The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-24
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES.
from the Household. |

PIE CRUST.-Two cups lard, one cup
of water, salt.
FILTERS. cup new milk, three
eggs, pinch of salt, flour to make
stiff batter.
POP OvERs.-One egg, one cup sweet
milk, one cup -four, pinch of salt; bake
same as gems.
SIMPLE CURE FOR CoUGH.-Half cup
of honey and and a tablespoonful of lin.
seed oil; mix.
To REMOVE CHnBLAINs.-Soak the
feet in hot potato water; this is also said
to ease rheumatic gout.
SoFT-STIRRED BIsCUIT.-One quart OF
sour milk, l teaspoonful soda; add -four
to make thick batter and bake on pie
tins.
THE quickest and best way to boil
milk is to put it into tin dish and set
that into kettle of boiling water. Thus
scorching is avoided.
TEA BIsCUE-One pint thick sour
cream, teaspoonful soda, l teaspoonful
cream tarter. Flour sufficient to roll out,
and bake in quick oven.
To STAIN FLooRs.-To strong lye of
wood ashes add enough copperas for the
required oak shade; put this on with a
| mop, and varnish afterwards
SODA BISCUIT. quart of flour,
tablespoonful of lard, l teaspoonful of
| soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream tarter.
Put both in the -four and wet with sweet
milk.
RUsKs.-Three eggs, one and half
cups of brown sugar, half cup of butter,
half cup of lard. Mix slowly with boil
| roIlk
yeast, pinch Of salt.
Corn BREAD.-Make the sponge the
same way with scalded Indian meal; adj
salt and syrup, but thicken with fl .
wheat flour altogether. Let it rise, anu
steam and bake as above directed.
BAKED INDIAN BREAD.-One cup mo-
lasses, three cups -four, two cups sour
milk, four cups sweet milk, five cups
meal, one tablespoonful of salt, one
tablespoonful of soda; bake two hours.
RAILROAD YEAsr-One tablespoonful
of ginger, one tablespoonful of soda, one
pint of boiling water; thicken with coarse
-four or middlings; let it rise and set in a
cool place. Use teaspoonful in bak ing
of salt-rising bread.
CoUGu DRoPs.-Linseed, half cup;
olive oil, half cup; molasses or honey,
half pint; balsam of fir, half ounce; ex.
tract of licorice, one-fourth ounce; mix,
simmer, and take from ten to twenty
drops three times day.
STEAMED BREAD.-Brown bread of any
kind cooked in a steamer and finished
with twenty minutes of browning in a
modern oven, is an Improvement ON til
ordinary way of baking. Stuffed meats
vegetable of all kinds, apple dumplings
and also rice, may be cooked by steam
and make pleasant change from bak
ing. ...
To VARNIsH STAw OR CHIP HAT.
BLACK.-Best alcohol, four ounces; pul
verized black sealing wax, one ounce
put them into vial and place in warn
place, stirring or shaking OCCASIONAL,
until the wax is dissolved; apply it whel
warm by means of soft brush befor'
the fire or in the sun. It gives stiffness
to old straw hats or bonnets, makel
q beautiful gloss, and resists wet
CARE OF FURs. - Furs should b,
combed now and then while in. use, anf
especially as the spring approaches
When put away for the summer the,
should first be beaten with small cam
and carefully combed, and then sewet
up in calico bag, carefully turned in q
the edges. A barrel or keg in which
: whisky has been kept is the best plac'
for keeping them. 1t is a mistake t.
suppose that moths can be kept away b.
camphor, pepper, etc.
For Rhousekeepers entering new houses
or having new floors to contend with:
want to tell the home friends how
dressed my kitchen floor, as we have
new house. First, I rubbed it all owe
} with soft, smooth brick, to remove tn
| lime, then rubbed it with cloth, swep
it clean, sandpapered it, swept again
wiped with damp (not wet) cloth; the
r took two quarts of boiled inseed oil, tw
gills of japan, and heated to boiling; pu
r on with brush, boiling hot, and I an
> well paid by having beautiful floor. I
. is hard pine, and almost as smooth a
D glass.-R. G. r.. in Chicago Inter
Ocean.