Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-08
Rescipes.


Ham Relish.-Cut a slice OF dressed
ham, season it highly with cayenne pep
per, and broil it brown; then spread mus
tard over it, squeeze on it little lemon
juice, and serve quickly.
Frozen Pudding. Three pints of milk,
nine eggs; make a custard; one quarter of
a pound of currants, raisins, citron, pre-
served peaches, one teaspconful of arrow
root, one quarter of pound of chocolate;
sweeten to taste and freeze.
Steaoed Spinoch.-Pick one peck of
spinach and wash thoroughly, drain and
put in saucepan with little salt and
cover with hot water. Boil-one half hour,
or until tender; when done, pour into
colander and press the water out. Cut
up fine, season with butter, pepper, and
salt, and set into an oven few minutes
Serve with hard boiled eggs cut in slices.
Impromptu Cherry Pudding.-seed a
quantity of Morello or sour red-cluster
cherries, and stew one quart of them with
a pound of loaf sugar. Then cut up into
thin slices loaf of nice cold light bread,
and fill up pudding dish with alternate
layers of bread and cherries. Pour over
the top whatever juice il left, and set
the dish aside in refrigerator to get per-
fectly cold.
Caramel Cream-Have on the fire
in pan one pound of maple sugar; let
it boil two or three times, sufficient to
brown but not burn it. Beat six eggs and
one pound of white sugar very light; stir
this TITO two quarts of boiling milk, and
stir constantly until it comes to boil;
then pour in the boiling sugar and mix
thoroughly. Win perfectly cold, add
one quart of cream, sweetened with
cupful of white sugar. Put in freezer
and freeze the same as ice cream.
Prof Leidy's experience in banishing
red ants: "First he used bits of sweet
cake placed in every room in the house.
The cakes soon swarmed with ants. Tap
ping the insects off into cup of turpcn-
tine, he replaced the cakes and captured
fresh legion. After few days no ants
appeared on the cake. Their presence
was still suspected, however, and on put
ting bacon as trap for them they swarm
ed upon the bits of pork. After a few
days the pork was unnoticed. and cheese
was tried, with the same results. When
the cheese was neglected, dead grasshop-
pers we're placed in the rooms, and after
tile grasshoppers nothing would tempt
them. They abandoned the premises"
Moss on fruit trees is generally an in
dication of approaching decrepitude, re-
movable in the case of young trees, whose
growth may be improved under more
liberal treatment, but not so on old ones,
upon which, however, the moss does but
little harm, except, indeed, in tile way of
harboring insects. Various remedies are
used. such as carbolic acid, a solution of
one-half pound of common salt or wash
ing soda in one gallon of water, and
milk of lime laid on with brush. The
true remedy, however, appears to lie in
thoroughly draining and enrlching the
ground in the neighborhood of the trees,
so as to induce more healthy growth.
Coffee Custard.- Boil a large cuptu
freshly ground coffee in one pint of water,
five minutes; add one cup of cold water
and let it stand ten minutes to clear
then turn off into a saucepan, add one
pint of sweet cream, and give it one boil.
Turn it over the beaten yolks of eight
eggs and the whites of four, with one cup
of sugar, in pail, stirring fast; set the
pail in boiling water, and stir till it
thickens. When cool, pile on top the
whites OF the other tour eggs, beaten stiff
with half cupful of white sugar, an
you will have dish TT for kings table.
If put in glass dish, it is very handsome
If the flavor of chocolate is preferred to
coffee, substitute three tablespoonfuls of
grated chocolate, boiled in half pint of
| water
Yenst Cakes.-Most good cooks prefer
I liquid yeast, but as that is apt to become
Unexpectedly sour, especially in hot
weather, prudent housekeeper will pro-
vide herself with a supply OF that which
keeps, and may be found ready. at any
moment. Laying prejudice aside, ex-
cellent light bread can he made with the
same cake yeast, and it is, at all events,
we'll to know how it may be prepared.
Take half . gallon OF water to q quarter
Of pound Of hops, and boil them topeth
er till the water. is reduced to one Quart.
Strain and thicken itswith -four, and BOZ
it to the consistency of common starch
Let it stand till milk warm; then put q