Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-13
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Stale Bread.


With little care on the part of the
housekeeper, every scrap of stale bread
can be made available. All the crusts
and small pieces should be spread in
pan and dried slowly in warm oven.
When they are perfectly dry put them
into small bag make of ticking or cam
vas, and pound them fine with q
wooden mallet. Sift them and put them
in glass jars. They will keep for
months, and can be used for breuding
meat, fish, croquettes, etc.
Another way of. using these dried
scraps is to roll them until they break in
rather coarse crumbs. They are then
nice to eat with bowl of milk for
luncheon or tea.
Cut all the crusts from loaf of stale
bread, and then tear the loaf in long,
thin pieces. Spread these in large
pan, only one layer deep, and place in
hot oven. When they are crisp and
brown, which will be in six or seven
minutes if the oven be very hot, send
! them to the table with thin slices Of
cheese. This dish is nice just before
dessert. Frequently it is served with
Take quantity of slices of dry bread.
Di p them quickly, one by one, in howl
of cold water. Place them in Il large
dripping pan, having only one layer at
time. Then set the pan in a hot oven.
In ten minutes the bread will be brown
and crisp. Place on a warm plate and
cover with a warm napkin: Serve at once
with little brolled smoked SAL
mon or salt cod. This dish is a good
one for luncheon or tea.
After sprinkling stale rolls or biscuit
with cold water, place them in pan
and cover them with second pan. Set
n mn fo1y &w,
minutes, and they will seem almost as
good as il freshly baked.
Put loaf of stale bread in o deep
pan, and after covering it with another
pan, set it in moderately hot oven for
twenty minutes. At the end OF that
time take it from the pan and set it on
end to cool. This bread will cut like q
fresh loaf.
Cut all the crusts from loaf of stale
bread, and put the. loaf in q steamer.
Set it over a kettle of boiling wafer for
twenty minutes. and serve at once With
a sauce which has been made in the
meantime by the following receipt: Put
three cupfuls of boiling water in stew
pan, and place the pan on the stove.
Mix three tablespoonfuls of -four with
half cupful of cold water and stir the
mixture into the boiling water. Con-
tinue stirring for two minutes. Now
add half nutmeg grated, the yellow
rind of lemon grated, and also two
cupfuls of sugar. Boil for twelve min
utes; then add two tablespoonfuls Of
butter and the juice of the lemon. Cut
the steamed bread in slices with sharp
sauce on each side as it is served. This
is q nice dessert when there are children
in the family.
Delicious griddle cakes are made with
stale bread. Soak a pint and half of
stale bread in a pint of milk for ten or
twelve hours. Keep the mixture in
warm place where it will sour slightly.
At the end of ten or twelve hours rub it
through sieve. Beat into the sifted
mixture one teaspoonful of salt, two
tablespoonfuls of sugar, half pint of
sifted -four and slight grating OF nut
meg. Dissolve one teasp onful of soda
in half gill of milk. Add this liquid
and two we'll beaten eggs to the mixture.
These griddle cakes require a little
longer time to cook than the common
batter cakes.-Miss Parloa.
Hints to Housekeepers.
OLD cotton hose are easily converted
into good holders for use about the
kitchen stove.
LAMpB1AcK dissolved in alcohol
added to whitewash makes desirable
color for kitchen walls.
"VAsE11NE is superior shoe dress, as
it renders the leather liable and doesn't
soil the fabric in contact.
THOSE ugly egg stains upon silver
spoons will disappear if salt is vigor-
ously applied, slightly da,npened.
ABOUND of chloride of lime mixed
with quart of water and placed where
roaches abound, is destructive to them.
AN ounce each of pulverized cloves,
cinnamon, and cedar perfumes agreea-
bly, and tends to keep moths from
drawers.
If sheets, coverlets, pillow and boil
ster on both sides, edges of bed-curtains,
and wall next the bed" be sprinl5led
with "a small quantity of per cent.
carbolic solution" and the face and
neck slightly wetted with the same, it
is said that not gnat or mosquito will
come near.