The Indianapolis journal., 1885-05-31
and let it stand IN very cool, but perfectly
dry place for twelve months longer It is then
ready for being nut INTO hottlss


dry place for twelve months longer It is then
ready for being put into bottles
This recipe for hoe-cake is given for the bene-
fit OF those who believe that corn bread in any
other shape is not so sweet: Sift one quart of
white Indian meal into pan, make hole in the
middle and pour in pint of warm water, add
ing one teaspoonful of salt; mix these gradually
with spoon into soft dough, stir very briskly
for hfteen minutes or more until it becomes
light and spongy; then spread the dough smooth
and evenly on straight, fat board Ia piece from
the head of -four barrel will serve for this pur-
pose), place the board nearly upright before an
open fire or the crate of the range, and put an
iron against the back to support it, bake it we'll,
and, when done, break into squares tear open,
butter and send to table hot
This is Miss Paroa's way Of making straw
berry shortcake: Half cupful of butter, a cup
ful OF sugar three cupfuls and quarter of -four,
one or milk, three eggs, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, and the juice of half lemon.
Beat the butter to cream and gradually beat
the sugar into it. Add the lemon Juice the eggs
well beaten and finally the -four, mixed with the
baking powder. Bake in pans in moderate
oven for twenty minutes. Hull and mash three
plnts of Strawberries and mix them with cup
full of sugar Spread the berries and sugar on
two OF the cakes and over the fruit spread
whipped cream. just before the cake is to go to
the table. Put the remaining strawberries and
sugar over each. Cover with whipped cream.
There are two substances to be found in every
house which make excellent emetics in an
emergency-common salt and mustard. Dis
solve as much salt in cup of warm water as the
water will hold in solution; give this every five
minutes until the desired effect is produced.
Mix tablespoonful of mustardwth tumbler
full of water to about the consistency of milk;
give one-fourth of it at once, and follow with
cupful of warm water; repeat the dose every
three minutes, until the whole is taken. Plentl-
ful draughts Of luke-warm water materially as
sst the action of any emetic, and should always
De gwen The stimulating properties OF mus
tard make it particularly valuable Ii nothing
else is at hand. cupful after cupful OF warm
water-not hot-is a safe emetic.
Good Cheer gives the following directions for
making what is certainly inexpensive and is
said to be a comfortable hammock: Bring your
old flour barrel from the cellar or storeroom,
knock it to pieces, clean and paint the slaves.
Procure rope four times the length of the place
where it is to be suspended, and in size little
larger than clothes line. Now halve the rope,
double each piece in the middle. and commenc-
ing two yards or so from the end, weave it over
and under each stave about three inches from
the end of each one, which will bring the rope
crossed between each; do both sides the same
and your hammock is complete. Ono end of the
rope should be fastened up higher than the
other. AT first this may not seem firm, but
when there is any weight on it the rope be-
comes ''taut, }" as the sailors say, consequently
there will be openings.
A writer in an exchange gives this method of
preparing rare perfume: Gather all the fragrant
roses you can-no matter if you are week gath
ering-and when you get coed many take an
iron mortar and peste. like druggist has, fill
the mortar and pound the leaves to pulp. 1t
will be quite like lump of dough Then take
your thimble and use it for measure-fll it
full of the mixture, empty out into your hand,
and between your palms roll and roll. until you
make compact little bail, round as marble.
Make up all your dough material this way,
place on plates and dry in the sunshine They
will be dark and brown looking, but
1.-THE scent of the roses will cling to them still"
These are to put in drawers and trunks and
band boxes and among your bed and table and
towel linen, and they will be just fragrant for
years as when you plucked the short-lived beau
ties and buried your face lovingly down into
their glowing red hearts. / have made beads of
them by making them trife smaller, and dry
ing them with pins stuck through the centers.
Then they be strung. Again, have made
them into little thin cakes the size of crackers.
They are nice any way, for the great charm re-
mains the same. Now, supposing an old blind
man didn't die and will you his tin box and all
his traps including an apothecary's mortar and
pestle, like he did me. Not likely. But where
there's will" etc, ETC. You take your
ew-kettle and your potato masher in pinch.