Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-03
Domestic Recipes:

Pigeons is Sarory yety-Bone a pigeon; stuff
win sausage meat and roast. Boil in q quart Of
Beef csHaa stock pound Of veal slice OF ham, 81.
small carrot; reduce TO pint BY boiling slowly;
strain through sieve and then through fapnql;
add the juice OF one lemon. and pour Into q Jelly
mould previously dipped in cold water. When
L begins to CONCEAL, lay in the pigeon, breast
down, and let IL stand over night Ii is a relish-
Ing dish for breakfast. -
Potato Saldd.-Cut q dozen cold boiled pota-
thick; mix with some fakes of cold boiled tish.
lhaifbut. cod or salmon and pour over them a
boiled salad dressing, made with six tablespoon
RUS OF melted butter or salad oil, six ditto Of
cream or milk, one teaspoonful Of salt, half
that Quantity OF pepper, and one tesspoonful OF
ground mustard. Into this mix ono coffeecuo.
full OF vinegar. Boil well: then add three raw
the fire and stir for five minutes When thor
oughly cold. turn over the salad garnish with
slices Of picked cucumbers, beet root, hard
boiled eggs and fresh parsley.
This boiled salad dressing can be mada in
Quantities and kept tightly bottled for weeks
1t is very toothsome. When used for groom SAT
ads, it should be placed at the bottom of the
vegetables lose that crispness which Ia so de-
hcious to the epicure. Slices of eggs, beets and
cold potatoes, serve to ornament the dish.
Green Tomato Picslss.-Eds. Country Gentleman.
Hoping this article will not. appear too late for
some of your readers, 1 take pleasure in for
matO pickles.
Green tomatoes one peck, sliced, sprinkled
stand two days, then drain them of and rinse
them with water; put them in . porcelain lined
kettle, with twelve small onions, sliced, three
ounces Of English mustard, quarter pound white
pepper whole pepper bruised), half ounce Of
puiyerized cloves, q tablespoonful OF celery
ca t.o
nall hOure.-C0uafrr Gentleman.
Boiled Psdd;ng.-Stir Indian meal and warm
milk together, making the mixture pretty stiff,
add while stirring two or three tabiespoonfulls
OF molasses, q teaspoonfull Of ginger or other
cred pan. A tin dish, made for the purpose, is
convenient. A very thick cloth win answer,
Leave plenty Of room for the meal to swell.
Thin slices of apple stirred into the mixture be-
fore baking are much relished by some.
Very Nice Apple Aeldnee.-First line q dish
with nice paste, then pare and stew ak large
tart apples, and flavor a. for sauce; when cold
add the yolks Of three eggs well beaten, q
eracser rolled tine, and little butter. Then
It, then take it out and let stand until 1t is cool
Then beat the whites of the eggs to astiff froth,
sweeten and flavor, and pour It on top of that
the frothing ID OF light brown.
Influence Of iron on Wdser.-It is not generally
known that few scraps OF iron will prevent the
bad odor from forming In water left to stand for
oxygen in the water, and thus prevents the OH
dation Of the organic matter that may be in the
water.
A better agent for rendering river water
A very small quantity suffices to throw down the
organic matter, and thus to purify the water
There are few disnfectants so valuable as the
chloride and the sulphate Of iron, and they
ought to be kept about every household. They
are equally important to stop bad cases of bleed
ing from the nose or from cuts.