The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-05
Household Hints.

Egg Bread--One pint of milk, two
eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately
butter size of an egg, two tablespoon
fuls of Sea Foam baking powder; flour
enough to make stiff batter. Bake in
quick oven.
Spiced Beef.-Spiced beef, which is
delicious cold and sliced thin, is easily
prepared, Choose piece with less fat
than you would wish to have in q roast;
boil this until tender in water in which
you have put salt, pepper, celery seed
and clover; the amount to depend upon
your taste.
Oatmeal Pancakes. -Oatmeal pancakes
are good for breakfast, and may occa.
sionally take the place of oatmeal and
milk so universally served at that meal.
Make them with sour milk, with soda to
sweeten it. The batter should be stiff.
The oatmeal, unless it is ground very
fine, should be soaked in water all night.
Vols-au.vent with Strawberries
When the pate shells are nearly baked
draw them to the edge of the oven and
brush the top over with white of an egg
beaten up with little water and slightly
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and return them to the oven. When
they are done, fill them with fresh or
preserved fruit, sprinkling little sugar
over fresh fruit. Serve them without
the lids with spoonful of whipped
cream upon each patty.
Jelly Plea delicious pie is made
thus, Take one cup of wine or of the
clear juice of any fruit; add teaspoon
full of gelatine dissolved in as little
water as possible. one cup of sugar.
Bake with two crusts. Rub the top of
the upper crust with milk in which you
have dissolved little sugar, or with the
white of an egg. The juice left IN cans
of fruit can be utilized in this way, but
it should be heated to the boiling point
and the scum skinned off, or it may be
strained.
Swiss Pudding Beat together two
When we'll creamed, add the beaten
yolks OF six eggs, some salt, and two
cups of -four; stir we'll together; CRATE
the outside rind of half an orange for
favoring. Lastly, add the beaten
whites. Fill some teacups less than two.
thirds full, cook by steaming them half
an hour. Turn them out on hot plat
ter. Serve Immediately with brandy
sauce in the bottom of the dish. Half
the above amount can be prepared.
Cottage Pudding.-One cup of sugar:
half cup butter; one egg; cup of sweet
milk; two tablespoonfuls cream tartar in
the -four; three cups flour; half tea
spoonful extract of lemon. Sprinkle
sugar over the top just before putting in
the oven, bake in q small breadpan, and
when done cut in squares, and serve
with sauce made of tive tablespoonfuls
of butter, cup of sugar, tablespoonful
of -four wet with little cold water and
stirred until like cream; add q pint of
boiling water, let boil two or three min
utes, stirring all the time. After taking
from the fire, add half teaspoonful ex.
tract lemon.
Red Cherry Ice.-Four cupfuls of
sweet red or black cherries-one quart;
two cupfuls of water-one pint; two
level cupfuls of sugar-twelve ounces.
Mash the fruit raw, and thoroughly
so as to mash the stones-a po.
tato masher and deep saucepan will do
and strain the juice through q fine
strainer into the freezer. Boil the
cherry pulp with some of the sugar and
water to extract the favor from the ker.
nels, and rub that also through the
strainer; add the other pint of water and
freeze. Use no white of eggs in this
ice, as the color is not good unless
frozen natural This makes q good ice
for the third color in Neopolitan.