Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1879 — HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Baked Tomatoes. —Take off stalks, cut in thick; slices add pepper, salt, and butter; put in deep baking dish; cover with bread crumbs and a little oiled butter;*bake half an hour. White Mountain C ake. —One pound cf flour, one of sugar, and a half a cup of butter; six eggs beaten separately, one cup of sweet milk, a teasoonful of soda, and two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar. Flavor to the taste, and use fruit if desired. Rice Griddle Cakes. —One cup cold boiled rice, one pint flour, one teaspoonful salt, two eggs bea'en very light, milk to make a tolerably thick batter. Beat all together well, and bake. Chicken Dressed with Tomatoes.— Fry the chicken a light brown, put it into a dish; then pour into the pan in which it was fried one quart of boiling water, one onion chopped fine with parsley, four tomatoes a little stewed, one table-spoonful of butter rolled in one table spoonful of flour. Let it stew for fifteen minutes, and then pour it upon the fried chicken, and serve. This recipe is for two large chickens. To Renovate a Black Chip Hat.— Add to one pint cold water teaspoonful spirits of ammonia; use with a soft tooth or nail-brush; when clean, rinse with cold water and place in sun to dry. Do not soak or scrub sufficiently to destroy the shape. It will look as good as new. Beefsteak with Tomato Sauce.— Take one and a half dezen ripe tomatoes ; skin and scald them; put them in a saucepan, with one-half pint of good beef gravy; season with salt and pepper, and put them to stew for one hour. When the steak is nicely broiled, pour this sauce upon it, and send it to the table. To Destroy Angle-Worms.—Angle-worms at the root ot plants e*.n be made to come to the surface by inserting a fine hair-pin or darning-needle into the mold, and then pouring limewater upon the soil. This will be found to be good for the health of the plants also, and will keep the foliage fresh and green. Apply once a week Wheat Bread.—Boil or bake three potatoes and mash fine. Soak a yeast-

cake and add to the potatoes when cool enough. Add two teaspoonfuls of salt; let it stand three or four hours; then add water enough for two loaves of bread. Stir in flour until very stiff; let it stand over night. In the morning add half a tea spoonful of soda dissolved in water, and butter the size of a walnut. Knead thoroughly, and then let it raise very light, and put in bread-pans without farther kneading. Let if raise quickly to twice its bulk when put in the pans. Potato Yeast. —Boil six good-sized potatoes; in two quarts of water till done; then take four table-spoonfuls of flour and two of sugar, and work them together with the potatoes and a little of the water until perfectly' smooth, taking care to keep the remainder of the water on the stove until needed; when sufficiently mashed, add the rest of the water, and, after stirring together, pnt through a colander to prevent any lamps in the yeast; when about lukewarm, add a little stock yeast, and set in a warm place for about half a day, and ft will be sufficiently raised to put in cans or jars in a cool place.