River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-01
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
RYE BREAKFAST CAKEs.-Two cups of
teaspoonful of soda, and little salt.
Bake at once in gem pans.
LEMON BUTTER FOR TARTs. Lemon
butter is excellent for tarts 1t is made
as follows: One pound pulverized
white sugar, whites of six eggs and
yolks of two, three lemons, including
grated rind and juice. Cook twenty
minutes over a slow fire, stirring all the
while.
PARSLEY SAUCE.-Wash a bunch of
parsley in cold water, then boil it for
six or seven minutes in salt and water;
drain it, cut the leaves from the stalk
and chop them fine. Have ready some
melted butter and stir in the parsley;
allow two small tahlespoonfuls of
leaves to one-half pint of butter. Serve
with fish and with boiled fowls.
BAKED APPLE PUDDING.-Six apples
well stewed, quarter of a pound of but
ter, half of it stirred into the apples
while hot; add sugar to taste; when
cold add SIX eggs well beaten to the
apples. Pound and sift six crackers,
butter your dish and put N layer of
cracker and layer of the prepared
apple, and thus until you have filed
your dish; let the cracker be the upper
layer anu nut the remainder of your
butter in 81 Ill bits upon it. Bake half
an hour.
APPLE DuMPLING.-Pare and core
fine, juicy apples that will cook quick
ly; then take light bread dough, cut in
to round pieces half an inch thick and
fold round each apple until well cover
ed. Put them into steamer, let them
fise, then set the steamer over a pot of
boiling water, and steam until done.
Try them with fork. Eat with cream
and sugar, or maple syrup. The latter
is very nice.
DELICIOUS MUFTTNs.-.rake two cups
of flour and work into it thoroughly two
teaspoonfuls of baking powder; wet the
-four with milk until it is about the
consistency of pancake batter; then
add three well beaten eggs the last
thing; mix we'll and drop quickly into
muffin rings, well buttered, and bake
in quick, hot oven.
| BREAD AND BUTTER PuDDING.-Stone
| quarter of pound of raisins; wash
and pick six ounces of currants; shred
two ounces of citron, and mix all to-
gether; cut half loaf Of stale bread in
thin slices and butter on both sides;
line baking dish with the buttered
bread and sprinkle thickly with the
| fruit; put an alternate layer of bread
and fruit till all is used, letting the
bread be last; make custard of four
eggs, a quart of milk, and six table
spoonfuls of sugar, and pour over your
bread and fruit; bake half an hour;
serve hot in the dish it is baked in.
NUT CAKE.-Half a pound of sugar,
five ounces of butter, creamed together,
four eggs beaten in one at a time; a tea
cupful of cold water, three quarters of
pound of flour, two teaspoonfulsf
baking powder sifted in the -four, and a
small pinch of salt; last of all, two
the utmost care must be taken not to
leave in any shells, or broken tooth
may be the consequence; bake In a
quick oven in small pans.
APPLE FRIrrERs. -These make q
cheap and delicate dessert Prepare q
batter as for griddle cakes; that is, a thin
batter made of flour and sweet milk
and baking powder, or flour, sour milk
and soda; then stir in apples which you
have chopped fine. the quantity de-
pending on your taste; fry them rs you
would griddle cakes, and serve with a
syrup made of melted white sugar. II
you wish, you may make them in pat
ty-pans instead cf Tying them.
DATE PUDDING.-Six ounces Of suet
chopped find, six ounces of bread
crumbs, six ounces of sugar, three eggs,
two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one
wineglass half full of brandy, one halt
or three quarters of pound Of
stoned dates; beat the sugar and eggs
together, then stir in the other ingred-
tents; steam for two hours. Serve with
sauce made in this way: The yolks OF
three eggs, pulverize sugar to thicken
them, little wine, the whites of three
eggs beaten to stiff froth and stirred
in last. If you have no conveniences
for weighing, measure the suet, bread
and sugar, putting in equal quantities
of each.
PUMPKIN PIE.-Stew the pumpkin
the day before you wish to bake pies
cook till very soft, so that you can rub
it through sieve; take three eggs to
two pies if eggs are not plenty; if they
are, put two in each pie, large cup o.
stewed pumpkin into one pie, milk
, enough to thin it sufficiently, that is. tc
J make it like custard; season with gin
ger, molasses and brown sugar; if you
choose bake till a brown crust forms
over the top.