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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Some Hints on Bread-Making.
When Lena came to us, the mother
friend who sent her wrote: ‘Don’t med¬
dle with her bread-making till you see
what she can do.” This accorded with
a motto of my own: “Results, not meth¬
ods,” but the baking of bread had al¬
ways seemed to me too important a mat¬
ter to be left entirely in a servant’s care.
I Nevertheless, kept mindful of this injunction,
baking resolutely day, away from the kitchen
on and went to the supper
table with an apprehensive heart.
Good bread is the one indispensable
artiele in my household creed. I had
been tramed in the school of old-fash
loned bread-making, whose methods yet
fill the pages of our cook books begin
thls mu ,K :
two quarts . of flour; make , a , hole ,
• the centre for Take
in your sponge. one
salt, pint -warm water, a gill of yeast, a little
stir to a thick batter, being careful
to leave the sponge surrounded by flour
and set in a warm place. ’
lhis makes a light, sweet, porous
bread, somewhat similar to Lakers
bread, but free from chemical impurities.
I learned to whiten it by adding m the
morning a cup of new milk. With all
my care, however, there would be un
even streaks in the loaves, caused by the
Sne r quX° UndinS the SP ° Dge dlyiDg
Lena’s "bread, on this eventful evening,
surprised fine, me by its cake-like quality,
sweet, firm and perfectly blended.
Afterwards I watched her while making
bread and learned the secret of her
method
A quart of warm water or milk is first
put into the pan with a tablespoonful
of butter, another of sugar, a cup of
yeasf and a little salt. The flour is sifted
and is stirred in gradually, and when the
batter is sufficiently thick no flour is
spread before over it to become Another'Principle dry and crusty
the morning. of
new method is that with bread, ’ as
with cake, too much flour makes the
compound dry and tasteless, and bread
made by the rule, “mix until it will not
stick to the board,” will become stale
much sooner than that which is mixed
more I found, lightly and softly.
‘ too, that my yeast made by
my mother's rule, soured sooner than
Lena’s and I soon saw the explanation.
I boiled my potatoes, mashed with them
a the tablespoonful of flour and poured over
boiling potato water in which I had
meanwhile scalded a handful of hops.
This scalded the flour but did not cook
it thoroughly. Lena grated her potatoes
into a quart of boiling water, sifted into
the mixture two tablespoonfuis of flour;
added the water in which a handful of
hops had been boiled, half cup of sugar
and a little salt, and allowed it to cook
for ten or fifteen minutes, stirring fre¬
quently this before adding the yeast. By
process the flour was thoroughly
cooked and the yeast would keep for
weeks.
The time of Lena’s reign was a house¬
hold jubilee. Such tempting rolls as she
prepared dumplings for our tea-table; such spongy
with our stews, or their apple
confreres for desserts; such light, flaky
steamed puddings with and this tender bread,
sponge for cover apples, berries,
peaches, or if jellies for lining. breadmake Really, it
seemed as this marvelous
could change the lifeless dough into
nothing Her that was resignation, not tempting take and tooth¬ in¬
some. to an
cumbrance in the shape of a husband,
hold, brought and woe and have wailing into decided the house¬ that
we quite again.
we shall never look upon her like
—Daughters of America.
Recipes.
Steamed Pudding. —Half cup each
sugar and butter, three eggs, one cup
sweet ing powder, milk,three heaping teaspoons Steam bak¬
two cups flour. one
hour, serve with sauce.
Rice Soup. —Wash half a tea-cup of
rice and put it on in a pint of water to
boil; when done, drain and add a quart
of milk; let it boil five minutes; season
with butter, salt and pepper.
large Onion onion; Soup. fry —Peel in and’chop until a very
butter brown;
put a quart of milk on to boil; add the
onion; let it simmer half an hour; season
with pepper and salt and serve.
Lemon Custard. —Six eggs, beaten
separately, one and one-half cups sugar,
tablespoonful of butter, juice (only) of
one large or two small lemons, mix the
whites in last, bake immediately. For
two custards, on puff paste.
Cream Cake. —Take two eggs, beat
ia coffee-cup, then fill with good thick
cream, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one
teaspoonful half of .baking powder, or one
teaspoonful soda and one teaspoon¬
ful cream tartar. Flavor with lemon,
and bake in moderate oven.
Broiled Potatoes. —Cnt cold boiled
potatoes into slices a third of an inch
thick. Dip them into melted batter and
fine bread crumbs. Place in a double
broiler and broil ever a fire that is not
too hot. Garnish with paisley and serve
on a hot dish; or season with salt and
pepper, toast till a delicate brown, ar¬
range on a hot dish and season with but¬
ter.
Boiled Leo of Mutton. —Leg of mint
ton, when boiled to a turn, is a very ac
ceptable joint, and also a very profitable
one for small families, as many excellent
dishes may be p repare d from that not,
used at the first meal, /faremutton is in
digestible, hut it should notbe over-done.
Put the leg in an oval boiler, cover it
w ;th plenty of fast-boiling water, slightly
sa lted; skim off the rising scum, as it will
discolor the joint if it comes in contact
witt it A me dium-sized leg of mutton
requires nearly two hours and a half to
bo il. A puree of young soring turnips,
with a sauce made of melted butter and
f’ l0ur) w ith small capers added to it, is the
m03 t popular sauce to serve with boiled
mutton. The capers do not need cook
nr > but should be added to the sauce
be f ore serving
Cauliflower with "White Sauce.—
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™ hours ’ Cauliflower rfl so often . f con
tains worms and slugs that this precau
wifi cause j 3 , pessary. insects of The any .salt kind and concealed water
^ the heart of the vegetable to come to
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until tender. The sauce is prepared by
taking half one pint of milk, apiece of butter
the size of an egg, let the milk come
to a boil while you mix a dessert spoon¬
ful of flower to a cream with a little cold
milk. Add a little salt and a dash of
nutmeg and pour into the boiling milk;
stir constantly while it boils for a'minute
or two. Pour over the cauliflower.
Seals With Ballast.
The seals are carnivorous mammals
divided into two classes—the common
seals, with rudimentary ears, and the
Otariae sea lions, bears, elephants, which
have the ears developed. In a late
paper before some British naturalists,
Dr. A. J. Harrison stated that the
Otariae, which inhabit the waters of the
southern hemisphere, are supposed by
the fishermeu to have an internal pouch
in which rounded stones are carried to
enable the animal to sink below the sea’s
surface when fat. Observations have
shown, however, that the so-called
“ballast-bag” is only the stomach. To
account for the presence of the stones
in this organ it has been suggested that
they are intended to aid in the tritura¬
tion of food, while other persons believe
that they have been accidentally intro¬
duced with the food, or in play. Similar
rounded stones have been found in seals
and sea-lions which have been confined
in London, and the stomach of a New¬
foundland seal which died at Clifton in
1886, contained gravel, nuts and pieces
of stick.
How Daniel Boone Died.
A Kentucky newspaper (the Paris Citi¬
zen), seventy years old, and just found
among some old papers, gives the follow¬
ing account of the death of Daniel
Boone : “As he lived so he died, with
his gun in his hand. We are informed
by a gentleman direct from Boone’s set¬
tlement on the Missouri that early last
month Colonel Boone rode to a deer lick
and seated himself within a blind raised
to conceal him from the game; that
while sitting thus concealed, with his
trusty rifle in his hand, pointed toward
the lick, the muzzle resting on a his log, rifle his
face to the breech of his gun,
cocked, his finger on the trigger, one eye
shut, the other looking along the barrel
through the sights—in this position,
without a struggle or motion, and of
course without pain, he breathed out his
last so gently that when he was found
next day by his friends, although stiff
and cold, he looked as if alive, with his
gun in hand just in the act of firing.”—
Pittsburg Post.
Electric lights are now being applied
abroad to carriages
A Bombay Juggler.
Without paraphernalia of any descrip¬
tion, devoid loins, of dress, he except a cloth
around his performed tricks of
legerdemain, the recital of which would
bring a shrug of unbelief from the read¬
er, and will therefore not be attempted,
and yet one example must be related
just to give the imagination a chance.
A common washbowl was placed in the
centre of the room. Four hen eggs pro¬
cured in the hotel were deposited in the
in bowl. the The little assistant of of the juggler, who
presence the spectators
could plainly see the eggs on the bottom,
slowly Hindoo filled placed the his vessel bare with hand water. the The rim
on
of tho view, bowl returning and the eggs disappeared the hand
from when
was removed. This was repeated sev¬
eral times, but he kept the explana¬
tion of the trick to himself.
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in 1743: “To be sold by the Printer of
this Paper, the very best Negro Woman
in this Town, who has had the Small
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Horse, as brisk as a Bird, and will work
like a Beaver. Aug, 23, 1743.”
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