Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — THE HOUSEHOLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE HOUSEHOLD

Creamed Crab Meat. Cut the crab meat into dice. To a pint of the meat allow two tablespoonfuls of butter. Melt this in the saucepan, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until, smooth, then sfir in a pint of milk, half cream, if you have it, season well with salt, paprika and pinch of nutmeg and stir to”a'smooth sauce. Now turn in the crab meat and a green pepper minced. Cook, stirring all the time, until very hot, then turn into a hot dish. Garnish with rings made of green peppers sliced crosswise. j White Cake Filling. Heat two-thirds of a cupful of milk in a granite saucepan, add a piece of butter the size of an egg and two cupfuls of sugar. Stir constantly. Let the mixture come to a boil and add two squares of chocolate and a pinch of salt and cook until the mixture forms a soft ball, when tried in cold water. Remove from the stove, allow to cool for a few minutes, and add two teaspoonfuls of vanilla. Stir until it begins to thicken, then spread on the “ cake layers or loaf. Salt Codfish, Boiled. Soak over night before using, changing water at least once. Place it on the back of the stove, never allow it to boil—just simmer, until soft enough to pick apart very fine with a fork. For codfish cakes, have the potatoes nicely mashed, with milk and a little butter, proportion of one cupful of fish to three of potatoes, a little pepper, red or black. Dip in egg or not, as you prefer, before frying brown. To be made in cakes of a thickness to please. Lamb Stew. Take the neck or breast of lamb, parboil and cut in pieces, then put on in cold water, enough to cover it, adding a large onion, cut fine, a large slice of bacon cut fine, black and red pepper and salt. After cooking until all bones can be extracted, add canned tomatoes and corn and half a pound of butter. Before serving add stale bread crumbs. — Serve jn a tureen. Ginger Drops. One-half cup sugar, one-half cu t > butter, one cup molasses, one cup boiling water, with two teaspoons soda dissolved in it, one teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger and cloves; two and one-half cups of flour, two eggs beaten well and added last thing. Don’t add .more flour because they may look thin. They are very dainty with but. the amount mentioned. Bake in gem. tins. Orange Marmalade Icing. One cup of granulated sugar, onequarter cup orange marmalade. Moisten this with boiling water until it is a thin paste, cook until it forms a soft ball in-cold water. Remove from fire and beat as you would fudge, until creamy. Spread on with warm knife. Sqnaah Fritters. To two cups of mashed, dry winter squash add one cup of milk, two wellbeaten eggs, one teaspoon of salt, a little pepper, and one heaping teaspoon of baking powder. Beat well, and drop by spoonfuls into hot butter or cooking oil, and fry. Baked Codfish. Soak fish a dozen hours, gently simmer until nearly done; remove bones and bruise fine; mixed mashed pota-. toes, two parts potato to one of fish. Place before fire or in oven until rich brown. Serve with egg sauce. Creamed Pineapple. Whip one-half pint of cream; dra’n one can of shreddeu pineapple and stir the pulp into the cream. Chill ani serve in sherbet cups. Hint* for the Housewife. Mix starch with soapy water and the linen will have a good gloss and be easy to iron. Graham bread and brown bread are both excellent for sandwich purposes and raisin bread, “with lots of raisins in it,’’ is a welcome change. A teaspoonful of lemon juice in a cupful of tepid water will remove all stains from nails and skin and loosen the cuticle better than a sharp instrument. Round jelly cake pans make excellent pot covers by turning upside down and placing in center a small x wooden knob, obtainable of any grocer. Two can be bought for 5 cents. New linen for working upon should be rubbed over with a dry cake of soap. This will render the fabric soft, so that drawing threads of embroidery upon it will be much facilitated. The objectionable and flying of the hot fat when eggs, hominy, apples and like things are dropped into it to fry may be prevented if a little flour is sifted into fat just before they are added. For those who find maple sirup be yond their means try this: Five cups.!., of light brown sugar, three to four cuds of granulated sugar, and abo”t one-quarter to one-half pound of maple sugar; add water and boil to consistency of sirup. While it is advisable to pack a water bag flat, occasionally there is necessity for rolling it. If so, it is well to lay a piece of cloth or paper over the bag first, then there will be no possible danger of the sides of the bag sticking together. -