Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-24
HOUSEHOLD sREvurIEs.

Sugar CookieS-One cup butter, ono
teaspoonful soda. three cups sugar,
three eggs, one-half cup sour creams
flavor to taste; mix quite stif.-Detroit
Free Press
Mashed Potatoes--As soon as they
are boiled, mash at once, as smoothly
as possible. adding little salt and but
ter, and sweet cream or milk. by way
of seasoning; then beat up lightly with
a fork and put in a warm, uncovered
vegetable dish Do not pack the POI
tatoes down--Demorest's Magazine
Baked Pudding.-Bou quart OF
milk and pour it upon the grated pulp
of a cocoanut to which the milk of the
nut has been added Then add five
beaten eggs cupful of sugar, and half
the amount of butter. with such flavor
ing as may be preferred 1t is baked
in a deep earthen dish, either with or
without an under-crust-GoodH House
keeping.
&C c Cake-One-third cup butter.
one cup sugar, two eggs, two-thirds
cup milk, two cups -four, two teaspoons
baking powder. Bake in layers, and
fill with chocolate and cocoanut fill
ing. Melt one square of chocolate with
two teaspoons of sugar and = little
water. STIR over the fire until thick
and smooth Add one cup of grated
cocoanut: spread 1t between the cakes
Boston Budget
Salad Dressing With Butter--Beat
together two spoonfuls of melted butter,
(be careful not to reduce to oill, two
teaspo onfuls of mustard. one of salt,
and a saltspoonful of white pepper
Beat to a cream and stir in the yolx Of
eight eggs well beaten. set on the fire
and when 1t comes to a boil add onea
half cupfn each OF vinegar and sweet
cream This will not keep as long a.
that made with the oil-Home-
Relief for wounds occasione6 ~
stepping upon rusty nails or glass may
be obtained by sleeping peach tree
leaves and applying the decoction to the
wound To make a poultice mix the
tea thus obtained with meal or bran,
and apply to the part This will keep
moist for hours and allay Inflammation
If leaves are out of season. break uR
the twigs of peach tree and steep a. di-
rected above, thickening with meal or
bran--Detroit Free Press
An excellent remedy for sunburn
following a yachting trip or any excure
sion is hot water The application,
should last fully twenty minutes, and
is made by means of wringing out soft
cloths in water as hot as can be borne
and bathing the face with them. wiping
gently downward and pressing snd
holding the cloth against the face. 1t
is remarkable how much of the heat
and burn put there by the sun will
leave the skin after such treatments
n. Y. Times
Baked Mushrooms the tops
of thirty mushrooms, cut off portion
of the stalks and wipe them carefully
with a piece of flannel dipped in salt;
| lay the mushrooms in a tin dish, put a
small piece of butter on the top of eachss
and season them with pepper and salt;
set the dish in the oven and bake them
from twenty minutes to half an hour;
when done arrange them high in the
| center of a very hot dish, pour the
sauce round them, serve quickly, and
as hot as possible--Boston Herald
"A nice breakfast dish may be made
with a small quantity of cooked fish
| left from previous meal Remove all
bones from the meat, then pick well tn
pieces and mix it with an equal quans
| tity of bread crumbs and season Ii with
a little butter, an onion chopped fine.
sage, pepper and salt; add enough
beaten egg to hold it well together and
mold it into small fat cakes; then frE
in butter. Add little flour thiclzening
and few chopped capers; serve tie
rissolls while hot with the gravy poured
around them--N- Y World