Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-16
lTellsful Hints.


WHITE Cur CAKE.-One cup of fresh
butter, cups white powdered sugar,
1 cups of sifted -four, 4 eggs, -1xcup
sour cream or rich milk, sodato sweeten
il, half grated nutmeg, teaspoonful
cinnamon bake in small tins.
ARRowRooT BISCUITS. together
ree-quarters of a pound of sugar and
the same weight of butter until they
rise. Beat three eggs we'll and mix with
it, then stir in two cups sifted arrow
root and two cups sifted -four, roll
them out thin, cut them with o biscuit
cutter, place them in buttered tins, and
bake in slow oven.
SPONGE CAKE PUDD1Na.-Butter a
mold well and ornament it with dried
cherries or sultanas, then three parts
fill it with sponge cake, and fill up with
custard. -Four sponge cakes, half
pint of milk, and two or three eggs,
sweetened with loaf sugar, make nice
small pudding. Boil or steam it for
half an hour, and serve with sweet
cream or wine sauce.
RASPBERRY CRxAM.-Put two large
tablespoonful of raspberry jam in a
very fine and clean sieve, pour over it
and work through one pint of thick
cream, then whifk it until it thickens;
meanwhile dissolve one-half ounce of
isinglass or gelatine, and two ounces
Mmp sugar in q teacupful of milk, and
add gradually to the cream when
quite thick turn into mold.
ScA11oPED Eaas. Boil :" five eggs
eighteen minutes. when cold remove
the shells, and chop tho eggs up rough
~. Have ready teacupful of mashed
potatoes, and another of well-boiled
rice. Mix we'll together, add chopped
capers, very little vinegar, melted but
ter, pepper and salt, and Worcester
sauce. Put into shells, with bread
crumbs, and little butter, and bake a
light brown.
P1NRAPp1E Or ORANGE CAKx.-One
cup butter, 2 cups sugar, beaten well
together; 10 eggs beaten up well, 81
cups flower, cup sweet milk 2 cups
sugar, 2 spoonfuls cream tartar, / of
soda; bake your cake in jelly tins,
having. it. four Or five layers deep.
Crate the pineapple or 4 oranges,
whichever you use, and spread between
the layers: frost the top if you choose,
whichis q1ito' unnecessary. * x.
To Colon PuRP1E OR LIIAc.-For
one yard Of yarn cloth dissolve one
oun0 cudh With gentle heat, il
nfclenf cover the yarn or
Ieloth. Fiistdfp the yarn or cloth in
IsaleratusNater, wiring out and put into
t.dfbfear let it stand one-half hour or
m0ne; il You wish dark color, wiring
out and wet again in saleratus water ;
then again into cudbear, with the cud-
bear aud two ounces of alum.
ORANGE CAKE.-I saw an inquiry in q
recent number Of the Rural New York
or, for q recipe for orange cake.
send you mine:-2 cups sugar, 81 of
-four, ! cup cold water, / teaspoonful
cream tartar, I spoonful soda in water,
yolks of s. eggs and whites Of q juice
and grated *rlhd Of an orange; bake III
four square tins. Frosting to be placed
between layers. Whites of three eggs,
juice and grated rind of one orange,
and sugar as for common frosting.
MINISTER'S PuDD1Na.-Three eggs, an
equal weight Of sugar and butter, and
the weight of two eggs in -four. Melt
the butter, and beat it to q cream beat
the eggs we'll, mix them with the but
ter and sugar, beating the whole to a
froth then add the flour by degrees,
and the rind of . lemon chopped very
finely. Beat it all together, and pour
into mold; boil gently for IN hour.
This pudding requires as much beating
as o sponge cake. When properly
made it is delicious.