Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-11-07
GOUSEHO.~ RECEIPTS.

For A CoLp-Drink tea made by
sleeping together equal parts of catnip.
spearmint and sassafras Steep, but do not
let the tea boil put the feet also into hot
water.
SNowpEN PrDDrJG. Half pound brea6
crumbs, half pound beef suet, half pound
moist sugar, the rind and juice Of two lem
ons, three eggs. Boil two nouns, serve with
! wine sauce.
BOSTON PIE. without shorteniug Three
eggs, one cup of sugar, one and a-half cups
6oar, one teaspoon cream tartar, half tea
spoon soda, salt Bake on two round TING,
when cold split and Eli.
To TAkE orT CREAsE.-Dry bucl1weat
aoar, IL repeatedly applied, will remove en-
arely TIE worst grease spots on carpets OF
any WOODEN cloth, and will answer as Q
Wrench chslS Tor grease spots on silk.
WAITER CAsy.-Onc cup eugar, two eggs,
half cup fnltter, emp water, two tea
spo2na cream tartar, one teaspoon soda;
be1a .he butter and eggs to O cream, then
add the other ingredients; stir we'll, bake
quick.
To Cook EGes NrCRLY.-Put them IN
boiling water, oover close and set them on
the hearth let them remain fifteen min.
dtes. This will cook them clear through
without hardening the white. The differ
snce in the flavor is astonishing.
FILLIEe.-Two eggs, half cup Of flour,
one cup sugar stirred in pint of boiling
| milk. Flavor with vanilla. Stir constant.
| y 70 keep from scorching; put half IN one
| ole; put on the top and sift puiyerized
sugar ON or put on frosting.
ROMAN soUp.-Twelve potatoes sliced
| and soaked in cold water one hour; boil ib
,ns quart water till tender, strain or moab
weu, add one pint milk, and let 1t scald
with one onion, butter, pepper, and salt, and
one bay leaf; chop parsley fine and throw
n Just before serving.
To CHANGE RED HAIR TO LIGHT OR
YELLOW. Put heaping tablespoonful on
baking soda or saleratus in quart Of waite,
and wash the head and hair with It, Do
this three or four times week, and the
hair will become silky and light. OF course
the darker the hair the longer time 1t win
require to bleach it.
SWEET RIscUITs Rub four ounces OF
butter into eight ounces of flour, add six
ounces of ground loaf sugar. the yolks
Of two eggs, the white of one and table
spoonful Of brandy. Roll the paste thin
aud ca. 1t with wine glass or cutter,
egg over the top of each with the remain
ing white and sift ON sugar bake in Q
moderate oven.
EATING FRurr-A distinguished physi-
cian has said that If his patients would
make practice of eating a couple of good
oranges before breakfast from February to
June h,s practice would be gone. The
principal evil is tnat We DO not eat enough
Of fruit; that we injure its finer qualities
with sugar; chat we drown them in cream.
We need the medical actions Of the pure
sr,it acid in our system and their cooling,
corrective influence
HAM 'TDWlcHEs Boil the ham take
on third fat, tw o-thirds lean, chop fine,
at q small teaspoonful each of pepper sauce
and Norces ire, little mustard and cay
srae pepper mix thoroughly and keep in q
tightly covered bowl. To make sandwiches,
slice your bread evenly, spread thinly with
butter, then spread with the prepared ham,
tluckly or thinly, as suits your taste; cut
the slices across, and place the halves to-
gethex with the ham between.
tnICKEN PIE-Cut up large chicken
4 it is tough parboil it. Place your crust
ia deep, we'll buttered pudding dish then
Ci Ol Oiiih S~ip pun, thAu oi oheto O 10Y %
D. chicken pepper it ohop up two or three
hard boiled eggs, and sprinkle some over the
chicken then more pork, chicken and egg,
until the chicken and half pound of pork il
used up; pour in enough OF the water In
which it was parboiled to make a gravy
cover with n crust, ornament it a little
bake an hour, Or longer if the pie is very
large.
LEMON FCDDI,TG Nine eggs, the whites
beaten to u stat fioth, two lemons, the
grated rind and juice, one pound Of sugar
three ounces or a little less Of butter cream
ed, one pint of milk and one and half
even tablespoonful of flour. Beat the yolks
and sugar until very light, add the butter,
with which the flour has been smoothly
mixed. then the lemons, ths milk and the
eggs, which must be beaten in slowly,
past< bned plates, and put in quite hot
oven, feducing the heat after the first eight
or ten minutes.
THE Freie Presse, Of San Antonio, tells OF
species of ants found in this State which
nuke honey equal to any that is produced
" bees. The little insects store the honey,
81 they gather it, in a pouch about the size
+ small pea thet is attached to their
bodies. When this is full they march into
the cells of their subterranean habitations,
and there unload The I'fesse says that
these ant-hills are as full OF honey as bee-
Owes, and suggests that they could be
,urned to the same practical food producing z
uee if similar care were taken III breeA il.
ana .ultiyating the iusea'