The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-14
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Corn MEAL RUsK.-Take six cupft,ls q,
corn meal, four Of wheat -four, two of mo.
lasses, and one teaspoonful Of saleratus
mix the whole together and knead it into
ters of an hour.
MARvELs.-Dissolve one teaspoonful Of
soda or saleratus in cup of milk; season
with nutmeg or cinnamon. Make 10 stifi
with flour. Roll it very tAin, cut them
round, as large as q cookey, anu Try them.
Slit sugar over them while hot.
Coon OonS BREAD.-One pint wheat or
rye -four, two pints corn meal, one teaspoon
full soda, one tablespoonful melted shorten
ing, one egg, and sour milk, or buttermilk
enough to make it pour easily steam three
| hours, remove, and bake one hour.
RICE PIE.-Cut up u fat chicken, and
boil till tender; cook one pint of rice in he
water in Which the chicken was boiled
mix with it six well beaten eggs if eggs are
plenty You may put eight y one cup OF milk,
one Tablespoonful of butter, salt aud pepper
to your taste. Put into baking dish alter
nate layers Of chicken and rice, having rice
last, and bake slightly. , $50
full of sugar together, aud then stir in as
much flour Us will make stiff dough. Roll
| it very thin, and cut it into round cakes
about the size of an old fashioned silver
dollar. Fry them in hot lard. When they
turn over they are done. Take them up,
and put jelly in the centre when they are
cool.
RUsK.-Three pints of flour, two eggs,
one cup of sugar, and a tablespoonful of
butter. Beat the eggs and sugar well toge-
ther, and add the butter mix in the flour
with warm water, in which cake of yeast
has been dissolved; put in a place to rise.
When we'll raised, knead in q teacup more
of -four, and make in small rolls. Bake o
light brown. Be careful not to burn them, as
the sugar would cause them to burn easily.
WoNDERs.-Beat a quarter of pound of
sugar and the same quantity of butter to-
gether, then add three eggs .Whisked to a
froth. Mix them we'll, and season with nut
meg, then stir in flour till the mixture is
stiff enough to roll. Roll it as thin as for
cookies. Cut it into pieces two inches
square. Make four gashes across it, leaving
an edge all round half an inch wide; then
cut another cash across the middle to di-
vide the three strips made by the first
gashes, and twist and roll and curl them as
fancifully as you please. Then fry them in
boiling lard.
WHIMs.-Rub flour and butter or lard TO-
gether as for pastry; then beat one egg
with as much sugar as it will moisten, for
fifteen minutes. Dissolve as much soda as
will lie on a dime in o tablespoonful of
milk, and mix it with the egg and sugar.
When it is we'll mixed add half q teaspoon
full of essence of peppermint or checkerber-
ry. Stir in the shortened flour till it is thick
enough to roll. Then roll it upon q buttered
tin as thin as for cookies, and cut it into
strips four inches long and one-haf an inch
wide, and bake eight Or ten minutes in
moderate oven.
TONGUE ToAsT.-Take a cold, smoked
tongue, that has been we'll boiled, and CRATE
1t with coarse crater, or mince it fine; n1ix
it with cream and beaten yolk of egg, and
give it q simmer over the fire; having first
cut off all the crust, toast very nicely some
slices of bread, and then butter them rather
slightly; lay them in flat dish that has
been heated before the fire, and cover each
slice of toast thickly with the tongue mix
ture spread on hot, and send them to the
table covered. This is Il nice breakfast or
supper dish. For tongue you may substitute
cold ham finely minced.
CATHOLIC ENTERPRIsE.-We take the fol-
lowing from the New York correspondence
of the Mobile 1fmes,-under date of the 9TH
inst:
1t is customary among non-Catholics to
regard that sect as decidedly Old-fogyish,
which may or may not be u just accusation !;
but in and about New York the Catholics
are not behind their neighbors in matters of
progress. Considering that the great mass
of them are laboring people, who have very
they do raise for schools, colleges, and Ca
tholic institutions is quite marvellous to
think of. A few days ago the ceremony OF
turning the first sod, preparatory to the
erection of new Catholic college, with the
pretty name of MARY Queen of the Isles
was performed in Brooklyn. The building
will cover a whole block of ground, and the
cost is estimated at one million dollars.
The Catholics of Brooklyn are also erecting
magnificent cathedral, which will cost,
perhaps, two millions, and will be only Sec
ond in beauty and costliness to the gorgeous
marble cathedral now in progress on Fifth
Avenue, New York. Work on. the latter
building is being rapidly pushed forward,
and in II short time the erection of the new
Dominican monastery, college, and church,
| on Lexington Avenue, near Central Park,
| will be commenced. This will be one of the
largest and most extensive buildings in the