Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-27
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

AUKlCULIURAL AND DOMESTlC.
Ladies' Fingers. Beat six eggs
separately very lightly, then gradually
mix and add half a pound powdered
sugar; heat all one hour. Add the
juice of one lemon and one quarter
pound of flour. Dip upon buttered
paper, or tins, with spoon in small
oval cakes. Bake delicately in quick
oven, while warm. After removing
from the oven join in pairs like the
bakers.
Indian Meal Poundcake --Sift one
pint Of yellow cornmeal and ore-half
pint wheat flour, Into which you have
first put a full teaspoonful of baking
powder and small spoonful of salt,
one grated nutmeg, one tablespoonful
of ground cinnamon. Put three
quarters OF a pound of granulated
sugar and half pound of butter to-
gether. Beat eight eggs very light,
and add to the butter and sugar, al
ternately, with the meal--little at a
time-and half-cup of milk, and have
your dish or pan well buttered; bake
in a moderate oven. Take long time
to bake.
Baked Apple Dumplings. One
pint of -four, one tablespoonful of lard
and butter mixed, one cup of milk,
one-half teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in hot water, one of cream of tartar, a
pinch of salt. Chop the shortening
into the flour; after you have sifted
this and the cream tartar together, put
in the soda and wet up quickly with
the milk-just stiff enough to roll into
a paste less than half an inch thick.
cut into squares, and lay in the center
of each tart apple, pared and cored;
bring the corners of the square neatly
together, and pinch slightly. Bake in
moderate oven; eat with hot, sweet
sauce.
"A Cheap Apple Pudding. In the
first place select two deep earthern
dishes that will hold two or three
quarts each, then fill one with tart
apples peeled and cut fine, and half
pint of water or less. Cover the APP
pies with tender crust, then turn the
other empty dish upside down over
the first dish and place them both in
hot oven, and cook from fifteen to
twenty minutes. Let the pudding be
ready FOR the dessert at the proper hour.
Do not remove the upper dish until
the moment the pudding is to be eaten.
Serve with cream and sugar or any
other sauce. Such pudding will be
found a luxury that will always be
superb.
10 h,,t
eggs. Fat salt pork, entirely free of
lean or rind, chopped SO fine as to be
almost like lard, one pound; pour
boiling water upon it, half pint; rails
ms seeded and chopped, one pound;
citron shaved into shreds, one-fourth
pound sugar, one cup; molasses, one
cup; saleratus, one teaspoon, rubbed
fine and put into the molasses. Mix
these together, and stir in sifted flour
to make the consistence of cake mix
lures; then stir in nutmeg and cloves
finely ground, one ounce each; CHINA
mon, also, two ounces; be governed
about the time of baking it by putting
silver into it; when nothing adheres
it is done. 1t should be baked slowly.
Baked Cauliilower with Parmesan
Cheese Take the green leaves from
two large heads of cauhtlower; cook
the heads in sailed water, with small
lump of butter drain them; have ready
a buttered baking-dish, spread i'll it a
handful of grated cheese and fine
crackers, season the caulillower inside
and outside pretty highly with salt,
pepper and nutmeg; set the heads in
the dish, and give them the form OF a
dome; in another saucepan, have a
pint Of bechamel sauce; when boiling,
mix with it the yelks of four eggs and
two Dances of grated cheese, work it
to a firm consistency, boil moment,
spread that sauce over the caulitower,
and smooth with the blade Of "A knife
sprinkle over the top some mixed
grated cheese and fine crackers, and
small bits of butter; bake twenty
minutes in a warm oven, and serve in
the baking dish.