Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-06
FAMILY MATTERS.


as food.
FAMILY MATTERS.
GRlDDLE-CAKES.
Two coffee cups of sour milk or butter
milk, one teaspoonful of saleratus dis
solved in little hot water, and flour
enough to pour. Grease the griddle with
piece of fat pork, and fry the cakes a
light brown.
BREAD CAKES.
Take stale bread and soak it in milk,
then run through cullender. To each
quartadd spoonful of saleratus, cup -four,
two eggs, spoonful of salt, two tablespoon.
fuls of ugar and half nutmeg.
MACCAROoNs.
One cup of hickory-nut meats, pound
en- in mortar; one cup of sugar, one
egg and half, and two tablespoonfuls
OF flour; bake on Il creased paper; put
very little in place.
FRENCH KNOTS.
Every dabbler in embroidery thinks
that she can make French knot, but
there are few who know the rapid old
fashioned way Of doing it. The silk
should be held down firmly by the left
thumb, at about an inch to the left of
the place where it comes through the
cloth, and then the needle shoHld be
passed under and over the thread three
times, and then through the cloth close
to the point where the silk comes up.
CELERY SAUCE.
Wash clean six or eight heads of GEL
cry and take off the outer leaves; cut
the heads up into bits three or four
inches long. Stew them untilitender in
half a pint of broth or white gravy; then
add two spoonfuls of cream and an ounce
of butter rolled in -four; season with
pepper and salt, and simmer the whole
together. The leaves will do to flavor
soup that is to be strained.
OATMEAL.
Oatmeal is very nice prepared the
following way: Put piece of butter
the size of hickory-nut and a tea
spoonful of salt in three pints of boil
ing water, then add one-half pint of oat-
meal; for 20 minutes let it boil fast,
stirring frequently, then place it over
saucepan of boiling water, to continue
cooking slowly for about half an hour.
When over the water it will only need
stirring occasionally.
HOUSE PLANTS.
Most Of our plants are. injured by too
much heat. For general collection of
house plants, it is not best to allow the
thermometer to be above 700, and if they
could be kept in room where the Their
mometer would not usually range much
above 650 it would be better. In the
night time so is enough. Give little
fresh air every day, and all the sunlight
attainable. An effort should be made
to give moisture to the atmosphere, for
our own good, as we'll as the health of
the plants.
GRADUATED WHEAT BREAD.
Take pint of actively boiling water,
sailed slightly, and add enough fine
granulated wheat flour to form a thin
mush; to this stir in a quart of tepid
water, small piece of butter, two eggs,
we'll beaten, one-half teacup of New Or
leans molasses, and one-half cake of
compressed yeast dissolved in a little
water; thicken it as stiff as can be stir
red with spoon with cold-blast -four,
and put each loaf in a separate pan; let
it stand until it puffs up nicely, and
then bake in quick oyen two hours.
POTATO SALAD.
Take one egg and boil it very
hard, rub the yolk to pulp; add one
raw yolk, one teaspoonful Of corn starch
or fine -four, one of tarragon or other
vinegar, one of sweet oil, one salt-spoon-
full of mixed mustard, one of salt, half
teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, one table !
spoonful of sweet butter; beat thoroughly |
together to smooth paste; slice cold |
potatoes thin, arrange in pyramid or
mound shape and pour the mixture over
ornament with slices of hard boiled eggs,
parsley, young celery tops, and sliced
lemon ANY or all, as you fancy. After
arranging on the dish put on ice to cool.
BROWN SOUP.
Take cold roast beef or fowl, cover it
with cold water; let this simmer for
two hours; then take out the meat and
strain the liquid. Have chopped fine
equal parts of celery-root and cabbage.
Add to each quart of liquid one cupful,
two tablespoonfuls of pearl barley, one
tablespoonful of chopped parsley, one
small carrot cut fine, two small potatoes
sliced fine. Let this boil one-half hour.
Then add one well-beaten egg and two
tablespoonfuls of sweet milk thickened
with Drowned -four. Make this in small
dumplings and drop in. This should
boil five minutes more. When ready to
serve, add one onion fried brown in
butter, and two tablespoonfnls of tomato
catsup.