Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-09
Approved Receipts.
CARRIE Souls ANGEL CAKE.


Beat the whites of eleven eggs to stiff
troth take an even cupful of justified flour
and sift it five times to make it very light !;
add cuptul of powered sugar and sift
once with the flour. then add half-tea-
spoonful of cream tartar and sift with the
sugar and flour; pour in your eggs and
beat well together; add one teaspoonful
of extract of lemon and stir through pour
into deep dish and bake thirty minutes
in moderate oven; lay cloth on your
table and so arrange two sticks of wood
that the edge of the dish will Just balance
on them: turn the dish over and in few
minutes the cake will steam and fall down
upon the cloth; the dish should not be
buttered ; no soda is used. This is a most
delicate cake, and made when eggs are
cheap is not so expensive as common fruit
cake.
HATTIE HUTCHINsON's SUET PUDDING.
One cupful each of chopped suet. mo-
lasses and sweet milk. three cupfuls flour,
and teaspoonful soda. Butter your dish
and steam three hours.
Sauce tor the same can be made of a
half-cupful butter. cupful sugar, table
spoonful of -four rubbed well together,
and pour in pint of boiling water. Let
it simmer awhile and add nutmeg and
other Havoring if you like. This is rich
enough for palmer pudding.
Another sauce not so rich may be made
with one-fourth cup butter. a half-cupful
sugar. two tablespoonful nice molasses.
a tablespoonful flour mixed together; add
pint boiling water, a tablespoonful vim
egar. Let it simmer a few minutes and
| flavor with nutmeg.
Mrs. OWEN HARvEY's FRICAssEED
CHICKEN.
Cut up chicken, put in water to cover
and boil till tender; two good slices Of
pork fat and lean may be cut in strips and
cooked with it; take it from the kettle
and fry a nice brown in plenty of butter,
adding pepper and salt; it will require
some Is minutes; pour in the liquor in
which it boiled. and add still more if
needful: thicken with very little flour
stirred in water; season the gravy well.
Have ready eight or ten short biscuit, hot
break them open. spread with butter: Law
around in your platter and pour in your
| chicken. Serve at once and you will have
a very nice dish.
MRS. MoRsE's SILVER CAKE.
Stir half-cupful butter and two cupfuls
sugar to cream softened in tin dish on
the stove; remove and add two cup
fuls flour. and another cupful with tea
spoonful cream tartar and half teaspoon
full soda sifted through it add teasponful
of the extract of bitter almonds. if you
have it, if not. lemon or orange extract ;
beat the whites of eight egg to a stiff
froth, add and stir thoroughly together:
bake in one loaf in round pan in mod
crate oven; set it so you will not need to
| turn it round till it is done.
| PARsNIP STEW.
Pare and cut into small pieces six good
sized potatoes, four parsnips and one
small onion. Cut up salt pork into small
squares and fry in kettle same as for
chowder. When it is fred sufficiently.
put in layer Of potatoes. one of parsnip.
and few rings Of the onion, with little
white pepper. Then begin again with
your layers, and 30 Oontinue until the in
| gradients are all in the kettle, then inst
cover with boiling water. Boil until the
potato is thoroughly cooked, being careful
not to burn. This makes good spring
dinner.
ADDH JONES BEEFsrEAKs.
Remove the covers Of your stove after