Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-11-19
Household Recipes.

PLAIN PuDDINGs AND CAKEs-TAPI-
OCA PUDDING WITHOUT EGGS OR MILK.
Put one teacup Of tapioca and halt a
teaspoon of salt into pint and half
of warm water. Keep them on the
back Of the stove for four hours, whel e
they will be warm, but do not Gu k.
Pare and core six apples and place in
in a deep pudding dish. Sprinkle
sugar and grated nutmeg over the APP
pies bake until the fruit is soft, but
not broken. When the tapivca is SUI
ficiently soaked, turn it over the APP
pies and bake an hour. To BE- eaten
with a sauce mado according to the
following Oue-halt teacup of butter
and one halt teacup of sugar stirred
until smooth; set the dish in pan OF
hot water; add large spoonful OF
hot water to the butter and sugar,and
STIR until the sauce is like foam.
BLACK CAKE.-Twelve eggs; Que
pound OF butter; one pound OF sugar;
three pounds OF currants, two pounds
Of raisins; one tablespoonful Of cloves,
and -four to make quite stiff. Put the
fruit in last.
SMALL SPONGE CAKRs.-Beat two
eggs well, then stir 10 one teacup pow
dered sugar, beat FIVE minutes and add
one cup OF -four Bake in small cakes.
CRULLERe.-O and one half cup
of sugar; two eggs; one spoonful Of
butter one cup CT sweet milk; one
teasponiul Of cream>of tartar; one.
half tespoonful of soda.
A TEA DIsu.-A nice dish for tea
is made by putting six Or eight butter
crackers in dish, pour boiling water
over them and CRATE loaf sugar and
nutmeg or lemon over. and lay on sill
ceS of Jelly. Pour enough sweet
cream over them to make nice sauce
JUMBLEs. -One-half pound of but.
tel; three ourtbs Of pound OF -four
three tourths of cup ofwhite sugar
and two eggs well beaten. Add a lit
tie nutmeg, make into soft dough
Break off into small pieces, roll in SUI
gar and bake in rings,
VINEGAR PFC. r. GOylord wish
es a recipe for old'fashioned vinegar
pie.
ANs.-We append two recipes trus-
thug that enc or the other upon trial
viii prove TO be the one you are in
search OF: No. |. One large sized
cup OF sugar; one cup of vinegar not
too strong; heaping tablespoonful Of
flour and little lemon peel. Bake
with two crusts. No, 2. One teacup-
ful of sugar, one egg and one heapiug
tablespoonful OF -four beaten well to-
gelber; then adj two tablespoontuls of
sharp vinegar and a scant teacupful of
cold water. Flavor with nutmeg, if
liked, and bake with two crusts.
BLACK AND VIOLET INK.-C. T., asks
for recipe for making black and VIC
let ink that last a good while.
ANs.-For Black To one quart of
clean soft water add four ounces Of
Aleppo gals well bruised; bottle, cark
tight and let naeerate for ten days
shaking the liquid each day. Then
add one and one tOurth ounce OF gum
arabic dissolved 10 wineSglassful Of
water; oue-half ounce of lump sugar
mix well and further add one and one
half ounce Of sulphate of iron green
coperas) crushed fine. Agitate occa-
sionally fol two or three days, when
the ink may be used but it will 10
much better if left to digest from one
10 two weeks before it is decanted. This
makes one quart of good ink, writing
pale at FIRST but soon turning very
black. The addition OF fow bruised
loves or little oil Of cloves will pre-.
rent any tendency to moldIness in the
nix.