The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-23
USEFUL FAMILY RECIPES.

These recipes are all from readers OF
the STAR and vouched for as being well
worth trying:
Delicious Gingerbread-On cup OF
molasses, one cup OF butter, two cups of
sugar, one CUP OF sour milk, four eggs,
| three cups Qi -four, one tablespoonful OF
ginger, and one teaspooniul OF soda,
Corn Bread-rake one quart of sweet
| milk, corn-nneal enough to thicken, three
eggs, half cup Of butter, two tablespoon
fuls OF brown sugar, one teaspoOntul of
| soda, and two OF cream tartar; bake in
| a moderate oven.
New Years Cakes-One pound butter,
which is three cupfuls; one pound sugar
(three eupfuls four eggs, one teaspoon
| lul saleratus,' one-half cupiul water.
Hour enough to make very stiff, Cara
way seed-lf you like.
Tapioca Pudding-Only Greenings or
Newton plppins should be used, one
| desert spoonful of dry tapioca to each
apple, core the apple and ill the omen.
| ing with sugar and butter, strew sugar
around them and fill the dish nearly up
TO the top OF lhe apples with cold water.
Bake and serve with cream. L'i ''i
Lovers VoWs-An ounce and a half
or sweet almonds, an ounce and a half
of bitter almonds beaten UP in a paste.
with little brandy, to prevent it OiIing:
one pound ofiump sugar, the rind of,o1e
lemon, and little OF the Juice, also the
whites OF two eggs. Bake in pieces the
size of walnut on white paper. When
baked they will be hollow.
Cocoanut Pie-GYate one pound of
cocoanut and Two stale rusks; rub to-
gether ope-haA pound powdered sugar
and one-halt pound of butter; beat
SIX eggs, or the whites only OF twelve
eggs, very light; stir them into the
sugar ana butter alternately with the
cocoanut and rusk; add lastly four ta-
blespooniuls milk; bake in a rich puff
paste. 80
Oyster, Stufing for Turkey-Take one
hundred oysters, or as many as the size
OF your turkey demands, wash them well
and drain; roll one pound Of butter
crackers, or CRATE a LOAF OF stale bread !;
season with salt, pepper, buffers cup OF
cream, three eggs aud little summer
savory; sprinkle all over your oysters
and ill the turkey, which be sure to sew
up quite light.
Harrison Pudding-One and one-ha If
cupfuls chOppeu suet, one cuplul mo-
lasses, one anu one-nalt cupfuls chopped
raisihs, one cuptut sour milk, one tea :
spoonful soda, one teaspoontul cream
tartar, or two t. .aspOoniuls baking
powder, ,sifted through The -four thorough
ly; spices, and stir as thick as Tor
pound-cake, and boil three hours. Sauce
made OF egg, sugar, and cream, or any
other rich receipt.
Indian!meal Doughnuts-A teacupGuI
and half OF boiling milk poured oyer
two teacupluls lndian-meal; when il
cools add Two cupluls wheat -four, one
of butter, one and half Of sugar, three
eggs, and a tablespoonful nutmeg or
cinnamon; il not stiff enough, add equal
portions OF wheat and meal; let 1t rise
I'LL very light; roll it about half an inch
thick; cut 1T into small diamond-shape
cakes, and boil them in hot lard.
Boned Chickens--It ,is absolutely
necessary to have large, fine chicken,
dry picked; lone the chicken carefully;
take sausagf-meati according t0 the SIZE
oil The fowl, tM0- or three pounds, two
ana some trufies; mix ali
well together and fiji firmly ali
the loose skin, legs, wings, crop, &C.;
then cut some very thin slices OF cold
boiled salt pork, veal, tongue, and un-
cooked ham; lay these in layers and
fill the body OF the fowl; must be
pressed in tightly, SO that the shape OF
the fowl is perIect; then sew the skin
up, pinion the legs and wings in shape;
take piece OF new white muslin writing
out ot boiling water and sew the fowl
tightly i'll il; place it in IL potof boLfng
water and milk, boil until done; an or.
dfnary sized fowl will take tT6 hours.
When cooked take off the m.dslin wrap;
have four thin, smooth, ,ve1y nice boards,
lay the fowl on one, place one on each
SIDE, laying heavy weights against them;
then put the esnsr piece on The top, anu
put a weight on that will give even
pressure. The success Of The appear
ance of the dish depends upon the
pressing. Served cold on ealps foot Jelly.
When carving cut directly across from
wing to wing. ~