Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1878 — About the House. [ARTICLE]

About the House.

Lemon Pie, —One and a half cupfuls sugar, two eggs, two table-spoonfuls flour, one teacupful water. Soft Custabd. —Two eggs to a pint of milk; boil .milk; pour hot on eggs (well beaten previously), then return to pail; add two table-spoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful vanilla; boil until thick. Cinnamon Custabd Pie.— Beat six eggs thoroughly; add three pints of rich, new milk and a table-spoonful'of cornstarch, stirred smooth into a little milk; sweeten ta taste, and sift in a tablespoonful of\ cinnamon. Pour into tins larded with orust and bake. Baked Rhubabb. —Many prefer rhubarb baked when served as a preserve. Cut the pieoes about an inch in length; weigh, allow as much moist sugar as rhubarb, and bake in an earthenware dish; put into the dish in layers; add a mite of water; cover closely and bake. Jelly.— One box Cox’s geletine, juice of three lemons, rind of one lemon, one pint of cold water; allow this to stand one hour and a half; then add two and a half pints boiling water, two pounds crushed sugar, one pint wine; stir gently until the sugar is dissolved, then pour into molds. Habd Custabd.— Five eggs well beaten (reserving three whites for meringue), one quart milk, five table-spoon-fuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls vanilla, pinch of salt; put in a pudding dish, which place in a pan of water in the oven and bake. When nearly baked, add a meringue made with the three whites and two table-spoonfuls brown sugar to each white, and any flavoring. Bake a light brown. Rhubabb Shobtcake. —Two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with a quart of flour, one-half teacup of butter, two table-spoonfuls of sugar; a pinch of salt and enough sweet mUk to make a soft dough. Roll enough so that when baked it can be split open or roll thin so there will be three or four layers. When done, butter and fill with stewed rhubarb plentifully sugared. Cobn Bbead. —Two cups of Indian meal, two cups of wheat flour, one cup of sugar, one beaten egg, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls cf cream of tartar; a little salt, and sweet milk enough to make a thick batter. Bake in shallow pans—it should be when done, about an inch in thickness, and eat warm for breakfast. This makes the best com bread ever eaten, according to my taste. Rhubabb Pie.—Stew rhubard; add the grated rind and juice of a lemon, the well-beaten yelks of two eggs, and sweeten with white sugar; line pie-tins with good crust and fill with the rhubarb; bake until the crust is of delicate brown; beat the whites to a stiff froth—it will be necessary to add the white of another egg—and add three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla and spread over the top of the

pies; return to the oven until of s light brown. The eggs and lemon given are enough for two pies.