Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-11-17
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Simple Dessert Put eight crack
trs into deep dish and pour on
enough boiling water to cover. Let
them stand till soaked. and then CRATE
over them nutmeg and white sugar,
with sweet cream enough to make a
nice sauce.
Oyster Pie.--Lipe deep dish with
puf paste, drcdge the crust with flour.
pour in the oysters. season well with
bits af butter. salt and pepper, and
the oyster liquor and cover with crust
having an opening in the center TO al
low the steam TO escape. One pint OF
oysters VIII make this pie.
Apple butter is made By boiling sliced
apples, first pared and cored. in sweet
cider. ! he cideris boiled down to about
onc-kalf is bulk before the apples are
stewed in il. The butter is packed in
kegs. jars, or bottles, and will keep a
long time. i large quantity is made
for use on sea-going vessels. ANY kind
o! Aavoring spice may be used. but no
sugar is required.
snow Cake. -Four cupiuls of fine
white sugar. and heaping cupful of
smooth. Whie beating. add gradually
two-thirds Of cup.ul OF milk. and then
add the whites of twelve eggs beaten to
a good foam. Sift three cupfuls oil
flour. cup thirds full Of corn
starch, and two tcaspooniuls of baking
powder together. aud stir in gradually.
Mustard piekle.-Onc ounce each
of cloves. ailspice, black pepper and
tumerie. one pound mustard, one gal
Ion vinegar, of which reserve one quart
To mix with the musiasd. Put the spice
in thin cloth and boil in the vinegar,
then take out the spice and stir the
turmeric and mustard smoothly into the
boiling vinegar. Pour this on the
pickles. Bottle and cork tightly.
An instructive experiment is that
reported of farmer who plowed in a
quantity OF cornstalks on an acre of
land, and burned an equal quantity on
another acre. Both acres being plant
ed with corn. the burned one gave the
best start. but the acre of the plowed-
in stalks eventually caught up, ran
past, and completed the best crop. Re-
suits would vary with light or heavy
soils, but would doubtless show most
profit on the same side in all.
Pop OverS.-Make a batter with
two cups of sifted -four. two eggs, two
caps of milk and Il little salt Beat the
eggs to a foam and the batter like sixty;
den't use any baking powder or any
thing else 10 make il light; the beating
is 10 do that. Have the muffin tins
well battered and piping hot, put
in the batter as quickly rs possible
and bake in a very hot oven. They
VIII puff up most astonishingly and be
as light rs n feather if they are well
made and baked.
Fried Steak and Onions-Melt
lump OF butter in frying pan; cover the
bottom OF the pan with onions sliced
very thin; then lay the steak over them;
when the onions are fried until they
are tender. put the beef on the bottom
Of the pan and cover il with the onions;
add butter or lard as you need If. Liver
cooked in this way is nice also. When
il is done Law 1t on platter and heap
the orions an the meat. A very little
gravy made in the pan in which You
have cooked the meat and onions is an
addition, but make only little and turn
over the meat seasoning il well with
salt and pepper.
Potato Soup.-Take slice Of half
fat picked peck four inches square.
and without freshening fry it crisp in
the kettle in which the soup is to be
made. II one dislikes pork. three
tabiespoonfuls OF slightly Drowned but
ter will answer the same purpose.
Then add three pints of boiling water
and one and a haifpints of sliced potato
and half dozen sliced onions. Boil
thirty minutes; season with salt and
pepper 10 suit the taste. and add some
pieces of toast or some bread and crack
er crumbs. II one desires the soup
clear il can be strained and the veg
etables removed. although think it no