The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-16
TUE PRESS.
Household Receipts.
Kitchen Keramics.

Kitchen Keramics.
For a cold day supper of bacon and po-
tato salad is appetizing, Cut the bacon in
thin slices, and fry them delicate brown !;
take them out of the saucepan and put them
on a tin plate and set in the oven in the hot
bacon gravy put cold boiled potatoes, which
are sliced thin, and yet not so thin that they
will not keep their shape; pepper and salt
them well, and if necessary add little but
ter; about five minutes before taking them
from the fire add according to taste thin sill
ces of onion; five minutes will probably be
long enough to render them tender and still
leave them crisp. To serve with this cook
some tart apples IN this way: Put the ap-
pies in large tin pail or pan; cover them
with water: let them simmer on the stove
until they are almost done; then take them
out and put them in dripping pan; put
them in water and sugar to make syrup;
set the pan in the oven. and while the apples
are browning the sugar will dissolve.
A little cream of tartar mixed with the su-
gar of which you are to make the boiled FROST
ing will improve the frosting greatly; it will
harden at once, and you will be spared all
anxiety in the matter. A good rule for
making this kind of frostiDg is this: Two
cups and a half of sugar, two-thirds of cup
Of water; boil until it candies, that is, until
IL will drop from the spoon in threads, or
will harden in cold water. Then add the
whites of three eggs beaten to stiff froth,
stir it briskly for a few minutes, till 1t is
perfectly smooth; add the juice of one lem
on. This quantity will be enough to put be-
tween the layers of a medium-sized cake,
and will also frost the top and sides. If you
wish to frost the top and sides only, one
cup of sugar ard one egg will be enough.
Plum Pudding-Pick and stone one pound
of raisins, prepare two pounds OF dried cur
rants, chop one pound of beef suet very fine,
and one pound of mixed peel; one ounce of
mixed spice. Mix in basin one pound of
-four, one pound of moist sugar, one pound
of eggs well beaten, half pint of milk, four
ounces of bread crumbs. Add all the ingre-
dents and mix into firm dough. Well but
er mold, dust it with -four, then fill it
with the pudding mixture; tie ii over with
cloth, put it into plenty of boiling water,
and boil fast, for eight hours or longer.
When required turn out carefully, and serve
with gill of brandy burning in the dish.
Never put new towel in the wash until
you have overcast the fringed edge. The
use of this is obvious the moment one is
told of it, though dozen towels might be
worn out before one might discover it. If
when towels are washed the fringe is shaken
well before they are hung up to dry, the
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long time. If vigorously shaken, that is all
that is necessary; otherwise it is best to
have the laundress whip the fringe over the
clean back of a kitchen chair. This is
much better than any combing process. Be-
sides it does not wear the fringe SO much
Here is an excellent rule to follow in
making mince pies: Four pounds of beef
Ground steak is good), two pounds of suet,
eight pounds of apples, four pounds of
sugar, two pounds of rsisins, two tablespoon
fuls of cinnamon, one tablespoonful of all
spice, one nutmeg, two quarts of boiled CT
der, one pint of brandy, half pint of molass-
es, one half cup of salt. OF course you can
vary this rule; in place of salt you can use
butter, and less quantity will answer.
Brandy may be omitted. and the Juice of
fruit may be substituted.
A pudding which is called 'sKate Browns
Bette" is for simple and easily-made dish
eminenily successful. Put alternate layers
of grated bread crumbs or chopped apples in
a pudding dish, season each layer with
sugar, cinnamon, little lump of butter.
For dish holding quart and half you
need two teacupfus of hot water. Bake an
hour and half. Have the top brown serve
with plenty of sweet cream.
How to Make Steak Tender-Put three
tablespoonfuls of salad oil and one table
spoonful of vinegar, well mixed together on
large fiat dish and on this lay the steak.
Salt must never be put Oh steak before it is
cooked. The steak must lie on this tender
making mixture for at least half an hour to
a side: the toughest steak will succumb to
this, and be perfectly tender when cooked.
A novel wall pocket to hold letters or cards
can be made of Dashboard covered with silk
or satin, cut in the form of palette orna-
ment with Kensington embroidery; or paint
bunch of flowers on it. Pretty cases for
whisk brooms are cut in this shape also.
Leave the top and bottom open, so that the
brush will slip il and out easily.
Gold cake makes the most satisfactory
foundation for chocolate cake; use half
pound of sugar, quarter of pound of butter,
half pound of flour, the yolk of five eggs,
one teaspoonful of baking powder; flavor
with vanilla.
When yon have company, and wish to
cover the everyday piDcushion with fresh
cover, take one of the Japanese tidy pictures,
trim the edge with lace, and sew a velvet
ribbon on where the lace joins the paper.
A pretty ornament for bracket or mantle
is a small panel covered with crimson plush,
on this hang decorated holly palette; tie it
with narrow, old gold satin ribbon.
If you wish to make cake which will
keep well, use the yolk of eggs only; they
make it much more moist and less liable to
dry than the whites do