Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-09
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.


bALSAM FOR CHAPPED LIPs.-Take
TWO spoOnfuls clarified honey. with a
Few drops lavender water. or anv 9TH
er perfume. Mix, and annoint the Inns
frequently. f'
MOUNTAIN CAKE.-One cun of
sugar. two eggs. half cup butter. half
cup OF milk or water, two Guns -four
one teaspoonful cream tartar. half taa,
spoonful soda, nutmeg.
CELERY FLAvoRING.-Soakf for
fortnight half an ounce of the seeds of
celery in one pint of brandy. A few
drops of this will flavor pint OF SOM
very nearly as well as if head of cal
cry was stewed in it.
TEA CAKE-One cup of sugar. one
egg, lump of butter as large as half an
egg. one cup of sweet milk, one pint
flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar.
half teaspoonful soda. BY using sour
milk the cream of tartar may be omit
ted.
BREAKFAST CAKE, No lone pint
of milk, three eggs, half cup melted
butter; stir in flour sufficient to make
thin batter. Bake in cups. This
will rise a great deal, and the cups
should be less than half full when put
into the oven.
RoXBURY CAKE-Two pounds or
four coffee cups of flour, one and three
quarters pound or three coffee cups of
sugar, three quarters pound or one cof-
fee cup of butter, two pounds of cur
rants, one pint of milk, six eggs, one
teaspoonful saleratus.
To REMOVE OIL STAINS FROM
BoARDS.-Pipeclay and water mixed to
thick paste, and laid ON to the place,
removes the grease in very short
time. If there is very much grease,
more pipeclay may be applied when the
first has become saturated with it.
BATTER PUDDING.-Four eggs, well
beaten and strained; four tablespoon
fuls of flour, beaten up with the eggs;
pint of milk added, and all we'll beat
en- together. Fill basin. tie buttered
paper over the top. then cloth, put it
in saucepan of boiling water only
large enough to hold it-care must be
taken that the water does not stop boil
ing when the pudding is put in. Let
it boil rapidly for an hour. Serve with
butter melted in thickened and sweet
ened milk in the dish and send cold
butter and sugar to eat with it.
To MAKE CLOTHED CREAM.-When
the milk comes from the cow, put it in
tin can, and place the pan in a s..uce.
pan OF boiling water, so that the latter
comes nearly to the neck of the can, or
at any rate above the milk it contains.
Let the water boil till the milk would
scald the finger on touching it, then
pour the milk into milk pan. Let it
remain in a cold place for forty-eight
hours (when. if the vessels have been
we'll scalded, the milk will be sweet).
then skim the cream off in a mass,
which will be al host thick enough to
cut with knife.
GERMAN SQUAREs.-Rasp the crust
well of a loaf, cut the crumb into
pieces about an inch thick and three
inches square; soak these well in Gus
tard for about two hours, turning
them occasionally; then roll them in
the rasped crust and fry in pan with
lard. Serve with the following sauce
in separate boat: Beat the yolks
and whites Of two eggs on the fire,
pouring in all the time very gently
half a pint of white wine and sugar to
taste. 1t should be served the mo-
ment it is finished, as being all in a
froth it will spoil if it stands.
FOUNTAIN PUDDINGs Crate the
rind of lemon into half a pint Of
cream, boil and strain it, or else put
in the peel of lemon and boil it in the
cream and take it out when cold. Add
to this four eggs we'll beaten, sweeten
to taste with loaf sugar, pour it into
cups and set it in cold water, taking
care that the cold water does not let
into the cream, and let it simmer for
twenty minutes. Turn them out in a
dish and ornament them with currant
jelly, OR melt currant jelly and cover
| the bottom of the dish. and turn the
pudding out upon it. They are excel
lent, either hot or cold
CHEAP SOAP.-Six pounds sal soda,
four pounds lime, four gallons water !;
mix thoroughly; heat, but not to boil
ing, until the soda is dissolved; then,
after the undissolved portion of the
lime has settled, draw off the clear
liquid; to seven and half pounds of
grease, previously heated to melting,
add the liquid by degrees, bringing to
a boil upon the first addition, continue
the boiling for one and three quarters
of al hour, then add half pint of
Common salt and boil fifteen minutes;
set aside to harden. For complete sue
cess of the above, great care must be
observed in drawing eff the water from
the undissolved lime, as the slightest
quantity of lime in the soap will rem
der il liable Tn crumh1o