Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-26
HONE. FARM AND GARDEN.

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French Bread.--We hear very much
said about the superiority OF French
bread. MANY people preferring 1t TO any
other kind. The peculiarly Of the French
bread appears TO consist In its extreme
liphtness. with perhaps slight tendency
~ sourness. They have method OF max
inc yeast and incorporating IL into Hour
az as to make it very light and spongy.
This is nodded into long and narrow
loayes. and when baked Is nearly all formed
into crust. Many of the bakers make
| their loaves three OF four feet long and not
more than one or two inches in diameter.
You seldom see bread in Europe made
by composition OF acids and alkaiies, as
so frequently used in America.
--Fricasseed Oysters.--Parboil fifty
oysters in their own Juice--one good
scald il sufficient-rcrnove the scum,
strain off all the juice, put them INTO a
hot tureen, which cover and set aside In
warm place. Rub well together SIX
ounces of fresh butter, three tablespoon
fuls OF -four, with as much scalding mix,
into fine, smooth paste, free from Jumps
or grains; stir steadily into quart OF not
milk in stewpan on the f1re, add three
full sal.spoons of salt, two each OF ground
white pepper, allspice and mace, and Sur
till it no longer tbickens; add four we'll
beaten yolks of eggs, strain the whole
through a fine sieve upon the oysters,
cover thickly with fresh bread crumbs
and brown In quick oven.--jernaantoaon
Telegraph.
"A lady in the ohio Farmer says that
dried apple pies are good If the fruit is
good and well dried. Wash the apples
well. and cook them in just water enough
to cover them. Mash thoroughly and
sweeten; season with cinnamon; spread
tbinly on the paste and then drop a few
small Jumps Of butter around 1t. Let
the cover be fancifully cut into pretty
things--say fern leaves. Bake immediate
ly. Nothing is worse for pie than TO
let il stand in the oven while the fire is
sulking, or has SPELL or is getting ready
to burn. Then, for change, If you really
desire to make good dried spple pies, stew
lemon, pulp, rind and all, with the APP
pies; or, Just before the fruit is cooked
enough, add cup OF fruit jelly or cur
rant Juice, or dried currants cooked with
apples. Experiment little with other
fruits and you will be surprised and de-
lighted with the result. 1t is the pitching
together of the materials in careless
manner that has brought dried apple pies
into disrepute. Care should be first taken
In mixing the paste, then cooking and fla
voring the fruit; and then the putting to-
gether and baking. Sprinkle little fine
white sugar over when brought TO the Ia
BILE. Try and make food look appetizing
as well as taste good If food is nicely
prepared, the table linen white, the shelf
whole and bright and the cutlery polished
there is real poetry in eating.
A connoisseur Of coffee thus writes
of this beverage and its preparation:
There are three components in coffee
cafiein, fannie acid, and wood; the first
is healthful stimulant, the second is very
injurious to the stomach, causing head
ache and deranging the system generally;
hence the reason why many are obliged
TO abstain from the use OF coffee. The
only perfect apparatus which l have seen
for preparing coffee is an urn which has
two inside cylinders, both having
strainer attached to the bottom, the larger
occupying about one-half OF the inside OF
the main urn, while the smaller fits inside
the former, but not so deep. The coffee
or tea is placed in the larger cylinder, and
boiling water is poured into the small
cylinder, which passes through the
strainer upon the coffee, not in a volume,
but in fine spray, and then through the
coffee and the lower cylinder, taking with
it all the caffein and leaving the tannin in
the grounds. The coffee falls into the
main urn perfectly clear, and forms a
most delightful beverage. Some time
ago, while dining with celebrated
French physician in Paris, we were taking
coffee, when he said to me: "Do not the
people of America generally boil coffees"
| replied in the affirmative. He then
said. "If coffee is boiled it should not be
drank, as the best part passes off into the
atmosphere and tickles the nostrils, while
the remainder contains the poison, which
is very injurious to the stomach"