Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
TIE HOUSEHOLD.
Few Good RecIDea,

Homemade Oatmeal Crackers are so nice,
and it is really so little trouble to make them,
that almost any mother or cook can get time
to try this rule: Wet one pint of fine ont
meal with one gill of water; after mixing it
rs well as you can, take it out on the knead-
ing board, on which you have scattered pen-
ty of dry meal roll out very thin, and cut in
squares with sharp knife Bake in a slow
oven, and after you are sure they are done
leave the oven door open TO allow them to
dry. Salt should not be omitted.
Chicken SOup.-In boiling chickens for sal
ads, etc, the broth may be used for soup.
When the chickens are to be served whole,
stuff, and tie in cloth. To the broth add
rice and one thnly-sliced onion. Boil 30 min
utes, season with salt and pepper, add we'll
beaten egg, and serve.
Potato Puf.-To three cupfuls of we'll boil
ed and mashed potatoes add salt butter, and
sufficient cream to make quite moist. Beat
we'll with an egg-beatcr, and when quite light
and smooth add three well beaten eggs. Beat
again thoroughly, pile it high in dish, and
color it in quick oven
Cracker or Mock Lemon Pie For one pic
use one middle-sized cracker or two small
ones, rolled into flakes one cup of water, in
which dissolve one level teaspoonful of tar
tsric acid, one cup of sugar, ono teaspoonful
By using mixed spices instead of lemon, and
adding handful of chopped raisins and a
little butter, you have delicious summer
mince pie.
Cookies. An Iowa housewife gives this re-
cipe, saying; eve did not like cookies at
our house, but we like these One cupful of
New Orleans molasses, half a cupful of water,
half cupful of shortening (this may be Of
butter, lard, or nice beef dripping, and one
teaspoonful each of ginger, cinnamon and
soda. Do not use enough flour to make
hard dough, but have it as soft as you can
and yet have the cookies smooth.
Picked Cabbage will help save the cucumber
pickles Select a nice, firm head and remove
the outside leaves cut it in two and shave it
very fne place it in jar, sprinkle pepper
and salt over, and add two red peppers and
two heads of celery chopped very fine, and
about two tablespoonfuls of white mustard
seed. Pour cold vinegar over it, cover with
plate, and put weight on it to keep the
cabbage under the vinegar. This will be well
picked in about a week
Lemon F'ritterS are delicious. To one cup
full of milk and one egg allow tho juice and
| pulp of one lemon. These may be served
with sauce in that case, add the grated peel
of half lemon to flavor the sauce.
Stetoed CTdRbe11ieS There are ways and
ways of preparing this fruit, but the MAORI
ty of ways are wrong-that is, there is moi
the most made of it that may be. The Der.
RIGS are most unpromising, to begin WITH bu
with proper treatment they may be made de-
licious. To quart Of cranbeTries allow one
pint of cold water and scant quart of gran
ulated sugar Put the berries in a porcelain
lined kettle, cover them with water, and put
them on the back of the stove or range where
they will come slowly to a boil When they
boil put in quarter Of the sugar, pressing
the berries down carefully with spoon, bu
not stirring them add another quarter of su
| gar when the first quarter is melted, and pro
coed in the same way until all the sugar is il
and melted let the syrup boil up then TAX,
them from the stove. 1t will take from hal
to three-quarters of an hour to cook them
and they will be delicious but one thing
must be borne in mind-from first to last thu
berries must not be stirred.
Mullins without soda, if baked in no
oven, will be light and excellent Take one
cupful of sweet milk, one cupful of flour, on
egg well beaten, and third of a teaspoonfu
of salt. Have your gem-pan5 very hot, I'll
about half full, and bake These are mic
with butter alone, or with maple syrup added
Graham Gems This is an excellent recip
for Graham gems, and differs from any befor
given: One cupful of Graham flour, on
oupful of fine -four two eggs, two cupfuls o
sweet milk, one-fourth of a teaspoonful O
salt. Have the gem-pans hot and the oven hot
and 20 minutes will be long enough to bake
them.
Apple Custard Pie should be baked with a,
under crust only The filling is delicious
made of one pint of sweet milk one pint Of
smooth apple sauce well sweetened, and thre
eggs flavor with lemon or little cinnamon
This will make two small pics or one YER
large one.
A Nice Breakfast Dish is made by outtin
pork tenderloins in thin slices and stew ther
in water till they are nearly done; then pu
a little butter in saucepan, and fry them ii
a light brown serve them on buttered toas
with mashed potatoes.