Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1880 — HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Frosted Feet. —Take a raw onion, cut in halves, dip it in salt, and rub the afflicted parts with it a few times. Pound Cake.—Two cups of butter, one pint of sugar, one quart of flour, twelve eggs (the yolk of one left out), one teaspoonful of mace. Bake in a rather quick oven forty minutes. Always beat the eggs separately for pound cake, and stir in the whites the last thing. Hermits. —Two eggs, one and onehalf cups of sugar, two-thirds oup of butter or lard, one cup currants, one teaspoonful each of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon, one teaspoonful of soda. Roll out like cookies; roll the currants in flour; sprinkle sugar on top before baking. Graham Gems. —To one pint of sour milk take one egg, one spoonful of sugar, well beaten, one teaspoonful of soda, and good fresh Graham flour enough to make a stiff batter. To be baked in iron gem-pans, with quick, hot fire. They will be delicious, light, pufty and tender. White Mountain Cake. —Make like Concord cake, and bake in sheets about one inch thick; hawe all the cakes the same size. Have three cakes in a loaf; laj one cake on a board and spread with frosting, then lay another on top of that, and spread this with frosting; then lay on the third and frost the whole, and set whore it will dry. This is very handsome, and will keep a long time. Repotting Plants.—ls the roots become pot-bound, of plants that have been blossoming all winter in tl e house, it will become necessary to repot them in the spring, and the best time to do so will be during the months of April and May. Or, if you wish, you may put them out in the ground, trimming them up, and they will soon sprout again, making nice plants. The branches trimmed off will make good slips and fine blooming fall plants for next autumn. Savory Rice Pudding.— Wash one ounce of the finest rice, put it in a piedish with halt a pint of beef tea or any

kind of broth. Bake until the rice is well cooked; it will take about an hour m a moderate oven. Boil a quarter of a pint of milk, pour it onto an era lightly beaten, stir well together, and then mix with the rice. Season with salt, and, if allowed, a little pepper. Put the pudding into the pie-dish, bake very slowly for an hour and a half and serve.

Lemon Pies, Rich.—Pare carefully the yellow rind from two lemons; then remove the thick white substance which grows next the rind, it being a very indigestible and useless article; then Squeeze the juice into a bowl and remove the seeds; chop the rind and the remainder of the lemons very fin® J add to the juice. Aaa aiso two wellbeaten eggs and two slightly-heaping cups es sugar; mix well; line a plate with a rich crust, with several layers of crust around the edge, which may be made to adhere to each other by the use of a little water. Bake without a cover.