Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

DOMESTIC CONCERNS.
Nothing made with sugar, eggs and
milk should reach the boiling point.
In mixing cake dough use cups of
exactly the same size for measuring the
| different ingredients
FOR grease spots on carpets spread
powdered magnesium on them and let
1t remain for two or three hours: re-
move with knife, and if the grease is
not thoroughly extracted repeat the
magnesia.-Drale's Magazine
Sailed Almonds: Blanch the al
monds, and put in the pan with the al
monds some butter and salt and place it
In the oven, stirring to prevent burn
ing, but let it brown, and serve when
cold in fancy little plates. = House
keeper.
Beef Loaf; Two pounds raw lean
beef, one cup rolled crackers, half tea
spoonful of salt, two eggs. Chop all
together, forming into a long loaf.
Cover the top with small pieces of but
ter and bake for one hour.-Detroit
Free Press.
-Crab-Apple Jelly: Wash the fruit
clean, put in kettle, coverwith water,
and boil until thoroughly cooked. Pour
II into a sieve, and let it drain. Do not
press it through. For each pint of this
liquor allow one pound of sugar. Boil
from twenty minutes to half an hour.
-Ollcloths, linoleums and other floor
cloths look well and are said to last
better If waXed and polished after the
fashion of stained floors, but with a
thinner preparation. If, however, they
are scrubbed, a soft brush should be
used, and it is great improvement to
polish occasionally after drying with a
soft flannel sprinlxled with oil.-N. Y.
World.
Chicken Salad: Two chickens boiled
until very tender. remove all the white
and brown meat from the bones, chop
1t, but not very fine; add to the meat
two-thirds the quantity of celery chop
ped fine, six tablsspoonfuls melted but
ter, yolks of three hard-boiled eggs,
yolk of one raw egg, one tumblerful of
vinegar, one teaspoonful of mustard,
one teaspoonful of salt and very little
red pepper. Boston Herald.
TO clear sOup-stOck remove the
fat and allow the white and shell of
one egg for every quart of stock. If
you wish to flavor the stock more high
1y, add half Il saltspoon of celery-seed
and the thinnest possible shavings from
the rind of half a lemon. Add also the
lemon-iuice, and more salt and pepper if
needed. Mix celery-seed, lemon. egg,
etc, with the cold stock. and beat it
well. If the stock be hot when the egg
is added, the egg will harden before it
has done its work.
Asparagus which is left from dinner
may appear a second time in an omelet
on the breakfaSt-table. Cut the cold
asparagus in inch pieces and set it in
covered earthen dish in hot water, to be
heated thoroughly through, but not to
cook. Season it slightly again. Make
a nice omelet with four eggs, put cup
of the heated asparagus in it, fold it
and serve it at once. Make as many
omelets as the asparagus requires,
but do not attempt to make any larger
ones than four eggs will make.
Vanilla Ice Cream: One quart of
milk, one cup of sugar. two table
spoons flour, one saltspoon salt. three
eggs (whites), one pint cream. two ta-
teaspoons vanilla. Boil the milk Mix
the sugar, flour and salt, add the boil
ing milk, and cook twenty minutes in
double boiler. Stir as it thickens. and
until it is smooth. Beat the whites to
a foam, but not stiff, and stir the hot
mixture into them. When COOL add
the cream, using more if you have it,
and sugar to taste, Strain. and add the
favoring.-Boston Budget.
Game PURGE Soup: Take the bones
and meat of any cooked game, also the
heads, necks and giblets of the same;
stew in plenty of water, with thin
slice of fat bacon, an onion, half a small
carrot. one bay leaf and few black
pepperseeds. When quite soft remove
the meat to chopping bowl and allow
the rest to stew awhile longer. Chop
the meat, then pound it to a pulp in d
mortar. Brown a Scant tablespoonful
of flour in butter the size of Il walnut;
add it to the liquor which you strain off
the bones, then add the pounded meat,
and as much more broth Tor water) nee
essary to give to your soup the proper
consistency. Rub the whole through a
hair sieve and serve over Drowned slices
of bread.-N. Y. Tribune.