Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — HOUSEHOLD HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

Hamlets.— Two eggs, one and a half cup of sugar, one cup of raisius chpped line, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one teaspoon each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, one teaspoon soda dissolved in two tabie-spoonfuls of sour milk. Mix stiff and cut out like cookies. Jackey Cakes.— Six table-ppoonfuls of white In ian meal, pinch of salt, half teacupful of milk; thoroughly scald with boiling water, add milk, aud drop from table-spoon into boiling-hot lard or drippings in frying-pan or spider; fry a dark brown on both sides. When done, open and insert a bit of butter, and then eat. Tapioca Pudding. Four tablespoons of taiiioca, soaked for several hours in a little water, oue quart of milk, four eggs (leaving out the whites of two for frosting), three table-spoons of sugar. Boil the milk aud turn over the tapioca; add, when it is blood warm, the sugar and eggs well beaten; bake about an hour, and after it has cooled a little add the whites of the eggs, well beaten with half a pound of sugar. Chloral Spray in Winter Cough. —Dr. Fletcher, of Washington, strongly recommends the employment of the spray of chloral in the treatment of the form of chronic bronchitis known as “winter cough,” which often offers so obstinate a resistance to remedies. A solution of ten grains of clilorai to the ounce of water may be inhaled through a steam atomizer morning and evening. Autumn Leaves. —l prepared autumn leaves in this way last year, and they were greatly admired by every one who saw them. I varnished them as soon as they were gathered, then spread them out in a cool room where they remained twenty-four hours, when they were packed in a box, and a thick piece of pasteboard placed on top to keep them from curling. They wore much more brilliant than any I ever saw. They did not adhere enough to do any harm. Oatmeal Pudding. —Take one pound best oatmeal, one quart of new milk warmed. Sdr the oatmeal into the milk, and let it. stand over night. Then butter a basin, put in the oatmsal and milk, stir in a spoonful of bakingpowder, and afterward tie over the basin a well-floured cloth, and boil for two hours. If ea'en as pudding proper, serve it up with custard sauce, current jeliy, or treacle. If it is to be eaten in place of meat—for good meat it hs—use tomato sauce. Apple Charlotte. —Butter a deep baking-bowl; line it with thin slices of wheaten bread whicli have been soaked iu sweet cream; fill the bowl to within one incli of the top with sliced apples in layeis, with beef marrow, sugar, and grated lemon or orange peel; cover the apples with thin slices of bread soaked in cream; cover the bowl closely with an ordinary earthenware pie-dish, in which placo water to prevent it cracking ; bake in a rather-brisk oven from one hour to one aud one-half hours, according to the size ot tho charlotte.