Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-20


until we reach higher plane of intellect
uality, and learn to live simply and in
obedience to hyglenic laws.
Receipts.
! To PICKLE MANGoEs AND GREEN PEP
PERs. Cut round piece out Of the top of
small round musk melon or peppers and
extract the seeds. Then tie the pieces on
again with thread and put in strong
brine for ten days. Drain and wipe, put
them into kettle with nice leaves under
and over them, adding small piece of
alum, and put over slow fire to green ;
keep them tightly covered. To fill, make
dressing of scraped horse.radish, white
mustard seed, mace, nutmeg pounded,
green ginger cut small, pepper, tumeric
| and sweet oil. Fill the mangoes with this
mixture, putting small clover of garlic
| into each one of them, replacing the pieces
at the opening and sewing it in with
| strong thread Put into stone jars and
pour boiling vinegar over them.
STUFFED PEPPERS. Chopa large cabbage
| finely, add one large spoonful grated horse
| radish root and one ounce of white mustard
seed mix all this well ; cut pieces out of
the stem ends of large green peppers, large
as silver dollar fill with the filling and
sew the pieces in again with cotton thread !;
then take vinegar enough to cover; spice
with cloves, mace and allspice, whole !;
boil, and when very cold pour over the
peppers no salt is to be used. Mangoes
are picked and stuffed in the same man
ner.
BAKING POWDER. those who, like
myself until lately, have been compelled
to pay so much for baking powder, will
send this receipt Six ounces of tartaric
acid, eight of the best baking soda, and
one quart of -four. Sift five or SIX times
through a fine sieve. Procure tartaric
acid and soda from good druggist. When
prepared keep dry and well corked. Use
the same quantity as you would of any
other baking powder. s. E G.
CRACKERs.-Use IA cups of sifted flour
l cup rounding full of butter, 2 even tea
spoons soda, 4 rounding full of cream-tar-
tar Sift soda and cream-tartar with the
flour, rub the butter into the -four, add 3
tea cups of cold water, roll thicker than
pie crust, cut with small cracker cutter,
pick. Bake in hot oven. After all are
baked, put them in pans, in the oven, to
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doors open. only use one-half recipe at
one time. &.
OYSTER ToAsT.-This is nice little dish
for luncheon or late supper. Scald a
quart of oysters in their liquor, take them
out and pound them in mortar, when
they form paste, add little rich cream
and some pepper. Get ready some thin
neat pieces of toast moistened slightly
with boiling water spread with fresh but
ter Spread the oyster paste thickly upon
the toast, put thinly cut round of lemon
upon each piece, and arrange parsley.
Serve very hot.
STUFFED TOMATOES. Take large, smooth
tomatoes, take little of the inside at the
top and stuff with force meat made thus !:
Fry some minced onions in butter and add
some bread crumbs, some cold chicken
chopped very fine to molsten, and pepper
and salt mix well; take from the range,
add raw yolk of egg, stuff the tomatoes and
bake them in the oven. Broil your chops
nicely, butter them hot and arrange them
around platter with the stuffed tomatoes
in the center.
Crows NEST deep pudding tin,
or dish with apples cut in thin slices ; su-
gar and cinnamon, or lemon, TO sWeeUen
and flavor to taste, and little water !;
cover with thick crust made as above !;
bake until the apples are tender; serve hot
with hard sauce, or with cream and sugar.
Be sure to cut air holes in the crust to let
the steam escape.
A LUNCHEON DIsH.-Beat two eggs,
mixing with them tablespoonful of cream.
Put them in a sauce pan, adding some
anchovies and some minced tongue.
Spread on toast and serve Immediately.
Roll JELLY CAKE.-Use eggs, tea
cup of sugar, coffee cup of flour, heap
ing teaspoon of baking powder. Bake
quick, turn out and spread with jelly, then
roll in towel.
FEATHER CAKE.--One egg, cup of
sugar, one teaspoonful of butter, three
fourths of a cup of sour milk, one-haf
teaspoonful of saleratus, two cups of -four.