Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Southern Fried Hominy. —Warm some boiled hominy left over from the day before; add to it a tumbler of cream or rich milk, a piece of butter, two wellbeaten eggs, and a little flour; fry in hot butter. Lamb Chops with Spinach. —Trim the chops neatly, boil them perfectly, put a little butter, pepper and salt on them, and arrange them in a circle arounc peas. Put little white paper ruffles around the ends of the chops. Corn-Fritters. —Take half a dozer large ears of corn, cut it from the cob, and mix up with two eggs, a cupful of sweet milk, salt, and enough flour to make a soft batter. Drop a tablespoonful at a timi. into boiling-liot lard. Eioe Waffles. —Beat together a pint of milk, the yolks of three eggs, two ounces of butter and half a teacup of thoroughly boiled rice, sprinkle a little salt and a half teaspoonful of soda into a pint of flour, and then sift it in. Beat thoroughly, and bake iu waffle-irons. Boston Brown Bread. —Two large cups of Indian meal, one large cup of rve-meal, (not rye-flour,) one-half cup of molasses, one teaspoon soda, scald the Indian meal, but keep it thick; when cool add the rye, molasses, and soda, with a little salt and one pint of sponge, which must be very light. This must all bo as thick as can he stirred; set in a warm place to rise in the baking-pan. It should be ready to cook in an hour. To make it more lilo* the genuine article, which is baked in a brick oven, steam it four hours, and then hake in a slow oven an hour or more. It can be made with the same measures without scalding the Indian meal, by mixing soft with warm water to allow the meal to swell. Ryemeal does not swell much. Brown Onion Stew. —Take some fine chopped suet and melt in a saucepan, add a good many onions cut right across, and partially brown them, sprinkle a little flour over them and stir well, adding warm water to make gravy. Put in pepper and salt, and whatever pieces of meat, cut in strips, with a little kidney or liver, you require, or brown these also with the .onions; let simmer about ten minutes or so, and then place carefully well-peeled potatoes on the top. This stew must gently simmer till done and not be stirred about, so that the potatoes come out whole. A few spoonsful of catchup to be added some minutes before serving. It is light of digestion and very nourishing for summer. Steak Pudding.— This is a digestible, nourishing dish for work-people. Make crust of fine-chopped suet, flour and warm watey; place round basin; cut pieces of steak, with some liver or kiduey in strips, and put in with some linechopped onion, pepper, salt and a little mace; moisten with some warm water and close up with crust. If you have no steamer, place a trivet in the bottom of the saucepan and put basin on it, so that the steam from the boiling water below cooks the pudding. When well done,

which you will know by the knife coming clear from the crust, take out, place on a dish, broadside down, and open top a little. Put in a small piece of butter and a couple of spoonsful of catchup, and a beautiful gravy will run out round’ the dish. How absolute some people are in their conversation! There is Smartington, for instance. Said Jones to him, the other evening, “Do you like dogs?” Jones by the way, is a lover of the animal. “I never ate one,” replied Smartington dreamily. “Well, who supposed you did?” exclaimed Jones with impatience. ’“lf I were to ask if you liked donkey, now?” he continued, with a lingering emphasis on “donkey.” Said Smartington ingenuously, “Hike you, Jones.” Vesuvius electrically illuminated appears now nightly as the “mountain of light ”of the Eastern fable. The indescribable grandeur of the spectacle attracts to Naples thousands of tourists from the most distant countries of Europe and America. One of the occupations of young men who are filling up Western Texas is to breed geese. One of these has 3,000 geese, whose feathers are plucked every two months. Each bird will average a pound and a half a year worth 50 cents a pound.