Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-01-26
Domestic Recipes,

Chocolate Cake, L-One cup of sugar,
tablespoonful of butter, one heaping
cup of -four, one teaspopnful Of cream
tartar sifted in flour. and half tea
spoonful OF soda dissolved in q table
spoonful of sweet milk. Filling
Whites of three eggs beaten to stiff
froth, one cup of sugar (pulverized),
and three tablesponnfuls of grated choc-
olate, and vanilla TO taste. Bake the
cake in jelly cake tins in three layers,
and spread the mixture between and
on top. Eat within thirly-six hours af-
ter baking.
Chocolate Cake, U.--One cupful of
butter, two of sugar, two and a half of
-four. one of sour milk. five eggs. one
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot
water, and half cake of Brker's choc-
olate grated; cream your buttr and
sugar, beat your eggs very light. yolks
and whites separately, OF course; dis
solve your soda and add your chocolate
Just before the flour and whites of the
eggs; bake in jelly cake tins, in five or
six, according to size. Fllng--One
and quarter pounds of white sugar
dissolved in q very little cold water;
beat the whites of three eggs, not to
stiff froth; then stir in the remainder
of the cake of chocolate grated; cook
in boiling water until thick; flavor with
vanilla, and spread between the layers
and on top; should not be eaten until
the day after baking, and will keep
several days.
Jam Sauce.-This is an easy sauce to
make for puddings. Take tablespoon
'ful of raspberry jam, two tablespoon
fuls of water, half an ounce of powdered
sugar, and half a teaspoonful of butter;
put in water first, then butter, and next
sugar, and then add jam; when it is
nearly boiling. take it off and add
wineglassful Of sherry or brandy. or in
stead of water you can use all red wine
Steamed Pudding. One cup of sugar
one-half cup of butter. three eggs, one
cup of milk, three heaping teaspoons o.
baking powder, and three cups of flour
steam one hour.
To Wax a Floor.-Half q pound O
beeswax, melt in saucepan. add hal
a gill of linseed oil and half a gill O.
spirits OF turpentine. Be careful not tt
let the mixture take fire. A quarter o
an ounce Of alcanet root gives a rec
color if melted with the wax. You mus
strain all through coarse muslin if yo'
e. use it.
Soft Soap. Ito one pound of pot
e ash add three gallons of water; boil tn
potash until it is all dissolved; then adj
three pounds of any kind of soap
grease the cleaner the better-to tn
lye, and set it boiling; it usually be
comes soap after boiling from one
five hours; let it boil slowly, so that
will not boil over; if it boils down be
fore it becomes soap, add sufficient wa
ter to keep the same quantity in th
kettle until it is soap; then add min
gallons of water and stir well together
when cool this will be beautiful whit
soap, if the grease was clean.
Soft Soap, H. Take twenty-on
pounds of clean grease, free froI
Jumps; put it into clean barrel whic
is water-tight; purchase fourtee
pounds OF potash at any wholesale drus
gist's, the price of which is usually eigh
cents per pound; dissolve the potash
brass kettle over the fire; pour th
solution into the barrel. and stir th
same welltwo or three times the fir
day; then add one or two pals of watt
morning and evening as it thicken
and stir thoroughly every time you I'D
water; continue to add water until Il
barrel is full; usually procure q
empty fish barrel for the purpos
which cleanse with hot water; in vii
ter use warm water to make the soa]
cold will answer in summer; concel
trated lye, in cans and sold By all gr'
GERS, is too expensive to use; therefor
nrocure potash. as stated above.