Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-27
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

ECONOMICAL PUDDING-Ane excel
lent way OF using ftale biscuit or cake,
Is TO pound them fine III a mortar.
then mix with them two eggs with
their weight in butter: beat all to
cream, pour into mould and steam
ms Is excellent cold witt fruit. such
as stewed prunes or apples.
EoP YEAsT.-Three large potatc es.
one handful &c hops; put in a small
Dag; put the~potatoes and hops into
TWO quarts of water and boil down to
one quart; take out the bag OF hops
aud potatoes; mash the potatoes fine
and throw back into The boiling wa
ter; stir -four into this while hot until
IL Is quite stiff; let it stand until it is
nearly cold, then add half eupful of
yeast, half a cupful of sugar, one Ia
DleSpoOnful of salt and half a table
spoonful Of ginger; set in q warm
place to rise; when light put into a
covered jar and place into a cool place.
CLEANSING 4 BRUSSELS CARPET
First have the carpet well shaken, then
tack down in the room where it is to
remain; sweep it as thoroughly as nos
sible; take pail of hot water. put in
two tablespoonfuls of pulverized borax:
wash the carpet all over the surface.
using flannel cloth. For grease spots
or very dirty places, use scrubbing
brush freely, and a very little soap
taking care to rinse the soap off well
after scrubbing; change the water
quite often; rub the carpet well with a
dry cloth after washing, and open doors
aud windows 80 as to dry the carpet as
quickly as possible.
CREAM PIE-TO make a good cream
pie dissolve one cup sugar, one egg.
piece Of butter size of an egg. and one
teaspoon soda, in cup of sweet milk:
add to this, when mixed together, two
teaspoons cream tartar rubbed in three
cups of -four, and bake in three ielly
cake tins. A fine cream for the inside
OF the pie is made by adding seven tea
spoons cornstarch wet with milk to
one and half cups of boiling milk;
let 1t scald a moment. then add two
Well beaten eggs. Sweeten to taste,
and flavor with lemon or vanilla. Split
the cakes when cold, spread them with
the cream, and put it together again
like jelly-cake.
To DESTROY HOUSE INSECTS TO
thoroughly rid house of red and
black ants, cockroaches, bed bugs. spld.
ers and all crawling pests which infest
our homes, take two pounds Of alum
and dissolve it in three or four quarts
of boiling water. Let it stand ON the
fire until the alum disappears, then ap-
ply it with brush, while nearly boil
ing hot, to every joint and crevice in
your closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves,
and the like. Brush the creYices in
the floor of the skirting or mop boards
if you suspect that they harbor YER
min. Cockroaches will flee the paint
which has been washed in cool alum
water. If, in washing a ceiling, plenty
of alum is added to the lime, it will al
so serve to keep insects at a distance.
SNOW JELEY CAKE.-Beat two eggs
in teacup and fill up with rich, sour
cream; one teacup of white sugar, one
cup of -four, little soda-not quite a
teaspoOnful, unless the cream Is very
sour. Bake in four round tins, and
brown as little as possible. Have a
jelly prepared by soaking four table
spoonfuls of tapioca in water until
transparent, then add more " ater and
place your dish in boiling water on
stove and cook until a transparent
jelly; flavor strong with lemon, almond
or wintergroen. Gelatine is just as
nice as tap:Oca. This cake is not ex-
pensive and is very nice, and can be
eaten by dyspeptics.
GRAHAM BREAD.-.Almoste everybody
would like Graham bread if it were
properly made, and the children ought
to have it at least twice week. The
way to make it is to take some of the
white bread sponge, add a half cup of
molasses and enough sponge for one
half, little warm water, and stir, not
knead, the Graham -four into it, make
the dough only little sitter than for
corn-meal bread, let it rise and bake il
in slow oven. Another way, which
has the advantage of being made quick
er than the other, is to take two cups OF
Graham -four, and one cup Of white
-four, one cup of sour milk, half cup
of mOlasseS, one teaspo0nul of salera-
tus; stir it thoroughly, and put into
welI-buttered tin and steam two hours,
then dry off in the oven. Anyone who
does not like this must not be easily
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