The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
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HARRISON PUDDING. -Four cups -four.
two-thirds cup melted butter, one cup
molasses, one cup raisins. one cup milk.
one teaspoonful soda Steam three hours;
eat with hard sauce.
LEMON HoNEYcoMB. --Sweeten the Juice
of a lemon to taste, and put 1t into the
dish it is to be served in. Mix white of
an egg, beaten with pint of rich cream
and little sugar. Whisk it, and as the
froth rises put it on the lemon juice.
Do it the day before it is to be used.
TOMATO ToAsr.-Run a quart of stewed
ripe tomatoes through colander, place
In porcelain stew pan, season with but
ter, pepper and salt to taste cut slices
of bread thin, brown on both sides, but
ter and lay on platter, and when ready
TO serve add pint of good sweet cream
to the stewed tomatoes and pour over
the toast.
TOMATO SoUP.-TO one quart of water
add eight large tomatoes, cut them In
small pieces. boil for twenty minutes.
then put in a half teaspoonful of soda,
let it boil few minutes more, then add
about a pint of sweet milk; season as
you would oysters bread crumbs, sage,
barley or rice may be added. A can OF
son.
KENTUCKY POTATOES. Slice the pota
toes thin, as Tor frying, and allow them
| To remain in cold water for half an hour,
/ then put the slices into a pudding dish,
I with salt, pepper and some milk-about
/ half pint TO an ordinary pudding dish.
/ Put into oven and bake an hour. Take
/ out and cut q lump of butter the size of
/ hens egg into small bits and scatter
over the top.
PUMPKIN PIE.-For one pie, take a
/ generous half pint of rich milk and
heaping tablespoonful of pumpkin. One
! egg beaten separately. Half teaspoonful
-four. Sugar to suit taste, ginger, nut
I meg, cinnamon, Just a suspicion OF each
Reat all we'll together, adding the whip
ped white of egg last, which should
be stirred in quickly but thoroughly
Bake fifteen or twenty minutes In brisk
oven.
H1cKoRY-NUr CAKE.-Take two coffee
cups of granulated sugar, beat to a
cream, with three-quarters of a cup of
butter, the yolks of five eggs, almond fla
voring, little salt, half a cup of cream,
and two teaspoonfuls of yeast powder
put into three cups of flour. The batter
should be very stiff when mixed and
then add a pint of blanched hickory-nut
meats, split, and lastly, the beaten whites
of the eggs Bake two hours.
WH1rE MoUNTAIx ASH CAKE.-One
One pound white sugar. one teacup OF
butter, half cup sweet milk, the well
beaten whites of ten eggs added last,
one-half teaspoonful soda, one teaspoon
full of cream of tartar, three cups flour
flavor with almond; bake on Jelly cake
tins, with icing between. For icing use
One pound white sugar and the we'll
beaten whites of three eggs. The flavor
of a grated cocoanut is also very nice
in It.
Corn BREAD.-One pint of butter
milk, one pint corn meal, one teaspoon
fll each OF sugar and soda, one table
spoonful stewed pumpkin. Dissolve soda
in buttermilk; make the lard hot, and
stir in last This makes a common
sized round pie-pan full, and requires
half an hour to bake in rather hot oven.
Don't omit the pumpkin; for as Zone of
the family" facetiously quotes-"corn
bread with the pumpkin left out Is
Hamlet without the ghost
MUFFNs. Take two eggs, separate
the whites from the yolks. beat both
very Lightly, add two cups OF buttermilk
to the yolks and stir in sufficient sifted
blespoonfuls Of boiling hot lard, one-hali
teaspOonfui soda dissolved in a table
spoonful Of warm water and little salt.
Make ready tue tins, grease them well,
but be careful that they are not hot
enough to smoke when creased; next
stir in one half teacup of sweet milk, one
half teaspoonful baking powder, mixed
in a tablespoonful of Hour, and lastly the
whites of the eggs. Bake in a quick
oven.
BREAKFAST ToAsr.-Gut slices of a
uniform thickness, of half an inch; move
around over brisk fire, to have all parts
toasted alike; keep only SO near the Goals
that the pieces will be heated through
when both sides are well Drowned. II
the slightest points blackened or charred
scrape 1t off, or it viii spoil the flavor Of
the whole. If covered with an earther
bowl it will keep both warm and moist.
4 clean towel or napkin viii answer if il
is to go at once to the table. Stale bread
may be used for milk toast; sour bread
may be improved by toasting it-through
but sweet, light bread, only day old OF
less, makes the best toast.
MUrroN Outlets, TOMATO SAUCE. =
Take half a can of tomatoes (selectips
the most solid part) and stew them
twenty minutes with little parsley, two
cloves, pepper and salt Put teaspoon
full of butter In clean saucepan over the
fire, and when it reaches the bubbline
point add large teaspoonful of -four
Mix this smoothly, and when thoroughly
cooked add the tomato. which must frs
have been passed through a sieve; stil
the sauce well. Broil quickly over ho
fire half dozen trimmed mutton outlets
arrange them on a hot platter and poul
the tomato sauce around them. Thii
dish should be served smoking hot to b'
good. .