The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-19
USEFUL FAMILY RECIPES.

Pound Cake-One cuprul butter, one
cuptul sugar, one cupful prepared -four,
four eggs beaten separately, and q littl G
nutmeg.-IS. I. N, Acton, Maine.
Coffee Without Using Filters-Have
the coffee ground rather coarse, and mil
it thoroughly with the white OF an egg.
Pour the water on when boiling hard,
and let simmer fifteen minutes; pour
off from the grounds at once, and send
to the table.-[O., Cincinnati.
Muttins-To one quart of milk add two
eggs well beaten, lump of butter half
the size of an egg, and flour enough to
make a stiff batter; stir in half pint OF
Yeast; let it stand till perfectly light.
and bake on griddle in tin rings made
for the purpose.-L W. l.. K, Cincinnati.
Corn Bread-rhree teacupfuls yellow
corn-meal, one te acupful wheat flour,
one-half cuptul sugar, one teaspoonful
salt, TWO teaspoonfuls baking-powder
mix together dry, wet with tepid waite +
to thick paste; bake in sheet or patty
pans in quick oVen.- Miss ", Craw
lord, o.
Spice Cakes-One cupful butter or
mixed lard and butter, two cupfuls su-
gar, one cupful milk or water, three cup.
luls -four, two eggs, two teaspoontuls
cream tartar, one OF soda, one teaspoon
ful cloves, one Of cinnamon, raisins il
wished; bake slowly Mrs. NJ, CuIbert,
Alabama.
Rice Meringue-One cuptul rice; boil
in one pint water; add one pint milk,
yolks OF three eggs, juice and grated
rlnd OF one lemon; sugar to taste; after
baking, beat whites or the eggs to stiff
troth; add one cupful sugar; spread over
the pudding, and brown in the oVen.-
NV. S. T., Five Mile, o.
Old-fashioned Gingerbread-Two CUP.
tuls New Orleans molasses, one cupiul
melted butter, two eggs, two even table
spooDfuls soda dissolved in hot water,
one tablespoonful ginger, little salt,
and -four sufficient to roll out; bake in
TWO square tins; mark with knife half
an incn apart on top Emma, Sumner,
Kentucky.
Cheap Raspberry Jelly-Boil one.
fourth pound Of dried raspberries in a
pint OF water for about ten minutes, then
strain; bring the juice to a boil, sweeten
to taste, and stir into it about two table
spoOnluls of corn-starch: alter taking it
of The fire minute or two; when cold
il is ready for use.-[X., Union Plains,
ONO.
Orange Flitters-One pound -four,
one pint OF milk, with teaspoonlul OF
salt in it, and a quarter pound OF melted
butter, and three eggs beaten very light.
Prepare four oranges by removing the
yellow rind and every particle of white
pith, divide into small pieces without
breaking the skin. In each spoonful of
batter put piece of orange, and Try a
golden brown; sIft powdered sugar over
as soon as taken from the pan.-[R. S.
W., Covlngton, Ky.
To Cook Rice-Wash in cold water
several times, removing imperfect
grains. To one pint of rice put three
quarts OF boiling water, let it boil seven
Teen minutes from the time it fairly be-
gins. Turn off The water, remove the
pot-lid, and put on the back OF range,
thus securing the grains being white,
separate and dry. For griddle-cakes
rice should be mashed, boiled in cold
milk in similar proportions, sweetened
and Favored, ana turned into wet moIds
TO turn out when cOld.-[ IL. s., Jackson
vile, KS.