The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-01-15
sEAsONABLE RECIPES.

COMMON ONION SAUCE.-Take four
or five white onions, half a pint of hot
milk, one ounce of butter, pepper and
salt to suit your taste. Peel the onions
and boil them till they are tender; press
the water from them, and chop them
very fine Have the milk hot; pulp the
onions; add the butter; pepper and salt
to suit your taste.
GINGERBREAD.-One cup of sugar,
one cup of strip, one cup of sour milk,
half cup of butter, one tablespoonful of
ginger, one teaspoonful of soda, -four
enough to make it thick but not so stiff
but that it will smooth without the aid
of a spoon. Bake in a small-sized drip
ping-pan and cut out as you want for
the table.
HASTY PUDDIKG.-Place on the stove
pan containing six teacupfuls of sweet
milk. Beat two eggs well, and add one
teacupful of milk, six tablespoonfuls of
flour and little salt; beat well together,
then stir it in the milk on the stove just
before or as it begins to boil. When as
thick as mush put in creased cups to
mold. Made in the morning and eaten
with sweetened cream for dinner, it is
excellent.
To Boil POTATOES those of
about one size, wash very clean but do
not pare. Put into pan of cold water
for an hour before boiling. In boiling
use no more water than will cover them.
The moment they are done, turn off the
water and set the kettle on the back of
the range with cloth over the potatoes
and the cover drawn to one side. After
few moments, take off the cloth,
sprinkle a little salt over, put on the
cover and shake up the potatoes. Let
them stand with the cover on for min
! ute or so, then serve.
BOILED TONGUE.-Soak for two
hours and run a skewer through the
root of the tongues; tie some string
round the point of the skewer and fasten
it at the other end, to give the tongue
the form of an arch. Boil for about three
hours; when done immense in cold wa
ter and pull off the outer skin. Truss
the tongue afresh, in the form of an
arch, put it to press, sideways, between
| two dishes with weight on the top,
and when cold trim it smooth; or with
a small, sharp knife carve the surface SO
as to represent leaves. If hot, serve
with spinach; if cold, garnish with veal
iellies.
FRIED LIvER.-POur boiling hot wa
ter over it and slice thin Season well
with pepper and salt and broil over a
clear fire; rub cold butter on it and
serve hot, with small slices of fat bacon.
| 1t can be fried with bacon in this way /:
! Cut the liver into slices about half an
| inch thick; melt two ounces of nice
clear dripping in frying-pan; dredge
the sliced liver with flour, and fry it
over a pretty quick fire; then fry rash
/ ers of bacon; lay the liver in hot dish
and the bacon upon it; fry and place
around it, if liked, onions shred fine and
/ nicely Drowned, or garnish with crisp
parsley and sliced lemon, or serve with
melted butter, or pour over the liver
and bacon a sauce made of butter and
flour.
CUsTARD PIE.-Beat the yelks of -four
eggs very light, then the whites, ther
both together. Spill a level teacupfu
of sugar into the eggs and beat all well
Add gradually quart of the richest
milk; if it is half cream all the better
and stir thoroughly together; add a leve
teaspOonful of salt and teaspoonful OF
more of any flavOring essence. If spice
is used it should be beaten into the egg,
before the milk or sugar is added t.
them. Put the deep pie plates Covered
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into the oven and with cup or ladle fiji
them carefully to the rims. Bake til
the custard is firm. Cover, if necessary
with a pasteboard or thick paper if tn,
oven is too hot.
COMPoTE.-Pare and core half a doz
en- large, fair apples, throwing each a
it is pared into cold water to keep
from turning brown. Put half pount
of loaf sugar into an enameled stew pa
{ with three pints of water; as soon as
is melted and boils put in the apple
with the juice Of two lemons; stew gen
tly until the apples are sufficient,
cooked but not broken. Then take then
out carefully and lay them in the dish il
which they are to 90 to table. Cut tn
rinds of the lemon into the thinnest pos
sible strips and put them into the strip
boil till tender, by which time the sirul
will be much reduced. When cold pou
the strip about the apples, and also dis
pose the transparent strips of lemon
: about them. This dish looks prettil,
with bit of ounce jelly placed into tn
hollow of each apple; or with a candie'
cherry in the hollow, and angelica Gu
into lozenges and inserted around tn
top of each apple.