Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-16
HoUsEKEEPeRs' HELP.

FIG CAKE.-Make an ordinary lsyer cake.
Stew the figs until tender. the lay them Do
tween the thin cakes.
INSECT DESTROYER -Borsx powdered
and spripkled around the base-boards ana
on the shelves, will drive cockrosches ana
ants away.
To GER RID OF FLIgs.-Brsnches OF the
elderbush hung in the dining room, win
clear the room Of flies. There Is an door
which the insects detest
LOOK AFrER Your MIRRoRs.-Never
hang your mirrors where the sun shines di
recrly upon them, or they will soon become
rough NIFTY or granulsted, and no longer
give back a correct likeness. The amalgam,
or union of tinfoil and mercury, which Is
alwsys spread on the glass to mage q mirror,
will be speedily ruined by direct and con-
tinued exposure to the sun.
LEMON PIE.-The juice and grated rind
of one lemon, one cup Of white sugar, the
yolks of two eggs, three tablespoontuls OF
sifed -four and sufficient milk to I'LL the
Mate. Make with undercrust, but not the
uppercrust. Bake till nearly done and then
add frosting made Of the beaten whites OF
two eggs, and two tablespooufuls OF pow.
dered sugar, and set back in the oven ana
brown slightly.
RICE CusTARD-Soak half cup OF cold,
cooked rice in one pint OF hot milk until
every prain is distinct. Add the yolks OF
too eggs. beaten with q quarter OF q cup oil
sugar and pinch Of salt, and cook like
soH cnstard While still hot stir in the
whites, beaten stiff. and set away to cool;
Or turn the hot custard into q dish, ana
when cool, cover with meringe Of the
! whites. Brown slightly serve cold.
PurF OMLRSr.-Beat up the yolks Of six
eggs. Mix with small tescupful OF milk
and little salt. Beat together tablespoon
ful each Of butter and flour until smooth;
Add the mixture to the tsgs aSsd beat Oil
we'll togesler. Pour into hot buttered pan,
and wlen it begins to thicken add the whites
u the eggs well beaten. Sprinkle very
little salt on the top, and when stiff remove
carefully to the dish.
FRlrrERs.-Delicious tritters may have
stale bread for the foundation; il care is
| taken in removing any or all the crust that
is dark brown, the fritters will be light col
ored and very inviting in appearance. Eggs
are q good addition, in the proportion OF
| four eggs to one quart of sweet milk; q
spooptQl OF salt and four or FIVE slices OF
bread are al. required The bread should
re Soaking in the milk for two hours Il
can be broken into email bite, and then j.
will not be lumpy.
LEMON PuDDIyG Nine eggs, the whites
beaten to stiff fro,h, one pound Of sugar,
the grated rind and juice Of two lemons,
three ounces or little less Of buttered
cream, ole pint Of milk, one and one-halt
| even tablespoontuls of flour Beat the yoiks
ard sugar until very light, ada the butter,
with which the -four has been smoo bly,
mixed, then the lemons, the milk and the
eggs. WHICH must be beat in slowly, gently
and thoroughly. Bake in deep paste lined
plates, and put il in quite not oven, reduc,
Ing the heat, after the irst eight or ten min.
utes.
| A GoOD DESSERT Lemon cream for
dessert is made by removing the skins from
| four lemons; put this peel into twelve table.
! spoonfuls of water, and let it be there while
you squeeze the juice over eight ounces OF
powdered sugar; beat the yolks Of eight
eggs and to them add the water with the
peel in it; strain this through coarse mus
| lin; put this in saucepan or in basin
and set it in hot water, over brisk FIRE;
stir il until it is thick; pour it into custard
cups; beat the whites Of the eggs stiff add
three tablespoonful OF powdered sugar
| cover The top Of the custard with the mer
inge, set all the cups in deep dripding pan,
ard set this on the CRATE in the oven until
the meripge is Drowned deiicately.
TAKE CARE OF BABY's MILX.-Too much
emphasis cannot be given to the injunction
to keep milk sweet in hot weather. The in.
! iauts natural nourishment needs almost as
much care in summer as does the consumer
OF it. The best method OF keeping 1t I'M
changed, and therefore wholesome, is to set
il in clean, cold refrigerator as soon as it
comes into the house When il is needed,
take the pitcher or cup into which II is to
be poured, and not the milk pan in the kitch
Ell. Nurses generally neglect this precau-
ton. The pan is left in the heated outer
air for FIVE, ten, fifteen minutes, thus caus-
irg the milk to turn" In the country,
where ice lie not readily obtainable really
good cellar, spring-house or dairy through
which runs stream of water is the next
best thing TO refrigerator. II none Of these
are at band pour the milk intended for the
baby mo clean stone jug, cork it securelr,
lie oiled tilk over the stopper, and suspend
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