The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-30
HoUsEKEEPER's HELP.


SPRINGFIELD SODA BIscUIT.-One
quart of -four, one pint milk, piece butter
size of an egg, one teaspoonful soda dis
solved in milk, two teaspoonfuls cream
tartar sifted in -four with salt.
KEEP OFF MoTHs.-A small piece of
paper or linen, moisteDed with the spirits
Of turpentine and put into bureau
or wardrobe for single day, two or three
times, is said to be sufficient preserY-
atiye against moths.
WELSH RAREBIT.-Cut half pound
Of cheese into slices quarter of an inch
thick; put a piece of butter the size OF
an egg into small frying-pan; lay in
the cheese and cook it about five minutes;
add two eggs well beaten, a small spoon
full of mustard and little pepper. Serve
hot on toast.
To MAKE VANILLA EXTRAcT-Van-
lila extract can be made as easy as the
lemon. To half pint of alcohol allow
two vanilla beans; cut them in very
small bits, put them in bottle, and
pour the spirits over them. If possible
have bottle with glass stopper. In
two weeks the extract will be ready for
use, and will be very satisfactory as well
as inexpensive.
SAUCE OF DRIED PEACHEs.-A sauce
made of dried peaches is excellent with
cold meats of all kinds. Soak the
peaches all night, after having washed
them in two or three waters, so that the
water in which they are soaked can be
used to stew them in. When they are
stewed tender, cut them perfectly smooth
with a spoon, sweeten, and favor with a
very little ginger.
MINUTE PUDDING-One quart of milk
salt, two eggs, about a pint of flour.
Beat the eggs WE'LL add the -four and
enough milk to make 1t smooth Butter
the saucepan, and put in the remainder |
of the milk well sailed; when it boils |
stir in the flour, etc., lightly; let it cook |
well. 1t should be of the consistency of |
thick corn mush. Serve Immediately |
with the following simple sauce, namely |
milk sweetened to taste and favored /
with grated nutmeg. /
THE BEST OF FLANNEL CAKEs.-For
flannel cakes take one pint of sweet
milk, half teaspoonful of salt, two tea
sPoonfuls of sugar, yolks of two eggs,
and flour (sifted) enough to make thin
batter just thick enough so bake ON
griddle; when we'll beaten add two tea
of good baking powder, mix
sR0roughly, and lastly, add whites of
eggs beaten to q stiff froth; do not beat
them in, but stir gently through the bat
ter; bake at once.
= BREAD CAKE.-Bread cake fried may
be a novelty to some cooks. To two cups
and half of bread dough, allow one
cup and a half of sugar, two eggs, a
quarter of a cup of melted butter, half
teaspoonful of salt, and little nutmeg.
Knead them well into the dough, using
as much flour as is needed to make a
smooth dough. Let it rise then until it
is very light, then knead again, and cut
out in fancy shapes; let them rise again,
and fry in boiling fat.
BOILED Wrap in Toured
cloth and drop into cold water in which !
a tablespoonful of salt has been dissol- !.
ed. Boil for thirty minutes. Egg sauce
Take a small cupful of butter and
rub into it half teaspoonful of -four !
Pour upon it gill of boiling milk,
throw in few sprigs of parsley tied up
with q thread. Let it boil minute,
remove it from the fire and take out the t
parsley. Stir into it two hard-boiled
eggs chopped fine. Dip little of it over
the fish before serving.
CHICKEN FRIED WITH SALT Pork /
After very tender chicken is cleaned :
and cut up, roll the pieces in flour sea- i
soned with salt and pepper; slice half !
pound of fat salt pork in thin slices, put e
it into a fryingpan and fry it brown; b
then take it up and keep it hot; put the il
chicken into the drippings and fry it n
brown. When the chicken is brown, a
cover it with boiling water, season the i
gravy palatably with salt and pepper, I
let it boil for moment, and then serve
the chicken and fried porkon the same
dish, sending the gravy to the tablet = 5
bowl. ss-sss---l s-s-~ /
GRAHAM GEMs-One pint ofigraham, e
two teaspoons of baking powder. one :
tablespoon of shortening, one even spoon |
of sugar, little salt. Mix baking pow !
der with the -four, rub the shortening 7
through it, and stir with milk till it Is :
thin enough to drop from aspoon. Some 7
cooks like to add an egg The pans v
should be hot and thoroughly
creased, and should stand on the stove Z
while they are filled and moment I
longer, until the gems begin to rise, then \
the must be put on the upper crate of Q
the oven. They will bake in fifteen {
minutes if the oven is hot. n
cOESED BEEF HASH, NEW ESsIlSp :
all cartilage and skin
from cold coraed beef, but do not take
sway the fat, and thench0p it fines chop
an equal quantity by measufe of cold
boiled potatoes; season the beef and q
potatoes rather highly, put them into Il
] frying-pan containing two heapine G
of butter and stir the +
hash until il is quite hot; then move il p
70 one side Of tue pan, press it firmly 81
together In an oblong cake, and let the D
bottom brown; when the bottom is nice Z,
y Drowned, turn the hash ont on hot %
fish without disturbing its shape, and IN
'erye it hot. sc
WORTH KEowING-A teaspoonfui of m
kerosene to gallon of water will destroy n
.urrant worms, green flies, roseworms | e
md other insects without injury. to the -
most delicate plants, even fuchias, 81
,eraninms, callas, etc, If applied with d or
two or three times a IN
week. We learn from another source ~
hat corn cobs saturated with kerosene a
md hung upon the limbs of plum trees s.
will keep away the cureulio. and also 81
hat one ounce Of gum eamphor dissolved / 81
q one pint of alcohol mixed well With s.
me pint of tuFpentine, and app1ied with | 81
! brush all over the bedstead. Il 4 sure q
remedy for bedhuus II.