The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-18
HOUSE AND FARM.
Late Cooking Reel mes !;

VEGETABLE SoUP.-Put heaped table,
| spoonful of butter and two sliced onions
into your dinner pot. Stir frequently till
Drowned. Add half a gallon OF water, or
more, according to the size of your family
and quantity Of vegetables. Cut finely Po-
tatoes, tomatoes and carrots, if you have
| them, and add with some rice. Boil till
the vegetables are done.
ONE WAY WITH TOMATOES of
the incest and simplest ways of dressing
tomatoes is to cut them In half. lay them
in baking dish, cover each piece with
some bread crumbs, little pepper and
salt, and some finely chopped parsley, pour
little oil over and bake in good oven.
COMMON TOMATO SAU0E.-Cut up some
ripe or preserved tomatoes in halves, place
them in stew pot, with few strips of
lean ham, some sliced onions, thyme, lau-
them half an hour over slow fire; then
add two or three spoonfuls of beef liquor,
and boil. Afterward pass through a sieve,
add little butter and serve up.
GINGER BEER.-Boil six ounces of
| bruised ginger in three quarts of water for
half an hour; then add FIVE pounds of loaf
sugar, gill of lemon juice, quarter pound
of honey, and seventeen quarts more of
water, and strain it through cloth. When
it IS cold put in the whole Of an egg, and
two drachms of essence of lemon. After
standing three or four days it may be bot
tied.
TOMATOES Az GRATIN.-Cut half a
dozen tomatoes in halves, aud fill the in
side with mixture of bread crumbs,
grated Parmesan cheese, pepper and salt,
| in due proportions; place small piece of
butter on each half tomato and lay them
close together in a well-buttered tin.
Bake in a slow oven about half an hour
and serve.
WHEAT MUFFINs.-One teaspoonful
melted butter, one egg, one and half cups
flour, one teaspoontul cream tartar, half
teaspoon soda, half cup sweet milk.
Bake quickly in muffin pans.
RICE MUFF1Ns.-Boils soft and dry one
half cup rice, stir in three spoonfulls
sugar, piece of butter size of an egg, and a
little salt, one pint Of sweet milk, one cup
yeast, two quarts of flour. Let it rise all
night. If sourin the morning, add little
rings.
BAKED SPONGE PUDD1NG.-Three eggs,
their weight each in butter, sugar aud flour,
beat the eggs very light, and the butter
beaten to a cream, and sugar and flour;
half full. and bake in moderate oven ten
minutes. Wine sauce.
CHOCOLATE CAKE Two cups sugar, one
cup butter, three and one-half cups -four,
five eggs, one teaspoon cream tarter, half
teaspoon soda; leave out the whites Of two
eggs for the frosting. Make this Of the
whites with one and one half cups sugar,
aud six large spoonfuls grated chocolate.
Spread it on while the cake is hot.
POUND CAKE.-Here is receipt for
pound cake which possesses the merit of
being in exact proportion, without the
trouble of weighing: One teacup Of butter,
one cotfeecup of sugar, one cup and a half
of -four, five large eggs, or six small ones.
one cup of stoned raislns, one teaspoonful
of mace. Beat the butter and sugar to a
cream, scatter the -four over the raisins
and put them in layer, with two thirds of
the cake dough under, and the other third
over them. 1t is always safe to put paper in
the bottom of your tin for cake that has
raisins in it, as it requires longer time to
bake than one without.