Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-03-03
THE KITCHEN.
SOUP.

THE KITCHEN.
CELERY SOUP.
Make O white soup as follows. Put
three quarts of milk over the fire to boil;
mix together over the fire two ounces OF
butter and -four until they begin to bub-
BILE, and gradually add the boiling milk;
season the soup with a level teaspoonful
Of salt, and quarter Of a tablespoonful
each Of white pepper and nutmeg, and
let it come to a boil. Trim six white
stalks Of celery, boil them until tender in
well-salted boiling water; rub them
through a sieve with a wooden spoon,
and blend the PURGE with the soup.
Serve as soon AZ it is done, or if it is to
be kept hot, set the saucepan containing
it into another partly filed with boiling
water.
CARROT Plum PUDDING.
Quarter pound -four and as much Of
suet. For carrots, do not take the long
ones, select the more tender short ones;
CRATE fine the same quantity Of raw car
rot; use Q quarter Of q pound of white
p~ulverized sugar, same of currants and
Of ~raisins; CRATE in a third Of q nutmeg
and add in a very little cloves; mix all
these ingredients well up together; if it
be too stiff, add a very little milk, but
generally there is water enough in the
carrots to hold the mixture together; tie
up in q light cloth and boil for six hours.
If properly managed, this pudding makes
q very handsome appearance at table.
Eat with a hard sauce Or a wine sauce.
ORANGE PIE.
Ordinary Dundee marmalade answers
every purpose, providing you thin it first
with q little water. Take four eggs, and
beat up whites and yolks apart; to the
yolks add four ounces of pulverized
sugar; pound very fine four soda cracker
and mix it with your thinned MARINA
lade; mix it well together, and put in the
yolks of eggs which has been sugared;
make a puff paste and line a dish. Bake
the crust first; then line with the marina.
lade mixture, having added a very little
butter to it. Just before taking out Of
oven put on top the beaten white ofthree
eggs. The over must be very hot. just
when the white Of eggs commences tc
harden remove the pie. Eat hot OF
cold.
HERRING SALAD.
Have ready 4 pounds of roasted veal
boil 5 large beets, and let them get cold
you will want 6 good-sized potatoes
which boil and allow to get cold; take
one dozen Dutch behring's and put then
in cold water, where they must stay /.
hours; all these different ingredients ar
to be prepared the day before; take the
veal and cut it up into small pieces, but
do not hash it; do the same with tn.
beets, potatoes and behring's, dividing
each up separately; then mix thoroughly
having sliced up a hard apple and one
small onion, which are to be put in TIL,
salad, season to taste with pepper ant
salt, and serve either with oil and vine
gar, OF with a mayonnaise; you can deco
rate with hard boiled eggs, beets, ant
potatoes.
MARsHMALLow PASTE OR DROPS.
Marshmallow root, four ounces; water
half gallon; macerate IL hours, strain
and add white sugar, one pound; gun
arabic, u pound; dissolve, strain, ant
evaporate to thickness of honey, con
stantly stirring, and add gradually tn,
whites of twelve eggs, well beaten, will
orange flower water, four ounces vel
strained; continue the evaporation ant
constant stirring till the mass is so firm
as not to adhere to the fingers; then dr.,
i'll an oven, and divide in small masses
when finished it should be very light ant
spongy.
HERB TEAS.
These are household wants and pre-
ventives, useful, and frequently say,
sickness and death. They are made b,
infusing the dried and green leaves anl
stalks in boiling water, letting then
stand until cold, and then sweetening t.
taste. Sage tea sweetened with honey il
good for sore throat-use as a gargle
Catnip tea is a panacea for infant ills
colds and COLES. So is pennyroyal tea
Camomile is an excellent tonic. Black
berry root tea is good for summer disor
ders and a tea from green strawberry
leaves is a soothing wash for cankeret
mouth. Mint tea, made of the greer
leaves, crushed in cold or hot water ant
sweetened, is palatable and healing to tn,
stomach and bowels.
PoTATo SALAD GERMAN srYLE.)
Broil IL good-slzed potatoes, whel
cold slice them and cut in small pieces
to these add one onion, chopped fine
and half of q bunch of celery, cut il
small pieces; season with salt and pepper
to taste; then heat one-half cupful o
vinegar with tablespoonful of butte
added, or three tablespoonfuls of DIV,
oil; pour this over the salad and it is thel
ready for use.
Il Was . Bad Cat Trade.