The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-02-14
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SCOTCH SH0Rr-cAKH.-1 pound Of
butter, / pound Of sugar, Il pounds Of
-four; knead well together and roll ont
in cakes inch thick.
FRIrrERs.-1 pint Of milk, egg well
beaten, flour to make rather stif bat
ter; before dropping into the boiling
lard, add l teasP0onful of baking.pow
der. May be varied by adding sliced
apples.
POTATO BALLs.-Mashed boiled po-
tatoes; add butter, size of an egg, 2
spoonfuls of milk, . little salt; stir it
well; roll with your hands into balls;
roll them in egg and crumbs; fry them
in hot fat or brown in the oven.
MOCK MINcEPIE.-5B Boston crackers,
cup of molasses, cup of sugar, 2
cups of water, 1 cup Of melted butter, 4
cup Of vinegar, cup of chopped raisins,
cloves, cinnamon, pepper, salt and l
nutmeg.
ONE WAY TO Cook TRIPE.-Cut your
t,ipe in small pieces, put it on the fire
and parboil it; take small onion, cut
it in pieces, and fry in butter, can of
tomatoes, and pour in your fried onion,
with butter, pepper, salt and little
sugar, and when boiled we'll strain the
water from your tripe.
RICH WEDDING CAKE.-1l pounds
flour, II pounds of butter, same of
sugar, 1 dozen eggs, 2 pounds currants,
l gill wine, gill Of brandy, pound
citron, cut in slices, wine-glass Of rose
water, I ounce of nutmeg, allspice. The
rind of 2 lemons grated in.
SPONGE CAKE.-6eggs, 1 pound white
sugar, pound sifted -four, 4 lemon,
juice and rind; beat the yelks of the
eggs very smooth and light with the
sugar; then add the lemon, next the
-four, and lastly the whites of the eggs,
beaten to stiff froth. Bake in . steady
oven, and cover the cake with paper to
prevent burning.
CUsTARD PIE.-1 quart milk, 8 eggs,
tablespoonful corn-starch, dessert
spoonful extract vanilla, cupful sugar,
very small pinch salt; beat the sugar
and eggs together, mix the corn-starch
in little of the milk, and stir all well
together. This is far superior to the or
binary custard. pie made with 4 eggs.
Less sugar may be used if preferred.
INDIAN LoAF.-Take 1 pint of sour
milk, pint of sweet milk, l teaspoon
full of molasses, ! teacupful of butter, 2
teaspoonfuls of saleratus, l large tea
spoonful of salt, three eggs, l pint of
wheat-four, quart of yellow Indian.
meal; bake in q deep tin-basin, in an
oven of same heat as for cake, for IA
| hours.
LONG BRANCH MILK POTATOES
Take good sound potatoes, cut them in
slices (raw), and put the milk, accord
ing to the quantity you wish to make, in
q pudding dish; then, after you have
put the potatoes in the milk, put it in
the oven for about 20 minutes; then
take out and put potatoes, with the same
milk, into saucepan to boil until done !;
season before you put them to boil.
CINNAMON COoKIEs.-1 egg and /
cupful of sugar, beaten together, cup
full of sour cream, I of teaspoonful
each of salt and saleratus; stir very stiff
with q spoon, and drop piece the size
of half an egg on the molding board,
which has already been spread with 4
! tablespoonful of sugar and 2 of cinna-
mon. Roll the cooky in the sugar until
no longer sticky; put into the form of a
little cake, and bake quite hard.
PLUM CAKE.-Take 2 pounds of large,
fresh raisins, pound of citron, fresh
eggs, cups of powdered sugar, 1 of
butter, of flour, Of sweet milk, tea
spoonful of soda, nutmeg, grated, 1
teaspoonful of ground cloves; sift the
flour and put in the oven to brown, as
you would coffee; cut the raisins in half
and seed them; cut the citron in strips
half inch wide, then slice as thin as pos
sible; bake in 6-quart basin 2 hours.
Icing for 1.-THE whites Of eggs, cups
of powdered sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls Of
corn-starch, the juice of l lemon, 1 ounce
of rosewater.