Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-13
Domestic EcOuOmy.

split peas without meat. They are generally
used as thickening for soups but they make a
alone. Like beans they must be cooked a long
time. II Is well to put them soaking in warm
water at night. In the morning drain of the
water and cover them with good deal of fresh
water, as they absorb great quantity while
swelling and cooking. Cook them slowly the
whole forenoon; and If the peas are good they
Will be entirely broken up when the soup is done
Season 1t with salt, also with cream or milk and
butter. i have seen peas which it seemed i'm
possible to cook, and peas that had flavor of
all sorts of barn fodder; but good peas are much
liked in our family. The most common mistake
enough. If 1 cooked them with beef-soup ]
should give them much more time than the
recipe books cav, for peas that, so to speak,
have dissolved in cooking are far better than
those mashed through colander.
DRIED PEAs.-Any good peas Cminus insects)
well cured are good for making soup. Wash
them, soak them, and cook them the same as
split peas. These, however should be strained
to free the soup from the skins. Split peas
have had the skins removed by machinery,
which, of course, caused them to split.
PEARLKD BARLEY.-This makes an excel
lent thickening for meat soup, as you would
use rice, only you must cook two or three hours.
1t is good boiled alone and eaten with sweeten-
ed cream. Boil it about three hours.
ROAST DUCK.-Wild duck often has strong
flavor when cooked which is very disagreeable
to many. Marion Harland speaks of it as a
"fshy flavor" and says it may be remedied by
lut uTtsscu uuSH Win u raw peeieu
carrot or an onion inside. The onion imparts
some flavor, and should not be used unless
there is onion in the dressing. more impOr-
tant point is to remove the oil-sacs from the
back of the fowl. Uery important point with
all poultry, and indeed with all animal foOd) is
the removal of the entrail.
very nice way to stuff and roast duck is
the following: For moderat3-siZed duck take
three potatoes, quarter of a good sized onion
chopped very fine, half a teaspoon each of
summer savory and maioram, table spoonful
n hnr arAd 10 salt Ir,N
with piece of butter, in the dripping pan in
the oven, and basic with the butter once in
every ten minutes. Roast thoroughly for an
hour, or more If the duck is Old and large.
Mr.. Beecher gays ''If too much cooked, a duck
becomes very dry and tasteess.''
This mode of roasting makes no allowance
bottom of the dripping pan (stter an Of the fat
has been removed) thickened with flour and
the boiled and chopped giblets.
SOUTHERN MoDE OF BAKING SQUAsH.-I am
following mode of baking winter squash: Cut
open the squash, and after scraping each half
put a tablespoonful of butter and a table
spoonful of sugar in each. Bake slowly, and
haste the inside so that the sugar and butter
may permeate ii evenly.
give the recipe as It was given me, I have
always thought that squash should be put into
a hot oven and baked rather fast Though it takes
a good while to bake it thoroughly, and think
It is often served when little more than half
done), as much of the sweetness of the squash
&c ems fair treatment of anything so good as a
Hubbard squash Ito say nothing of economy
to allow 1t to waste its own natural sweetness on
the desert air of the oven, and then attempt to
supply the less by imparting the sweetness of
sugar. But you can try it.
CAKE AND DOUGHNUTs.
CREAM CAKE-Two eggs; one cup of sugar;
One cup of cream; two cups of -four; one tea
spoonful of cream-of tartar; one tea-spoonful
Of soda.
LOAF CAKK.-Three eggs; one cup of sugar;
bait cup OF butter; one cup OF cam; one tea
spoonful of soda; one cup OF raislnS; one cup of
cuTrants flour and nutmeg.
CREAM COoKIHs.-One egg: one large cup of
sugar; one cup of cream; one half cup of sour
milk; half tea spoonful of soda; -four enough
to roll.
RAISED CAKg.-Two cups of raised dough:
two eggs; two cups of sugar; one cup of butter
1ne cup of sweet milk; one tea-spDonful of sod 4
.wo cups of -FOUR one cup of fruit; cinnamon.
cloves, and nutmeg. To be put into the even
At once.
CoCoA-NUT CAKE.-Two eggs; beat the whites
% stiff frOth; one and a half cup of sugar:
half a cup of butter; half a cup of sweet mix;
)ne tea-spoOnful OF cream Of-tartar: half a tea
poouful OF soda; two and a quarter cups of
Tour; half cup of cocoa nut; flavor with
emon.
MINUTE SPONGE CAKE.-Beat three eggs
wo minutes; add one cup and a half OF sugar;
ieat Two minutes; one cup of -four and one tea
pOOnful of cream Of tartar; beat one minute
i'd half a cup of cold water with half a tea
poonful of soda and spoonful of extract of
emon beat one minute; add one cup of flour;
,eat one minute. Splendid.
DoUGHNUTs.--Two eggs: two cups of sugar:
wo cups of sweet milk; a little salt; five pirtS
II flour; with two even measures each of acid
md soda of Horsford's preparation mixed well
N the four.-Americdn Agricuiturist.
IrDUsTRIAL.-The Philadelphia Ledger OF
Monday says, speaking of the Baldwin locomo
tive works
There are 100 men at present employed in the
boiler department, which is $50 less than the
number employed before the panic. The fore
man states that many cases of suffering have
been found among discharged workmen. Thir-
teen hundred men were employed las. week at
the works on three-quarter time. This week
they will work on half time, but it is stated the