Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-15
HOUSEHOLD eREvlTEs.


For polishing furniture beeswax and
turpentine are very good but plenty OF
elbow grease Is essential
keep spice cans. bottles of extracts
ETC. well labeled so that mistakes VII
not occur when one Is hurried
New tins should be set over the ire
with boiling water in them for several :
hours before food is put IN them
Ladies' Home Journal
If a flannel cloth dipped in kerosene
then wrung dry. be used. IN rubbing OF
dirty finger marks from paint the CRATE
ful housekeeper viii repeat the expert
ment often -
Indian Rice Cabes--Equal quanti-
ties OF meal and cold rice Noisten with
milk, and knead well Form into fiat
cakes and bake on hot griddle- Serve
with butter and sugar.
-Prune Pudding.-WeIl beat two
eggs, stir them into one quart OF kaillS:
add flour enough 10 make thick bat
ter, saltspoon of salt and half a tea
spoonful OF baking powder; soak a cup
full of ;orunes half an hour. wipe them
and roll them IN flour: stir them into
the batter: pous the mixture into pud-
ding bag. and boil; serve with sauce
Bosom Herald
To make sausages With are tooth
some and not as rich as those bought Of
butcher. take one and half pounds OF
lean and one pound OF fat pork and free
II from ali skin and sinew- Chop II fine
then mix II with three-quarter pounds
of grated breadcrumbs (which have been
scaldedl and pass 1t through the Iaincer,
and when quite fine season 1t with pep
per. salt and little powdered sage.
The following is very good recipe
for making pretzels. Nix one-fourth
pound of sugar, one-haf pound butter,
the vell1S of two eggs and the white OF
one. one-half pound OF flour, table
spoonful Of sweet cream and little
! grated lemon peel; mold the paste in
to small wreaths: brush shese over with
wlaite OF egg. sprinkle with pounded
| sweet almonds and bake ell nicely
eolorvd.-N. Ys World
Rose paste for havo9ing cakes is
something quite new, and is said 90 be
superior 10 the ordinary ekHaets- 1t Is
| made as follows e,hop sweeSscented
! rose-ieares into a smooth mass with
white sugar, and put them 81 the oven
long enough to heat thof<Hlghly, bus moi
long enough co entirely melt the sugar
Che proportions are one eupful of rose
leaves to Ghree of sugas- This paste
must be kept in air-tight jars and should
stand six months before being ased- G
very small quantity Will fissor . cake
N " ledger
-Leafdale Cake--Twcco2s powdered
sugar, one cup butter, one cum swee1.
milk. three cups sites -four. ezvo heap
ing teaspoons baking powder, whf<e %
six eggs. beaten 90 a stiff ftoth, and
added last. Filling.-Boiled frosting,
made 10y Taking two Aeacups white
sugar. add little water and oo1 until
it threads: beat the whites of Swo eggs
very stiff, pour the hot sugar on eggs
and beat until cold. add one cup cocoai
nut. one cup seeded raisins and one cup
English walnuts; spread between layers
II and on the sop.-Detroit Free Press
|Court-Plaster Case.-f'al1e a bit OF
pale pink ribbon about eleven inches
long by three wide, fringe az both ends
double it over and tack inside a card
four inches long by two and a halt
wide, attach several pieces of court
plaster to it then draw q narrow pinl
ribbon through She card and Cibbon- ey
ing so it will form a loop 60 hang by
On bit of bolsing-cloth nor quite a:
large as the ribbon paint a child's head
the top of her arm just showing: on i
paint a siny infianed spO2. and right
shere stick the least morsel of black
| ourt-plaster.'Good Housekeeping