San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-02
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

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pepper-corns; serve it hot in sauce
tureen.
HARD GINGER CAKE.-1 cup of me
lasses, ] cup of shortening; fill the cul
with hot water and l heaping teaspoon
full soda added; ginger; mix, roll ant
bake on flat tin, cut in squares or dia
monds before baking.
SUGAR CooKIEs.-1 full cup of sugar
cup of butter, 8 beaten eggs, l scant
teaspoonful of soda dry, nutmeg Oh
caraway, roll thin; bake quick. Press
a raisin in the center and strew little
white sugar over before baking, it makes
them very nice.
To CURE HAMs.-To 100 pounds OF
meat, take quart of molasses, pounds
of brown sugar, and ounces OF salt.
peter. Make a pickle that will bear an
egg; put these ingredients in it. Pack
the meat tightly, and pour it over. Let
it remain in the pickle 6 weeks, then
put it in the meat room; let it dry we'll,
then smoke few days, and when sui.
ficiently smoked, put in bags and keep
them in dark room.
CHARLOTTE RUssE.-Take l pint of
milk, ! ounce of gelatine dissolved in l
gill of hot milk, the whites of 2 eggs
beaten to stiff froth, cup of pulver-
lied sugar. Flavor with extract of va
nilla. Mix the milk, eggs and sugar,
flavor and beat in the gelatine. 1t
should be quite cold before it is added.
Line mold with slices Of sponge cake,
fill with this mixture and set it in COO
place.
VANILLA CARAMELs.-Boil clarified
sugar favored with the essence of va
nilla until it is very brittle, and then
pour it out on very carefully oiled
sheet of tin. When sufficiently cool to
receive an impression of the finger,
mark it out in squares an inch in size /;
after which, glaze them with another
coat of sugar; then place them out in a
dry place to harden, and put in an air.
tight can for preservation
IMPERIAL CAKE pound sugar,
pound flour, pound butter, 1 pound
eggs QW, pound raisins, pound cur
rants, pound peel q citron, 1 lemon,
i orange), pound figs, chopped fine, 1
pound almond pits, blanched and split,
8 teaspoons baking-powder in the flour
no spices, no havoring; the butter and
sugar rubbed together, then the eggs
we'll beaten; add flour with the baking
powder. Put the fruit in, one kind at a
time. Stir well. No flour put on the
fruit. Bake in square-cornered tins.
ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING.-1a pounds
of suet, chopped fine; tablespoon of
salt, u pounds of flour, i pound of
bread-crumbs, IA pounds of raisins,
chopped and stoned; 4 eggs, pound of
light brown sugar, u pounds of cur
rants, wineglassful of brandy, turn
bier of sherry,1 ounce of cinnamon, an
ounce of mace, 2 nutmegs, 1 ounce of
cloves, pound of citron, cut small; 3
apples, chopped fine; rind of l lemon,
chopped fine, the juice of 2 lemons.
This pudding is for large family and
can be warmed again by steaming if all
is not used. First, it should be boiled
10 hours, then served on fire, with a
sprig of holly in the center, and with
wine sauce.
ONE WAY TO MAKE CoFFEE.-Place
a sufficient quantity of water in the pot,
perfectly cold; then throw on the sur
face of the water the coffee, not too
finely ground, say about a level table
spoonful for each person; place the pot
on the fire, covered, and as soon as it
comes to boil throw in small guam
tity of cold water to check the boiling,
and remove from the fire; your coffee
is ready. N. B.-Do not allow it to
boil up again or it will be muddy. Any
person trying the above will observe
that as the water heats it gradually pen
trates the coffee, slowly extracting all
the soluble parts, and by the time it
comes to boiling point all the essen
tial oil is extracted and the residue sinks
of its own weight to the bottom of the
vessel, carrying all impurities with it.
Clifford's Febrifuge, or Fever and
Ague Cure This preparation Is obtained
by newly discovered process, and contains