Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS.

Appe Custard. — A nice apple cut tard is made of one pint of apple sauce one pint of sweet milk, and three eggs Flavor and sweeten to taste. To hi baked with an under crust. *i Oatmeal Muffins. One cup oat meal, one and a half pints flour, on< teaspoon of salt, two of baking-powder one pint of milk, one table-spoon oi lard, two eggs. Mix smoothly into i batter rather thinner than for cuj cakes. Fill the muffin rings two-thirdi full and bake in a hot oven. Cookies Without Egos. —Take twf cups of sugar, one cup of butter, on< cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful o soda or baking-powder, and flou enough to make a soft dough. Rol thin and bake in a quick oven. Ho water can be used in the place of th< milk with very good results. Potato Croquettes.—Take si boiled potatoes, pass them through I seive, add to them three table-spoonfuli of ham chopped finely, salt, pepper ant chopped parsley to taste. Work into this mixture the yolks of three or fouj eggs, fashioned into balls, roll them il bread crumbs and fry in hot lard. Brown Bread.—Sift together on pint of corn meal, one pint of rye flour one table-spoonful of brown sugar, on teaspoonful of salt and two of baking powder. Rub into the mixture on table-spoonful of lard and add three fourths of a pint of milk. Mix into batter-like cake and bake one hotll Protect it with brown paper if it shouli brown too fast at first. A Michigan farmer thinks polecat of great value on the farm as destroy era of insects.