The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-04-20
II. HOUSE AND FARM.
Cooking the Goodies.


Delicious fruit candy is made from this
recipe: Get one eocoanut. one and one
half pounds Of granulated sugar, wet the
sugar with the milk Of the cocoanut, put it
in a 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 cold plate; il
it form firm aste when cold, take it # m
the fire. Pour part of it out on large tin,
lined with butter. 10 the remaining cream
add one.quarter of pound of raisins.
stoned aud chopped, half a pound of
hlanched almonds, one pint Of pecans. half
cup of chopped walnuts. Beat all we'll
together, then pour it over the other in tho
tin, and when cold cut in bars or squares.
TINE TABLE FOR COOKING BREAD,
CAKES, ETC. ---Bread-large loaves take ono
hour; small loavee from half to three quar-
ters of an hour. Biscuit and rolls from IT.
teen to twenty minutes. Brown brea!,
steamed about three hours. Loaves OF
sponge cake, bake about forty. Ave minutes;
II thin, about thirty. Loaves OF richer cake.
from forty five minutes to an hour. Fruit
cake about two hours, If in two or three
pound loaves. Small. thin cakes and cook
carefully. Baked puddipgs, rice, etc., one
hour. Boiled buildings, three hours. Gus.
tards to be watched and tested after the
6rst fifteen minutes. Baked puddings,
about forty five 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 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 Q cup OF
sugar, aad one teaspoonful Of corn starch;
pour this over the oranges after the sugar
has dissolved; make meringue Of the
whites of the eggs with three teaspoonfuls
of powdered sugar beaten in; put this over
the ccstard, and set in the oven to brown.
1t the oranges are very sweet, less sugar
can be used.
CORN CHowDER.- Cut half a pound of
salt pork in little pieces not more than an
inch square; slice four onions very thin, as
if you were to fry them; boil the pork and
onlons 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
milky; after tie potatoes have boiled, ada
one quart can Of corn, and lastly the milk,
and let all come to boil; cover the bot
SO4A VI VIC 6Oup uAoA Will Outto1o\A CAoOn"
ers, and pour the soup over them.
EGG 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 water when
cold. cut the yolk soft with the yolk of one
raw egg, one teaspoonful of flour; add pep-
per and salt aud some bits of parsley
Make in the shape Of balls and drop them
in the soup; let them boil for about two
Dish platter Of cold meat for supper, or
may be chopped fine or he added to the
soup.
Mock FRIED OYsTERs.-Are made of
one bunch Of satisfy or oyster plant, two
eggs, half cup sweet milk, and fou'
enough to make thin batter; wash and
scrape the vegetable, then CRATE it in the
batter, drop q spoonful at a time in hot
lard, and fry until brown; and dry. Mock
stewed oysters are made Of satisfy also
1t should first be boiled fora 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.
lally good care of is to take a turnip, cut it
in halves, scrape out the she'll. then fill with
earth and plant in the seed; when the time
comes 70 put the winter plants out doors,
dig a hole in the flower bed large enough
to set the turnip init will rot in a short
time-and your plants will thrive by not
having the tender roots disturbed.