The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-29
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.


Sugar Cookies: One egg, two cups
sugar, one cup butter, one cup sour
cream, one teaspoonful saleratus, ono
nutmeg; enough -four to mix as soft as
you can handle and roll thin.-Old
Homestead.
Sham towels, to be thrown over
those In use upon the rack, are embel-
lished ut one end with quaint landscapes
or figures, though the latest fancy dis.
plays garlands of flowers, delineated
with long stitch in silks of natural col.
ors.-N. Y. World.
To relieve hesdache put one tea
spoonful of liquid ammonia in q cup of
hot water. Take one teaspoonful Of
the milky looking liquid every hour or
half hour, according to the severity of
the pain. It never fails to give relief
Detroit Free Press.
"A nice way to prepare apples for
the table is to remove the cores from
sound apples and simmer till tender in
a preserving kettle, between layers of
grape vine leaves, covering the kettle
closely. When done but not broken,
brush the apples over with white Of
egg and dredge with powdered sugar
N. Y. World.
Chocolate Cake: One cup butter,
two cups white sugar, three cups -four,
four eggs, one cup of sweet milk and
two teaspoonsful baking powder; bake
one-half in a square tin. Add to the
remaining half one-half cupful grated
chocolate, one tablespoonful Of mo-
lasses, yelks of two eggs, and little
more -four; bake in the same sized tin
and put together with chocolate icing;
also ice the top.-Detroit Free Press.
Pot Roasted Duck: After the birds
are picked (the best feathers put in .
muslin bag and hung in the sun to dry,
drawn and thoroughly washed, place
in pot of boiling water, with q table,
spoonful of salt. Boil until very tender,
which will require from one to two
hours. Have only enough water to
keep the ducks cooking, so that it may
all boil away at the last, and the ducks
"brown down" in the pot.-Good House.
keeping.
Lobster Currie: Fry two onions in
half an ounce Of butter, until they are
nicely Drowned. Mix one tablespoon.
full and half of currie powder with
half pint of good gravy. and put this
with the fried onions into a stewpan;
then take the meat from large lobster
and cut it into rather small pieces; add
it to the gravy and onions with q table,
spoonful of vinegar or lemon juice.
Simmer slowly for about half an hour,
and serve.-Boston Herald.
TO judge of an ovens heat there
are no better rules than Gouffe's: TRY
the oven every ten minutes with piece
of white paper. If too hot, the paper
will blaze up or blacken; when the pa
darker than ordinary meat-pie crust),
the oven is fit for small pastry. When
light brown ii. e., the color of real nice
pastry, it is ready for vol au vent, tarts,
ETC. When the paper turns dark yell
low ii. e., the color Of deaD, you can
bake bread, large meat pies or large
pound cakes; while if it is just tinged,
the oven is just fit for sponge cake,
meringues, etc.
Little rigs In Blankets: Eighteen
large oysters, an equal number of slices
of homeless breakfast bacon and plate
of toast should be allowed for three
persons. Get the bacon where they
use a machine for cutting it, and have
it cut as thin as shaving. If you can
not get it cut in this way, it is better to
buy the bacon in the piece and cut it
with sharp knife yourself. The slices
should be so thin that one could almost
see through them. Wrap each oyster
in a slice of the bacon, and fasten it
with a wooden toothpick. Light the
lamp, having the wicks rather high,
and place the graniteware dish over it.
In few moments putin as many little
pigs as will lie fat on the bottom Of
the pan. Turn constantly with fork
until they are brown on both sides;
serve at once on slices of toast.-Ladies'
Home Journal.