Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — A boat the House. [ARTICLE]

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Remedy for Chilblains. —ls they are very bad, apply at night a plaster of brown sugar, mixed with scraping of common soap ; wash the feet daily with Drown bar soap and water. Potato Soup. —Pare six potatoes, cut in small squares, boil soft; beat four eggs, "with one quart of milk; add to the potatoes a slice of butter, salt to taste, and boil ten minutes and serve. To Cuke Hoarseness. —A small quantity of pulverized borax, about the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth and let slowly run down the throat, will stop the tickling and cure hoarseness almost instantly. Bean Soup.— Boil one pint of white beans till soft, add one quart of rich milk, butter size of egg, season with salt and pepper, boil; slice a few slices of bread in tureen and pour soup on boiling. Dried-Apple Dumplings.— Boil two handfuls of dried apples in two quarts of water; mix eight spoonfuls of flour, two eggs, and as much milk as will make a stiff dough; drop the dough by spoonfuls into the apples; add sugar, butter and salt to taste; boil till light and serve hot. , Potato Salad.— Pare and slice six potatoes; boil until tender; slice six onions; fry in butter till done; beat two eggs; add one cup of vinegar; drain the potatoes, and *:dd all together; season with salt, and boil a few minutes and serve. Noodles. — Beat four eggs; add as much flour as will make a stiff dough: roll in very Ihin cakes; dry and roll together, and cut very fine, and for soup boil in beefsteak, or boil in salt water and brown-bread crumbs in butter; drain the noodles and put the crumbs on top. Sponge Cake. —Ten eggs, their weight in sugar, half the weight in flour, juice of one lemon, one teaspoonful vanilla; beat yelks well; stir them with

sugar to a cream; beat whites to a stiff froth; add flour last; bake in quick oven. Johnny Cake. —Three cupfuls of sour milk, two eggs beaten light, half onpful of melted bntter or frying*, a tablespoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in the milk, teaspoonful of salt; mix all together with sufficient corn-meal to make a thin batter. Bake on a griddle. Chocolate Caramels.— Scrape onehalf cake of Baker’s chocolate, and add to it one cap sugar, one cap molasses, one-half cup of milk, and a small piece of bntter. Let it cook slowly tUI it hardens by dropping into cold water, and ponr on battered plates.