The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1875-10-02
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

LEMON PIE.-Ono lemon, one cup
sugar, yelks two eggs, three table
spornsful flour, one cup sweet milk.
Beat whites of eggs and add to top.
MrNcE PIES WITHOUT MEAT.-Five
soda crackers, one cup seeded ralslns,
Juice of two lemons, riDd OF one, two
eggs, spices, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc.
An ORNAMENTAL BLANC NANCE
Make a corn starch pudding in the
usual way q: when cold turn from the
mold and ornament with almonds
bIanched, and serve either with cream
or floating island custard.
THE following is a good recipe for
raspberry vinegar Pour over one pound
of bruised berries one quart of the best
cider vinegar; next day strain the
liquor on one pound Of fresh ripe rasp-
berries, bruise them also, and on the
following day do the same. Do not
squeeze the fruit, only drain the liquor
Thoroughly. Put the Juice into stone
Jar and add sugar in proportion OF one
pound to a pint. When the sugar is
melted, place the jars in saucepan
of water, which heat skim the liquor,
and, after it has simmered for a few
minutes, remove from the fire, cover
and BOTTLE.
MocK.TURTLE SoUP.-Scald and clean
n calls head, boil it, with the skin on,
slowly for an hour in about gallon of
water. When cold, cut mp the meat
into pieces an inch square. Stew in
cream and water two pounds of beef
and two of veal, with two ounces of
green sage and five onions Of desired.
Add these to the liquor, also the bones
of the head, a handful OF parsley, a
salt-spoon of mace, the grated rind of
lemon, and simmer all for three
hours. Strain it when cold, remove
the fat, restore it to the clean kettle,
thicken with tablespoonful of -four.
Just before serving add eight or ten
hard boiled eggs and the Juice of a
lemon. Boil the brain for ten minutes,
put them in cold water to cool, chop
and mix them 9Th four or five spoon
fuls of grated bread, salt, thyme, and
TIVE eggs, roll them the size of an egg
and brown them in the oven and throw
them into the soup. Very good mock
turtle soup may be made of calves feet.
Four feet boiled in two quarts of
water and seasoned as above-all in
furious ingredients common in cookery
books being left out.
CANNING FRUIT.-The following de-
scription of methods is taken from a
prominent agricultural paper: GAS to
cans, the simplest are the best. Those
of glass, with glass covers, rubber
band and screw ring, are as easily
sealed as they are unsoaled, and can be
managed by any intelligent child of
twelve or thirteen. The porcelain
lined caps are also good. A tin funnel,
lust fitting into the neck of these, can
be made for twenty cents, and with this
the cans may be filled very rapidly, and
without spilling. As TO fruit, i. should
DO perfectly fresh and sound, and care
fully picked over, so that no i'll flavor
Injuries its quality when it comes on the
table. The time of boiling tue fruit
-should vary somewhat with the kind,
ranging from five to thirty minutes, as
follows: Cherries, 5; raspberries, 6;
blackberries, 6; plums, 10; wortle-
berries, 5 peaches, whole, 10 !: peaches,
halved, 8; pears, whole, 30; pears,
halved, %; pineapples, sliced, Is; ripe
currants, 6 grapes, 10; tomatoes, 30;
Rooseberries, 8; ounces sliced, Is.
: The fruit will keep just as well with
ont sugar rs with it, and many pre-
fer it without. Sugar always rises in
price during the preserving season, and
we can wait till winter and then add
sugar as well as to put it in now. In
canning peaches, if two or three are
put in without removing the pits bit.
ter almond flavor will pervade the
whole can. AS to the process: Place
very wet cloth in the dish-pan; set the
jar in this, having previously rinsed it
by rolling in hot water; place in it
silver spoon put in the funnel and
cupful of strip first, then fill with fruit
to the top. Remove the spoon, and set
the jar where no draft Of air can strike
it. The fruit should be covered with
sirup. In ten minutes the Jar will have
cooled and settled some, and they will
be ready to seal up. Fill them to the
top with strip or hot water put on the
rubber, the glass cover and the screw
ring. When the jars are cold, the cover
should be frightened again, and then
set away in a cool, dark place."