The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-18
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES,
From the House hold. 4

| From the HOUSEHOLD
PIE CRUsr.-Two cups Lard, one cup
OF water, salt.
FILTERS. cup new milk, three
eggs, a pinch OF salt, flour to make .
stiff batter.
Pop OvERs--One egg, one cup sweet
milk, one cup -four, pinch of salt; bake
same a. gems.
TO REMOVE CHLBLANs. Soak the
feet in hot potato water; this is also said
to ease rheumatic govt.
SoFT-SrIRRED BISCUIT. One quart of
sour milk, 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 BISCUIT. pint thick sour
cream, i teaspoonful soda, teaspoonful
cream tarter. Flour sufficient to roll out,
and bake III quick oven.
To STAIN Floors. To strong I've of
wood ashes add enough copperas for the
required oak shade; put this on with q
mop, and varnish afterwards
SODA BISCUIT quart of -four,
tablespoonful of lard, 1 teaspoonful of
soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream tarter.
Put both i'll the -four and wet with sweet
milk.
RUsKs. Three eggs, one and a half
cups of brown sugar. half cup of butter,
half cup of lard. Mix slowly with boil
ing water, ono quart new milk, one cup
yeast, pinch of salt.
Corn BREAD.-Make the sponge the
same way with scalded Indian mel add
salt and syrup, but thicken with fine
wheat flour altogether. Let it rise, and
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
flour or middlings; let it rise and set in a
cool place. Use teaspoonful III bak ing
of salt-rising bread.
CoUGH DROPS. Linseed, half cup;
olive oil, half cup; molasses or honey,
Hall pun, VI CA
tract of Gcorice one-fourth ounce; mix,
simmer, and take from ten to twenty
drops three times day.
STEAMED BREAD.-Brown bread of any
kind cooked in steamer and finished
with twenty minutes of browning i'll a
modern oven, is an improvement on tie
ordinary way of baking. Stuffed meats,
vegetable of all kinds, apple dumplings
and also rice, may be cooked by steam,
and make a pleasant change from bak-
ing.
To VARNIsH STAw OR CHIP HATS
BLAcK-Best alcohol, four ounces; pull
verified black sealing wax, one ounce;
put them into vial and place In warm
place, stirring or shaking occasionally
until the wax is dissolved; apply it when
warm by means of soft brush before
the fire or in the sun. 1t gives stiffness
to old straw hats or bonnets, makes
beautiful gloss, and resists wet
CARE OF FURs. - Furs should be
combed now and then while in use, and
especially as the spring approaches.
When put away for the summer they
should first be beaten with small cane
and carefully combed, and then sewed
up In n calico bag, carefully turned In at
the edges. A barrel or keg in which
whisky has been kept is the best place
for keeping them. 1t is a mistake to
suppose that moths can be kept away by
camphor, pepper, etc.
For housekeepers entering new houses
or having new floors to contend with: l
want to tell the home friends how /
dressed my kitchen floor, as we have
new house. First, 1 rubbed it all over
with soft, smooth brick, to remove the
lime, then rubbed it with cloth, swept
it clean, sandpapered it, swept again,
wiped with damp (not wet cloth; then
took two quarts of boiled linseed oil, two
gills of japan, and heated to boiling; put
on with a brush, boiling hot, and 1 am
well paid by having beautiful floor. 1t
is hard pine, and almost as smooth as
glass.-R. c. f. in Chicago Inter-