Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-03-18
RECIPES.

BROILED POTATOEs.-Parboil large
potatoes, peel and cut them into thick
slices. Broil the slices on a gridiron,
over n clear fire, until Drowned on both
sides. Serve on q hot dish, with pep
per, salt and butter.
LIVER FRIED AS CUTLETs.-One egg
to one pound OF liver; have the liver cut
thin; scald wipe dry with a towel; beat
up the egg; dip the liver in the egg,
then into powdered cracker; fry brown.
This is very nice; serve with tomatoes,
If preferred.
PIE CRUsT.-Three-fourths cup of
lard, well pressed down, to every two
cups flour, half teaspoonful salt, only
water enough to hold the ingredients
together. This makes enough for one
medium-sized pie. Mix quickly and
don't knead. Wetting the crusts with
beaten egg, before putting in the pie
mixture, prevents the crust from soak
ing.
ORANGE PUpDING.-Two oranges,
peeled and cut up fine, removing the
seeds. Sprinkle with plenty of sugar
and let stand awhile. Beat up two
eggs light, and stir into one pint of rich
milk, well sweetened, a pinch of salt,
and heat scalding hot. Then add one
and a half t~easpoonfuls of corn starch,
moistened with cold milk. Stir until
like thick cream, and when cold pour
over the oranges.
PARKER HOUSE RoLLs.-Scald one
quart of rich milk and set n sponge
with Yeast, adding salt and a lump OF
butter the size of an egg; do this right
after breakfast when light make a soft
dough and let it rise again and roll out
about an inch thick; cut into large
round pieces; lay little bits of butter on
one side of each, then fold over the
other side rs for ordinary rolls; let them
rise again and bake a light brown for
tea.
CoCoANUT CoNEs.-0ne pound pow
dered sugar, one-half do of grated CO.
coanut, and the whites of five eggs
whip the eggs as for icing, adding the
sugar as you go on, until it will stand
alone, then beat in the cocoanut; mold
mixture with your hands into small
cones, and set these far enough apart
not to touch each other upon buttered
paper in a baking-pan bake in a very
moderate oven.
DOSION DItOnN W. cups
of Graham flour, two cups of corn-meal,
one cup of New Orleans molasses, three
cups OF milk, one %teaspoonful of soda,
two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar (souI
milk is best, and if it is used you need
no cream-tartar). Steam five hours and
bake half an hour. Keep closely covered
while steaming and the water boiling al
the time. This makes a loaf large enough
for ten persons.
BEEFsTEAK STEwED WITHOUT WA
TER.-Get three or four pounds of RUM
steak, cut about an inch thick; put al
ounce of butter in a f~rying-pan large
enough to hold your steak, and let the
butter melt without browning; wash the
steak quickly in cold water and put it il
the frying-pan, covering closely. A,
soon as it is Thoroughly heated, season
with a teaspoonful of salt and a salt
spoonful of white pepper; then push thu
pan back on the stove where it will sim
mer-not bookkeeping it covered al
the time and a weight on the cover. |
will be found to be cooked and perfect,
tender in an hour and a half. Put on
hot dish, and add half a teacupful of to
mato or two tablespoonful of walnu
catsup to the gravy in the pan, and pou
1t over the steak.