Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-04-20
HOUSE AND FARM.
Cooking the Goodies.

Delicious fruit candy Is made from, this
recipe: Get one cocoanut, one and one
half pounds Of granulated sugar, wet the
sugar with the milk Of the cocoanut nut il
in saucepan, let it heat slowly, then boil
rapidly for five minutes, add the cocoanut
grated very fine, boil for ten minutes. stir
ring constantly. Try it on a cold plate; II
it form firm aste when cold, take It fr m
the fire. Pour part of it out on large tin,
lined with butter To the remaining cream
add one. quarter Of pound Of raisins,
stoned and chopped, half pound of
blanched almonds, one pint OF pecans, half
a cup of chopped walnuts. Beat all well
together, then pour 1t over the other in the
tin, and when cold cut in bars or squares.
TIME TABLE FOR COOKING BREAD.
CAKES, ETC. --Bread-large loaves take one
hour; small loavee from half to three. quar-
ters OF an hour. Biscuit and rolls from if
teen to twenty minutes. Brown breaF
steamed about three hours. Loaves of
sponge cake, bake about forty five minutes;
If thin, about thirty. I,oaves OF richer cake.
from forty five minutes to an hour. Fruit
pound loaves. Small. thin cakes and cook
les, from ten to fifteen minutes: watch
carefully. Baked puddipgs. rice, etc., oae
hour. Boiled buildings, three hours. Gus.
tards to be watched and tested after the
irst fifteen minutes. Baked buildings,
about forty.fve minutes. Pie crust about
half an hour.
ORANGE PUDDING OR CUsTARD makes
a dainty dessert; cut Ave or six oranges in
small pieces, place them in q pudding dish,
ana sprinkle one coffee-cup Of sugar over
them. make boiled custard Of one pint Of
milk, the yolk of three eggs, half cup OF
sugar, aad one teaspoonful Of corr. staroh !;
pour this over the oranges after the sugar
has dissolved; make meringue of the
whites of the eggs with three teaspoonfals
of powdered sugar beaten in; put this over
the custard, and set in the oven to brown.
If the oranges are very sweet, less sugar
can be used.
CORN CHowDRR.- Cut half pound OF
salt pork i'll little pieces not more than an
inch square; slice four onions very thin, as
if you were to fry them; boil the pork and
onions for twenty minutes in two quarts of
water; cut six medium sized potatoes in
rather thick slices so they will keep their
| shape; add them to the soup and boil ten
minutes meanwhile scald one quart of
| milk: after tie potatoes have boiled, ada
one quart can of corn, and lastly the milk,
| and let all come to boil; cover the bot
tom Of the soup dish with buttered crack
| ers, and pour the soup over them. .
Eco BALLs.-To be served IN soup make
| a welcome addition to plain beef or NUT
| ton soup; boil four eggs hard, say for ten
| minutes, then put them in cold ter;when
! cold, cut the yolk soft with the yolk of one
raw egg, one teaspoonful of flour; add pep
| per and salt and some bits of parsley.
Make in the shape of balls and drop then,
| in the soup; let them boil for about two
minutes. The whites can be used to gar
uish platter of cold meat for supper, or
may be chopped fine or be added to the
soup.
! Mock FRIED OYSTERS. Are made OF
one bunch Of satisfy or oyster plant, two
eggs, half cup sweet milk, and -four
enough to make thin batter; wash and
scrape the vegetable, then CRATE 1t in the
batter, drop a spoonful OF time In hot
lard, and fry until brown; and dry. Mock
stewed oysters are made of satisfy also
It shoald first be boiled for few minutes
in weak vinegar and water; then cook until
tender in clear water, and lastly put them
in the milk and stew in the us ual way.
A GOOD WAY TO PLANT FLOWER
SEEDs-Which you wish to take particu
larly good care of is to take turnip, cut il
IN halves, scrape out the SHE'LL then fill with
earth and plant in the seed; when the time
comes to put the winter plants out doors
dig hole in the flower bed large enough
to set the turrip init will rot in q shor
time-and your plants will thrive by MOI
having the tender roots disturbed.