Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1879 — HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Thin Gingerbread. — Boil one quart molasses twenty minutes; add immediately one table-spoonful soda, one cup of butter, ginger to taste, flour to make a paste to roll. Cup Cake.—A cup and a half of sugar, half cup each of milk and butter, three eggs, a little over two cups of flour, a cup of currants, teaspoonful cream tartar, half teaspoonful soda; spice with nutmeg, as you prefer. Cranberry Dumpling.—One quart of flour, one teaspoonfal of soda, and two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, sifted together; mix into a soft dough with sweet milk; roll the dough out very thin in oblong shapes, and spread over it one quart of cranberries, picked and washed clean; add half a pound of sugar, sprinkled evenly; fold over and over, tin n tie in a pud-ding-cloth and put into a steamer, where let it cook over a steady fire for one hour, with faith, never looking into the pot. Serve with sweet wine sauce. Graham Bread. — Take one cake of dry yeast, such as you get at the grocer’s—l like it better than the compressed yeast—dissolve in a cupful of warm water, and make a batter of wheat flour in a bowl, about 4 o’clock, and set in a warm place until evening; then take one quart warm water, large spoonful of salt, and make your batter or sponge, also with wheat flour, and cover in a warm place until morning; then put in two table spoonfuls 8f molasses, and make up your dough with your hands with Graham flour; now stand again to rise until light, when it is to be made into loaves and let stand until very light, and bake. French Pancakes. Two eggs, one-half pint milk, two ounces granulated sugar, two ounces butter, flour and jelly. (1) Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; (2) beat the eggs separately, the yelks to a cream, and the whites to a froth, and add the yelks to the butter and sugar; (3) stir the milk into these ingredients; (4) butter six tin pie plates; (5) sift two ounces of flour with a teaspoonfal of baking powder, and stir it quickly into the above-named mixture, with the whites of the eggs; put the butter quickly upon the buttered plates, and bake the pancakes brown in a quick oven; (6) dust them with powdered sugar, lay them one over the other, with a little jelly between; dust the top with sugar, and serve them hot. Corn Muffins. —Take one quart of milk and let it come to a boiling heat, but do not let it boil; then let it stand until lukewarm; then stir in two cups of yellow Indian meal and one of flour; make this about as thick as sponge for bread; dissolve a small cako of compressed yeast anu add to it; let this stand for one hour to rise; in that time it will be very light: then add one heaping table-spoonful of powdered sugar, two well beaten eggs, one-half cup of melted butter, one-half teaspoonful of soda; stir this well together, and have the muffin-rings hot and well greased with good butter, as poor would give the muffin a disagreeable taste; let them stand for fifteen minutes; then put in a moderate oven to bake; it wiLl require one-half hour to bake them. This receipt makes two dozen of muffins.

Horse-power is a unit of force in troduced by Watt to enable him to determine what size of engine to send to his customers to supersede the number of horses which the new power was to replace. In modern practice it refers rather to the size of the cylinder than to the power exerted, and tbe value of the unit has been so varied that a horse-power may imply 52,000 pounds or 60,00 ) pounds raised one foot high per minute. Rev. Henry Ward Beecber’s declaration of his belief that there is no “ eternal punishment.” for tlie wicked, and that there are no lost souls, has created much excitement in orthodox circles. The Presbytery of Colorado has taken up mission work among the Mexicans, of whom there are.over 20,000 in the State.