Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

RoLY-POLY.-Two eggs well beaten
half cup of sugar, half cup of flour,
salt, one teaspoonful of baking powder
bake in large, shallow, square tin,
or double the rule and bake in the
dripping-pan. AS soon as done turn
out on clean cloth; spread the bot
tom quickly and evenly with chocolate
or dark jelly, mot too much), and be-
gin at the end to roll it over and over,
when you lay it on plate with the last
roll underneath it to hold it and cool.
TOMATO JAM.-To one pound of
peeled and cut tomatoes allow one
half pound of sugar; put together over
night in a stone jar. In morning take
off juice, strain, boil and skim it; put
in the tomatoes with a handful of best
stick cinnamon tied in a cloth. Stir
constantly, and boil until the jelly will
not separate. About ten minutes be-
fore removing from the fire take out
the cinnamon. and one teacupful of
good vinegar to each gallon of jam.
Seal.
One use to make of a colOred table
cloth which is too much faded to look
well on the table, is to turn it into a
crumbcloth. Starch it as stiff as pos
sible, iron it nicely, keeping the edges
straight. Instead of lacking it to the
carpet, pin it in place, and then it will
be little trouble to take it up when it
needs washing; it will keep clean a
long time. 1t is a good thing to know
this, even if you have a handsome
crumbclOth, as this can be put down
when that has to be taken up and
cleaned.
JELLY CAKE.-Cream together one
cup of sugar and half cup of butter,
then add yolks of three eggs beaten
frOthy and light, half cup of sweet
milk and two and a half even cups of
flour in which put in a pinch of salt
and one and half teaspoonful of bak.
ing powder, or one teaspoonful of
cream tartar, and half teaspoonful of
soda. Add the whites of the eggs last
beaten stiff and smooth. Bake in iel.
ly-cake pans and put between them
Jelly; or beat up the white of an egg
and eight spoonfuls of sugar, and two
or three teaspoonfuls of grated choco
late, also q little lemon if desired, and
spread between the layers.
SALT RISING BREAD.-The earlier
in the morning it is set the better. A
most convenient hour is six o'clock
Take ole pint of water, one half tea
spoonful of salt and one teaspoonful OF
sugar; stir to the thickness of pancake
batter. The water used should be a:
warm as the hand can beer. Place the
vessel containing this bat into water
OF the temperature of that first used
and let it stand for three hours. Ii
that time water will arise to the sur
face; then thicken with flour until thu
batter is rs thick as it was in the com
mencement. Let it stand three hour.
longer when it will again rise, making
a total standing of six hours. TheI
get what flour you need for your bak
ing, scald about one pint of it, and af
ter it is cool mix the rising together
with warm water and mix to stiffness.
to knead on a warm board. A grea
deal of kneading is required. Place
the dough in your baking pan, set asid,
until it rises to twice its original siz,
and then bske in a quick oven. If you
are successful, and careful followin,
of these directions will make you SO
you have the most delicious bread tina
ever entered mOrtars mouth. If vol
have a large baking the ingredient
are to be prOportiOnately increased.