The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-09-12
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

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freshly made solution OF gum tragacanth
in water.
Wheat Cakes: One cup of butter
milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, a
little salt and -four to make batter
Household.
Add a tablespoonful of borax to a
pan of hot soapsuds, put the table silver
in it, and let It stand two hours. Then
rinse it with clear water and polish with
a soft cloth or chamois skin.
Baked Bananas; Select large, ripe
bananas, and bake them in the oven as
you would potatoes. When the skin be-
gins to split at the seams they are done.
Take them out and serve one to each
person, as a vegetable. They should
be pealed, and eaten with butter and a
little salt.-Boston Budget.
legged Bread: Bread, fresh or stale,
is cut in long strips, or in squares or
rounds with cake cutter. Let them
soak till soft, but not broken, in one
pint of sailed milk into which two eggs
have been beaten. Bake a nice brown,
or fry on griddle in half suet half but
ter. MAY be made with one egg).-N.
Y Observer
Tomato Jelly: Break ripe tomatoes
into pieces and stew them until done,
in as little water as will keep them
from burning. Pour all the pulp into
the jelly bag, and when the juice has
trickled through add pound Of loaf
sugar to each pound of the juice. Re-
turn it to tho stove and let it boil rapid
ly until it iellies. This is very nice
with roast meat.-Farm, Field and
Stockman. :
Sweet Picked Grapes: Either ripe
or groom grapes may be made and put
/ up in the same way by using a sirup of
one quart of the best cider vinegar and
three pounds of sugar to seven pounds
of fruit, boiling sIch spices as seem de-
sirable in the sirup Or, take fine full
stems and dip them in the boiling syrup
long enough to become thoroughly
heated, then place them in jars and pour
the syrup over them scattering whole
spices among them if liked.
keeper.
Chocolate Marble Cake heap
ing cup sugar, one third cup butter, one
egg, one small cup milk, two small cups
-four. one and one-half teaspoons yeast
powder. Take one-half of the mixture
out into another dish and mix one cake
of melted chocolate with it; flavor the
light with vanilla; put one spoonful of
the light, then one of the dark, into the
pan until used up. Frosting-One cup
powdered sugar, one and one-half table,
spoons milk, one-half teaspoon straw
berry fiavoring.-Boston Globe.
Cabbage Salad, with French Dress
sing: Shave medium-sized cabbage
fine, sprinkling with salt and pepper,
pour over it the following dressing: Heat
one-half cup milk to boil, beat together
one egg, One-half cup sugar, a piece of
butter size of a walnut: Stir in the boil
ing milk; let come to boil; then add
one-half cup vinegar; pour over the cab
bage: let cool: stir occasionally. Quick
graham bread one and a-half pfntS sour
milk. one-half cupful molasses, two tea
spoonfuls of Soda q little salt, stir thick
with graham flour; bake slowly>--De-
troit Free Press.
Sweet Corn Soup: One pint of
chopped corn, two-thirds of quars of
milk, two toaspoonfuls of butter, one
tablespoonful of flour, two eggs, one
half teaspoonful OF salt, one teaspoonfuL
of sugar, one small onion chopped, one
half tablespoonful of pepper: after
cutting the corn from the cobs, put them
on to boil in water enough to cover, lot
them boil twenty minutes; then remove
them; add the corn. after chopping il
quite fine, and the onion; cook fifteen
minutes: then add the milk and the rest
of the seasoning: thicken with the -four,
which should be mixed smooth in milk.
cook about five minutes after the thick
ening is in; beat the eggs well, and stir
them in after the soup is removed from,
the fire.-Boston Herald.