The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-16
USEFUL FAMILY RECIPES,
The following are contributed thi s
week by readers OF the STAR:

The following are contributed thi s
week by readers OF the STAR:
Cookies-One cuprul buttermiIk, one
cupful sugar, one-half cupful butter.
one egg; bake in quick oYen.-TB. B.,
Pine Hill, Pa.
Cheap Cake-One cupful sugar, half
cuptul butter, half cuplul milk, two eggs.
one teaspoonful cream tartar, half tea.
spoonful soda; give it a good beating and
bake in quick oYen.-[ L. R., Windsor,
Illinois.
Marbled Chocolate Cake-One cupful
butter,, TWO cuptuls powdered sugar,
(granulated will do, three cupfuls flour,
lour eggs, one cupiul sweet milk, one
| teaspoonful cream tartar, oue-half tea
spoonful soda; take out two cupiuls of
this batter and stir into it one-halt cup
| tul grated chocolate, wet with very
little milk; put in the pan layer of the
| first, and then drop the chocolate in.
| then layer Of cake, &c. More choco.
late can be used il likeQ.-I NJ, Leasburg :,
N. C.
To Prepare Dried BeeI-For ham of
beef take one teacuplul of salt, heat in
| an iron vessel over very hot fire, and
stir while heating; put meat in wo oden
bowl, sprinkle the salt on the meat. and
| rub it well with the iron spoon used for
stirring the salt; do this three mornings,
every other day: let it remain four or
| i've days, dipping the brine which will
| accumulate on the meat occasiOnally:
| then hang in warm place to dry; this
Will be as good dried beef as can be
| made *, CoyiDgton, Ky.
Pressed Corned Beef-Choose a nlate
piece, fat and lean, put in pot a little
larger than itself, and cover with cold
| water; pepper well and let it boil mod :
| erately till the bones will come out:
| turn it several times while boiling, and
when cooked place in good shape in a
towel and fold up firmly. Let IL be thick
| and short in shape; place plate over,
and three or four heavy irons or bricks
| to press it. Let it stand iii perfectly
| cold, or four or five hours; cut thin for
the table, and garnish with sprigs of
| parsley Cincinnati.
Maryland Biscuit-One quart of -four.
one tablespoonful of lard, one teaspoon
full of salt, water enough to make rather
stiff dough-about teacuplul. The
dough may be beaten with a pounding
machine which comes for the purpose,
| or with rolling-pin, potato-masher or
anything of the kind. Ii strength and
patience are available, knead with the
hands till the dough is perfectly smooth
and white-it can not be kneadeG too
muoh-not less than half an hour. They
can be cut with u cutter, but are better
if piece of the dough the size of black
walnut is made into ball aud flattened
with the hand Mrs. X, HagersUoWn,
| Indiana.
Parker House Rolls-At noon scald
one pint OF milk; let it cool; slit two
quarts -four, into which rub two table,
spoOntuls butter, and then make a hole
| in the center; stir cupful yeast and
two tablespoonfuls white sugar in the
milk, then put all IN the center OF the
| -four; let it stand several hours till it
| loans, then mix ii all in the flour, cover,
| and set away one night to rise; in the
morning stir down, knead very little
on the board, roll out, not very thin,
spread over with butter, cut out in
rounds, tapping one edge; set to rise in
the pans about two hours; do not place
the rolls near together; bake in quick
oven twenty or twenty-five minuLes.-
NJ, Deep Cut, O.
Cream Cake-Into half pint of boil.
ing water put half cup1ul butter, let
it boil, and stir in two cupfuls -four
measured before sifted; this will form
into a stiff dough; let it cool, then break
III Hfe eeSs, anu SUI I'LL perfectly
smooth, drop IN pans, tablespoonful
at a time, and not too near together.
Bake in II quick ove0, about twenty
minutes; If taken out Of the oven too
soon they will fall. Inside Cream-One
pint OF milk, two tablespooniuls corn
starch, one cuptul sugar, and one egg:
reserve little OF the milk to wet the
oornstarch in, and boil the rest; then
add o0rnstarch,, sugar, and egg; place on
the tire aud stir occasionally Till it,thick.
ems. When cool, split open the cakes
near the TOP and fili.-LW.. Scranton,
Mich,