The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-02
Household Hints.

Oatmeal cookies combine many good
qualities, and will be reished by child
ren. Make them Just like an ordinary
cooky, using two-thirds oatmeal and one
third wheat flour.
Light kid gloves may benicely cleaned
with little fresh milk, white CASTLE or
common soap, and clean white CLOTH
Rub little soap, whetted with the milk,
on the glove, and use a clean portion of
the cloth each time.
Cold boiled rice left over from dinner
makes excellent hot pancakes for next
mornings breakfast when mixed with q
little flour, milk, one egg and a spoonful
OF sugar to form rather stiff batter
Then fry in a very little hot butter
If the family is very small, and large
loaves of bread are likely to become stale
before they can be eaten, it is a good
plan to make two little loaves for one tin.
They will keep their shape all right, and
will not run together or adhere any more
than rolls or biscuits do.
Apple custard pie should be baked
with an under crust only. The filling is
delicious if made of one pint of sweet
milk, one pint of smooth apple sauce,
well sweetened, three eggs; flavor with
little cinnamon. This will make two
small sized pies or one very large one.
A nice dish for breakfast is made by
cutting pork tcnderloins in thin slices;
stew them in water until they are nearly
done; then put little butter in a sauce
pan, and fry them till light brown;
serve them on buttered toast. with
mashed potatoes and raw tomatoes sliced
thin.
A way to cook bcefsteak, which makes
it almost as good as when broilcd. is to
heat a spider red hot and put in the
steak, after pounding it for few
moments. Turn quickly and Often and
serve Immediately when done, with
piece of butter on the top. No lard or
fat should be put in the pan.
Delicious oatmeal cruel may be made
by stirring cupful of oatmeal into
bowl of water, allowing it to stand for
few minutes until the cOarsest particles
have fallen to the bottom, pouring off
the water and repeating the operation
once or twice. The water should then
be boiled, stirring it constantly until it is
sufficiently cooked.
IOtdlO Cdhc Is easy 10 Hlikc anu very
nice. Take the mashed potatoes left
from dinner and remove all Jumps soften
with little milk, one egg, pinch of
salt, and "A spoonful of sugar; mix in
enough sifted flour to make dough, and
then make into cake to fit round
griddc, and about an inch or more thick.
Dust with flour only, and place on the
griddle over rather slow fire turn often,
and when half done cut in triangles from
the center. These cakes are to be eaten
hot with butter. They are very health
full, as they contain no soda.
Barley soup is excellent if the stock is
sufficiently rich. To make it so cut
three slices of bacon and two pounds of
the neck of veal in small pieces; put
them in a saucepan or small kettle with
IL pint of water. Let this simmer for
three quarters of an hour, then add one
small onion, Il carrot, two stalks of celery,
a bouquet of herbs, half a teaspoonful of
black pepper, "A teaspoonful of salt, and
two quarts of water. Let this boil for at
least two hours then take from the fire,
and when cold remove the fat or scum
from the top, strain the soup, and put on
the fire, and add pint of barley which
has been washed and soaked in cold water
for three hours ut least. There should
be pint of the barley after it is soaked.
This is the proper proportion for two
Quarts of sOuD