The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-31
Recipes.

Recipes.
4 Coop BREAKFAST DIsH.-Pour
/ eggs, three quarters OF of n pint new
milk, and a piece of butter the size Of
walnut, salt and pepper to suit the
/ taste. Beat the eggs, and the milk and
butter, aud pour all together into a hot
! frying-pan containing half spoonful of
fryings. stir constantly for three or
four minutes, when it will be ready for
the table. Quite 4 nice flavor is OBJ
tanned by making ii after frying ham or
fresh suasages.
To cook Goldfish, says n writer in West
ern Rural, never freshen it, but pick it
up fine and put in a frying-pan with
large piece of butter and one quart of
milk. Let it come TO a boil, then pour
in n teacup of cold milk with n table
spoon of flour stirred in il. Season with
pepper to taste. The fish will salt it
sufficient.
To BROWN POTATOES UNDER MEAT.
Boil some fine, large, mealy potatoes;
take off the skins carefully, and about
an hour before the meat is cooked put
them in the dripping pan, having well
dredged them with flour. Before serv-
serve them up hot.
PoACHED EGGs.-These are often
brought on the table sloppy with water,
the yOlks salvy and broken, and the
whole in mussy state. The right way
to do is to have the water in the fat
bottomed dish or spider, boiling, and
then place it on the top of the stove
where il will keep at that heat but not
boil particle. Break the eggs one by
one and turn them into the water care
fully, so as to keep them in nice form,
the water being about an inch or two
deep. Let the eggs remain two minutes,
then lift each one out on a small skim
mer and place then neatly side by side
on platter or on toast; and they will
be handsome on the table, as well as taste
deliciOusly.
WAFER GINGERBREAD.-Ha pound
of flour, and half a pound of the coarsest
brown sugar, quarter of pound of but
ter, one desert-spOonful of allspice, two
ditto of ground ginger, the peel of half n
lemon grated, aud the whole OF the juice;
mix all these ingredients together, add
ing about half a pound of treacle, so rs
to make a paste sufficiently thin to
spread upon sheet tins; beat it well, but
ter the tins, and spread very thinly over
them; bake it in rather slow oven,
and watch it till done. Withdraw the
tins, cut il in squares with knife the
usual size of wafer biscuits, and roll each
around the fingers as il is raised from
the tin.
STEAMED PUDDING.-Take one cup
suet chopped very fine, aud one cup mo-
lasses, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon
cinnamon, one-half teaspoon cloves,
one teaspoon soda; beat up three eggs,
one cup chopped raisins, four cups of
flour. Steam two hours. Eat with SUI
gar and milk.
BAKERS GINGERBREAD.-T cups
of mOlasses, four tablespoons Of butter.
Stir together without melting; add one
cup of flour, two tablespoons of alsratus
dissolved in one cup of sour milk; two
teaspOOnfuls alum dissolved in One-third
cup of boiling water; one tablespoon of
ginger. Mix sOft-cut out and bake.
I CUcUMBERs.-Takeo one quart of good
alcohol TO four quarts of water; put the
cucumbers in fresh from the vines.
Wipe them first with a wet cloth, or
wash and drain them. Put in a warm
place until fit for the table, then keep
them in a cellar or a cool place. They
stay hard and green, are always ready
for the table and will keep two years.
LEMON PIE.-Take one-half teaspoon
/ tartaric acid dissolved in One-half cup of
cold water, One-half teaspoon extract
/ lemon, one Of sugar, yelk Of egg, one
Z soda cracker. After dissolving the acid,
/ stir the yOlk and sugar together and
mix with the acid and water, then the
extract, then the cracker crumbled in.
Bake in crust as for custard pie and
cover with the white of an egg, and
brown.
BED BUGs.-Take as much common
/ salt as 4 quart of cold water will dissolve,
and wash the bestead thoroughly. At
! ter few trials, there VIII no occasion
4 to repeat the process.
To GROW HORSE HATR.-0ftenti times
! the owner of valuable horse discovers
a SPAWN or curb making its appearance;
blister is applied, and many times the
hair comes of, which, of course, the
owner wishes to have grow out as soon
as possible. Now, gentleman of Den
mark, New York, has furnished a recipe
which he claims will cause the hair to
start right away on bare spots caused by
! blistering, harness gall or otherwise
] Take an old boot or shoe, place it on the
/ fire, burn TO a coal, pulverize, and mix
with hogs lard to a thin paste. a few
applications of the paste to the bare
place will do the work. Try it.