The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-12-02
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Spice Cake: One cup sugar, same Of
molasses, same of butter, same of milk,
four cups of flour. two eggs, n tea
spoonful of soda, n teaspoonful Of
cinnamon and cloves mixed.-Ohio
Farmer.
Spice Cake: One and one-half cups
sugar. one-half cup butter, one-half
cup sour milk, two cups chopped r~aisins,
three eggs, one-half nutmeg, one tea
spoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful
cloves, one-half teaspoonful soda.
Flour enough for rather stiff batter.
Bake in loaf tins in moderate oven.-
Detroit Free Press.
To Fry Eels: Strip them, take out
the bones and cut them in pieces and
lay them for almost two hours in salt,
pepper, bay leaves, sliced onions, vine
gar and the juice of lemons; then flour
them well and fry them in clarified
butter, and serve them. Garnish the
dish as you please.
Splendid Gingersnaps: Scald one
cupful of molasses, stir in one tea
spoonful of soda, and pour it, while
foaming, over one cupful of sugar; add
M egg and one tablespoonful of
ginger and beat well together; then
add one tablespoonful of vinegar, and
flour enough to roll.-Farm, Field and
Fireside.
Bread and Apple Pudding: Heat
three cupfuls of apple sauce. stir into
it two tablespoonfuls of butter, one
cupful of sugar and one egg, well
beaten. Butter n pudding dish, sprinkle
the bottom and sides with bread crumbs.
Be careful that the sides are thorough
ly covered with them. Pour the sauce
into the dish; strew crumbs over the
top, and bake to a good brown. Use
n cupful of crumbs in all. Invert
the dish we a hot plate, and the
pudding will come out whole. Sprinkle
it with powdered sugar and eat with
butter and sugar.-Home Queen.
Where paper is used upon the
walls the design ought to be extremely
conventionalized and not too dark in
color. If the hall is narrow the figure
should not be large. Nothing dwarfs a
wall more than 4 huge design. 1t may
be well covered with metallic tints
upon and owe a dado of woOd-fiber.
Copper and olive or sage green are
good combinations. Bright greens,
these containing the poison of aniline
dyes from which there has resulted so
much lingering, obscure suffering,
should be used nowhere about the
dwelling.
Boiled Ham: Wash and scrub care
fully in cold water, soak for twenty
four hours in cold water and wipe dry.
Simmer in Il porcelain-lined kettle for
fifteen minutes to the pound, more
than covering with water. Allow it to
cool in the liquor in which it was
boiled. Then remove the skin careful
", brush the top with beaten egg,
sprinkle with dried breadcrumbs and
place in the oven, basting with the
liquor remaining until it is brown.
parsley, and may further be adorned
with awhite paper frill.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Lima Beans: Soak dried Lima
beans in water until they swell to their
natural size. Pour the water from them
and put them in your saucepan with as
small a quantity of boiling water as
you can supply without fear of their
burning. Let them simmer slowly for
about three-quarters of an hour, then
remove the lid and let the water boil
away from them, watching closely to
see that they do not burn. Add butter,
salt and pepper and n little sweet
and send to the table very hot.
Dried Lima beams prepared carefully
in this way are almost equal to fresh
ones.-Prairie Farmer.