The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-12-06
Vegetables aaR4l H'HacGE
Cookery.

CUCuMpERs.-Who ever heard ol
cooking II cucumber? we hear uur
readers cxclai'n Try it {; and then
tell your neighbors how we'll poor
man may live in this country. Tax"
cucumber Just us it begins to turn
yellow, peel and slice into salt ami
water; drop it into cold water and b,.li
until tender. $ asnn with salt and
pcppcr--nrix with batter and fry
Few can tell it from cgg plant.
INDIAN CoRN OR ROASTING EARs.--
Who don't know how to cook /. asii.u
cars but i every body does know
how to cook them, it is seldom we find
green corn upon the table, with all ne
good qualities preserved. 1t is 10
wonder our negroes are 50 greedy 10,
pot ipuor, when in nine cases out ui
ten, it contains all the best Of the veg
ctahlrs. C"ru boiled in the car should
hc dropped into boiling water, with
'sa|t to season. Corn cut from the ear
and boiled in milk. seasoned with
butter, ncpl'cr. and salt, is AN excellent
dish. Corn cut from the cob atle.
boiling, and mixcd with butter beans.
sea ourd with butter, pepper and salt,
makes Succo asst, Il capital dish. Com
oysters is 4 delicious diS.,; crate the
corn from the cob, season with salt
aud pepper, mix in batter, aud fry in
butter. Green corn padding $ great
d"i'cacH; CRATE the corn from III" cob,
mix sweet milk and flour Until Of the
consistency of paste. Season with
auy thing lhe taste may dictate, and
bake i'll 4 hot oven; it should bake
quick.
OSioSs AHD LrEEs Many ohjrc,
I" ti:"Sc vegetables, that they are
strong and taint tic breath, but il
onions or lcckS are roilvd in milk,
they will leave no til upon The
hrc"t'. Onions that are to be flied.
should first be cut mp in cod water; it
extracts much of their spirit, and
makes them p!ca<an,er to the taste
lake them tro''l the water, and drop
tAc:-' n."h"I.ac iayt! .nr butter. SEA
son as they lty, with sal, pepper, e.
Eco HLA%yS.- eel the fruit aud
cur Them into ..lin slices, boil in sal,
and water until quite tender; drain
oil the water and add sweet milk,
ciumb in toasted bread, and while
simmcring gently, add lultcr, PEPPER
Nc, and break three + four fresh cn.>:
take up before the eggs cook hard. anu
You will have dish almost equal L,
>lcwcl oysters. 10 fry c-g plaalS,
they should hc peeled, cat into thin
slices, parb"iIed, lI:cn dipped in batter,
which has been highly seasoned and
fried in batter or lard; either way they
are d"!iciuu*.
E%GLlslI i'EAs,--Grccn peas TO br
good, must be young and OF quick
growth; after shcIing, drop them into
h"iilng water, witha little salt; there
should DC Just cuon.h water to cover
tie peas; twenty INMATES boiling will
cook 'h,m; JUS before taking up, add
lump OF sweet batter: with pepper
and salt 10 taste; cook them i'm brass
or r"rcrlain \ table spoonful of
sugar /" each quart of peas, and a
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