The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-06-13
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PUFF CAKEs.-2 cups white sugar, 1
cup butter, cup sweet milk, 5 eggs,
well beaten, s cups hour, tablespoon
full baking. powder, thoroughly mixed
with the -four; season with lemon.
BEST Cons BREAD.-1 cup sugar,
cup sour or buttermilk, pour the milk
on the sugar; add teaspoonful of gin.
ger, l lemon and ! cup Of butter; dis
solve teaspo0rful soda In little milk
and add; then stir in / cup -four and
Indian meal enough to make . stiff bat
ter; bake In moderately slow oven.
POTATO PuFFs.-Take 2 cups of cold
mashed potatoes, and stir into it 9 large
sp0onfuls of melted butter, beating to a
cream before adding any thing else.
Then add 2 eggs whipped very light, q
little salt, and . cup Of cream. Beat
well. pour into . deep dish, and bake in
. quick oven until nicely Drowned. It
will come out light and puffy.
SUMNER MINcE PIEs.-Take 5 soda
crackers and roll them; 1 cup each of
chopped rai>ins, of sugar, of molasses,
of cider and of water; 1 cup of butter,
l teaspoonful each of nutmeg and
cloves; 2 teaspoonfuls Of cinnamon, q
little pepper and about 2 tablespoonfuls
OF vinegar. This quantity is sufficient
for two pies.
| STRAWBERRY JELLY.-Select fine,
rich berries, and squeeze them through
q jelly-bag. To pint of juice thus OBJ
tanned, allow pound of broken sugar,
and pint of red currant juice, to which
you add l pound OF sugar to every 6
pints OF strawberry juice. Boil until it
forms . jelly. To keep it from ferment.
ing, spread layer of apple jelly over
it, or paper dipped in sugar boiled to
q candy.
KIDNEY PUDDING. an OK kid
ney or eight mutton kidneys in thin
slices, lay them on dish, season we'll
with black pepper and salt. Shake an
ounce of hour over, mix all well togeth-
er. Line . pudding dish with paste,
put in the sliced kidney, pour a gill Of
water over. cover with paste, tie the
basin in cloth, put it into pot of boil
ing water and boil two hours, adding
boiling water to supply that which
wastes. Serve hot. A pound of beef
steak with kidney makes an excellent
pudding.
Potato CRoQUErTEs. quart of
potatoes, peel, boil and mash; mix
them with yelks of four eggs, and half q
cup of rich milk set on the fire, stir for
minutes, spread in dish to get cold !,
(or leave over night If designed for
breakfast), divide into tablespoon parts,
shape them well in fine bread or crack
er-crumbs, dip in the beaten whites Of
the eggs. Roll in bread. crumbs again,
and fry in hot butter. When done
drain, dish, and serve Immediately. Re.
member to have your butter very hot
before you drop them in the skillet.
ORANGE PIE.-Grate the rind of 1
and use the juice of 2 large oranges,
beat the yelks of eggs very light into
2 tablespoonful of butter and heaping
cup OF sugar, and put to the juice; add
little nutmeg. Beat all we'll together.
Cover the pie dish W tn q thick paste,
and pour this mixture into it. and bake
in q quick oven; when done so it is
like finely baked custard, add to the
whites of the eggs 2 tablespoon
.u.S "a wAAV0 ouSoI ouu VI OTduX0
juice Cover this over the pie, and set
back into the oven till q light brown.
STRAWBERRY WINE.-Take 81 gal
Ions of cold water, 8 gallons of cider,
and 8 gallons of Strawberries. Let them
ferment. Add to them pounds of sug-
ar, Il ounces of red tartar, finely pow.
dered, the juice and Iind of lemon, and
l quart of brandy. This will make 9
gallons of wine. The fruit should be
picked when there have been two or
three days of clear, cry weather, and it
should also be bottled when the atmos.
phere is clear and fine. The bottles
should be perfectly sound and clean,
and the corks new. The corks should
be fitted in the necks of the bottles with
the hand, and then driven in with q
mallet, and they must completely fill up
the necks of the bottles, so as to render
them quite air-tight. The corks must
not reach the wine by one inch. The
bottles must be laid on their sides in |
sawdust, in a cool, airy cellar.