Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-05
Household.

pretty scene at the opera house of young
| maidens, flowers and music suggested some
thoughts could only come to one in whose
pathway the roseleaves are from shattered roses
that budded and bloomed in the long ago. Re-
Prospective thoughts are they, Of briars and
steep passes that might have been removed had
the first steps been those of a graduate from a
school of practical life.
To some of these young ladies school life is
ended, to others it is vacation time, and to
all these are days when it would be
wise to lay aside books on political
economy, comic sections aud the ike, and take
up the study Of domestic economy and that form
of mathematics which teaches proportion and
the best methods by which to regulate house
hold expenditures.
This is the time to help tired, nervous
mother. In the busy closing days of school there
has been less time than ever to be mothers
helper and now she it is who has fairly earned a
vacation, and for The daughters there are new
lessons that may in after years put her price
above ruh'as, and in the present VIII pay her IN
affection anu lncreaEed usefulness. Some day,
some time, she, thus qualified, will build
up 8 home where the weary will come
for rest and the troubled for consolation. Now
is the time for mothers to remember that q life
all frolic is not the best even for the girl just
emancipated from the thralldom of school and
a few hours each day spent in household du ties,
plain sewing and care of the younger childI en- is
of infinite benefit in rounding the character of
the daughter who before many years may occu-
Ply similar place to her own. Let the girl ex-
pertinent in flour. spoil dough, burn steak and
over cook eggs. By experiment she will learn
has to resign the management, or when
she can take needed recreation she will be en-
abled TO leave all household cares confidently in
the capable hands of her young lady daughter.
A friend has manifested genuine interest in
the Ladies' Column by sending the GLOWING
communication, favor which it is hoped will
be repeated by Others Ed.
81 wish to tell THE GAzETTE's readers of the
Ladies' Column of a new and simple method
Of preparing yeast cake for making light bread
Rice of Chattahoochee, Fla, and on coming to
understand it one can scarcely help wondering
why nobody ever thought of it before. She
writes that she entirely out of yeast for
starting bread and also out of hops to use in pre-
pairing yeast. By accident it occurred to her that
since lager beer was composed largely OF hops it
might make good yeast, so she procured half a
pint, added half as much warm (not hot water,
and then stirred in sifted cornmeal until it was
stin enough to heap up on spoon, then she put
away the vessel-a small tin bucket-in mod
erately warm place not far away from the
kitchen stove. In due time it gave off the
proper yeasty odor, after which she made it out
into cakes, which she dried in the usual way.
The half pint of beer made quite large batch
of cakes, and she says she finds it the quickest
rising yeast she has ever used. and the best.
Either keg or bottled beer may be employed in
making the yeast cakes. So, after this, there
need be no further worry making yeast with
will make yeast enough to last family for
months. j. P. s."
RECIPES.
Charlotte Russe-Line a dish with split lady
fingers or thin slices of sponge cake To one quart
of rich sweet cream add havoring and sweeten
with three quarters of 8 cup of powdered sugar.
Whip the cream TO a stiff froth, fill in the dish
and lay cakes upon the top and set it upon the
ice.
White cake.-Three cups OF sugar, half cup
of butter, the whites Of eight eggs, one pint of
-four snd two teSspoonfuls Of baking powder.
Rub the butter and sugar to a cream, add the
-four and baking powder. Mix altogether, add
small teacup of sweet milk, flavor, and stir in
the stifiy beaten whites of the eggs the last
thing. Bake In moderate oven.
Strawberry Shortcake.-Into one quart of
sifted -four rub one teaspoonful of baking DOW
der, half teaspoonful of salt and two table
spoonfuls OF butter; mix with sweet milk to
make soft dough, and bake in two buttered pie
pans. When done, split with a sharp knife,
butter both halves, cover the lower half with
thick layer of ripe Strawberries well sHeetened
laythe other half of the shortcake on top, crust
dobn, cover with more berries and sprinkle
with plenty Of sugar. Serve with pitcher of
cream
Almond pudding-Blanch four ounces of sweet
almonds and one ounce of bitter almonds and
pound them in a mortar; add few drops of rose
water while pounding. Stir one-Quarter pound
cream. Beat well the whites Of six eggs: stir
the almonds and beaten eggs alternately into the
butter and sugar. Line pie dish with puff
paste, pour in the mixture and bake in mod
crate oven half an hour. Sprinkle with sugar
and serve.
Orange hoat--Six sliced oranges, one pint of
boiling water, one lemon, juice and grated rind
one small cupful of sugar, two heaping table
spoonfuls Of cornstarch and whites of two eggs
Arrange the sliced oranges in the bottom Of
dish and pour over them light custard made
by stirring the lemon, sugar and cornstarch
into the boiling water until it thickens; spread
the whole with the whites of the eggs beaten
stiff with little powdered sugar. Serve with
milk or cream. Time, twelve minutes.
French breakfast rolls-Make one and half
pints o. milk quite vaxns add it to half q pint