Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-02-15
HOUSE FARM & GARDEN.
Selected Recipes.

HOUSE FARM & GARDEN.
Selected Recipes.
Balloons.-O1e pint Of sweet milk,
three eggs, one pint of -four. Separate
the eggs, beat the yelks until Highland
mix with the milk and stir into the
-four gradually. Beat it we'll with one
salt.spoon of salt;and whisk the whites
until stiff, and stir through the milk
flour and yelks lightly. Butter small
cups, fill them half full of the mix
ture and bake in quick oven. When
done, turn them out of the cups on to
a heated dish and send to the table
hot. Eat with wine sauce, or butter
and sugar worked to a cream.
Jelly Cheese.-Clean very carefully
two sets of pigs feet; put them into
hot, sailed water, sufficient to cover
them; let them boil slowly until very
tender and the meat falls from the
bone. Then put the feet on dish and
take out all the bones; cut the meat
into small pieces and return to the
kettle in which they were boiled, with
the liquor; then season with salt, pep
per, sage, savory and sweet marjoram;
stir all we'll together and let it SIM
mer slowly twenty minutes; then put
into deep dishes. When cold, cut into
slices, and warm in pan with a little
vinegar, or eat cold, as preferred.
Smyrna Pudding.-Take the inside
Of small loaf of bakers bread; put it
in a deep dish with four ounces of but.
ter pour over it one pint of boiling
milk; after remaining sufficient time
to become completely saturated, mash
it until very smooth and fine. Whisk
six eggs until thick and light, which
stir in gradually then add one quart
of milk. Mix all well together, and
sweeten and flavor to taste. Pour the
mixture into a pudding dish and
bake in a quick oven. When done, and
cold, have ready some canned peaches
drained from their juice, and just be.
fore serving, place as many on top as
the dish will conveniently hold. Sift
a little white sugar over the peaches
and send to the table.
Oyster Omelet.-Beat six eggs to a
froth, then add by degrees one gill Of
cream beat them we'll together; sea-
son with pepper and salt. Have ready
one dozen large oysters !; cut them in
half pour the eggs into pan of hot
butter and pour the oysters over it as
equally as possible. Fry light brown
and serve hot.
Nuns P'lffs.-One pint Of sweet
milk, six dnces of -four, four eggs,
half salt-spoon of salt. Scald the
milk and pour it over the flour; beat
it until it is smooth whisk the eggs
to froth and add them to the -four
and milk when sufficiently cool; stir
in the salt. Have ready a kettle of
boiling lard, and drop one teaspoonful
of the batter at time into the lard
and fry light brown. When cool,
sift white sugar over them.
Recipe for Baking Beans.-It does
lookas if every cook ought to know how
to bake beans in the very best man.
ner, but it is often proved that they
do not. and hence the necessity for
repeating the way once and while.
If one has them soaked in cold water
over night, all the better. Wash we'll
before parboiling. So soon as the skin
breaks they should be put in the bak-
ing.pan. with piece of nice, sweet
pork, if your family use that
article if not, butter and a little salt
will do as we'll. Season to your taste.
Put in common dripping.pan of
beans about one and half tablespoon
full of syrup, cover with water, and
then bake long time, mot letting them
get too dry. If you want them for
dinner in one and a half hours, they
will be good, but they will be much
better if baked three hours.
Beet-Eoot Sugar in France.
It is well known that Napoleon L.
encouraged the cultivation of beets
for the purpose of manufacturing
sugar. The Saturday Review, in re-
ferring to this, says that although the
fall of Napoleon and the consequent
opening up of the whole continent to
British trade retarded the growth Of
the new industry, still Napoleon's pol
icy was pursued by the government
that succeeded him. Among other
modes of protection, beet-root sugar
was exempted from all taxation, while
heavy duty was imposed upon for.
eign sugar. BY these means the indig-
enous manufacture was fostered !;
and, consequently, we find that in 1892
about nine thousand tons of sugar
were manufactured in France, which
was about one.seventh of the total
consumption of tho country. After
this period a new cause came into play
which gave an extraordinary impetus
to the beet.root industry. The long
agitation against slavery in England