Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-03-20
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peilS poled, may De improved and gloss
added to the garments, by scraping in lit
tie bit OF pure soap. Stirring with star
candle is also good. Sois bit of pure lard
| Potatoes in Bread-Bread made BY adding
few boiled and finely mashed potatoes to
the flour when setting the sponge, is liked
better by many persons than when made
without potatoes, and does not dry SO
quickly.
Home-Made Yeast-Excelent homemade
yeast may be made by grating raw potatoes.
after being washed and peeled ; pour boiling
water over the pulp which cooks it into
starch Add salt and sugar in usual quanti-
~, and when cool enough add little good
yeast. Two medium sized potatoes will
make enough for first trial. Try this.
Breadmaking.-Bread in winter is often OF
course open texture, which was produced
by the dough being kept too warm,
that in winter, in the effort to keen the
dough sufficiently warm, it is often over
heated. Some honsekeepers never add salt
until the bread is kneaded for the last time.
as 1t retards the rising" of the dough.
Fried Meat Cakes.-Raw beef, salt and
pepper lard, onion, butter, egg. bread
crumbs, potatoes; chop any kind of lean
raw meat (but beef lis particularly nice) as
you Would for sausage, season with salt,
pepper and chopped onion; shape into flat
cakes,dip the cakes in egg and bread crumbs,
and fry in part butter and lard drain on a
stralner, have ready dish of nicely mashed
potatoes, on which put your beef cakes and
serve.
Preparing G1assaoare-It is ascertained
from experience that it is always best to
Doll lamp chimneys and china-ware and Or
binary glassware before using any of them.
Inc glass is greatly toughened by the pro-
cess, and the boiling of china-ware prevents
1t from subsequent cracking. Lamp chin
neys and shades, which are stained, NAV be
thoroughly cleaned by boiling them in soda
water-using ordinary washing soda-whicb
is necessity in kitchen. The glass or
china should be put in enough cold water
to cover the articles, with a cloth or board
In the bottom, and brought gently to the
boiling point, when it may boil from one
hour to six according to convenience,
Corn Meal Breakfast Cakes.-When milk
is scarce very good cakes can be made bv
the following recipe Six tablespoonfuls
OF corn meal, one spoonful of wheat tlonr
four OF sugar, one of baking powder, half
teaspoon of salt. Mix these well, leavino
no Jumps of sugar Break in one egg. You
may leave out the white for coffee and pse
only the yolk. Stir thoroughly into the
meal a6Gipr
three or four spoonsfuls, stir brlskly, and
water enough to make ra her thin batter.
linen add half cup of suet, cut fine, and
stir all together and bake either in gems or
common baking pans. Excellent for Quick
breakfast for healthy people in winter
morning. Another way is to leave out the
suet and most of the sugar and proceed az
aDeVe. Excellent cakes can be made with
out much milk. If there is time beat the
egg light before putting it in.
Hoao to Wash Table Linsn.-When table
linen has been stained with fruit, the stains
Will entirely disappear If the linen is put in
scalding water before il has been washed or
wet in cold water, Always put all table
linen IN not water. A very nice addition to
the table is table cover, over which the
table cloth is laid. Wide felt is manufactured
expressly for the purpose, but it is rather
too expensive. An excellent substitute il
heavy canton flannel, which can be sewed
together through the middle and dressed
flat along the seam. Lay the flannel furry
side up The advantages of having thick,
white cloth under the table-cloth are these
lile laOle-cloth Will lie more smoothly will
present better appearance and will wear
longer while the pleasurableness of the ia
BILE is much enhanced by it. If the top of
the table is uneven, or of cheap or unfin-
ished material, these defects are hidden bv
the thick under cover, which also absorbs
" spillings" more eftectually than the single
cloth.