The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-03-09
RECIPES.

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STEAMED CoRx BREAD.-One cup
/ Of sweet milk and one-half cup sour
milk, three cups Of corn meal, one
cup Of flour, half cup Of strip, one
teaspoonful of soda, one tcaspoonful
K Of salt. Steam two hours.
CREAM PHONE tablespoonful Of
white sugar one egg, one tablespoon
lful Of flour, one tablespoonful Of
melted butter add sweet milk enough
to fill your pie-plate, and lemon il
preferred. This should be baked
but with one crust.
| Pop-CoRN PUDDING.-0ne quart Of
milk, one quart of parched corn, one
cup Of sugar, four eggs and Il little
salt. Cook in a tin pail set into Il
kettle Of boiling water, and remove
\ as soon as it becomes Of the thick
ness of steamed custard.
HAM ToAsr-Mix with one table,
spoonful of finely chopped or grated
ham, the beaten-up yclk of an egg
and little cream and pepper; heat
over the fire, and then spread the
mixture either on hot buttercd toast
.or on slices Of bread fried quite crisp
jim butter; serve very hot,
( 70 PREpARE An Eco FOR .iN Is,
iyALID.-Beat the egg until very light
add seasoning to taste, then steam
until thoroughly warmed through
.. but not hardened; this will take
about two minutes, An egg prcpa-
red in this way will not distress SEN
sitivc stomachs.
CREAM MuFFIys.-Oncquart sweet
milk, half cream if you can get it,
one quart of flour, heaping, six eggs,
one tablespoonful butter and the same
of lard, melted together. Beat the
eggs light-the yelks and whites
separately; add the milk, with lit
tie salt, then the shortening, lastly
the flour, stirring in lightly. Bake
Immediately in well creased rings,
half filled with butter, oven hot
send to the table at once.
/ DoUGuNuTs.-Two eggs, one cup Of
sugar, one pint of sour milk, scant
teaspoonful of soda, two tablespoon,
Ifuls of rich cream or one pound Of
butter; seasoned with cinnamon Or
nutmeg according to taste. (ncm:
In making doughnuts from any re-
ceipt one should use as little soda as
possible, as it gives them a tendency
1 to absorb the grease; they should also
be mixed as soft as possible, using
Just enough flour to prevent their
sticking to the bcordD-Oh Farmer.
For cheese pie, set some thick
sour milk in the stove until it cur
| dies; then strain through a cloth;
take one teaspoonful of cheese, one
/ cup of sweet milk, one egg, two Ia
|blespoonfuls of sugar (Aavor it with
nutmeg and three or four Jumps Of
butter as large as a filbcrt. The but
ter is to be put in after the other in
gradients. Make the crust as for
custard pie. This is for one pie.
To MAKE STARCH PoLIsH.-Take OF
white wax ounce, spermaeeti two
ounces and good pinch of salt
Mix and melt these together, and
when cold it will be 4 hard, white
cake that will not mold or sour in
warm weather Put piece the size
of pea in the hot starch that is in
tended for, say, three or four shirts;
when ironing 20 over it quickly the
second time, which increases hcpol,
/ ish.
CoRN CAEE.-Beat two fresh eggs
thoroughly and add to them a quart
Of new buttcrmilk, an even teaspoon,
| full of soda dissolved in onc-third of a
tcacup of tepid water, a pinch of salt,
and thicken with corn meal until it
| is the consistency of batter Have
your long brcad-pan warm, with a
lump of butter-the size of a walnut
already melted in it. Havca good
quick baking fire all ready and tho
oven hot enough that the cake will
begin to bake Immediately, Pour
the batter into the pan and with a
spoon work the melted butter into it,
especially from about the edges
Make it bake as briskly as it can
without burning. Twenty minutes
is long enough to bake this cake, il
all things are favorable and you have
followed the directions. Cut it out
in checks like gingerbread 1t will
/ be light, and sweet, and crisp. Corn
meal to be good, should not be ground
into very fine meal; if it is the bread
is apt to be sticky.
To CLEAN A CARpEr.-Shake and
beat it well; lay it upon the floor
and tack it firmly; then, with Il clean
/ flannel, wash it over with one quart
/ of bullock's gall, mixed with three
quarts of soft cold water, and rub it
off with 4 clean flannel house cloth.
Any particularly dirty spot should
be rubbed with pure gall
BETTER THAN suoRT-CAKr.-Makc
nice, light, white gems by mixing