The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-06-26
FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
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' Choice Cookery.


DANDY PoTAToEs.-Cut medium pota-
toes in quarters and drop in boiling
lard and fry same as doughnuts. A nice
breakfast dish.
Cold boiled ham may be served for
ca in this way: CRATE it on coarse
greater, line a platter with crisp lettuce
leaves, and heap the grated ham in the
center.
PorAro SALAD. CFrench style).-Cut a
.lozen of cold bold potatoes into slices
from quarter to half an inch thick.
Put these in a salad bowl with four
tablespoonful of good vinegar, six
:ablespoonfuls of Lucca cream oil, one
tablespoonful of chopped parsley, with
lepper and salt to taste. Stir we'll to-
gether till all is Thoroughly mixed, and
set aside for three hours.-The Caterer.
Quaker Breakfast Puffs are made
by taking three eggs, one teaspoonful
of sugar, one coffee cup OF sweet milk,
one cup of warm water; three table
spoonfuls of yeast, a saltspoon Of salt,
flour enough to make stiff batter.
Leave the whites of the eggs until the
batter has risen, then add them. Set
the puffs to rise the night before, and
they will be very light and fine.
Arrow-root Pudding Frozen makes
a tempting dish for desert. To one
quart of milk allow one tablespoonful
Of arrowroot, and the we'll beaten yolks
of six eggs; sweeten to your taste; fla
vor with wine or vanilla. Put it into d
mould and freeze. If you wish to take
the trouble, it is pretty addition to the
good looks of the pudding to make
frosting of the whites of the eggs. and
after turning the pudding out of the
mould on q platter, put the frosting all
over it. If of an economical turn of
mind, the yolks of the eggs may be used
for cake. The milk should be boiled
before putting the arrowroot into it,
and that should be rubbed smooth in
little cold milk. Fewer eggs may be
used if it is thought desirable, and
more arrowroot will be needed.
How TO Cook Green PEAs.-Take
quart Of fresh shelled, young peas and
put them in pan of cold water Then
place in saucepan the heart of a
head of lettucean onion and piece of
butter. Now take your peas from the
water and(without draining them put
them in the saucepan, adding three or
four Jumps OF white sugar and little
pepper and salt: Cover the SAUCEPAN
and set it where the contents may
stew briskly until tenders. rertlov-
ing the lettuce and onion before serv-
ing. A spr1g of mint may be added in
the cooking if liked.
An excellent meat sauce, for use at
any season of the year, calls for four
quarts Of ripe tomatoes, one cupful and
and half Of rcd peppers cut in bits,
one cupful of chopped onions, one cup
full and half of sugar, half citpful of
salt, one pint and half Of vinegar, one
teaspoonful and half of cloves; the
same quantity of cinnamon, one tea
spoonful each of sugar and nutmeg.
Let this boil for three hours then bottle
and seal, or put in pint cans. If the to-
matoes, onions and peppers are chopped
very fine, it is best not to strain the
sauce.
EeGs ON ToAsT.-Six eggs, one cup
full drawn butter (drawn in milky, slices
of stale bread (toasted and buttered),
chopped parsley, pepper and salt. Heat
a cupful OF milk to scalding; mix in a
large teaspoonful of butter. teaspoon
full of flour wet with cold water and
rubbed smooth, and stir until it is as
thick as csl,tard. Add chopped pars-
ley; pepper and salt to taste. All this
should be done in a tin vessel set in
boiling water and over the fire Have
ready the toast mot forgetting to pare
the crust from each slice before it is
buttered and laid in close
rows upon q hot dish. Pour table
spoonful of hot water on each piece.
Beat the eggs very light, and stir fa,'
into the drawn butter until they are
d rich yellow sauce, almost stiff
enough to stand alone. Heap upon the
toast and send hot to table.
To KEEP Fresh sH.-Vinegar is
better that ice for keeping fish over
night. Housekeepers who are obliged
to be economical should go to the fish !
stalls toward evening, and they can, by
putting little vinegar on the fish they
buy, keep it perfectly we'll, even in hot
weather, until the next day, and in
Iced, the fish is improved in flavor by
this treatment. Fish which has been
kept on ice during the night, and been
exposed on the shop board during the
lay, being frequently watered to make
It look less, stale, undergoes changes
which destroy both flavor and nourish
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