The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-12-18
sEAsONABLE RECIPES.

MINCE-PIEs. pound meat chop.
ped fine, two quarts apples, one quart
cider, one pint molasses, one-haf pound
of brown sugar, one-quarter pound raj
sins, salt, and all kinds of spice to taste;
put on the stove in q porcelain kettle,
and let boil slowly for half a day.
OATMEAL GINGERBREAD.- One pound
flour, one-fourth pound oatmeal, one
fourth pound butter, one-fourth pound
sugar, One-haf ounce ginger. Rub the
butter and sugar into the flour; one
pound of treacle will make it up; cara
way seed and eandied peel are some
times added.
FORCE-MEAT BALLS.-ChOp lean veal
fine, together with little raw pork
season the meat with salt, pepper, cur
~ powder or cloves. Make it up into
balls the size of half an egg. Boil
part in the soup fifteen minutes, and fry
the remainder and serve up in a separ-
ate dish.
| LIMA BEANs.-The Practical Farmer
| gives a statement from a correspondent
that he had found that for profit nothing
! had paid him so well as the small Lima
! bean among garden crops. Two rows
eight feet long, with 60 hills, had
| furnished Il family of 10 persons with
more than 60 meals, with a surplus for
winter. Being earlier than the large
! sort, they mature at the North and yield
double the quantity.
QUICK CAKE.-One cup of sugar, one
| egg, One-half cup of sour milk, a little
over one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of
soda and one of cream-tartar. Bake in
a quick oven. This is nice for Jelly
cake, when baked in thin cakes, and ex-
cellent when chopped raisins are mixed
with the jelly. Or, it may be put to-
! gether with a cuStard. RaiSinS may be
added to the loaf if desired
MINCE MEAT.-One pound of roas
| beef chopped fine, one of suet chopped
fine, one pound of currants, one pound
raisins stoned and chopped, one pound
! apples chopped, one pound white sugar
! powdered, one ounce of candied citrOn,
| lemon and orange peel cut small, the
rinds of two lemons grated, the juice of
one, very little salt, mace, cinnamon,
allspice and cloves ground, about half
an ounce each.
| HUNTERS PUDDING. pound of
! beef suet, one pound of raisins, stoned :;
one pound of flour, one pound of cur
rants, the peel and juice of lemon,
salt, allspice and glass of boiled cider,
| five eggs. Boil four hours in a cloth or
mold. The above can be divided into
two buildings and after being boiled it
can be hung up. When ready to use
| boil an hour. This is good when you
are in need of a pudding at short notice.
1t will keep good several months if hung
up. Serve with sweet sauce.
OYSTER FRITTERs.-Drain the liquor
from the oysters, and to 4 cupful of this
| add the same quantity of milk, thrce
| eggs, little salt and flour enough for a
| thin batter. Chop the oysters and stir
into the batter. Have ready in the fry
! ing-pan Il few spOOnfuls of sweet lard,
or half lard and half butter; heat very
hot and drop the oyster batter in by the
spoonful. Try a spoonful first to be
sure the lard is hot enough and the fritz
ter of the right consistency. Take from
the pan as soon as they are done 4 light
brown, and serve as soon as possible.
A CANOE recently left Iona Iona, in
the FIJI Islands, with % natives on board,
bound for TOytOya. They were going
about when a sudden squat sent the sail
| against the mast, capsizing the canoe.
The unfortunate passengers chung to the
| canoe, and might have escaped with con-
sequences no worse than those which
would have attended discomfort and ex-
posture, but for the fact that the capsiZe
occurred in locality infested with
sharks. These ravenOus monsters seized
| their victims one by one, devOuring %
out of the % unfortunateS whose lives
were thus placed at their mercy. OF the
two who escaped, one is a woman; but
her situation is very critical, the whole
of the flesh having been taken of one