Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Appe Custard.— A nice apple custard is made of one pint of apple sauce, one pint of sweet milk, and three eggs. Flavor and sweeten to taste. To be baked with an under crust. Oatmeal Muffins. One cup oatmeal, one and a naif pints flour, one teaspoon of salt, two of baking-powder, one pint of milk, one table-spoon of lard, two eggs. Mix smoothly into a batter rather thinner than for cuo eak< s. Fill tho muffin -'in•; . two-thirds full and bake in a hot oven. Cookies Without Ecgs.—Take two cv.p.> of si!g".r, erne cup oi butter, one cup. of s’seet mi'.k, one teuspoonf.id of s»da or baking-powder, and flour eneue.h to make a soft dough. Roll thi:i cw, :<;t -’a:, qur.-k oven, not water c.;u I? ? ula the place of the milk v,li ; v.ay •/'.-•I roquets. Potato Cr-iquEites. —Take six boiled potatoes, pass them through a scire, add to them tbreq table-spoonfuls of ham chopped finely, salt, pepper ami chopped parsley to tasie. Work into this mixture the yelks of three or four eggs, fashioned into bails, roll them In bread crumbs and frv in hot lard. Brown Bread.—Sift together one pint of corn me th one pint of rye flour, one tabie-spooui'ni. of brown sugar, one tr-as'j.Den!'-!I. oi sr! '■ at'J two of oakiiigpoadm. Emi iUo r.;?? mmt urn one table-spoonful of lard and add threefourths of a pint of milk. Mix into a batter-like cake and bake one hour. Protect, it with bimwn paper if it should brown too sash id first.