Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-07-22
Domestic Recipes.

Pork for frying should be sliced thin
and allowed to stand in pan of water
twelve hours to freshen.
Pork CUrLErs.-Fry 10 nice brown;
beat three eggs with three spoonluls OF
Hour, dip each slice in the batter and fry
again, until the batter is cooked. This is
very nice.
All vegetables should be washed in
hot water first. to cleanse them for cook
ing. Insects, sand, dirt. etc, are loosened
by the heat.
When milk sour, scalding will render
it sweet again. The whey separate, from
the curd, and the former i, better tina Ii
shortening in bread.
BAKED GRAPE PUDDING.-Cut cold bat
ter biscuit into thin slices, and place it in
a HAPPY in alternate layers with grape mar
malade, beginning and finishing with the
batter Have much or little moisture. ac-
cording a. you prefer buildings nard or
soft. Bake thirty or forty minutes. accord
ing TO the heat of the oven. Like most 9TH
er fruit buildings it is best served cold.
DRIED-APPLE CAKE.-One cup dried APP
plies soaked over night. chopped, and sim
mered in one cup of molasses. one-half cup
of sugar. one egg, one-halt cup OF sour
milk, one teaspoonful soda, two cups flour,
one half cup OF butter, all kinds spice.
TOMATO CATsUP.-One peek of tomaioe.
scalded, then rubbed through sieve. one
cup of salt. three tablespoontrls OF black
pepper, one-half teaspoonful cayenne. one
tablespoonful allspice, one quart best cid
er vinegar; boil one hour before putting
in the spices; no need OF sealing up the
bottles.
STRAWBERRY JELLY.-SqueeZe out the
OF juice add three-quarters OF a pound Of
lump sugar. Boil for twenty minutes; turn
into cups which have been previously dip
ped in cold water, and set in the sun for Il
few hours.
%-White rolls should be mixed and Sc
to rise the evening before, and IN AIDE into
rolls half an hour before baking in the
morning. A pint of warm milk fresh from
the COW. and with salt, half cup of yeast
stirred up quite stiff with Hour, and nodded
until it springs under the touch of the fin
gers. rnakes most delicious light, short
ROLL American Agriculturist.
STRAWBERRIES AND RAsPBERRIEs. =
These can be preserved Tor ice-cream or
cakes or tarts. without boiling. They
should be picked when the fruit is dry, and
put at once into a deep bowl or pan. and
bruised gently. Mix with an equal weight
OF best 'sifted' sugar, and put Immediately
| in wide-necked bottles; cork these firmly
without delay. and tie bladders over the
top. Keep in cool place or the fruit will
iermcnt. This mixture should be stirred
softly, and only just sufficient To blend the
sugar and the fruit. The bottles must be
| perfectly dry, and the bladders. after hav-
| ing being cleaned in the usual way, and al
lowed to become nearly dry, should be
noistened with little whisky or alcohol
on the side next the cork. have thus sue
cessfully put up both strawberries and
raspberries for future use Germa ntown
Telegraph.
JoNNY-CAKE WITH EGGs.-Two cups of
sweet milk; half tea-spoonfnl of salt: one
tablespoonful Of sugar two eggs well beat
en-; small tea cup Of white flour mixed
with a teaspoOnful of baking powder. corn
meal enough to make batter. Sometimes
begin with the meal and scald IL, and
then use only one cup OF sweet milk and
no baking-powder, with no definite pro-
portion Of white four-enough to make
the batter right. The batter should always
he thicker when the meal is sealded than
when II il not, because In the latter case
you must allow for the meal TO swell some,
OF course. the E.ilk should be added TO
cool the scalded meal before the eggs are
put in, or the hot mush would partially
cook the eggs.
A Coon CAKE REcIPE.-Three cups OF
sugar. one OF butter beat together, and the
yolks Of seven eggs well beaten, and one
cup Of sweet milk. four and half cups of
-four. the whites,of seven eggs, beat to
frotn two teaspoonfuls and half OF yeast
powder; favor to suit the taste. This |
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