The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-04
0Maen Eaami,ter
Household and Farm.
Useful Receipts.


potatoes and four good sized onions
half an hour, drain of the water, and
mash them together. Cut up a
pound of beef or other meat, season
with salt and pepper, and let the
whole simmer fifteen minutes. Don't
let IL burn.
ORANGE CAKE.-Two cups of SUI
gar, yelks of five eggs, whites of two
eggs, half cup of cold water, two and
half cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder, the juice and graf
cd rind of one orange and pinch of
salt; bake in jelly cake tins. Beat
the whites of two eggs TO a stiff
froth, and seven large tablespoonfuls
of powdered sugar, and the grated
rind and Juice ofone orange. Spread
this between the layers. If you
like the taste of orange, you will like
this cake.
BAKED ToMAToEs.-Selec large,
solid tomatoes; with sharp pointed
knife remove the stem and core /;
make rich stuffing of bread-crumbs,
minced onion, pepper, salt, butter ;
fill the tomatoes and tie them around
with string; bake half hour.
POTATO PuDDING.-Scrape or
pare good-sized potatoes, place in a
chopping-bowl, scatter over them
flour enough to fill teacup. add salt,
pepper, and butter to taste, chop
fine and mix well. Grease deep
pie-tin, spread the mixture in it, and
cover with cream; bake slowly half
or three-quarters of an hour.
CUCUMBER CATsUP.-Peel the Gu
cumbers and CRATE them in large
dish; squeeze the pulp through a
strong cloth until every particle of
the Juice is extracted; add to the
squeezed pulp strong cider vinegar,
salt, black pepper and chopped onions
to your taste. No cooking is re-
quired.
BOILED ONIONS, Take off out
side skin, cut off both ends, let stand
in cold water an hour: then turn
them into a saucepan containing two
quarts boiling water boil fifteen or
twenty minutes; saucepan must be
closely covered; then pour of this
water then boil half hour longer
in two quarts of fresh boiling water,
scald cup of fresh milk, thicken
with little flour; season TO taste and
boil five minutes, and serve whole.
This destroys the strong, disagree
able taste and smell of the onion, and
will not produce heartburn.
FRIED MUsH.-Mix teacup of
corn-meal with teacup of sweet
milk and stir il into pint of boiling
water; salt to taste and cook for
twenty minutes or longer, being care
full not TO let ii burn. A double
boiler is most convenient for making
this as well as other dishes of similar
nature. When done, turn the mush
into straight sided cups or round
muffin tins; wet the Aoulds before
filling and when the mush is cold
turn-it out slice in little cakes, which
must be drcdged with flour and fried
in drippings and butter at the same
time that the chicken is being cook
ed A row of these nicely Drowned
cakes, laid round the inner edge of
the platter close to the meat makes
not only pretty garnish, but an ex-
cellent accompaniment to a dish OF
fried chicken.
CUCUMBER PIcKLEs.-The follow
ing is the way in which the favorite
German cucumber pickles are made.
When quite fresh gathered they are
to be laid in strong cold brine for
six hours, and the liquor then strain
ed Off raised to boiling point, and
again poured over them. Here they
must lie for twelve hours, when the
liquor is again strained off and the
same process repeated. The cucum-
bers are now taken out, placed in
cold water for one hour and then al
lowed to dry. Whole cloves, pep
per-corns, a few laurel leaves and
some caraway or fennel seeds are
then boiled in II little vinegar, and
the liquor poured on them whilestill
hot. In week or fortnight, or
earlier still IL there be any appear
ancc of mould, the vinegar is strain
al of, once more boiled and poured
over, then the cucumber may be set
aside ina suitable vessels till required
for use.
Useful Items.
Observation-Disclosures Is one of the
most common condiments. If used
in small quantities il promotes the
appetite and increases the digestive
powers. but taken too freely II irri.
tates the stomach, and is very inju'
riOus. Spread upon clotn and ap.
piled to the skin it relieves internal
inflammation by drawing the blood Il
the surface,
A scientist, as the result of care.
full experiment found that of sam
pie of wheat operated on, that the
husk formed II ,6S per cent. of the
weight of the wheat. He discovered
that the epidcrinis, seed skin, clutter
cells, layer and germs formed IL pei
cent. of the weight of the wheat, and
the flour cells 80 per cent. There
fore, SO per cent, or 1872 pounds o
flour to the bushel of 60 pounds, il
the greatest possible yield of -four
What bothers the millers is how tc
get it out.
English farm laborers receive a
pay from So to So per week, includ
ing beer. Wages have advanced II
per cent. within the last five years
and living and clothing 20 to 80 pei
cent.
In Pennsylvania the crop of ap
Piles exceeds anything before known
In Washington county an entire or
chard was sold at twenty cents thu
bushel, hand picked and delivered.