The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-01-03
T)of, stic Receipts.

All the Year Round Padding. Limo
a pie-dish with paste, spread on three
ounces of any kind of JIM. Raspberry
is the .best1, then beat well in a basin
the following: Three ounces of bread
crumbs. the same of sugar and butter,
the rind and juice of half large lemon;
add this to the pastry and jam. and
bake half an hour.
Apple Preserve. Take some pleasant
sour apples, pare them, take the core
out Mt the bottom, and leave the stem
in; make a syrup of white sugar and
water to half cover the apples; bake or
boil them till they are just done through.
Serve them up whole, with loaf sugar
and cream.
Beefsteak and Oyster Pie.-Beat the
steak gently with rolling-pin, and
season with pepper and salt. Rave
ready deep dish lined with not too
rich pastry. Put in the meat with
layers of oysters; then the oyster liquor
with a little mace and a teaspoonful OF
catsup; cover with top crust, and bake.
Veal will do as well as beef.
Scalloped Oysters.-Crush and roll
several handfuls of Boston Ecrackers;
put layer in the bottom of a buttered
pudding dish. Wet this with 8 mixture
of the oyster liquor and milk slightly
warmed. Next a layer of oysters
sprinkled with salt, pepper, and small
bits of butter; then another layer of the
moistened crumbs; then layer of
oysters, and SO on till the dish is full.
Let the top layer be of crumbs, and
beat an egg into the milk which you
pour over them. Stick bits of butter
thickly over it, and bake half an hour
Best New England johnny Cake
Take one quart of buttermilk. one tea
cupful of flour. two-thirds of teacup-
full of nlolasses, little salt. one tea
spoonful of saleratus, one eqg (beaten,
of course). Then stir in Indian-meaI;
but be sure anu not put in too much.
Leave il thin-so thin that it will
almost run. Bake in n tin in any oven,
and toleraby quick, If it is not first
rate and light, it will be because you
make it too thick with Indian meal.
Some people prefer it without the mo-
laSses,
Old-fashioned Apple Jelly.-Take
twenty large, juicy apples, pare and
chop; put into jar with the rind
yellow part) of four large lemons,
pared thin and cut in bits; cover the
jar closely and set in Il pot of boiling
water; keep water boiling hard all
around IL until the apples are GisSolVeu;
strain through jelly bag and mix with
the liquid the juice of the four lemons;
to one pint of the mixed juice one
pound of sugar; put in kettle, and
when sugar is melted set it on the fire,
and boil and skim about twenty min
utes, or until it is thick fine Jelly.
Old-fashioned Baked Apples. |
juicy apples, pare and core whole; use a
large corer Put side by side in
baking-pan and fill up centres with |
brown sugar. pour into each a little
lemon-juice, aud stick in each long |
piece of lemon evenly cut; put enough |
water in the lotion of the pan to pre-
vent the apples from burning, and bake |
gently until done.
To Remove Coffee or Milk Stains
The If2dustrle BEafter recommends
the use of glycerine for this purpose.
The silk, woollen or fabric is painted over
with glycerine. then washed with
clean linen rag dipped III lnlewarm
rain water, until clean. It is aflerward
pressed on the wrong side with mod
erately warm iron as long as it seems
damp. The most delicate colors are
unaffected by this treatment.