The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-02-11
THINGS TO MAKE A NOTE OF.

BREAD PUDDINGS.-Pour one pint of boiling
milk over halfpint of fine bread crumbs, add to
these three eggs well-beaten the rind of half
lemon grated, and sugar to taste; butter some
small moulds and pour in the mixture Bake
until light brown, turn them out on dish, and
sprinkle white sugar over them. Serve with
treacle or jam.
TURKEY DRESSED WITH OYsTERs.-For a
ten-pound turkey take two pints of bread crumbs,
half teacup of butter in bits mot melted), one
teaspoonful of powdered thyme or summer
savory, pepper, salt, and mix thoroughly. Rub
the turkey well inside and out with salt and
pepper, then fill with first a spoonful of crumbs
then a few we'll drained oysters; strain the
oyster liquor and use to basic the turkey. Cook
the giblets in pan, and chop fine for gravy. A
fowl of this size will require three hours in
moderate oven.
LADY CAKE-Beat half pound of butter and
one pound of pulverized sugar to a cream.
Flavor with four ounces of bitter almonds,
blanched and rubbed to a paste in a mortar.
Whisk the whites of seventeen eggs until they
stand alone and add them to the butter and sugar
a spoonful at time. Sift in very slowly one
pound and a quarter of -four and the last thing
stir in teaspOonful of soda dissolved in half a
teacupful of rose water Bake Immediately in a
moderate oven and ice the cake when it is cold.
GINGER LOAF CAKE.-Beat to a cream one cup
of sugar and one cup of butter, add one cup of
moasses, one tablespoonful of ground ginger,
three eggs that have been well beaten, and three
cups of sifted flour with pinch of salt. Dis
solve teaspoonful of soda in boiling water and
add to the mixture the last thing before baking.
Bake slowly about an hour.
TAPIoCA PUDDING.-Wash a cup of tapioca,
and let it soak in bowl over ight The next
morning pare and quarter five mellow apples
and put them in pudding dish, add sugar to
taste to the tapioca and pour it over the apples.
Flavor with vanilla, or, if preferred, CRATE nut
meg over the top. As tapioca atsOrbs much
water fill the baking dish nearly full of cold
water and bake slowly until it is clear and the
apples are tender. Serve cold with cream.
FLOATING IsLAND-Beat the whites of four
eggs in bowl until they stand alone, then beat
in a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and currant
jelly teaspoonful at a time until the whole is
of delicate pink. Beat all very hard for half an
hour or until it is smooth and will drop from the
spoon. Serve in glass bowl surrounded with
custard made as follows: Boil one pint of new
milk and pour it over the yolks of four eggs that
have been well beaten. Return it to the kettle,
and stir it over the fire until it thiekens taking
care that it does not curdle or scOrch. When 1t
is cold add sugar and vanilla to taste
CRoQUETTEs.-Roasto one chicken or If 1t Is
tough boil it until tender. When cold chop the
meat very fine; also slice of cold ham. Put
both into saucepan with tablespoonful OF but
ter, ditto of -four, and a gill of cream. Season
with salt, cayenne pepper, and chopped pa
Cook about three minutes, and when 1t Is COOL
add two we'll beaten eggs and let 1T come 10
boil again. When quite cold form 1t INTO GRO
QUOTES of any shape desired. Dip eacn one nrst
into beaten egg and then IN rolled ciacAer un'n
well coated Fry in butter dehcate oro"h' or
butter and lard mixed if the lard Is very sweet
MrEE1Ns.-Beat one teacup OF butter and one
teacnn of sugar to stiff cream; beat four eggs
r.rv l;obt (yolks and whites separately then beat
+hor, into the sugar and butter till quite light.
n sour quarts of flour put Tablespoonful of
calf pour into the -four cup of good yeast, or as
much as you take for four quarts of flour, then
stir in the sugar. butter and eggs, with two quarts
of sweet milk let it rise over night, and bake in
well-buttered muffin rings in the morning II
wanted for tea, set to rise in the morning This
recipe makes large quantity of mullins, and
may be divided easily, making one-half or one
fourth the quantity as desired.