The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-05-27
Domestic Department.

Poor MANS PCDD1NG.-Three cups
of flour, one cup Of molasses, one cup
of milk, one cup of suet, one cup of
raisins, one teaspoonful of soda, spi-
ces to taste; boil two hours; use with
4 sauce.
CREAM P1E.-To one pint of milk
put two even tablespoonfuls of corn
starch, two Of sugar, one egg, small
pinch of salt, and flour to taste, with
extract of lemon and orange mixed.
Bake in rich paste.
BLANC MANGE.-Boil one and one
half ounces of isinglass three ounces
of sweet and six bitter almonds, we'll
pounded, in a quart of milk; let it
boil until the isinglass is dissolved;
then strain it througA.a napkin; stir
it until nearly cold, va put it into
the mold.
FIG G.-Three-quarters of
pound of grated bread, half pound figs,
six ounces brown sugar, one teacup-
full of milk, and CRATE little nutmeg.
Chop figs and suet together; then mix
in the bread, sugar, and milk, and
lastly, one egg we'll beaten. Boil in a
mold for four hours: eat with sweet
sauce.
BATCHELOR's B1sCC1Ts.-One quart
Of flour, piece of butter size of a small
egg we'll rubbed in, fuse your hands,
two teaspoonfuls cream of tarter, one
sma II one of soda, free from Jumps,
we'll rubbed in. Enoug h sweet milk
to make as stiff dough as can be
stirred with spoon; butter tin drop
in spoonfuls, bake in a hot oven fifteen
or twenty minutes.
THE SAME FELLOWS CAKE.-One
cup sugar beaten with a tablespoon
full Of butter and one egg, beat we'll:
one cup of sweet milk with one-half
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it,
wo and one.half cups Of flour, (sifted)
with one teaspooful of cream of tarter
stirred in, bake in warm oven twen-
ty minutes.
CANARY PCDDING.-The weight of
three eggs in sugar and butter, weight
of two eggs in flour, rind of one lemon,
three eggs; melt the butter but do not
let it boil, add to this the tinely-minced
lemon peel, and gradually mix in the
flour, stirring we'll all the time. Beat
up the egg we'll, blending the material
perfectly; put in a buttered basin and
boil for two hours. Serve with a
sweet sauce.
POTATO PrDD1NG.-Beat we'll to-
gether fourteen ounces of mashed 20.
t;ltoes. four ounces of butter, four
: ounces of fine sugar, five eggs, and the
grated rind of one small lemon; a
pinch of salt; add one.half glass of
brandy; pour it in mold or dish well
creased, and bake it. Be careful to
mash the potatoes as smoothly as pos.
sible, and adding a little butter at
first helps to make them smc 9th.
ENGLISH ARRow-RooT BLANC
NANCE Mix a teacupful of arrow.
root with little cold milk, rub il
smooth; boil pint of milk with ter
sweet and four bitter almonds, having
pounded them smooth first, and hay
ing blanched them; sweeten this mill
to taste with pulverized sugar; strai1
carefully; then pour this milk gradu
ally into the arrow root, stirring al
the time; boil for five minutes, ant
pour into a mold to cool.
Calls Foot JELLY OF 1780.-Pu
four feet into two galloGs Of cold wa
ter; let it boil down to one gallon
strain it, and set away until cold
then take off the fat from the top ant
the sediment from the bottom; pu
the jelly into kettle with a pint o
white wine, the juice of four lemons
and the peel of one; beat the white
and shells of six eggs and add to it
sweeten to your taste; let it boil for
few minutes; pour into the jelly bag
and repass until quite clear. If need
ed for an invalid, add Il cup of pal
brandy.
RAISING PoULTRY.-It is strang
80 few of our country women tur1
their attention to poultry raising. !
is health-giving occupation, and til
average woman has a nature we'll fit