The Republican., 1892-10-21
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

To keep bread or cake from burn
ing, put small dish of water in the
oven.
Keep your tea and coffee in glass
fruit jars instead of tin boxes, and there
by improve their flavor" says an old
housekeeper.
To clean tea or coffee pot that has
become discolored from using, put into
it teaspoonful of saleratus and fill
two-thirds full of water. Let boil two
hours Wash and rinse well before
using.
German Spice Cake.-One cup of
brown sugar, one of molasses, one of
butter, one of milk, one teaspoon each
of ground nutmeg and cinnamon, one
teaspoonful ofground cloves, three eggs
four small cups of flour and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. r.-Detroit
Free Press
"A sure cure for chicken cholera is to
feed poultry, the first thing in the
morning and before they have touched
anything else, one-half gallon of new
milk into which you have dissolved one
small teaspoonful of alum. 1t will be
(if you persevere) a Ger Ssin cure. Tried
and proved.
Lemon Custard Pudding. cup
and half of milk, yollSs of three eggs,
the juice and grated rind of one lemon,
half cup of sugar; add the lemon last
Bake in n pudding dish. Beat the
whites of the three eggs, and add three
spoons of sugar and spread over the top
when baked; return to the oven and let
1t slightly brown. boston Budget.
TO Wash Thread Lace. Cover a
bottle with white flannel. Baste the
lace carefully on the flannel and rub
with white soap. Place the bottle in q
jar filed with warm suds and let it re-
main two or three days, changing the
water several times. Boil with the
finest white clothes on washing day.
When cooled a little, rinse several times
in plenty of cold water. Wrap soft,
dry towel around it and place in the
sun. When dry, unwind, but do not
starch it.-Boston Budget.
In preparing oysters for an invalid,
the eye, or tough white piece in each,
should be removed. A palatable and
nutritious dish is creamed oysters,
which, made for one person, calls for
half dozen oysters heated in their own
liquor. Remove carefully any scum
which rises Boil half cup of milk
with pinch of salt, dust of cayenne,
and scrap of mace. Thicken to a
cream by stirring in teaspoonful of
-four wet with a little cold cream.
When smooth, pour over the hot oysters
and serve with squares of dry toast
from which the crust has been cut.-N.
Y. Times.
italian Chocolate Cakes. - One
pound of icing sugar, one pound of
ground sweet almonds, sixt cen egg
yolls, orange flour water. Mix to-
gether the sugar, chocolate (unsweet-
ened) and almonds; make bay, turn in
the egg-yolks and orange-water flavor
ing, mix all up to a firm paste; roll into
| a sheet, cut into cakes with futed cut
| ter; place these on well-waxed tins,
wash the tops with milk and bake in a
moderate oven. The cakes should be
cut out twenty-four to the pound. =
| Good Housekeeping.
Fried Chicken.-Select two young
chickens which will not weigh over two
and a half pounds each, dress and joint,
wash and put in a kettle with a little
water, not over one and half cupfuls
salt and cover closely, stew slowly
twenty minutes or half an hour, then
skim out and drain; have ready two
spiders, with melted butter enough to
cover the bottom; when the butter is
hot, put in the chicken and fry slowly
until brown, then turn over; serve from
hot platter garnished with parsley
n. Y. Observer.