Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-12-11
HOUSEHOLD KNOWLEDGE.

,s mrmalaue 10 whites OF TWO eggs ana
10 quarter pound sugar; pile in pyramid
d In dish and bake pale yellow.
Mint Sauce for Roast Lamb.-Put four
tablespoonfuls Of chopped mint into hal
IS a cup OF vinegar; sweeten to taste and let
stand for two hours before serving.
,. Cup Cake.-0ne cup of white sugar,
y one-half cup OF butter, two eggs, two cups
of flour, one teaspoonful cream tartar,
half teaspoonful soda, half cup milk. Beat
the butter and sugar together and the
IL eggs separately.
Fruit Pudding.-Stew currants, or any
q small fruit, fresh or dried, with sugar to
taste, and pour over thin slices OF but.
tered bakers bread with crust cut off,
7 making alternate layers of fruit and bread.
o Serve warm, with rich, hot sauce.
p Ginger Pound Cake.-Take one cupful
d of butter, one eupful OF sugar, one cupful
y Of molasses, three cupiuls of sifted -four,
G three eggs, one tablespoonful of soda dis
G solved in one cuptul Of milk, one table
spoonful of ginger and one tablespoonful
b OF cinnamon are very good
! Stewed Lobster Take the beat from a
boiled lobster, cut it up small and put it
in stew-pan with just enough water to
keep it from burning and to make the
gravy; let it simmer five minutes, add
teaspOOnful good butter, salt and pep
per to taste, heat to boiling and serve
hot.
Stuffed Onions.-Parboi some good
sized onions take out the middles and
fill with force meat; put them side by side
IN a casserole, with butter; sprinkle
little salt and little sugar on taem;
cover the onions with thin slices of bacon;
cook thoroughly and serve with their own
sauce,
, Crackers and Cream.-Split six Boston
crackers, place them in a soup plate and
pour boiling water over them. As soon
as they are soft draw off the water and
sprinkle lightly with salt; then pour over
them nice sweet cream. This is specially
liked by little children who are not feel
ing well, and usually reished by grown
people, too,
Excellent Coffee Recipe.-Dr. Foote's
Health Monthly says: "Stir into the
ground coffee sufficient white of egg to
make smooth paste; add the proper
quantity, by measure, of boiling water,
and let it boil gently for twenty or thirty
minutes. Made thus it is exquisitely
clear and transparent, the coaPulated
albumen holding every finest particle of
solid matter"
Barley Water.-To tablespoonful of
pearl barley, washed in cold water, and
two or three Jumps of sugar, and the juice
Of half lemon. On these pour one quart
of boiling water and let it stand seven or
eight hours; strain; never use the barley
Il second time. Half an ounce of isinglass
may be boiled in the water. Increase the
sugar if desirable. For fevers or weak
stomachs a strengthening drink.
Rice Blanc Mange.-M& four table
spoontuls of rice flour in a little cold
water; add pinch of salt; stir this into
a quart of boiling milk, and boil and stir
for ten minutes; when partly cool add the
whites Of three eggs beaten to Il iroth, and
cook again antll almost boiling; then turn
into a vet mould. Serve with cream.
sweetfned and Favored to the taste.
Fa,lna or anowrOOt may bc prepared in
the same way, emitting the eggs and Sec
ond boiling.
DOughnuts. cup of soft yeast, one
cup OF warm sweet milk; one cup of short
butter and halt lard; one cup
OF sugar, two well-beaten eggs, one-half
Of salt; flavor with nutmeg,
cinnamon. knead all together;
set in warm place at night In the morn
ing, If light, knead again; roll about two
thirds of an inch thlck cut out in cakes
little larger than silver dollar; let them
rise; then fry in lard and roll in no''''- -
mod o"ao~
New Way to Cook Chickens. Gut the
chicken up, put it in pan and cover it
over with water; let it stew as usual, and
when done make thickening of cream
and -four, adding piece Of butter and
pepper and salt; have made and bake a
pair of shortcakes, made as for piecrust,
but roll thin and cut in small squares.
This Is much better than chicken pie and
more simple to make. The crusts should
be laid on dish and The chicken gravy
poured over it while both are hot,
Indian Light biscuit.-0ne quart Of
sifted Indian meal pint Of sifted wheat
flour, very small teaspoonful of salt,
three pints of milk, four eggs. Butter
sufficient number Of cups or deep tins;
nearly fll them with the batter. Set
them Immediately into hot oven and
bake them quickly. Turn them out of
the cups, send them warm to table, pull
them open and eat with butter. They will
puff up finely #, at the last, you stir in an
even teaspoonful oil soda, melted in little
warm water.
Rich Plum Cake.-Two full quarts of
finest flower, one pound OF loaf sugar,
three pounds of currants, one pound Of
raisins chopped, one qaarter ounce Of mace
cloves, grated nutmeg, peel of q lemon
cut fine, half pound of blanched al
monds, beaten with rose or orange-hower
water; mix thoroughly, then melt two
pounds of butter in rather more than
pint Of cream, put to it a pint of sherry,
a glass of brandy, twelve eggs, ,(yolks and
whites of eggs beaten apart) and half
pint of yeast; strain this into the dry in
gradients, beat a full hour, butter your
hoop, throw in plenty chips of citron, lem
on and orange candy, as you put in your
batter, bake moderately quick.
To Fry Beef's Liver,-Cut the liver in
slices about two-thirds OF an inch thick;
soak in cold water about quarter Of an
hour; have ready some butter In the spi-
der; when hot pour in the liver; season
with salt, pepper and dn union chopped
fne; dust a little flower over the top;
cover tight to keep steam in as much as
possible; add little water while cooking,
10 keep from getting dry lido not let it
burn); when brown turn on the other side;
put on little more salt, pepper and -four;
when done take the liver out on a platter,
put in about teacup Of sweet milk; If
not thick enough add a little more -four,
wet with milk, until you get it about the
thickness of beef gravy; pour over the liv-
,r and serve. This is the Swedish way
If cooking it.
Hints on Cooking Notwithstanding
Is preferable TO boiling for tough fowls.
Remove the threads before sending
-oast fowls to the table.
In winter kill the poultry three days to
/ week before cooking
Poultry and game are less nutritious,
out more digestible than other meats.
SINCE with alcohol instead Of paper--a
easpoonful is sufficient for either a turkey
" chicken.
Remember, much Of the skill Of roasting
poultry in the best manner depends upon
,aisting faithfully.
10 give roast birds frothy appearance,
lredge, just before they are done, with
lour and baste literally with melted but