The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-01-12
PRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

Flannel Cakes Two eggs beaten
light, one pint of milk, salt to taste,
two teaspoonfuls of yeast-powder and
flour enough for batter. Serve hot in
round cakes with maple syrup Old
Homestead.
-Hominy Croquettes. Soften a cup.
full of cold, boiled hominy, fine-grained.
with a cupful of sweet milk and we'll
beaten egg Mix thoroughly and add a
teaspoonful of white sugar, with
pepper, salt and butter. Form into
croquettes, dip in beaten egg and
cracker crumbs, and fry in hot lard. -
Housekeeper
"A nice way to cook young chickens =
Dress and joint them as usual; place in
a dripping-pan and just cover with
sweet cream; season with salt, pepper,
and little butter; now set in the oven
to cook, and by the time the cream is
almost cooked away the chicken will
be { le They are just splendid done
in This way.-Old Homestead.
Yeast Corn Cake. Pour three cups
of boiling milk over two cups of corn
meal; beat thoroughly, and add a tea
spoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of
sugar, two of butter Mix we'll Let
this cool and add two tablespoonfuls of
liquid yeast and one we'll beaten egg.
Let this rise five hours before pouring
into well-greased baking pan, pouring
about one and half or two inches
thick. Raise a half hour before balx-
ing.-Bake forty minutes Detroit
Free Press.
In cleaning badly soiled carpet
great precaution should be used. Brus-
sells tapestries Wiltons or velvet car
pets may be cleansed with OK gall, one
pint to a pail of water. Use an ordi-
nary scrubbing brush, and afterward
the carpet should be vigorously rubbed
with a coarse cloth; fresh water should
be applied A small portion of the car
pet done each day during hot and sui
try weather would keep it greatly re-
freshed in colorings, as well as sweet
and clean.-N Y, Recorder.
Saratoga Biscuit-Heat a pint of
new milk over the fire and when hot
enough to melt butter, remove, add
butter the size of walnut. three beaten
eggs, three tablespoonfuls of good yeast
a little salt, and flour enough to make a
soft dough. Let them rise in a warm
place for two or three hours. Make up
into small biscuit or bun shaped cakes,
lay close together on wcll-buttered
tin, and bake for fifteen minutes in a
quick oven.-Farm, Field and Fireside
Fried Chicken With Oysters. -Clean
and cut a young chicken at the joints
into pieces for serving. Dredge with
salt, pepper and flour, and fry them
brown in butter or chicken fat. Make
a cream sauce, with one heaping table,
spoon of flour mixed with one table
spoon of hot butter, add gradually one
cup of hot cream or milk; season with
salt, pepper and lemon juice. Cook
one pint of oysters in one tablespoon of
butter till plump. Pour them over the
chicken, and pour the sauce over the
wnole.-Boston Budget.
Peach Pudding. Drain the liquor
from a quart of canned peaches into a
quart cup and fill the cup with new
milk. Stir into this the beaten yollxs
of five eggs, and one cup of sugar boil
the mixture and stir in three table
spoonfuls of corn starch dissolved in a
little cold milk; when it boils well pour
into an earthen pudding dish and bake
half an hour. Place thick layer of
canned peaches over the top, cover with
a meringuc of the whites of two eggs
beaten to "A froth with two tablespoon
fuls of white sugar; return TO the oven
and brown Farm and Fireside.