The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-28


raisins and currants if you choose. To
be eaten with sauce.
Roly-poly Pudding.-To one cup of
beef shaved or shred fine, add one cup
of boiling water, salt-spoon of salt, set
on the stove and keep boiling moment,
then pour the mixture Immediately in
the -four, roll as thick as for cooking,
sprinkle the surface with Zante currants
or other fruit if desired, roll up the
pudding, tie securely in cloth, and boil
one hour. Eat with sweet sauce.
Bakers Sponge Gingerbread.--Two-
thirds cup of lard upon which pour one
half cup of boiling water, add one table,
spoonful of ginger and one teaspoonful
of soda to one cup of molasses, pour the
boiling water and lard into these, and
stir in -four to form batter.
Sugar Cookies. One cup of butter
and lard mixed, one cup of sour cream,
one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful o
soda, nutmeg and cinnamon.
Steamed Rice.--Add one pint of water
to one cup of rice which has been thor
oughly cleaned, put in tin pail, and set
in a kettle of boiling water, and boil two
hours. This is far preferable to rice
plain boiled.
Cheap Cake.-One-half cup of pork
drippings, one cup of sugar, one cup of
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, one half teaspoonful of soda, and
one teaspoonful of all kinds of spice.
Cream Sponge Cake.-Two eggs. one
cup of sugar, one half-cup of sweet
cream, one teaspoonful of cream of tar
tar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, and
one cup of flour.
White Cake.-The whites of two eggs,
one-half CUP of butter, one cup of sugar,
one-holf cup of sweet milk, one spoon
full of cream of tartar, and one-half
spoonful of soda.
Fruit Cake.-One cup of butter, one
cup of sugar, one cup of molasses, three
cups of -four, one-half cup of milk, one
cup of chopped raisins, one teaspoonful
of cloves, cinnamon and allspice, two
eggs, and two teaspoonfuls OF baking
powder or one teaspoonful OF soda.
Beef Steaks Fried.-Cut your beef in
steaks half an inch in thickness, take
cut all the fat, rub the frying.pan over
with butter, lay in the steaks, set it over
the fire, as tine gravy runs out pour it on
dish, turn it often, then fry the fat by
itself, and lay on the lean, season the
gravy from the fat with pepper and salt,
add small quality of hot water, let it
boil up, then pour while hot over the
meat.
flashed beef.-Take some pieces of
cooked or uucooked beef, chop it, mosis-
ten it with gravy or water (if with water
add butter rolled in four,) put it on the
stove and cook slowly, dredge with -four
and season with pepper and salt to taste.
Cold boiled potatoes hashed with the
meat makes good dish. Stir it while
making, as it will be spoiled if at all
burned. Or make dish of toast (mois-
ten) and turn the meat over.
Beef Stewed.-Cut the beef in quite
small pieces, put it in q stew pan with
little water, some small onions, potatoes
cut small, and salt and pepper to taste,
dredge it we'll with -four. add few bits
of butter, if the meat is lean, stew it
down, let it brown without burning, and
it is done.
Hard Soap.-Three pals OF good soft
soap, one pound of rosin, one pound OF
borax, and two and one-half quarts of
salt, put in kettle and let it just boil,
then set in cool place over night. 1t
will rise like tallow, and can be cut in
pieces. The longer it is dried, the better
it keeps the hands soft, and lasts we'll.
Those who study economy will like it.
Sponge Cake.-Two eggs. one cup of
sugar beaten t. froth four tablespoon
fuls of cream or water, one and one-half
cups of -four in which mix one teaspoon
full OF cream of tartar, one-half teaspoon
full of soda dissolved in the cream or
water, and flavor with lemon. 1t must
be beaten after the water has been added,
but stir lightly.
Oatmeal Porridge.-To one quart OF
boiling water'add one pint Of oatmeal and
salt to taste, boil for three-quarters Of an
hour, and eat with milk.
Baroness Pudding. Equal weights Of
-four, suet and raisins, a pinch of salt,
and sufficient milk to make soft batter,
boil for four hours and MALT, and serve
with sweet eauce.
Treacle Bread. - Two pounds Of -four.
two ounces Of butter, one pound OF
treacle, one teasp00nful of baking soda,
one teaspoonful OF salt, IS much sour
milk as with the treacle will make very
stiff paste, and bake in tlow oven.
/ Lemon Pie.-Slice the lemons ~ thin
a. Won can, and take out the seeds; 10
each pie add one teacup.ul Of sugar and
three tablefpoonfuls Of water. Bake with
top crust. II the lemons are large,
one will make two pies.
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