The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-03
Household Recipes.

To make an excellent apple custard u e
one pint of sweet milk, enc pint of apple or
mangoe sauce, and three eggs. Flavor and
sweeten, and bake with a lower crust.
For beef tea cut a pound of lean beef in
small pieces, and add one and one-half tum-
blers of cold water; cover and let it boil
slowly for ten minutes, and then add a little
salt.
For cream sponge cake, which is easily
made, take two eggs and beat IN a cup and
fill with cream, add one t~eacupful of sugar,
one and a half of -four, and one spoonful of
baking powder and a pinch of salt.
Apple pancakes are delicious, and are
made of three pints of mill. six well beaten
eggs, and -four enough to make a thick bat
ter then add salt and six large apples
chopped very fine, and fry in hot lard.
A nice cake is made of two cups of white
sugar, ole cup of butter, one cup OF milk,
three eggs and three cups of -four. After
stirring the butter and sugar together, add
the beaten yelks of the eggs, and then tho
beaten whites, and one %teaspoonful OF baking
powder.
Pyrethrum rosem, the insecticide plant,
may be raised as easily as any common weed.
The value Of the powder made from the flow
ers as an insecticide can hardly he estimated,
since it is sure death to many of our most
destructive pests. and yet utterly harmless
to human being and the larger animals.
For a palatable dish luncheon take cold
roast beef, or steak, and chop very fine le'v-
ing out all of the fat; season with salt. pep
per, thyme, and put it into the center OF a
pudd ng-dish nearly filled with cold boiled
maccaroni. Over all pour stock or gravy.
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fuls of melted butter, and bake for half an
hour.
For celery salad use two lunches of celery,
two tablespoonfuls of srlad oil. two OF vine
gar, half a tie spoonful of salt, and a small
spoonful of pepper. After washing and
scr,ping the celery put it III cold water tor
about an hour then cut it into pieces about
an inch in length and put in a salad bowl !;
add the oil and then the vinegar, and STIR
thoroughly.
Fish ~fritters, which are very nice for
breakfast, are made of the remains of any
kind of fish. Remove all the bones, chop
very fine, and add bread-crumbs and pota-
toes in equal quantities. Mix together h'lf
a teaspoonful of cream and two eggs we'll
beaten, a little cayenne pepper, and some
lory sauce, and beat all to a proper consist
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ing lard.
To make corn mush put a quart of water
on TO boil, and when it comes TO a bell, stir
in gradually a mixture of one pint of milk.
one of corn me l., and a tablespoonful of
salt, and let all boil for half an hour. Stir
constantly.
PoTAro CHIPs.-Pare a raw potato as ap-
pies are peeled. let the parings be "1A $
possible the same thickness. and let q Z
as long as possible. Dry them thorotW J IN
a cloth, put them in the frying basket, and
plunge it in boiling hot lard. When the
chips are a golden color drain them well in
front of the fire, sprinkle fine salt over them.
Also a little chopped parsley.
To MAKE Hop YEAsr.-One pint of peeled
potatoes cut the size of w%alnuts, three quarts
of boiling water, a large handful of hops;
boil until potatoes are done Have ready IN
a jar one cup of sugar, one of salt one of
-four, enough cold water to molsten: Four
on the hops and potato water, and whencold
put in yeast and potatoes.