Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1875 — HOUSEHOLD HINTS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Love Pudding.— One quart sweet milk, one pint of floor, five eggs. Beat the white* -separately and add last Steam one and a half hours. Sauce for the same: Two tablespoonfuls of butter, one and a half cups sugar, one teaspoonful lemon extract. Mix together, cook, and serve while Warm. ‘ Tomato Omelet.—Peel and chop five medium-sized tomatoes, season with salt, pepper and chopped parsley; add half a cup of grated bread; beat four eggs to a foam and stir them into die tomato. Heat a hissing hot; place apiece of butter therein, tom in the mixture, let it'brown for two minutes, and lap over the half, serving it in turnover form on a hotplate. ..v J Lemon Cake.—One cup of butter, three of white sugar, beat them to a cream, add the yelks of five eggs well beaten, a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a cup of sweet milk, the juice and grated rind of one lemon, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar mixed with four cups of flour, and lastly the whiles of the eggs beaten to a foam. This will make two cakes, and is much in&proved by icing. Green Grape Jam.—Put the grapes in a jar, and let them cook in a kettle of boiling water until they are soft and can be separated from the seeds. Strain through a fine colander, and to every pound of grapes put a pound of white sugar. Boil all together very gently until a thick jam is formed, and then put in small molds or glasses, and cover with paper brushed over with the white of an egg-

To Pickle Pears and Peaches.—Select medium-sized pears and smooth freestone peaches; stick them full of cloves. Boil seven pounds of sugar with one gallon of vinegar, an ounce of mace and an ounce of allspice. When it boils put in the fruit and let it cook gently till a straw will pierce it Remove the fruit with a skimmer and boil the sirup down for a few mintrtes; then pour it over the fruit. Cover close. \ , Baked Peaches.—Cut the peaches in two, remove the stones, having first wiped the fruit well. With a paste-cutter, if you want something fanciful, otherwise simple squares will do, cut some slices of bread. On each piece place half a peach, skin down; dust well with sugar; put a tiny piece of butter on each, and bake slowly. When done, dish them and turn the juice over, if any; otherwise add sirup of pears and serve warm. Apricots and prunes may be served likewise. Fried Peaches.—Take good-sized, tree stone peaches, wipe them with a towel, halve them and place them fiat side down in hot butter or lard. Let them fry to a nice brown, then turn and fill the seedcup with sugar, which, by the time the fruit is properly cooked will be melted and form, with the juice of the peach,, a rich sirup. Serve up hot, and if you don’t like them you need not repeat the experiment. Most persons think the dish a superb one. —Rural New Yorker. “Cottage Cheese.” —Take a pan of “ lobbered” milk and heat it gently, about blood warm; the curd and whey will separate;'or put some sour milk in a warm place until the whey begihs to separate from the curd, but by no means let it get hard; pour the curd into a strainer (a small tin case full of holes around the sides and bottom) with a loose lid, upon which place a weight, or a three-cornered bag, in shape of a pudding bag, which last hang up and let it drain until no more whey will drop from it. Turn out the jjubstance into a pan, break up the lump of curd very fine and smooth with a wooden spoon, or it can be rubbed between the hands till quite fine; add as much good rich cream as will make it about like thick batter, say a half pint to a soup plate full; salt it to your taste, and you will have a cream cheese that will make your lips smack if they never smacked before.

Wallace Messeroe, aged nine, living with his parents at Haledon Pond, about four miles from Paterson, N. J., was shot and instantly killed by his brother Cleland, the other evening. The boys had been working on the grounds surrounding their residence and had gone up-stairs, to their room, to change their clothing. In a closet in the room were two shot-guns, on seeing which the boys said: “Let’s play soldiers.” The younger took a doublebarrel gun, which he laid across the bed. The elder boy raised his weapon, a singlebarrel gun, not thinking it was loaded, and it went off, the muzzle being only three feet from the other lad. The younger boy’s head was shot completely off, only a few strips of scalp remaining attached to the spine. The head was shattered into minute fragmente, spattering the ceiling and walls of the room.