The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-28
DOMESTIC HINTS.

For custard pudding, one and one
half pints of milk, four eggs, one cup
full sugar, two teaspoonfuls vanilla.
Beat eggs and sugar together, dilute
with milk and extract, pour into but
tered pudding dish, set in oven in
dripping pan two-thirds full of water,
and bake until firm, about forty
minutes in moderate oven.
Cake should never be disturbed
while baking, for if it is moved or
Jared after it has risen, before it is
done it is apt to fall and ''make
cradle" The oven should be as
near the right temperature as posi-
BILE, not quite so hot as for biscuit, for
if it is two hot, and the door has to be
opened to let in cool air when the
cake is partially cooked, then it is
very apt to fall.
For macaroni pudding, take one
cupful broken macaroni, one and one
half pints milk, four eggs, one cuDful
sugar, one large tablespoonful butter,
one teaspoonful extract vanilla. Boil
macaroni in we'll salted water ten
minutes, then add to the boiling milk
and simmer twenty minutes longer;
remove from fire, pour on sugar, eggs
and butter beaten together, lastly
add extract; put in well buttered
pudding dish, bake in steady oven
thirty-tive minutes and serve with
sauce.
Sorrel sonp is the kind that is
ordered by French women to refresh
themselves after long, fatlguing
Journey. 1t is easily made. A good
quantity of sorrel leaves must be
picked from the Stems and washed,
then put them into stew pan with a
piece of butter to steam. No water is
requisite. Dredge in, continually
stirring, tablespoon full or two OF
flour. unless the soup is clear. Add
enough of any broth on hand, OF a
tablespoonful of the fluid beef, al
ready seasoned. Serve with sippets
or dice of toasted bread.
As to low neck gowns DR.. Ham
mond speaks more specifically in the
North American Review, saying that
they have been worn for many gem
erations without apparent injury. "it
might be supposed, at first thought, "
he continues, ''that bronchitis, pleu-
risy, pneumonia and many kinds OF
rheumatism and neuralgia would be
the result of the custom; but such is
really not the case, all of these atfec-
tions being much more frequently
met with in men. who cover the chest
and arms with several thicknesses of
wooden material, in addition to shirt
of linen or cotton"
Any kind of fish may be served a
la creole by taking can of tomatoes,
two onions, two tablespoonfuls of
butter or sweet oil; stew the tomatoes,
frv the onions in the oil or butter.
thicken with a little flour, add hot
water, sufficient to cover the fish.
Black bass IS good cooked in this
way, cut four pounds of it into square
pieces, put it in the saucepan with the
onions, add four cloves, strain in the
tomatoes, add salt and pepper TO
taste, cover closely and stew very
slowly for an hour. The fish should
keep it's form. You may try halibut
OF any fish in the same way.
There is steadily increasing de-
mand for metallic candlesticks of
good design. These articles pertain
to associations of medieval times, and
are appropriately produced in quaint
forms with inerusted and raised or
naments or engraved incised lines.
In one design an ebonized stand is
encireled by two tiers of twisted
brass supports richly chased, each
holding candle at top, and from
these spring segmental arched forms
which meet in a central ornament.
Other frames are in standard form,
with straight and curved cross pieces
richly chased, the row of supports On
the former being at different eleva-
tons, so as to present an arc of light.
To make old-style strawberry short
cake requires three pints of straw
berries, one cupful of sugar, one
quart of flour, three teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder, half cupful of but
ter and a cupful and a half of milk.
Mix the baking powder with the
flour and rub the mixture through a
sieve Rub the butter into this mix
ture; and after adding the milk, sti1
quickly until smooth paste is formed.
Divide the dough into six. parts, and
roll each down to the size of a plate,
Lay the pieces in half a dozen butter.
ed tin plates and bake in a quick over
for ten minutes. Meanwhile hull the
strawberries, and after mashing them
little add the cupful of sugar. Wher
the short-cakes are baked, spread the
sweetened fruit between them, max
ing three complete cakes. Serve hot
If straw berries be abundant more thar
three pints may be used.