The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-25

INeSterdaN'S Ahend Post. /
USEFUL FAMILY RECIPES.

CocoanUt for Desscrt-Grate a cocoa
nut very nicely, add powdered sugar un-
til very sweet; serve with CREAM 5. S,
Covington, Ky.
Coffee Cakes-One cup sugar, one Of
butter, one of cold coffee one of raisins
chopped, one tablespoonful of mixed
spices, cinnamon, cloves, allspice or mace
and lemon peel one tcaspoontul OF soda.
H. 5. s., Columbus, Miss.
Cocoanut maroons--To one grated CO.
coanut add It's weight in sugar and the
white of one egg beaten to froth; stir
it we'll and cook it little; then wet
your hands and mold itinto small cakes,
laying thom upon buttered paper. Bake
in moderate oven.- ). s, Horton, o.
Baked custard-Beat seven eggs with
three tablespoonfuls Of rolled sugar;
when beaten to a froth mix them with
quart of milk; flavor it with nutmeg;
turn it into cups, or elso into deep pie
plates that have a lining and rim Of
pastry; bake quickly i'll hot oycn.-
NJ, Centralia, Ill.
Scotch CoIlops-Get two pounds of
round of steak, chopped fine; put in a
frying-pan Il lump Of butter half the size
of an egg; melt, drodge in little -four,
brown, and then put in a cupful of
water or more; stir to make Il gravy;
chop up an onion, put it in; then put in
beefsteak; stir often, and cook twenty
minutes.-- r. O., Thornton, Ind.
Washington Cake-Three cups sugar;
two cups butter; five eggs; one cup milk;
four cups -four; two tcaSpoonfuls cream
tartar one teaspoonfal soda. Mix as
usual and stir in, at the last, one-half
pound currants wellwashed and dredged :;
one-quarter pound raisins seeded and
chopped fine, then Toured; handful Of
citron sliced fine; cinnamon and nutmeg
to taste. Fulit-cake takes longer to
bake than plain, and the heat must be
kept steady R, S, Eiizabethtown,K Ky,
To Keep Beefatcaks-lIaYe the steaks
cut about the usual thickness. Mix to-
gether some salt, sugar, and some finely
powdered saltpetre. In an carthcn jar
lay steak, and sprinkle it with this
mixture; pus on another, and sprinkle
the same as before, and over all turn 9
plate with a heavy weight on it. This
will form a brine Of its own, and the
meat will keep sweet in this way for {
long time You can take ii out to brGi
in the usual way. This is a very gooc
recipe for people who live away from
cities.-TS. l.. G., Bradford, Pa.
Chocolate Marble Cake--One cup .
butter, two cups powdered sugar, thrc
cups -four one cup sweet milk, four eggs
one and a half teaspoonfuls soda, one o
cream tartar sifted with the -four. Whel
the cake is mixed, take out about teacup
full of the batter and stir into this Il grea
spoonful of graded chocolate, wet with
scant tablespoonful of milk. Fill you
mould about an inch deep with the yel
low batter, then drop upon this spoon
, full of the dark mixture, spreading it j
broken circles upon the lighter surface
Proceed in this order until all is used
R. l.. G., Glendale, O.
Sponge Cake (Elegant-Twelve egg
, the weight Of the eggs in sugar, ha
their weight in -four, one lemon, juic
aud rind Beat yoIks and whites yer
} leht, the sugar into the former whc
! they are smooth and stiff, next the juiC
3 and grated peel Of the lemon, then IL
; -four, lastly the beaten whites, Yer
/, lightly. BE careful that your oven
steady, and cover the cake with pape
: to prevent burning. 1t is good plan
: line the pans in which sponge cake
baked with buttered paper, fitted neat
y to the sides and bottom NJ. L. L., o:
= ford, ..
+ Lincoln Cakc-One pound butter, OF
n pound sugar, one pound -four, six ese
e TWO cups sour cream or milk, one graft
i nutmeg, one teaspoonful powdered CHM
- mon, one tablespoonful ro8ewater, OF
' teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot waite
e and stirred INTO the milk just before ad
Il ing the latter to the cake. Cream Il
y butter and sugar, put with them Il
1t yolks whipped light, then the cream al
es spice, next the -four, then the rosewate
ii and double handful of citron cut
~ slips and dredged; finally the beat
~ =, whites Of the eggs. Stir all WELL al
II bake in loaf or in "card," using
o. square shallow baking-pan. This is
" good cake and keeps well.-[R, NJ
ct London, IL.
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