The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-09-12
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Making Yeast and Good Bread.

1NaAANS AcasV ana GOOu Bread.
All housekeepers who desire to make
good bread have only to follow the receipt
given below to secure that happy result.
have tested the matter and know that
there is no humbug and all the extra trou
BILE about 1t is more than balanced hy the
superior quality Of the article produced.
Firstly:
TO MAKE YEAST.
Take two hahdtuls of hops, pints of
water, 6 potatoes, and boil them all until
the potatoes are soft then pare them, mash
through cullender and strain the liquid.
Put 1t in your preserving kettle over the fire,
and add cup of sugar, l tablespoonful of
salt, and 2 Of ginger add -four enough TO
make 1t OF the consistency of paste, and
then let 1t boil five minutes, stirring it all
the time. Turn out, aud when partially
coo! add half a pint of good yeast. Let this
stand until fermentation takes place, and
the job is done. In the winter keep it in
Il stone jar In the cellar; but in the summer
dry 1t by mixing it with corn neal and
spreading it on the table exposed to the air,
net snn.)
TO MAKE BREAD.
W ash and pare twenty four good potatoes {;
boil them with large handful of salt till
reduced to q fine pulp; strain through a
cullender, add pints of sweet milk and
when cool enough to bear your hand in it,
stir in enough of -four to make it a thick
batter; to this sponge adda coffee cup of the
yeast. 1aklng the sponge at night. In the
morning | add six quarts Of new or sweet
milk, and three gills of lime water, and
knead it into stiff dough. In two or three
hours after kneading it will be as light and
porous as honey comb knead it down. and
after it has again risen, mould it and put it
INTO pans Let it stand till it rises again !;
then wash the loaves over with cold water
this prevents the formation of too hard
crust-and bake in q we'll heated oven.
When baked, wash again. wrapping it close.
ly IN your bread cloth-Give this fair trial
and | Will warrant satisfaction - H. H.
Of Michigan, in Country Gentlemen.
Macoroons. These little cakes are much
admired. and are very agreeable addition
to the dessert. The following is a receipt
for preparing them :--'' To quarter of n
pound of sweet almonds, take four tea
spoonsiull of orange flower water the Whites
OF SIX eggs, and one pound Of si!ted white
sugar. BIanch the almonds (remoye the
brown skim, and pound them with the
orange flower water, or some of the white
OF an egg then wAisk the whites of the
eggs and add them gently to the almonds
IT is Important that these two Ingredients
should be carefully added, or they will oil ;
or separate. Sift the sugar into the mix.
ture until the whole forms u paste, not too
stun TO drop upon white paper, which
should be placed i'll a tin, or on q plate,
and the whole baked in slow oven till
done.
To Preserrc Tomntoes.-Contributed to the
Agricuturist by NJ. A. Goodale, Suffolk
county, n. Y. For lbs. of ripe tomatoe.
use half their weight Of finely pulverizcd
sugar. Stew pound Of green ginger root
IN water until soft. Remove the skins from
the fruit without scalding. Dissolve aud
boil the sugar in a little water unti it is
thick, then put in the tomatoes and take
from the fire. When cool, skim them ont
heat the syrup, throw in the fruit, until the
process is repeated three times. Then add
all together. and boil gently until DONE
Let the syrup become thick before the
tomatoes are put in it. Seal the jars with
paste made Of rye -four, wet with cold water.
and keep i'll dry place. This will keep all
Winter.
Orange Chsesscake. A quarter Of pound
OF butter, quarter Of Il pound Of sugar,
three eggs, Il wine. glass Of milk or cream,
two ounces Of sponge cake, the rnd Of one
orange grated, half nutmeg, one table.
spoonful of brandy, or two of rosewater. -
Pour the milk or cream over the sponge
cake to molslen it. Then stir together
your butter and sugar, whisk your eggs,
mash the cake very fine. and mix all togeth.
er with the liquor and spice. Line YOUR
ie..plates with paste, fill with the mixture,
and bake in moderate oven.
Good Corn Bread.--One quart of corn
meal, pint Of wheat flour, 2 eggs, and a
little salt, with sour butter milk sufficient
to make very still batter. Mix thoroughly.
and then add one teaspoouful OF soda dis.
solved in a very little hot water. Stir this
IN and ponrinto well. creased pans, sufficient
to be one and half or two inches thick
when cooked. Place in hot oven, and
bake until done, say halt an hour, and carry
to the table hot.
Orange Pudding. Put 6 ounces of fresh
butter and oounces Of lump sugar, pounded
IN mortar. Then crate in the rind of an
orange; beat the whole well together, and.
as you do this, gradually add eggs we'll
beaten and strained. Scrape a hard apple,
and mix it with the other ingredients. -
Put paste at the bottom of the dish, put in
the mixture, and then pour over it cross
bars of paste. Half an hour will be suit
Gent to bake IL.
Boiled Indian Pudding.-Take cups sour
milk, eggs, teaspoon heaping full of sal.
eratus, 2 tablespoonfuls -four, cups Indian
meal, tabespoontuls molasses one half
cup sour cream. Raisins, or dried fruit,
improve it very much. 1t is good either
boiled or steamed. If boiled, it requires
l cup more meal, and l spoonful more lour
| than when steamed,
Carrot Pei will give you nv recipe for
making carrot pie, which think excellent.
Take white or yellow carrots, peel and boil
them till quite soft, put them through cu.
lender, and add milk and sugar To each
PIE put one egg and spoonful of -FOUR
Season to suit the taste.
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Feeding Hogs.-A correspondent of the
Boston ultlvator, who insists that the food
for hogs should always be cook ed, and. in
cold weather, fed to them warm, and in a
warm place, gives the following statement
OF his manner Of preparing the daily food,
and the cost thereof, for bis swine; his
business being chiefly to raise pigs and
shoats for sale:
Take six pounds of beef scraps, at cost
of nine cents, boil in two pals of water,
scald in two quarts of corncob meal at a
cost of three cents, add six pals of water
and you have good swll enough to feed six
store hogs and aipht small cheat, nnoo "a.