Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-12-11
Domestic Recipes.


OF corn meal, two of wheat flour, four of
ouckwheat, two tcaspooDfuls of salt:
mix all up with sufficient warm water TO
make a pouring batter. then add one tea
cup OF Yeast. Let it rise over night,
Keeping it warm. Bake in the morning.
Leave pint of batter to set TO again.
and You do not need any more Yeast The
whole winter. Keep it cool when not
wanted. 1t may happen that the batter
gets sour. il so, add, Just before baking,
one teaspoonful of baking soda, dissolv-
ed in teacup of cold water. stir and
bake Immediately. They vii. be light.
palatable and more wholesome than
when made of all buckwheat.-1Gcr.
mdnto,rn Telegraph.
CHOCOLATE CAKE.-One and onc.half
cups OF sugar, two and onc-half cups of
butter; beat TO "A cream: two teaspoon.
luis OF cream tarter put into one cup of
flour; add this to the butter and sugar
and beat well: one tcaspoonful of soda
in one cup of warm milk; add the milk
TO the butter and sugar, aud stir well:
add flour enough to nak~it quite stifi:
break five eggs, beat the volks and
whites separately; add the whites alter
being beaten TO a froth: now stir well:
put IN a pan and bake in a slow oven.
For gold cake the same, only add the
Nolks instead OF the whites of the co"s.
For frosting for this cake,-ouc cgy. add
chocolate enough to make it dark color
ed.
LEMON FLrMMEgi squeeze four
lemons into a basin. throwing in ,l,.
Ilhd>, but not the seeds: add one.Lalf
PINT oil water, one-half pound of loaf
sugar, and cover close for an hour: take
out the lemon rinds and again cover.
aud let it stand all night Then strain
through cloth. and add one ounce of
i,Ihglass, and put it in sauce pan with
Dix eggs. well beaten; set over the fire.
ana keep stirring one way till il is q.
thick as cream. When milk-warm. put
tut" monlds previously dipped in cold
water.
CusTARD BLANC MANGE.-One quar-,
OF water or milk, four tablespooufuls of
corn-siarch, one tablespoonful of sugar.
and a pinch OF salt. Let the water boil.
then add the corn-starch and sugar di,
solved in little cold water. When
done. pour into a deep dish. OF cup.
which have been wctte in cold water.
How AN AMERICAN OFFICER MAD
SoME ''FUS"-A Peruvian officer. .i,f.
Toned on board man-ot-war living la
Callao harbor, had lovely and devoted
Peruvian wife, and both were devoted
TO each other, but both were unreasou-
ably jealous. An American officer
fond OF 4 practical Joke, and great
iavorite with the husband and wife. con-
ceivcd a very clever trick, a. he thought.
10 break them of their umlounded ZEAL
ousy.
lie caused a note to be sent TO the wife.
that her husband was in the habit of 20.
ln2 10 certain street and number.
aud asking at the door for a Siguoritn
Mercedes, each week, Oh such a day and
hour. lie also had an ANONYMOUS note
sent 10 the husband, that the wife wa,
seen weekly going at the same day and
hour TO the door for SigLora Mercedes
Ii was large dressmaking establish
ment, but never patronized BY the wife.
Securing in some way the aid OF a
servant OF the establishment. he wait
ed the ''fun," as he supposed. The wife.
true 10 her womanly curiosity and jeul-
ousy, came first, cl, sely yelled, and. in a
trembling voice, said, "Signorita Mer-
cedes,' and was shown into an ante
room. The husband, a few minutes
! later, and punctual to the hour specified.
| presented himself AT the door and runr.
10 the boy who opened it he said simply.
"Slgnora Mercedes and was ut once
shown into the room where sat his wife.
Both began at once: Il have found
you Quit Il have caught your,
Neither would listen to explanation or
reason. The wife screamed and cried
the husband swore and stormed-each
accusing the other. After both were
exhausted, the lady of the establishments
hearing the noise came in, listened TO the
parties i'll establishment, and protested
that she had seen neither OF them ever
before. The boy was called in; in fright
he confessed to the money paid him Tor
the 'fun;' was cufied, kicked, and dis
charged; and the husband and wife
Went home arm in arm, happy and
ashamed.
But the friend vino had COTTON up the
"fun:" The evening of the denoue-
mebi, while in his room, a knock came
at the door. He said, Come in :" and
In walked the husband and WIFE with
out word they event for him then
and there. They scratched him and tore
out his hair; they banged and beat him.
and pulled out his beard: then cuffed
and kicked him, and left him with torn
clothes, bleeding and disfigured. He
kept his bed for a week. his eyes were
closed for fortnight, and his friends on
shipboard never dared to ask him what
was the matter with him. But he only
got his deserts, after all.