-thirds cup of thick
sour cream, two-thirds cup of butter
milk, one teaspoonful of soda, ginger,
and little salt Mix soft and roll.
-Doughnuts: One cup of sugar, one
cOffeecup of sour milk or buttermilk,
two tablespoonfuls of melted lard, one
teaspoonful of soda, and a little salt and
nutmeg. Pour lard over the sugar be-
fore mixing with the other ingredients.
Steamed Brown Bread: One cup
of sweet milk, two cups of buttermilk,
One-half cup of molasses, one cup of
flour, canielle is preferred, two heaping
cups of meal, and one heaping teaspoon
full of soda. Steam three and bake two
hours.
Pumpkin Pie: The less water you
use to boil your pumpkin in the better.
Slice the pumpkin, and don't scrape it
too much inside-the inside is the best /;
stew with water, in which you put a
pinch of salt, until the meat is tender;
mash it and pass it through fine sieve
while it is hot; after straining, add an
eighth of a pound of butter, if you have
about two quarts of stewed pumpkin; :;
now, to every quart of milk add three
eggs, beating up your whites and yelks
separately; use white sugar, and sweeten
to taste, cinnamon and nutmeg; don't
use any ginger; when you bake your
pies you want hot oven; pour it on
thick; a thin pumpkin pie is not right
Baked Dried Peas: Three pints of
dried peas, seven quarts of cold water,
three pounds of bacon or salt pork ;
pick over the peas, wash and soak them
over night in cold water, drain and pour
them into a pot with the bacon or pork,
the latter previously cleansed; cover
and boil gently; remove the scum as it
rises; when the peas become soft drain
and mash them, put them into a baking
dish, smooth the top, place the bacon or
pork on top, put the dish into the oven,
and bake brown. The liquor from the
peas may be strained, put into pot,
thickened over the fire with Indian meal
(about four or five tablespoonfuls to a
pint) and boiled gently about one hour
When cold it may be sliced and fried.
Miscellaneous.
-Turpentine will remove ink from
white wood work.
-Cockroaches may be driven away
by putting Scotch or other high-dried
snuff round their haunts.
"A mixture of oil and ink is good to
clean kid boots with. The first softens
and the latter blackens them.
Waterproof Whitewash: Slake half
a bushel of lime with boiling water, and
cover to keep in the steam. Strain and
add five gallons of hot water, three
pounds of ground rice boiled to paste
and hot, half a pound of Spanish
whiting, and one pound of clean glue
dissolved to thin paste. Stir the whole,
and keep it covered for few days.
The whitewash must be used hot,
but one pint Of it will cover square
yard.
Coal oil-crude petroleum-is the
cheapest and quickest dressing for steel
and iron surfaces that are to be kept
from ruSting over winter, such as plows,
cultivatOrS, scrapers, etc. L don't see
why it would not have been just the
thing to have wiped our laid away
stove-pipes with last spring, if we had
thought of it in time. Unused sheet
iron rusts in summer more than itwears
in winter, and the civilized nostril is
become so accustomed to coal oil smoke
that few minutes of it, more or less,
at the time of rousting out winter stoves
would add but trifle to the usual fume
of that chaotic period.
To sweep and dust a room properly
is an art, and like all fine arts has a
right method. Well done, it renovates
the entire room, and the occupant takes
possession feeling that call things have
become new.n 1t is not merely per-
formance of the hands, but work into
which taste and judgment, in other
words, brains must enter. Are these
closets opening into the room to be
sweptP Arrange the shelves, drawers
or clothing preparatory to sweeping
day, then let this be the first to be swept.
Cover the bed with soiled sheets, as also
all heavy articles that can not be re-
moved, first, however, having carefully
busted and brushed them. Remove all
furniture that can be easily set in hall or
adjoining room, having first busted it;
then, taking step-ladder, begin to