The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-05-29
FlRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

The molasses to be used for ginger
bread is greatly improved by being first
boiled, then SKINNED.
White Cookies -Ingredients-On
cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three
spoonfuls baking powder, sufficient
flour to roll easily. Cut into shape and
bake.-Detroit Free Press.
The pungent odor of pennyroyal is
very disagreeable to ants and other
creeping things. If the herbs can not
be obtained, get the oil of pennyroyal
and saturate something with it, and lay
around the places infested by these
pests.
A medical exchange speaking of the
nutritive value of milk as compared
with beefsteak, eggs and fish, says that
the quantity of water in good milk is
eighty-siX per cent, while in steak it is
seventy-five per cent, and siXty-eight
per cent. in eggs, so it is reckoned that
milk at twelve cents quart is the
cheapest animal food that can be used.
-Turnips in Sauce: Wash and peal
as many white turnips as you require
for dish; cut them into thick pieces
and boil them until tender in sailed
water; add dessertspoonful of butter:
when done drain them well and place
them neatly on a warm dish, and pour
over them white sauce, and serve
them up hot.-Boston Herald.
Hamburg Cream: Beat together
the juice of two lemons, one-half pound
of sifted sugar. and the yolks of five
eggs. Put on the fire in a double boiler,
and let it come to boil. Add quickly
the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff.
Stir all well together, take Immediately
from the fire, and serve cold in glasses
or in large dessert dish.-N. Y. Exam
iner
-Tartare Sauce: Rub the yolks of
two eggs to paste with tablespoon
full of dry mustard, a teaspoonful of
salt and a quarter Of d teaspoonful of
pepper. Add gradually, four table
spoonfuls of oil, beating until a thick
jelly, then very gradually three table
spoonfuls of vinegar and a teaspoonful
of onion juice. Lastly, add a table
spoonful of chopped capers and one of
pickles, Home Journal.
A young fowl may be known before
| pluching by the largeness of the feet
and leg joints. After plucling, a thin
neck and violet-colored thighs may be
| taken as invariable signs of age and
toughness, especially in turkeys and
fowls. The age of ducks and geese is
tested by their bealss, the lower part of
which breaks away quite easily if they
are young.-Drake's Magazine.
Mutton Chops en- Papillote: Trim
and wipe French chops, chop very fine
the whites of three hard boiled eggs. add
to them the yollls mashed. three crack
ers rolled and sifted, one tablespoonful
finely minced onion, tablespoonful but
ter melted. teaspoonful salt, saltspoon-
full pepper, and cream enough to make
the mixture thin enough to spread
| easily: cover the chops with this, wrar
in buttered papers and cook for twenty
five minutes in a moderate oven.-Bos
ton Globe.
by way of variety in the prepare.
ton of rhubarb, the following recipe
for rhubarb tartlets will be found de
sirable Make a short paste with one
white and three yolks Of eggs, one
ounce of sugar, one ounce of butter, o
pinch of salt and as much flour as
needed; work It lightly and roll it out
to the thickness of quarter of an inch
Line some patty-pans with it, fill them
with uncooked rice to keep their shape,
and bake in moderate oven till done
Remove the rice and fill the tartlets
with rhubarb stewed with plenty Of
sugar and a dash OF lemon juice, and at
the top put heaped spoonful OF
whipped cream.-N. Y. World.