Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-01
TEE HOUSEHOLD.

If you have garden do not throw away
the soapsuds from the laundry keep it to
use as fertilizer for your flower beds.
A nice way to prepare potatoes for break
fast is to cut cold boiled ones in square
pieces and dip them in beaten egg, and
put them on 8 buttered pie plate in the
oven when they are hot and brown send
them to the table.
Caper sauce is nothing more nor less than
drawn butter sauce with two or three
tablespoonfuls of French capers added /;
put them in before you take the sauce from
the fire lemon juice may be added if you
choose. The capers come in bottles ready
for use.
An economical splasher for every day
use, behind the washstand, is made of en-
ameled cloth the edge may be prettily
finished with scallops of scarlet flannel !;
these may be pasted TO the edge with a
little mucilage. This is so easily kept
clean that it is very successful appendage
to the washstand.
An excellent way to wash black cambria
and calico dresses is first to prepare water
for it thus To four quarts of cold water
allow pint of wheat bran bill it for half
an hour, then strain it and wash the dress
in it do not use soap unless there are
greese spots, and then only on those Blue
the starch deeply, and iron on the wrong
side.
a very easy way to poach eggs is to get
boiling water in your muffin. tins and set
them on the hottest part of the stove !;
break the eggs in saucer, then drop one
in each tin /; In two or three minutes they
will be done, and can be taken up one at q
time in good shape with the help of a small
strainer season with butter, pepper and
salt.
Welsh rsrebit is delicious when made
sitter this rule: Half pound Of cheese,
three eggs, one small cup OF bread crumbs,
two tablespoonfuls of melted batter, mus
tard and salt to taste. After beating the
cheese in an earthen dish add the other in
gradients, then spread on the top of slices
of bread, toasted OF not as you choose, and
set in the oven to melt.
Currant fritters are made of one cup and
a half of very fine bread crumbs, one table,
spoonful and half of -four, one cup and
half Of sweet milk, one-quarter of pound
of well-washed English currants drain the
currants thoroughly, two eggs, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, a small lump of butter.
Flavor with cinnamon or nutmeg to suit
your taste; drop in spoonfuls in hot lard
and fry until done. Eat with wine and
sugar.
Never put ginger snaps in jar while
they are hot take them from the tins and
lay them on plates to cool, otherwise they
will steam and become moist and will not
be crisp and brittle other cookies will not
need SO long cooling process, and cake
which you wish to keep week or ten days
is improved by being wrapped in towel
while it is still in the tin let it stand in
this way for two OF three hours.
A cheap tea cake is make OF one cup Of
sour milk, one cup of sugar, half cup Of
butter, one egg, one cup of raisins Stoned
and chopped), one teaspoonful of soda dis.
solved in little hot water, one teaspoonful
of spices, and two cups and half of flour.
This should be eaten while fresh, but if i,
is not, after two or three days, beat the
white of an egg to a froth and add sugar
enough to make frosting for the top o.
the cake. This will insure its being eater
if there are children in the family.