The Republican., 1894-07-05
FlRESiDE FRAGMENTS.


French Toast.-Beat one egg thor
oughly and mix it with half "a pint of
milk, add half teaspoonful of salt; have
ready hot buttered spider; cut the
bread into thin slices: dip one by one
into the preparation of milk and egg;
fry a light brown.-Ohio Farmer.
-Graham Rusk, one.-One pint Of
sweet milk, one teacup each of butter
and sugar, and one coffee-cup potato
yeast; thicken with fine flour and let
rise over night: in the morning stir
down, let rise and stir down again;
when it rises again make into loaf
with graham flour and let rise again;
then roll out like soda biscuits, cut and
put IN pans, and when light bake care
fully.-Farm, Field and Fireside.
"A nice seed cake may be made as
follows: Two ounces of dried flour,
four ounces Of ground rice ditto pull
verified sugar, pinch of salt, and
good teaspoonful of baking powder.
Beat two ounces of butter to a cream,
add two beaten eggs. then, gradually,
the dried ingredients and a dessert
spoonful of carraway seed. Beat well,
and bake about an hour -Wo,lan's
Home journal.
Bread Pancakes. Stake the amount
of sour milk or buttermilk required
for the family meal. Put into this
enough dry bread to take up half the
milk. Soak until soft. Add one or two
eggs, well beaten. Salt to taste.' The
required amount of soda should be
a11n1. t1ay, r1oiy in a,,n,1crh for
good. stiff batter. Bake in small thin
cakes on hot griddle.-Ohio Farmer.
strawberry and Custard Pudding.
Put four tablespoonfuls of freshly
made strawberry jam, made by cooking
a pint of berries for twenty minutes
with half pint of sugar, into baking
dish; cover with four ounces of breed
crumbs and pour over gradually pint
of custard made with pint of milk,
two eggs and two tablespoonfuls of
sugar; pour this on gradually 50 that
the crumbs may absorb it, and bake
half an hour in moderately heated
oven. American Agriculturist.
-Carpets.-The carpet being first well
shaken and free from dust, tack it
down to the floor; then mix half a pint
of bullOcll's gall with two gallons of
soft water; scrub the carpet well with
soap and the gall mixture; when per-
fectly dry it will look like new, as the
cOlOrs will be restored to their original
brightness. The brush used must not
be too hard, but rather long in the
hair, or it will rub up the nap and in
jure the carpet.-Christian Inquirer
Though papers for pantry shelves
look very dainty when fresh, oilcloth
in white or light color is much better
to use in every place that is to come in
contact with the food 1t can be wiped
as often as dusty or otherwise soiled
without injury. If one chooses, the
tissue papers used for china closets
may be used on the edges of the shelves.
The floor Of the pantry, unless of hard
wood, or even close and well painted,
should also be covered with oilcloth or
linoleum.-N. Y. Post.
-Scalloped Potatoes. Butter the
sides and bottom of an earthen pudding
dish. Slice in this a layer of cold,
boiled potatoes, sprinkle some salt,
pepper and bits of butter over them.
Dust with -four add another layer of
the sliced potatoes and so on until as
many are used as are needed Then
over all place layer of fine bread
crumbs. Pour over this a little more
than a teacupful of sweet milk, or cream
if at hand. Set it in pretty hot oven
and bake thirty minutes or to a delicate
brown.-Orange Judd Farmer.