Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

In frying meat, fish or fowl, never se* them back on the stove to cool in the grease. Always take up while it is boiling hot. Roast beef, or fowl, will be much nicer if they are kept covered while roasting; it keeps them moist; uncover just time enough to let them brown. Brown Bread. —Take three teacups of corn meal, stir into it two cups of boiling sweet milk; when cold, add one cup of wheat flour ami one cup of sour milk; into the hour milk stir well one teaspoonful of soda; add one-half teaspoonful of salt; steam three hours. Apple Puffets. —Two eggs, one pint of milk, sufficient flour to thicken, as waffle batter, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; fill teacup alternately with a layer of butter and then of apples chopped fine; steam one hour. Serve hot, with flavored crearu ana sugar. Cream Pis..—Three eggs, one cup sugar, one and one-half cups flour, table-spoonful of sweet miik, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; bake in a shallow pan. Cream: three eggs, one pint of milk, three table-spoonfuls of flour, five table-spoonfuls sugar; a little salt, flavor to taste, and boil until thick. Egg Toast. —Beat four eggs, yelks and whites together, thoroughly; put two table-spoonfuls of butter iuto a saucepan and melt slowly; then pour in the eggs and heat without boiling over a slow fire, stirring constantly; add a little salt, and when 'not spread on slices of nicely -browned to.-.st, and serve at once. Macaroni. —Simmer on e-half/pound of macaroni in plenty of water till tender, but not broken ; strain off the water. Take flu- yelks of five and the whites of two eggs, one-half' pint of cream, white meat and ham chopped fine, three spoonfuls of grated cheese. Season with salt and pepper; heat all together, stirring constantly. Mix with the macaroni, put into a buttered mold and steam one hour.