Daily Republican., 1886-07-27
HOUSEHOLD.

Breakfast rolls without soda.-Two
eggs, u cupfuls of sweet milk, tea
spoonful of salt and -four enough TO
make a thick batter. These must be
baked in an iron gem pan to be sue
cess, and quick oven is desirable.
Potato fritters. Crate six cold boiled
potatoes; add one pint of cream or
milk, and flour enough to make stiff as
other fritters; the yolks of three eggs;
then the beaten whites a little salt, and
fry in hot lard. They are delicious.
Poor mans pudding.-lnto two
quarts of boiling water, stir six heap
ing tablespoonful of meal "a little salt,
and piece of butter the size of an
egg. When nearly cold, add three
we'll beaten eggs, and eight tablespoons
full of sugar or molasses and spice to-
taste.
To cook hominy Take three cups
of water to one cup of hominy; boil
slowly, for three-quarters of an hour;
the longer it boils the better it is; then
add half cuptul of sweet milk to one
cup of hominy, then boil ten minutes
more; stir it frequently while boiling.
Steam wheat pudding .--One cup of
sugar, one cup sweet milk, two cups
-four, two eggs, three tablespoonsful
of butter, two teaspoonsful cream tar
tar, one teaspoonful of soda; one cup
of chopped raisins improves it. Steam
one and a half hours. Serve with
sauce.
Cheese biscuits Take as much
cheese as you want for your biscuit,
and with skim milk mix it into very
stiff paste, after which roll it out to
about the thickness of o penny, then
cut into small pieces the size of a
quarter dollar, and, rolling very thin,
bake in quick oven.
Baked indian pudding. One quart
of milk boiling; sift in meal to make a
thick batter, and one handful of flour.
Before the milk boils put in one cup
of molasses, one teaspoonful of ginger.
Remove from the fire and add two
quarts cold milk and raisins. Bake
three hours.
Breakfast dish.-An excellent dish
for breakfast is made of six eggs and
three tablespoonsful of ham chopped
very fine; beat the eggs, and aftel
melting lump of butter in the frying
pan, drop the eggs into it and stir the
ham in, the ham has, of course, beer
cooked, either fried or boiled; season
with pepper. This is good way tt
use up pieces of meat that are left from
dinner.
Tomato Soup.-Take two pints o
stock Gas given in receipt for stock)
one pint of water, three great spoons
full of rice, and boil till rice is soft
Take can of tomatoes and rub through
a sieve. Add this to the stock ant
season to taste. A little cream and
spoonful of sugar improve it. If no
thick enough, smooth little corr
starch and boil up in it,
Ornamental baskets can be made G
cardboard, painted brown, and the
covered with pieces of irregular cork
previously strung together on thread
!, The handle is composed of loosel
plated strings of cork, either three @
= four, kept down by stitches of brow
cotton. The edge of the basket is don
in much the same way, the rest bein
put on in plain or twisted rows. Thi
is capital way of using up old corks
and amuses children for hours. TIL
: basket is alterward lined with SAITH
plush or cashmere. Flower pot case
2 and boxes can be treated in the sam
way,
Glossy Starch. fake two ounces {
white gum-arabic powder, put into
} pitcher and pour on it pint of boilin
water, according 10 the degree {
strength you desire, and then, havin
f covered it, let it stand all night. |
: the morning pour it carefully from til
dregs into "A clean bottle-keep il fc
use. A tablespoonful of gum waite
stirred into pint of starch that ha
been made in the usual manner wi
give lawns, either black or printed,
look of newness, when nothing els
can restore them after washing. 1t
also good, much diluted, for thin whit
muslin and bobbinet.
Baked clans are relished oy man
persons. Wash fifty soft clans thor
oughly; cut four large, cold, boiled pr
tatoes in very thin slices, and mine
one large, boiled white onion very fine
Butter baking-dish and put in it
, layer of clans, then layer of the pc
tato with little of the onion, das
r of black and cayenne pepper mixed,
4 very little powdered mace, little bu
ter and some finely rolled butter {
r soda crackers. Repeat this until a
the clans are used; then pour over a
, equal parts of milk and water to fl
; the dish two-thirds full. Cover wit
, a good paste, or, ii preferred, with tn
rolled crackers, putting here and thel
!, bits OF butter ON top, and bake three
quarters of an hour in hot oven,