Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — HOUSEHOLD HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

To Clean Ivory.—Salts of lemon will remove stains from the ivory handles of knives. To Polish Floors.—To polish stained floors rub them thoroughly once a week with beeswax and turpentine. Marlborough Pudding.—Stew a few apples and strain them, add a teacup of butter, a teacup of sugar, a teacup of cream; the juice of two lemons, with the best part of the grated rind, a little mace, and four eggs, beaten lightly, and to be baked in a rich paste. Hickory-nut Cake.—One and onehalf cupfuls of butter, three cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of milk, seven cupfuls of sifted flour, five eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two spoonfuls of cream tartar, one quart of hickory-nuts, one nutmeg, teaspoonful of cinnamon. To Clean Decanters.- When making cake or omelette take your discarded egg-shells, crush them into small bits, put them into your decanter three parts tilled with cold water, and thoroughly shake them. The glass will look like new, and all kinds of glass washed in the same water will look equally well. Indian-meal Pudding.—One pint of Indian meal cooked, one quart of milk, half a cup of butter, one pint of molasses, four eggs with a little cinnamon or nutmeg; boil the milk, stir in gradually the meal, mix all together and let it stand two hours; add the eggs when the pudding is ready to put in the oven; let it bake two hours.

Citron Cake.—(How to keep the citron from falling to the bottom of the cake.) One cup of butter, two of sugar, thi'be of flour, four eggs, and one cup of milk; add one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream of tartar and one pinch of salt. Make the cake as above, put in the pan, cut the citron thin, put it in the cake endwise, push down until the batter covers citron.

Mushroom Sautes.—Pick and thoroughly clean them, cutting them in four pieces if large, throw them into cold water, with the juice of a lemon or a little vinegar, as they are being done; then take them out mid dry them in a cloth. Melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, add pepper, salt, and a little grated nutmeg. Put in the mushrooms, and toss over the fire till thoroughly cooked.

New England Election Cake. —A very old and excellent recipe: Three pounds of flour, one and three-fourths pounds of sugar, three-fourths of a pound of butter, one-half pound of lard, one and a half pounds of raisins, four nutmegs, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, three eggs, six teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, three teaspoonfuls of soda, two quarts of milk, one pound of currants ; beat sugar, flour and butter together ; add the fruit with the milk and spices ; beat the soda and cream of tartar together in the milk until it foams.