The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-06-02
HOUSEKEEPER'S HELP.

BkEFsTEAK PIE.-Cut some steak ir
very thin slices, season with salt, pep
per and little onion; roll up each
slice like a sausage, with the yolk of al
unboiled egg, put in cupful of gravy
cover with puff paste and bake.
TO REMOVE SUNBURN,-Take gooo
handful of bran and pour on it quart
of boiling water. Let it stand an hour
then strain. When cold, put to it a pint
fbay rum. Bottle, and use when need.
ed. 1t is very refreshing in its appli-
cation.
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE SWEET. -
Two cupfuls of flour, one cupful of su,
gar one cupful Of sweet milk, one egg
two teaspoonfuls Of baking powder, two
tablespoonfuls Of melted butter; bake
in Jelly pans in two or three cakes as
desired.
CREAM SHRBERT.-Put the yolks OF
six eggs and dessert spoon of vanilla
into two quarts of cream; place on the
fire in a stew-pan and let it come to a
boil, then strain. Add three-fourths OF
pound of loaf sugar and stir until dis
solved. When cold set on ice or freeze
as ice cream.
ORANGE CAKE.-Ten eggs, one pound
of pulverized sugar, the grated peel
and juice of one lemon, and one table
spoonful of flour to each egg, whip the
whites of the eggs to stiff froth, beat
the yolks and sugar until perfectly
light, add the lemon stir in lightly the
whites and flour, a tablespoonful of
each at time. Bake on jelly pans as
for jelly cake.
SUEr SOUP MADE WITHOUT MEAT
In your soup pot put about a quarter
of a pound of butter; set on the stove;
slice in four large onions; fry nice
brown, stirring all the time; put in four
quarts of cold water; one large coffee
cup of split peas, we'll washed; boil
four hours before serving stir we'll
with your potato-masher; strain
through a coIander into a tureen.
Many like tomato catsup in this soup.
TO KEEP IoE.-Make double pock-
ct of strong wooden cloth, no matter
how coarse and faded it is. Have a
space Of two inches between the inner
and outer pockets: pack this space as
full as possible with feathers. Hens
feathers are just as good, and witch a
pocket thus constructed and kept close
~ tied at the mouth, few pounds Office
may be kept week, and found to be a
great convenience by those who have
no better method of keeping it.
REMEDY For VERMIN.-As the sea-
son of the year has arrived when all
good housekeepers are preparing for
the advent of warm weather, and YER
min are making their appearance, the
following is a good remedy: Bed bugs
are most readily destroyed by nur COM
ica in the form of the tincture, combin-
ed with liquid ammonia, which MKT
ure is to be freely applied to the joints
and cracks Of the bedsteads. 1t is e.
qually efficacious against cockroaches,
water bugs and other yermin, and flap
piled to the harness ofhorses, the ami
mails will no longer be troubled with
flies.
PINE APPLE Ice CREAM.-Three pints
of cream, two large pine-apples, two
pounus powdered sugar; slice the pine
apples thin, scatter the sugar between
the slices, cover and let the fruit stand
three hours, cut Or chop it up in the sy.
rup, and strain through hair sieve Or
double bag of coarse lace; beat gradual
ly into the cream, and freeze as rapid.
ly as possible; reserve few pieces Of
pineapple unsugared, cut into bits,
and stir through the cream when half
frozen, first pint Of we'll whipped
cream, and then the fruit. Peach ice
cream may be made in the same way.