The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

.EfOUSE.7IOLD ECONOMY.

DERBY CAKES.—Rub one pound of butter into two
pounds of flour ; make a hole, and put in one pound of
powdered loaf sugar ; beat two eggs in,about half a
pint of milk ; add half a pound of currants ; mix all
up together; make them what size you please, and
bake them in a steady oven:
HOTCH-POTCH.—BoiI for two hours, or more if not
perfectly tender, one pound of peas, with an ounce of
butter or a little fat ; pulp them through a sieve.
Put on in a separate saucepan a gallon of water, three
pounds of mutton chops, some salt and pepper, a pound
and a half of carrots, the same quantity of turnips, cut
small ; boil till the vegetables become tender, which
may be in about two hours ; add the strained peas to
it, let it boil half-an-hour, and then send it to table.

COLD ROAST BEEF kRICASSEED.-Cut the meat
into thin slices, and pare 'off the fat, gristle, and skin;
cover with flour, and set these by whilst you extract a
gravy from the bones and other portions ; season with
pepper and salt, and add three or four onions and a
bunch of parsley to it. When you find it sufficiently
strong, add a glass of port wine, the juice of half a
lemon, and the yolk of an egg ; then warm up the
slices quickly, but do not let the sauce boil, or the
meat will become tough.

MOTHER EVE'S PUDDING.

If you would have a good pudding, pray mind what
you are taught.
Take two penn orth of eggs, when twelve for a groat ;
Take of the same fruit with whiCh Adam was cozen'd,
Well pared and well chopped, at least half-a-dozen ;
Six ounces of bread, (let Moll,eat the crust),

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The crumbs must be grated as small as the dust ;
Six ounces of currants from the stones you must sort,
Lest they break, cut your teeth, and spoil all the sport;
Six ounces of sugar won't make it too sweet,
But some salt and a nutmeg the whole will complete :
Threehours let it boil, without any flutter, (in a basin)
And to finish it quite you must add melted butter.
6 apples chopped, 6 eggs, 6oz. currants, 6oz. sugar,
6oz. grated bread, 1 nutmeg, and salt. Boil 3 hours.
LEMON PUDDING.--Take half-a-pound of sugar,
pounded, the rind of 2 lemons, grated, and the juice of
one, the yolks of 6 eggs; add half-a-pound of melted
butter. You must not mix the eggs with the butter
till cold: Lay a good crust in the bottom of the dish,
and bake in a quick oven.
MODE OF SALTING MEAT IN INDIA.—The heat is so
great in the above country that meat would become
putrid within a few hours after the beasts were killed
were it not that the same is almost immediately cooked
or cured for keeping, in order to use it afterwards.
Brine will not answer the purpose of preserving such a
commodity, as the animal juices have been found to
ferment in the saline liquor, and render the latter pu-
trescent. The only method that can be adopted to
save the flesh sweet, under the process of laying it
down for use, is to rub into the meat a large portion
of salt and saltpetre, and, after having so done, to lay
the material on flat boards, carefully superimposing a
corresponding number of flat boards upon the meat,
and afterwards imposing on the upper layers from one
to two cwt. of 'stones or metal, to produce immense
gravitation. By this means the whole of the fluid par-
ticles will become expressed from the meat (which is
the most likely to be tainted), and the fibrous matter
being relieved from any obnoxious impurities, will re-
tain its accustomed sweetness and wholesomeness.—
Bell's "Weekly Messenger.