The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-04-18
HOUSEHOLD BREVITIES.

Cracker Pudding. Two quarts Of
milk, six crackers (rolled Gnel one-half
pound of raisins (seededl, half nut
meg. Bake slowly three or four hours;
stir often the first hour To be eaten
cold with whipped cream. Sweetened
and favored with vanilla. Farm and
iiome.
Tomato Soup. Take about a pint
of tomatoes and put on stove to cook;
season with salt. pepper and butter,
and when well cooked, add four pints
of milk, and let it come to boil, when
remove at once. If you do not salt the
tomatoes before you add the milk, the
milk will curdle. This IS "a delicious
SDup..-Earm ard Preside.
-Salve.-Take the root of yellow
dock and dandelion equal parts; add
good proportion of celandine and
plantain. Extract the juices by steep
ing. Strain carefully, and simmer the
liquid with sweet cream, fresh butter
and mutton tallow. Simmer together
until no appearance of the liquid re-
mains. Before it is quite cold, put in
boxes. This is good for burns, scalds,
cuts and sores of every description
Huusekeeper.
-Rusk. one pint of milk and
pour it over a teacup of flour. Add ten
ounces white sugar, four ounces butter
and two of lard Add one .teacup of
yeast, when the milk is not scalding;
make IA soft dough at night. In the
morning knead it over and when light
rcll the dough upon ii pie board and
cut in small cakes, let rise very light
/ before baking Bake twenty minutes.
Any of these articles with little
meat. pickle, apple or orange is
substantial and nutritious. Orange
Judd Farmer
I Jelly for Invalids. Procure an old
fowl, cut into small joints. add an
onion. pepper and salt. Place the
fowl etc. in a jar, with teacupful of
cold water. Tie the jar over with a
creased paper plunge it into sauce
pan half full of boiling water, and
simmer for six or seven hours. Strain
off the liquor through jelly bag.
/ When cold. remove the fat, melt the
| jelly, and flavor to taste. This will be
| the strongest jelly. and may be re-
duced with boiling water for soup,
when desired as further change
Leeds Mercury.
| Gard Gingerbread half cup
| of butter. one-half cup of sour milk,
one cup of brown sugar, one egg, one
| half teaspoonflll of soda. one teaspoon
| full ginger, one-fourth teaspoonful of
! salt. Add one-half tablespoonful of
water and three scant cups of sifted
/ flour. Beat the butter to a cream. add
! the sugar, then the salt and ginger.
now the egg we'll beaten. Dissolve the
! soda in the water and stir into the sour
milk and add to the mixture in the bowl
! Beat the flour in gradually. Take one
| half the dough and roll out about half
| AN inch thick. Cut in squares and bake
about eight minutes in a hot oven
| Prairie Farmer.
Chicken Broth.-If the weather is
warm use but half chicken to make
broth for one person. If it is cool take
a whole one, as the broth will keep
several days. Pull off the skin las it
! contains a good deal of oil. disioint.
and cut the meat into small pieces.
! Remove all the fat. Break or pound
the bones Allow two quarts of cold
water to chicken. Heat slowly and
| simmer till the meat is tender Skim
carefully. When the broth has sim
mered an hour, add little chopped
onion if the flavor is liked. Strain. and
when cold remove the fat. Season with
salt and pepper. Put it over the fire,
and stir well until hot. Let it boil five
minutes. If rice and parsley are to be
added add large spoonful of rice and
simmer slowly one hour; add the
minced parsley five minutes before it is
served. Budget.