The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-04
HOUSEHOLD KNOwLEpGF

SPRINGFIELD SODA BIsCUIr,-One ouart
-four. one pint milk, piece of butter size of
an egg, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in
milk, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar sifted In
-four, with salt.
MARLBOROUGH PIE.-Grate six apnles
one cup sugar, three tablespoons melted
butter, four eggs, juice and grated rind of
lemon, two tablespoons brandy or wine. If
you choose; if not, omit it. Bake in an un-
der, but without top crust.
FLORIDA Dissolve hslfan ounce
each of oil of lemon, oil of lavender and oil
Of bergamot, and half drachm each of oil of
cinnamon and oil Of cloves in quart of the
best deodorized alcohol. Add two quarts
of filtered water and bottle for use in the
| toilet.
ROAST LAMB.-Put the lamb in the drip
ping pan with little hot water in the bot
tom. Sprinkle with salt and little pepper,
Basic often and allow eight or nine minutes
to a pound. When done take the grease of
the gravy, make it bubble on top ofthe
lstove and make a thickening of Drowned
-four.
PARsNIPs IMPRovED.-Parsnips are not
fully appreciated, perhaps because of their
too sweet taste; but this can be overcome Ia
palatable extent by judicious cooking
They are excellent when sliced after beilinp
and warmed in a sauce made by mixing flour
butter and milk over The fire and seasoning
it with salt and pepper, as soon as they are
warm they are served with little chopped
parsley and squeeze of lemon Juice. For
psrsnips fried brown in an old-fashioned
iron pot with slices Of salt pork and a sea-
soning Of salt and pepper. several good
words might be said.
DIPHTHERIA.-ln the hill towns and ru
raj districts generally, typhoid and diphthe.
ria prevail, as well as in the crowded city
The cause is always TO be looked for in the
careless sanitary habits of the people. The
want of cleanliness and ventilation in the
cellars, the decaying potatoes, apples and
cabbages, old rotten cider barrels and soap
and grease tubs, piles of filthy dirt, rag
mingled with ashes on which rats and cat!
have had nightly battles, the damp air, and
eftentimes collections of water, and TEN.
perature favorable to organic decomposition
all there are conditions prolific in the for.
nation of injecting poisons and in increas
ing the incomes of physicians.
ANGEL FooD-Here is a recipe for IAN.
gel Food" the delicious white cake which
has become so popular. In taste and sp
peearance it is everything that cake should
be: The white of eleven eggs, one cup Of
flour after sitting, one teaspoonful of cream
tartar, Sift the -four and cream tartar -four
times. Beat the eggs to stiff froth, and
then beat in one and one-half cups granu
lated sugar, and teaspoonful vanilla. Ado
the -four and beat lightly but thoroughly
Bake in an INCREASED pan, slowly, forty
minutes, The pan should have a tin STRIP
projecting above each corner, in order tina
when il is turned over to cool, the air may
circulate freely under it. Cut it out wheT
cool. The pan should be new one. Al
ordinary pan will answer. If it be set on tn,
edges of two other pans to cool. Sometime
housekeepers will find that this cake bakei
beautifully in an earthen dish. 1t is neces
sary that the oven should be a slow one; i
it is very hot the door may be left open
The cake should rise gradually.
Poison IN CANDIEs.-In the statistical
report of the confectionery trade it is stated
that most Of the large manufacturers adul
terate their goods largely with grape sugar
glucose, terra alba, or white earth, and Other
injurious ingredients, and can thus afford Il
sell their products for less price than the
small manufacturers pay for sugar. They
also say that they can not use these adultera
tions in their way of manufacturing, and
would not if they could; that if the authori
ties continue TO allow the sdulterated goods
to be sold as sugar candies, the honest manu-
facturers will have to leave the business oil
retail the adulterated goods of the large
houses. The cost of grsnulated sugar BY
the barrel is ten and a-hslf cents, while thai
of grape sugar and glucose is four cents, and
of terra alba one cent. They allege thai
the adulteration is from 80 to rs per cent. o.
the whole, and in gum-drops much more
They say that the consumption of thes,
adulterated candies is the cause Of more sick
ness and death among the children of New
York City than eil the sewer gas and dirty
streets combined"