The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-05
USEFUL FAMILY RECIPES.

Lemon Pie-The juice and grated rind
OF three lemons, three eggs we'll beaten,
three tablespoonfuls OF sugar to eacn
lemon; one crust.-[S. s., Scott street,
Covington.
Crullers-One cupful sugar, one table
spoonful butter, twoseggs, one cupful
milk, one quart flour, two teaspoonfuls
sea-loam, u little grated dnutmeg.- NJ. E.
L., Glendale, ..
Suggestions About Bread--The quick
er bread rises the winter it will be, and
it is far nicer to mold it on large
towel or an old table-cloth folded, with
little -four siGted over it, than on a
molding-b X, Cuba, o.
Tomato Soy-Two large cans of toma-
toes, one pound dark brown sugar, one
half pint vinegar, and one half ounce of
whole cloves; boil slowly until reduced
very rich and thick. 1t is very nice
with meats, poultry, or game NJ. M.
Vinegar Pie-One cupful sugar, one
half cuptul vinegar, boil together Jew
minutes, cool, and add one tablespoon
iul -four, one tablespoonful condensed
egg, one rolled milk cracker, one tea
spoonful butter. Bake in two crusts -
rs, oxford, o.
French Cream-One quart of boiled
milk; mix one cuplul sugar with the
yolks OF four eggs, stir into the mix
with one tablespoonful corn starch;
flavor to taste; beat the whites to stiff
froth with pulYerized sugar, and brown
slightly i'll the oVen.- Annie, Buford,
OHIO.
TO Cook Oyster Plant-Scrape and
wash it; boil in water, with little salt
added; when soft cut it in pieces and
Try In butter, or else serve hot without
frying, but with drawn butter; you can
also mash them and form into cakes and
brown in butter; it will turn black if lett
exposed to the air after scraping or
when it gets cold.-[OliYe Hill, Ind.
Stale Bread Cakes-Soak a pint of
stale pieces of bread in warm milk
enough to cover them; when they are
quite soft add a teaspoonlul of salt, one
quart OF flour, two teaspoonfuls baking
powder, and two tablespoontuls con-
densed eggs, dissolved in little warm
milk; add milk sufficient to form bat
ter to Try on grlddle.-V., Lenoxburg,
Ky.
Potato Cakes-Boil some white pota-
toes, mash them very fine, adding salt,
butter and milk as il used as "a veg
etable; then mold i'll them sufficient Silt
ed -four 10 make them into soft dough;
rolI Them out on the paste-board about
an inch thick; cut in small square
cakes; fry on a griddle creased with
equal parts Of lard and butter; cook
slowly, turning but once. Nice tor
break .ast, or an ordinary lunch.-[ Alba,
Mo.
Dandy Pudding-One quart of milk,
the yolks OF four eggs, three tablespoon
f,,I Iitt tIn nj
the milk, and when very hot stir into it
briskly until il thickens; when done.
pour into a pudding dish; when quite
cold, pour over it a frosting made OF The
whites OF the eggs, allowing table
spoonful OIL sugar to each egg; flavor
with lemon juice; brown slightly in the
oven.-[K K, L., New Martinsville, W.
Va.
Lady Fingers-In one pound powdered
sugar break eleven eggs, and beat to-
gelher until SO light that no hair-line
will form in the iroth; tEen add one
pound Of sifted flour, stirring in very
lightly; butter some sheets of paper,
pour the cake through pipe made tor
the purpose or paper tunnel, ON the
paper, in cakes three inches long and
very narrow ,slft powdered sugar over
the top; bake in rather a quick oven,
and do not take them from tue paper
until cold.-TW. L., Greenleal, Kan.
Broiling Steak-To broil beefsteak,
have four rods very hot and rub them
with piece of fat cut from steak; see
that the fire is bright and clear, and the
drafts OF the range or stove open; then
put on the steak or mutton chops; turn
constantly, 80 often that the outside of
the meat will be cooked quickly and the
juices kept III the meat, and not rise to
the outside. Have your dish hot, with
butter on it, and salt and pepper rubbed
together with the butter; turn the steak
in this and send 10 table as quickly as
possible.-[Y s., North Branch, Mich.