Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-07
THE HOUSEHOLD.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HOME DEcoRA-
TON AND FURNISHING.
Library. Nursery, Sewing room,
Garden and Poultry Yard

Two eggs, 2 small teacups sugar, teacups
-four, ! half teacup milk, teaspoonfuls
baking powder; bake in Jelly tins. Dres
sing for custard-cake-0ne pint milk, /
egg, very heaping tablespoonful cora
starch, cup butter, l cup sugar. Let the
milk come TO a boil Preserving enough to
wet up the corn stareh), stir ia the butter,
sugar and egg, beaten together, and then
the corn-starch. When well thickened,
remove from the fire, aud when cold favor
with | teaspoonful vanilla. Spread be-
tween the layers of cake. Or this is
richer: Three quarters cupful butter, 2
cups sugar. II pints -four, eggs, tea
spoonful baking powder, | cup milk. Rub
the butter and sugar to white, light
cream, aid the eggs, 2 at time, beating
five minutes between each addition. Then
add the milk. Silt the. -four with the
baking powder, and add it the last thing.
Mix this we'll, but not any more than is
necessary. The sooner IL is put into the
oven after the addition of the baking
powder and -four the better. Bike In
jelly-tins in hot oven fifteen minutes.
Dressing for custard- cake-One pint milk,
eggs, heaping cup sugar, J cup -four,
When the milk boils stir in the eggs, sugar
and -four, beaten together When cold
flavor with vanilla. Put between the
layers of cake.
TIE DINING ROOM. - EDS. RECORD
UNION Is 1t, or is it not, fashionable 70
10 without carpets on dining room floors
WIFE Chico.
Ans,cer. The fashion runs both ways.
Do without, if possible it is the healthier
and better plan every way. Use a center
piece or crumb-cloth. This may be rich,
or plain common burlap with Oriental
design IN crewell will answer admirably.
The floor, however, must be good, and the
border reaching well under your loose
crumh.clotb should be stained dark
rich brown and finished with yellow shellac,
when it may be washed without damage.
HAGG1s Dear Household: So many
good and reliable things have l learned
from You that now l make bold to ask you
TO tell me- plainly how haggis is made. So
many have told me wrong that | wish to
know what the Household has to say, and
what part, by tie way, has sleeps
stomach TO do with it Very anxiously
yours, MARIE s., Reno.
Aas,Uer.-The dish is not often asked
for by Americans. The sleeps stomach
relates to it as the skin of sausage does
to it. Take Sleeps stomach, clean it
thoroughly, scrape it, turn 1t inside cut,
and put it in salt and water take the
lights, heart and liver of the sheep and
mince them quite fine added to them a
pound of shreaded suet, which also divide
finely; bake into sconces pound of oat-
meal to do this mix the oatmeal with a
little salt and water spread the paste thin
on baking-tin and bake it crisp pound
up fine these sconces If not dry enough
toast them; add one chopped onion, and
season with salt and pepper add to this
teacupful of good strong stock; put it all
in the stomach and sew it up tight put il
in pot of boiling water with a plate on
top Of it prick the bag in a good many
places to prevent It's bursting cook five
hours.
CEREALS FOR DysPEcTrcs. - Cereals
should, for weak digestion, never be
taken entire, such as whole wheat por-
ridges, or coarse oatmeal etc. It IS alb
solutely necessary that they should be
given in form which allows the gastric
juice to act upon them quickly. They
should not be boiled or s;plmered with
milk, but with water, and have milk
added to them afterwards. For sweeten-
ing purposes, a pure brown sugar is better
than white sugar, and little nutmeg or
cinnamon is conducive to quick digestion
These cereals should not be boiled in iron
saucepsns direct over the fire, but should
one and all be steamed in vessels that fit
into others containing the boiling water
These are the usual farina boilers, either of
porcelain, granite-ware or block tin.
SoUPs FOR WEAK SromAcHs People
with weak digestion should frequently
take a light soup for dinner, only half a
plate full, but guard well against those
heavy concoctions which are greasy and
contain a thickish mass of unknown ma
terial. Soups favored with little vege-
table, having some light farinaceous mat
ter to thicken them; soups that contain
! the real essence Of the meat, favored lightly
with pepper, salt, mace, etc, such are the
soups fit for people of weak digestion.
HEALTHY BREAKFAsTs. If child were
properly fed, it would, up to full adult
size, not ask for anything more for break
fast than porridge, milk, bread and fruit
| There would be no desire for animal mat
| ter early in the day, and this would not be
required till later in the day. Our IN
scientific ways of eating have created
tastes that may truly be called unnatural,
and we stimulate the system, when it
should merely be fed and have matter to
replace its waste. Among the cereals for
breakfast, which we should like to recon-
mend to a healthy and unspoiit digestion,
are those that have already undergone a
certain erocess of desiccation, and, there
/ fore. require less cooking and less working
! Fphe ricl,act l.
are wheat, Indian corn, oats, and barley,
and their constituents are such as to fur
nish all the elements of which we found
! in our first article, man was composed. To
combine good cereal porrldge with healthy
! milk is about the beat food the young can
| take in the early part of the day sweeten
| this with sugar or molasses and the palate is
also pleased. It's when the taste has been
| early spoilt that we require stimulants in
one shane or another. Those cereals are
most beneficial for US that are the growth
of our own climate, and give US the resist
| ing power to its influence. Cereal cakes
should not be entirely condemned, but may
be made so that the digestion can deal with
them properly. The first thing for a
proper cooking of cereals is proper cook
! ING utensil. and this should always be a
steam boiler, or one utensii contained in
| another. We refer to the porcelain ware,
| the granite ware or the best block tin
! faripa boilers. The cereals are always best
cooked with water, milk being added later
as well as sugar. The reason why it is
better, particularly for the jewellers in
towns, to use prepared cereals, is, that the
! digestive organs of all townsfolk are in
weaker condition, and can, therefore,
not undergo the hard work of digesting un.
prepared cereals. Mrs. Lewis in Food
and Health.
Household Hints
FLOATING IsLAND.-One quart milk,
four eggs beaten separately, four table.
spoonfuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls vanilla,
one half cup currant jelly. Beat the yolks
well. stir in the sugar, add the hot mot
boiling milk, little at time until it be.
gins to thicken. When cool, flavor and
pour in a glass dish heap upon it me-
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