The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-20
DOMESTIC RECEIPTS.

Isl Crab-Apple Jell y. Boil the apples,
with Just water enough to cover them.
until tender. Mash with a spoon, and
strain out the juice. Take pint of
. juice to pound of sugar; boil thirty
minutes, and strain through q hair
sieve.
Spiced Apple Tarts. Rub stewed tart
apples through sieve; sweeten and
flavor with mace or cinnamon. Line
soup plates with o crust, fill with the
apple, and lay bars of crust quarter
of an inch wide over the top of the tart
Bake till the crust is done.
Sweet Apples Make Delicious Pickles.
Peel and quarter the apples, boil them
until tender in vinegar and water TO
one quart of vinegar add two pounds
of sugar; heat the vinegar, and dis
solve the sugar in it; add cloves and
cinnamon, and pour over the apples
while hot.
Rice Fruit Pudding. large tea
cup of rice, q little water to cook it
with the rice; fill up with CHARTERED
apple, or any fruit you choose. Cover
with rice. Tie a cloth over the top,
and steam one hour. To be eaten
with sweet sauce. Do not butter the
dish.
Meat Pie.-Take mashed potatoes
seasoned with salt, butter and milk and
line baking-dish. Lay upon it slices
OF cold meat of any kind; add salt,
pepper, catsup, and butter, or any cold
gravy; put in layer of potatoes, and
another layer of meat in the same way
till the dish is full; have layer of po-
tatoeS on the top. Bake it until it is
thoroughly heated through.
Rice Chicken Pie.-Cover the bottom
of a pudding dish with slices of broiled
ham; cut up broiled chicken and near
ly fill the dish; pour in gravy or melted
butter to fill the dish; add chopped on
ions if you like. or a little curry-pow-
der, which is better; then add boiled
rice to fill all interstices and to cover
the top thick. Bake it for one-half or
three-quarters of an hour.
Steamed Rice.-One of the best ways
to cook rice is to steam it; best because
it is no trouble; all that is needed is to
be sure to put in plenty of water. If
you wish for rice pudding and have
not planned for it hours before by cook
ing the rice in this way, you can have
it in surprisingly short time. One
cup of rice viii make croquettes and
pudding enough for a family of four.
Cheap Sponge Cake.-Three eggs,
two tablespoonfuls of water and a tea
cupful of sugar mixed together; tea
cupful and a half of flour. two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, and a
pinch of salt stirred buckley in; sea-
son with teaspoonful of essence of
vanilla, or half lemon; bake in a
quick oven. 1t can be baked in jelly
cake pans, and have pastry-cooks'
cream, lemon, icing. or chocolate be-
Stewed Veal your meat in
pieces, wash them clean. put them into
the dinner-pot, add pints of water,
put in l onion, some pepper and salt,
let it stew 1 hour; then add potatoes
sliced, and make a crust of sour milk
or cream tartar, and put in and stew
till the potatoes are done, about half an
hour; the crust may be made into bis
cults. Crumbs of kind of fresh meat
may be used in making stew.
To Drive Away Flies.-Buy an ounce
of oil of lavender and pour half of it
in a pint bottle of cold water, and
shake it up; the mixture is a mechan-
ical one only; if dissolved in alcohol it
is perfect solution; but this becomes
more expensive; scatter your water and
oil of lavender on the table-cloth and
the flies will go away;. three or four
doses sufficed TO drive away pest of
flies from a country clearinghouse
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