The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28
HINTS FOB THE HOUSE WIFE.
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Prom the Cincinnati Enqurer.l
LA MODE BEEF.
Take a rorpd Of beef, cut holes In Il; then take
half pound of pork, half pound OF butter, the
soft part of half loaf wheat bread; boil four
eggs hard, chop them mp, add sage. parsley, sum-
mer savory and one ounce OF cloves pounded
chop all together fine, aud add one gill OF wine;
season high with salt and pepper. Stun the beef
with the stuf6ng, then stick whole cloves In the
beef: then put il in large kettle, with sticks at
tight il YOU wish 1t round when done; put 1t In the
kettle with three quarts Of water and one gill OF
wine IL the round is large, 1t will take four hours
to bake or boil 1t.
Take the lean part of q round Of beef, rub it
well ali over with brown sugar. and let 1t remain
SO five or six hours, turning II every hour, then
salt il well with common salt and satpeter; let u
remain two weeks. turning once day at the end
of that time roll it up tight in coarse cloth, press
Il for one dsy and night, then hang IL up TO smoke
by wood fire. Il should be boiled in q cloth, and
when cold It should le cut In thin slices for use.
A NEW war COOKING BEEF.
Take tender beef, ;cut in small square pieces,
roll them in onions cpt up fine and mixed with salt
and pepper, run sktwers through the beef and
place il over hot costs, turning until done TO suit
the taste. This must be eaten hot, and u Will be
found excellentin flavor for those who Ike onion
seasoning.
DAMsos PRESERVES.
Take feur pounds Of sugar and one quart OF
boiling water; boil and scum clean, then run
| through eIlbag, TO which add one fresh orange,
cut fine aid half pint of brandy to this strip
| mt your dsmsons let them do over q gentle fire
| for fifteen minutes, then put away for USE Cher
i ries and grapes may be preserved the same way
| PEACH PRESERVE.
Take a half peck of clingstone peaches; wipe
them with flannel cloth; put them into an earth
en- lar sufficient to contain them; NIL II up with
| brandy: let them stand two days covered, then
pour off the brandy, to which add half pint OF the
| same liquor and four pounds Of sugar; cut two
| oranges fne, add to the strip, and when BELL
inc hot pour over the peaches. The next day set
| them in hot oven let them remain hall an hour
| then set them in n cool piaoe. the weatner
should be- warm the sirup must De scaloea AGAIN
in eight days. adding thereto another hall pint Oh
| brandy and one pohnd Of sugar, pouring ~ poimg
| hot on the peachest This method will give them
more fresh and agreeable favor. Pears may be
done in she same manner.
BOILED cUsrARD.
Take fight eggs. separate the whites from the
| yolks; beat the whites to stiff froth; take four
tablespoons of sugar and beat In with the yolks,
adding & teaspoonful OF cinnamon, vanilla, and Q
little salt; pot quart OF mnk on the nres ana
Just before It boissdd the yoiks and sugar, STIR
ring all the time until il begins TO thicken; then
| remove IL Immediately from the ire; pour It In
| TO a custard dish and put the whites, well beaten,
into the custard p up win spoon me NOT r,chsr
and better.
| Beat four eggs, add to one quart Of cream;
sweeten TO taste; half nutmeg grated, and little
cinnamon; bake.
Six ounces of butter, twelve ounces Of sugar.
!, | one POND twelve ounces Of -four, six eggs, one
nutmeg; fry in hot lard.
WASHINGTON CAKE.
One pound of sugar, one pound Of -four, hall
pound Of butter, four eggs, one pound OF raisins
one of currsnts, one gill of brandy, teacup OF
| cream. spice 10 taste.
POUND CAKE.
One pound Of -four. one pound of sugar, ten
| eggs, zen ounces OF butter.
:UMBLEs-FIRsr.
! Ons pound and half Of -four, three-quarters Of
! | pound of butter, half ounce OF caraway seed
roll them in sugar.
yfMBLEs-sEcosD.
Two cups Of butter, two cups of sugar, three
7 | eggs as much -four as will make II thin am
! | spice you like
TO MAKE YEAST CAKE.
Take quart Of distiller's yeast II you can &c
: t.. If not the best you can get, add quart o
srrong hop water. warm, but 90 not scald you
i | yeast; put as much corn-mesl into ii as you Cal
conveniently NIX, let 1t stand half an hour, theI
( make it into little cakes and lay them on a clea
board. set them to dry, but do not le. them sour
= keep them in a dry place.
HOW To.KEEP CHEESE IN WINTER.
y Take clear dry barrel, put in a little hay q
the cotton, and then q cheese, and put hay be
v | tween each cheese and around It, and keep
!. covered tight, and in the drest part Of the Gel
!. | lar or in an upper room not subjectto frost.
a cATsUP.
: Take two gallons Of strong stale beer or ale
Is take one pound Of sDchovies, cleansed well
half an ounce Of cloves, one ounce OF mace
quarter Of an ounce OF pepper, six large roots o
ginger, one pound Of small onions and tv
Il quarts of mushrooms well picked and rubbed
q | boil these ingredients slowly for one hour, the
. | strain through flannel bag. and let stand unit
u cold, when II must be bottled and sealed tigh
!: | One spoonful of this catsup In pint of melte
q butter gives fine taste and color as fish sauce
= COUGH sIRUP FOR WEAK LUNGS.
h Take one quart of the best Holland gin, tw
ounces Of pure gum pitch as 1t runs from the tree
e when the gum Is well dissolved, make q strip
4. three pounds Of crushed sugar, mix all together
'. sbaRe well, take one tablespoonful one hour b
"a fore eating.
70 FOR Cough AND soRESEss-ANoTHER snPLE AN
O. EASY RECIPE.
2. Take the white of an egg, put It into glass
u night. In the morning take it before eating
Those that do not take liquor can pour 1t OF an
L take the egg. The whisky cooks the egg and II
q lieves 1t Of the rare taste that many dslike.
:, AN ADMRABLB BEVERAGE FoR WEAK cossrrrl
NJ TON.
a. Boil pearl OF Scotch barley a. will make sbor
three piDts, then strain II Oh, and In the meantim
Il have dissolved an ounce Of gum arabic Ia litt
IN wafer mix them, and Just boil the whole up :,
or gether the barley water need not be thick as th
10 gum will give Il sufficient consistency. IL must
used milkwsrm 90 common drink In the place {
d. beer, at meal-tme.
h Buy the only sewing machine nt for family us
in the Grover & Baker. Warranted for five year
o. Cutter. braidcr and hemmer given with each mi
Sc chine ct ls2 Canal street.
re While the messenger of Theodore Pul.mer