Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1881-09-01
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/ Canning 1omatoes.-M Many persons who
are quite successful in canning fruits gener.
ally, are apt to fail with the tomato a
iady writer in Purdy's Fuit Recorder, giyes
the following interesting account of how
she succeeds:
we have ten acres OF fruit OF all kinds.
ana take great deal of pride in canning
Iruit. get nearly all the prizes at tile fairs.
wish you could Just peep into nv cellar,
to see my tomatoes and peaches, some can
ned last fall and some a year ago, not men,
t'onlhg my other fruit. | will tell YOU how
can my tomatoes, both red and yellow. r
pick the apple tomatoes-the smoothest and
| oesC shaped--and scald and skin them yerv
carefully; take the stem out with pen-
| knife, taking care not to cut the tomato 81,
us to let the juice or seeds run out; then i
place them in the cans, some of them with
''le stem end next to the can, and son,s
WIN tle blossom ends; then I take the
JUICE eliat mas run out Of what have peeled
70 cook' having no seeds or pulp, and add
little salt, and pour it on my whole to,na.
toes until nearly full then place them in a
kettle OF cola water and let them cook till
th'nk they are hot clear through: then r
seal them. use nothing but glass two
quart ]ars-and after the cover has been on
ABOUT five minutes take it off 50 thew vii,
settle, letting the gas ont; then | fill nm
with juice and seal again, and nv cans are
always ioll to the cover. A great many
nave not learned this. You haye no idea
now nice they look through The glass: they
snow every vein and rib and look as if thew
were put up raw, and when used thew are
just as if they had been taken from the
vlnes--and if you don't believe me trv II
this summer. ! always keep my fruit in
the dark, and it don't fade though the glass.
Boiled Icing.-Mix two tablespoonful Of
cold water with cup of granulated sugar
ana boil until it ropes. Take off and stir
IN the white of one beaten egg, and flavor
with lemon juice or tartaric acid.
Sugar Coohies.-Two cups sugar, one Gun
butter, one-half. cup of milk, one egg, one
teaspoonful baking powder. Make stiff
enough with flour to roll out. Sprinkle sn-
gar on the board and roll the dough in it
quite thin. Cut into cakes aud bake in a
quick oven.
icing Without Eggs.-Soak teaspoonful
OF Cox's gelatin in tablespoonful of cold
water Tor an hour; then add tablespoon
1ul OF boiling water and set over the teaket-
Tie until 1t melts, after which stir IN a cunu
1ul OF sugar and let it come to BOIL Take
IL Immediately frem the fire and stir it un.
III Whlte, when it must be spread on the
cake as soon as possible. 1t is best that the
cake should be freshly baked and not COM
pletely cold.
Va7e Sauce.-Stir together to cream
equal quantities of fresh butter and now
lered sugar When quite light add part of
grated nutmeg or cinnamon, as YOU pre-
er, after which put in a pint of MADEIRA
Nine This sauce is quite as good with the
ulce OF lemon and one orange mixed, as
for the wine, but then it would
lot be wine sauce.
apple d1e'7ngae.--To quart of sifted an
'ie-sauce add the yolks of three eggs, butter
he size of small egg, little nutmeg. y
'ihch OF salt and sugar to taste. Put the
MIXTURE into neat baking dish and cook
'htl light brown on top. Cover with
heflhgue made with the three whites of the
gss Beaten with three tablespoonfuls of
'o"aered sugar and a little lemon juice UNI
II stun. Sitt powdered sugar over the top,
eturn to the oven long enough to color
eiicately and serve cold with sweetened
nd favored cream.
Fssh.-Most kinds of fish are better hro;,-
"a; but Goldfish is better boiled, and had
lock in chowder.