The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-02-23
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HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
From the Detroit Free Press " Household"l
HARRISON PUDDNe.-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.-Swee the Juice
of a lemon to taste, and put it into tine
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 ToAsT-Run 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 a 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 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, sago,
barley or rice may be added. A can OF
tomatoes can be used in the winter sea-
son.
KENTUCKY POTATOES. s.-Slice the pota
toes thin, as for frying, and allow them
to remain in cold water for half an hour,
then put the slices into pudding dish,
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 lump of butter the size OF
hens egg into small bits and scatter
over the top.
PUMPKIN PK.-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
meg, cinnamon, just a suspicion of each.
Beat 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.
HIcKoRY-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
yoring. a 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 pint of blanched hickory-nut
meats, split, and lastly, the beaten whites
of the eggs. Bake two hours.
WHITE MOUNTAIN 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 -four
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 grated cocoanut is also very nice
M ~.
Corn BREAD.-One pint of butter
milk, one pint corn meal, one teaspoon
full 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 "one OF
the family" facetiously quotes-'scorn
bread with the pumpkin left out is
Hamlet without the ghost"
MrFF1Ns Take two eops senarate
the whites from the yolRs. beat both
verv liohtv. add two cuns Of hnttermill,
to the yoiks and stir in sufficient sifted
-four to make stiff batter. then two ia.
blespoonfuls of boiling hot lard, one-hali
teaspoonful soda dissolved in a table.
spoonful of warm water and a little salt.
Make ready the tins. grease them well,
but be careful that they are not hoi
enough to smoke when creased; mex,
stir in one-half teacup of sweet milk, one
half teaspoonful baking powder. mixed
in a. tabIesnoonfnI Of f,our and lastly +be
whites of The eoos Rata in G,,;oI ;I
oven o0O 40A
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the slightest point is blackened or charred
scrape it off, or it will spoil the flavor O