Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-11
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.


LEMON PIE.-Grated rind and Juice
OF one lemon, one cup of sugar, one
cup OF water, one egg, one teaspoenful
of -four.
SPARE RIBS are good hroiled, though
few people know it. Crack the bones
and broil over good bed of Goals
Serve with apple omelet.
WHEN using the whites of eggs for
nice cake, the yolks need not be wasted !:
Keep them in a cool place, and scramble
them for supper. Serve on toast. or
with Clipped beef.
HERMITS SPLENDID.-Three eggs.
one and a half cups of sugar, one CUP
OF chopped raisins, one cup of butter.
one teaspoon OF all kinds of spice.
Make thick as snaps.
BREAKFAST CAKEs.-One cup of
rye meal, one cup of -four, quarter of a
cup OF sugar, half a teaspoon of salt,
one teaspoon of cream of tartar, half
teaspoon soda, one egg beaten with a
cup of milk.
To IMPROVE STARCH.-To each
bowl of starch add one teaspoon of
EPSON salts, and dissolve in the usual
way by boiling. Articles starched
with this will be sitter, and will be
rendered to certain degree fire-proof.
BUTTER SCOTCH-the children's ia
vorite-is made Of one cup of butter,
one cup of sugar. and one cup of mo-
lasses. Boil until it hardens in cold
water. Then spread it thinly in pans
and mark it in little squares or dia-
monds.
GOOD LACQUER FOR BRASS. Seed
lac, six ounces; amber or copal, two
ounces; best alcohol, four gallons; pull
verified glass, four ounces; dragons
blood forty grains; extract of red san
dial wood, obtained by water, thirty
grains.
Mock MINCE PIEs.-The following
will make three pies: Five crackers.
one cup of raisins chopped, one cup of
sugar, three-fourths of a cup of vine
gar, one cup of molasses, one cup of
water, half a cup of butter. Spice of
all kinds.
MOTH POwDER.-Lupuline (flour of
hops) one drachm; Scotch snuff, two
ounces; gum camphor, one ounce
black pepper, one ounce; cedar saw
dust, four ounces. Mix thoroughly,
and strew for put in papers) among the
furs or woolen to be protected.
LIQUID FOR CLEANING SILVER
Add gradually eight ounces of prepared
chalk to a mixture of two ounces of
spirits Of turpentine, one ounce of al.
cohol, half an ounce of spirits of cam
phor, and two drachms of aqua ammo
MIA. Apply with soft sponge, and
allow it to dry before polishing.
To REMOVE OLD IRON MoLD.--Dr.
Thomson recommends that the part
stained should be remoistened with
ink, and this removed by the use of
muriatic acid diluted with five or six
times its weight of water, when it will
be found that the old and the new
stain will be removed simultaneously.
ORANGE PUDDING Take layer of
sponge cake, then layer of oranges,
and so on until you get your dish full.
then make a custara of the yolks of
a
and sugar, and pour over the top, then
beat the whites to a froth, ice over the
top. put in the oven and let it bake a
slight brown. -
QUEEN OF PUDDINGs.- pint of
bread crumbs, one quart of sweet milk,
yolks of four eggs, piece of butter size
of an egg. Flavor and bake. Beat
the white of the eggs to froth with
one cup Of pulverized sugar. Spread
over the pudding layer of jelly, pour
the eggs over and slightly brown.
Serve with cold cream.
CHOCOLATE JUMBLES-One and a
half teacups of white sugar, one-half
a teacup of sweet cream, one-half
teaeup Cf butter, one teaeup of choco-
late. half teaspoon of soda dissolved
in the cream, one teaspoon of cream
of tartar, one egg. Work very stiff
with -four, mix the chocolate and cream,
of tartar in the -four, roll thin, cut
with cutter.