The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-02-05

fuls of white sugar; beat two eggs very
light, then beat altogether and add two
cups of milk; mix thoroughly with
four cups of -four and three teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. Bake in a hot
oven
PICTURES may be fixed in door panels
with a little mucilage at the corners,
and beading; or the molding under
cut with a chisel for an eighth of an
inch, enough to slip the pictures in and
frame them with good effect, without
serious injury to the woodwork.
For bedroom furniture, mahogany,
maplewood, and oak are the best and
prettiest; there are Also very serviceable,
well-polished, stained wood limitations
of all these three; and there are, too,
very common and trumpery limitations,
which turn shabby in few months, and
are generally badly put together, and dc
no service; two good chairs are worth g
dozen Of such rubbish. So
THE light natural color of dried fruit
produced by the new processes and sold
at fancy prices, is made by an infusion
of sulphur. We can but think this
"fair looks is had at the expense OF
natural aroma. Some one who claims
to be the inventor of this process il
giving New York fruit driers trouble
claiming some kind OF patent. The
principle cannot be patented, as laws
upon that snbjecJ are too well under.
stood.
FRENCH PANCAKEs.-Two eggs, hail
pint milk, two ounces gran ulated sugar
two ounces butter, -four and jelly. Beai
the butter and sugar to a cream; beat
eggs separately, the yolks to cream
the whites to a froth; add the yolks to
the butter and sugar, stir the milk into
these; butter six tin pie plates, sift two
ounces -four with teaspoon baking pow.
der, stir quickly into the mixture, with
the whites of the eggs; put quickly
upon the buttered plates, bake brownin
a quick oven; dust with powdered su
gar, lay one over the other with little
jelly between, dust the top with sugar
serve hot.
PUDDINGs.-Cake-One cup of sugar
one egg, one tablespoon. butter, one cur
sweet milk, one teaspoon soda, two
cream tartar; stir as thick as cup cake
bake in layers. Apple Batter-Peel
six tart baking apples; core them and
fill cavities with sugar, put them on 8
pie dish and cover them with light
batter. Bake until the apples ars
tender. Serve hot with cream and
sugar. Lemon Rice-One cup of rice
boiled soft in water; beat together the
yolks of three eggs and one cup Of
white sugar; mix with the rice, anc
add one quart of milk and the grated
rind of one lemon, and bake. Wher
done, beat the whites of three eggs with
one-half cup of sugar and the Juice ol
the lemon. Put this over the pudding
and set back to brown. This PUDDING
is very nice. Cup Plum-Take one cuI
each of raisins, currants, flour, breac
crumbs, suet, and sugar; stone and GU
the ralsins, wash and dry the currants
chop the suet, and mix all the above
ingredients well together; then add
two ounces of cut candied peel and
citron, little mixed spice, salt, AND
ginger, say half teaspoonful of each
stir in four well-beaten eggs, and mill
enough to make the mixture SO that tn,
spoon will stand upright in it; tie i
loosely in a cloth or put it in mould
plunge it into boiling water and boi
for three and half hours Rice-Takt
small teacupful of rice and sugar each
half teacupof raisins, two quarts O
sweet skim milk, and little salt. Bak'
slowly from two three hours. Cheese
Melt half an ounce of fresh butter in
saucepan, stir into it a tablespoonful o
-four; when the two are well amalga
mated, put in small quantity of mill
and about three ounces of grated Par
mesan cheese. Stir the mixture on
slow fire till it assumes the appearance
of thick cream, but be careful not t
let it boil then add some white pepper
mix thoroughly, and if required, littl
salt; keep on stirring the mixture at
very moderate heat for about ten min
utes; take the saucepan off the fire, ant
stir the contents occasionally unit
quite cold: then stir into it the yolk
of three eggs beaten up with littl
milk and strained, and finally the white
of five eggs whisked into a stiff froth
Put the mixture into pudding dish
and put into the oven at once. Serv
quickly as soon as the pudding is rise
and the top is well Drowned.