Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — HOUSEHOLD NOTES. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

Tin-Wedding Cake.—Rub one oup of butter and three of sugar to a cream; add one cap of milk,four cups of flour, five eggs, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, half teaspoonful of soda, one-fourth pound of citron. This makes two loaves. Graham cookies are good at lunoh with a cup of tea. Take two oups of sugar, one cup of sour cream, half a teaspoonful or soda: mix quickly, roll rather thin, and bake in a moderate oven. Possibly the inexperienced ccok needs to be told that Graham flour needs to be cooked longer than wheat flour. Haricot Beaks.— Soak half a pint of the small white beans over night in just enough cold water to oover them; the next day boil two hours, strain and put in a pie-dish with onehall ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of finely-ohopped parseiy. previously fried; cover with slices of raw bacon, and bake a quarter of an hour. Antidote for Ivy Poisoning.—Bathe the parts affected freely with spirits of nitre. If the blisters be broken, so as to allow the nitre to penetrate the cutiele f more than a single application is rarely necessary, and even where it is only applied to the surface of the skin three or four times a duy, there is rarely a trace of the poison left next morning. Scalloped Lobster.— Chop the meat of a boiled lobster the same as for a salad; butter a dish, put in a little lobster, then some bread-orumbs, a little pepper and mace or nutmeg, then more lobster, bread-crumbs, pepper and mace. Bake fifteen minutes; pour some mayonnaise dressing on it, and send immediately to table. Then stir in the dressing. Rasberry Roman Punch.—-To one quart of water add one pound and a quarter of loaf sugar. Take a gill measure and pour in some French brandy, peach brandy and Jamaica rum about the same quantity of each until it is foil and add it to the water, with half a pint of rasDberry juice and the grated rind and juice of two lemons. Stir all well together and freeze like ice-cream. White-Mountain CAKB.-One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, onehalf cup of sweet milk, one-half cup of corn-starch, one cup of flour, the whites of six eggs, a little vanilla,two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. ■ ake in layers. Frosting for above—Take the whites of five eggs, twenty tablespoons sifted sugar beaten very light; a little vanilla. Spread between layers and outside of cake. A sauce which is very popular with those whose taste is educated to like a good deal of oil with salads is made thus: Beat the yelk of two or three eggs (the number to be determined by the quantity of salad), to these add as much oil as the eggs will hold without separating, season to suit your taste with mustard, sugar, pepper, salt and vinegar. This dressing is delicious with all kinds of salad.

Haqout op Veal,— Take the breast and neck of veal, put into a saucepan six cloves, some onions, three blades mace, a few pieces lemon-peel, a teaspoonful sweet maijoram and a little pepper; tie in a cloth and pour on water to cover it. Boil till the bones will slip out, take up the meat and boil the bones in the liquor, put the meat into it and boil till tender, add an ounce of butter, a glass of white wine, thicken it with flour and serve it with the meat and force-meat balls. A rich citron cake is made of the whites of twelve eggs, two cnps of bucter, four cups of sugar, four and a half cups of flour, half a cup of sweet milk, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and one pound of citron cut in thin and small slices. This makes one a very large cake or two medium sized ones, and, unless you have an excellent oven in which you can regulate the heat perfectly, it is better to bike in two tins than one. If one tin is used, choose one with a funnel or spout in the center. This does away with the danger of burnt edges and a raw center to the cake. Scalloped Cauliflower. Choose a cauliflower of medium size, boil it in twenty minutes. Put into a saucepan one ounce of butter, half a gill of milk and one ounce of breadcrumbs. Add cayenne and salt to taste, and stir till the bread has absorbed the milk and butter. Beat an egg and add this to the sauce, but be sure that it does not simmer after tbe egg bas been added. Butter a flat tin dish, take off the fine leaves of the cauliflower and place them all round on it; break up the flower carefully and lay in the centre, making it as high as possible; pour the sauce over that,sprinkle a few bread-crumbs on the top, and bake ten minutes. Ginger Beer—A healthful t-ummer drink. Take three-quarters of a pound of white sugar, one ounce of cream of tartar, one ounce of ginger and the juice and grated rind of one lemon. Put these all together in a jar, and pour over it all four quarts of boiling water; let it stand until it is luke-warm; then add one tablespooful of fresh yeast, and nearly one tablespoonful of wintergreen, or of sassafras; let this stand for twenty four hours, then put in bottles, cork tightly, and seal; it will be ready for use'na few days. Glover beer is made of two pounds of white sugar, two ounces of tartaric acid, three eggs; into the whites of the eggs beat a half a cup of flour: flavor with half an ounce of the essence of wintergreen or of lemon; put in bottles and keep in a cool place. When you wish to haVe a refreshing drink, take two tablespoon fuls of this syrup and a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda, and add to ono tumbler of cold water stir It vigorously, and then drink.