The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-25
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Doughnuea Two cups Of sugar,
four cups OF buttormilk. four tablo-
spoonfuls of thick, sour cream, two tea-
spoonfuls OF soda, and flour to roll
Boston Budget.
TO cloar tho promises of bugs, mico,
mftos, reaches, moths, ants and to pre-
vent mice cutting wall paper. use cop
peras. Dissolve in water and use froe-
ly, or sprinkle tho pulvorized copperas
whero most needed.
-Thcro is no prettier material for O
piano cover than pieco of antique bro
eado. In tho case OF tho upright piano.
now 80 universally used, piano scarf
or wall hanging of embroidery Is an
ornamental addition.
-Clovo Coke.-Ono cup butter one of
sugar, two and onc-half of flour, two
eggs, one-half cup of milk, ono OF rails
ms, enc toaspoonful each Of cloves, cdn-
namon and nutmeg ono teaspoon of
soda, ono half cup Of molasses. boston
Globe.
Meat Croquottes. Mix ono eupful
zach of chopped cold beef and bread
crumbs, with enough sweet milk to
moisten; season with salt and pepper,
let stand q few minutes then mako into
balls with tho use of -four, and fry In
sweet rd.-llousekoopoY
Pineapple Custard. pineapple
VERY ripe), ono quart custard. Tho day
before this pudding is to DO used, shred
tho pineapple finely and lay in sugar
Lot stand until noxt day, when make a
rich custard, pour ovor the fruit and lot
stand on ice until needod--Detroit FREQ
Press.
AS remedy for reaches, take thrco
pounds OF oatmeal, or meal of Indian
corn, and mix it with pound Of white
lead; moisten with treacle so as to form
n good paste, and put portion down at
night in the infested building. Repeat
for fow nights alternately, and in tho
morning romovc tho paste and corpses
to convenient place.-Sciontiflc Amer
lean.
Cracker Pudding.-Two cnpfuls of
crackers broken into small pieces, two
quarts OF milk, two beaten eggs, ono
cupiul OF raisins, one toaspoonful of
cinnamon, half tcaspoonful of salt,
shrco-quartcrs of n cupful of sugar. But
tor tho pudding-dish, pour in the mix
ture, set in shallow dish of water and
bake until not milky, stirring two or
three times during tho first part of tho
baking. Eat with good hard sauce.-
Good Housekeeping.
-Dcvonshire Junket.-Take ono quart
OF milk, add to it two heaping tablo-
spoonfuls OF powdered sugar; stir tho
milk until tho sugar is all dissolved:
then add one tablespoonful of renne3
set tho dish in which this is prepared
into boiling hot water, cover it with q
towel and lot it stand until the iunket is
made and cold; it should be made about
eight hours before using; sprinkle tho
top with sugar and cinnamon, and sorvo
with good croam. -Boston Herald.
II send receipt for good homemade
brown bread. Mix together two cupfuls
OF flour and ono cupful each of Indian
meal, rye meal and molassos Dissolve
one teaspoonful Of soda in two table,
spoonfuls of boiling water and add it to
ore pint and half of sour milk, then
pour this into tho pan With tho flour,
etc. Add tcaspoonful of salt and. a
beaten egg, and stir ali wo1l together
Steam in tightly covered two-quart tin
pan. thcn remove tho cover and bnlso in
the oven for half AT hour."--N. Y.
World.
-Aspic Jcllcy (for moats)-Put ono
ounce boy of gelatino into pint of hot
soup-stock, or a pint of hot wator If you
have no stock; add tho jules CT two
LEMONS two tablospoonfuls of vinegar,
an onion stuck with two or three cloves.
pepper and salt to taste, n bunch of
soup herbs, and tie whito and sholl of
ono ogg. Let it como wcll to tho boil.
stirring briskly the whole timo, and
then run it through jelly-bag provi-
ousIy we'll sca!ded. Fillots of cold fish,
lobster. oysters, cold turkey, chicken,
tongue. ham, stuffed and boned ouails.
and other gamo, cold slices Of veal and
outlets, can all eithor DO served in. or
garnishod with aspic jelly, which is also
used to stiffon sauces OF oil kinds for
warmed-over dishes. and as q garnish
Tor meat and fish pies and many other
littlo dishes -Dcmorcst's MONTHLY.