Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1902 — HOUSEHOLD TALKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOUSEHOLD TALKS

English Scones. One pound of flour, one-quarter of pound of butter, half a cupful of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder (if self-raising flour is used leave the baking powder out), one-half teaspoonful of salt, one cupful of currants, one egg, and enough milk to mix to a dough. Rub the flour and butter together until there are no lumps, then add all the other dry ingredients. Be sure that the currants have been thoroughly cleaned. Beat the egg until light, then stir It into the mixture. Add enough milk to form a dough as stiff as for tea biscuits. Roll or pat It quickly until a little less than an Inch thick, and cut into any desired shapes. Scones are usually made the size of a coffee saucer. Bake in a quick aven until done. Split each scone as soon as done, and butter It, put It together again, and serve hot Chicken Potpie. Cut up a chicken and put on In cold water enough to cover, taking care that it does not cook dry. While boiling, cut off a slice from bread dough, add a small lump of lard, and mix up like light biscuit Roll, cut out with a cake cutter and set by stove to rise. Wash and pare potatoes of moderate size and add them when the chicken Is almost done. When the potatoes begin to boil, season with salt and pepper, add dumplings and season again. See that there Is water enough to keep from burning, cover very tightly, and do not take cover off until dumplings are done. They will cook in half an hour and may be tested by fitting one edge of the lid?~ taking out a dumpling and breaking it open. Dish potatoes by themselves; chicken and dumplings together.

Tomato Omelet. Scald and skin three ripe tomatoes. quarter them; fry a quarter of an onion (minced) in an ounce of butter, toss the tomatoes in this, add a little water to prevent burning; season with salt, a pinch of cayenne and a very slight suspicion of mace; simmer until reduced to a pulp. Break three eggs separately; beat them together, put them in the frying pan, and when slightly browned on the bottom prepare to fold the omelet; just before doing so, add the tomato pulp and turn the omelet out on a hot dish; surround it with a little tomato sauce, aud serve. Brown Bread Pnrtrlinpj. „„ Six ounces stale brown bread crumbs, six ounces fresh butter, four eggs (the yolks and whites whisked separately), half ounce powdered-cinnamon, half pound coarsest brown sugar. Cream the butter, then mix well with the sugar till quite smooth, add the well beaten eggs, and stir in gradually the other ingredients. Steam the pudding for two hours, or even more (it cannot be too much done). When-turned out,...PQur melted jam over it, and serve hot. —i Meat Souffle. Make one cup of cream sauce, and season with chopped parsley and onion juices Stir one cup of chopped meat into the sautfe. When hot add the beaten yolks of two eggs, cook one minute, and set away to cool. When cool stir in the whites of the eggs, stiffly beaten. Bake in a buttered dish about twenty minutes, and serve immediately.

Broiled f-'alt Codfish. Soak the codfish In cold water to remove the salt; dry with a cloth, broil over a clear fire for ten or fifteen minutes. When cooked serve on a hot platter, with melted butter poured over. For Runions. Apply daily with a camel’s hair brush a lotion made of glycerine, 2 drachms; carbolic acid, 2 drachms; tincture of iodine, 2 drachms. Household Hints. For a bruise, a dampened bag of salt A goblet of hot water at each meal for dyspepsia. Clothes turned right side out carefully folded and sprinkled, are half Ironed. Sandpaper will whiten Ivory-handled knives which have become yellow from age or usage. A spoonful of vinegar added to the water in which meats or fowls are boiled makes them tender. To remove black grease stains from clothing, wash with soap and cold water. Hot water would only set the marks. Discolored enameled saucepans can often be made to look like new by boiling a little chloride of lime In the water with which they are filled. Table oilcloth tacked back of the stove, if pans or cooking utensils are hung up, and of tables where mixing or dishwashing Is done, saves the wall, and may be cleaned easily, aud lasts a long time. When soap is used for furniture it should be of the best quality, having but a small amount of alkali io Its composition, and the water used should bn lukewarm, applied with a soft cloth and quickly wiped off, particularly from all corners and crevices. A neat contrivance Is a goblet cover to keep the contents of a glass of med»elne, for instance, from dust It la ■>adc.of a circular piece of cardboard, •evened on the upper side with a croebeted mat In white tephyrrwith a liop tn the center by which to raise IL