Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-03-11
s~EAsOSABLE RECIPES.


SPoNeE PuDDTEG.-One cup sugar,
one egg, one cup milk. three cups flour.
three teaspoons baking-powder; half
teaspoon salt; steam two and q hall
hours.
TRANSPARENT PE.-Ono egg and
the yelks of two; lump Of butter size OF
half an egg, one cup Of sweet milk,
cup sugar; half of a nutmeg. Bake
with one crust and frost.
LEMON PIE.-Tako one tablespoonful
of cornstarch moistened with a little
cold water, then add n cup of boiling
water, one cup of sugar, u egg, one
tablespoonful Of butter, juice and grated
rind of one lemon.
GRAHAM BIsCuIT.-Three cups Graz
ham -four, one cup white do, three
cups of milk, two tablespoonful Of lare
or butter, one heaping large spoonful of
white sugar, one saltspoonful Of salt,
one teaspoonful Of soda, two teaspoon
fuls .cream-tartar; mix and bake as
ordinary soda. They are good cold.
MILK BIsCUIT.-Two pounds flour,
| one-fourth pound Of lard or butter, one
teacup of yeast, one %teaspoonful of salt,
one pint Of milk; make q soft dough and
set at 10 o'clock; stir at 8 and mold into
biscuits, adding more -four II necessary
Let them rise until nearly tea time and
bake twenty minutes.
To CURE HAMs-Tako coarse salt,
with a sprinkle Of saltpeter, pepper and
sugar: powder, mix; rub this in well a
few times; smoke and wrap closely IN
paper of four folds or more; pack in dry
ashes four inches thick around each
ham. They will keep through the hot
test of weather and be rs good as new.
CREAM Mince any nice, cold,
fresh meat or ham, place in n spider,
and with sweet cream or milk
add butter, pepper and salt TO taste
let it come 10 a boil, and pour over nice
" Drowned toast, if wished for tea or
breakfast; if wished for dinner serve by
itself to be eaten with mashed potatoes.
PRESERVED APPLES FOR TEA.-Makc
q nice sirup of sugar and water, and put
in some small pieces Of ginger root OF
the yellow OF orange. peel have some
good firm apples pared and halycd-
pippins are best-and when the sirup
has boiled up three or four times and
been skinned drop in the apples and
cook until transparent, but they must
not go to pieces. Let them be quite
cold before eaten, and good cream
greatly improves them.
FAMILY PIE.-Take a deep dish,
butter it, and put in it a layer of mashed
potatoes, season with butter, salt, and
minced onions. Take slices Of beef,
season them with pepper and salt, and
lay them with pieces of salt pork over
the potatoes, then fill the dish with
alternate layers OF potatoes and meat,
having the upper one potatoes. Bake
about an hour and fifteen minutes.
FoNDU-A CANADIAN BELIsH.-Twc
ounces of butter, four ounces OF bread.
crumbs, eight ounces of rich cheese, one
cup of sweet milk, three eggs. Cut the
butter and cheese into small pieces and
put into a large bowl with the bread.
crumbs, and pour on them the milk.
scalding hot, after which add the yelk.
of the eggs, well beaten, and q pinch OF
salt; mix well together, cover and sci
back on the stove or range, stirring oc,
casionally, until all are dissolved, when
add the whites beaten to a stiff froth
/ Place in a buttered dish or pie plate,
and bake in a quick oven for twenty
minutes. Serve the moment it is out o
the oven. A nice dish for supper, which
, some prefer to eat with mustard.