Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-17
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

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TINS recipe for ginger cake comes from.
an English cook noted for the excellence OF
her work: Put one pound of butter into one
mound of flower add half pound Of timely
powdered sugar, the rind Of lemon gra
led, two tablespoonfGls of groun1 ginger
and one grated nutmeg Mix them together
then heat one gill of sweet milk-or warm
il, rather-stir into it half teaspoontai o.
bicarbonate of soda. Roll out, cut 10 square
cakes and bake in moderate oven.
One of the novelties and luxurie' Of thu
the period is banana cake. Take one cuptd
Of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one cuptul
of water or of sweet milk, three eggs, four
cupfuls of -four, three small teaspoonstuls
of baking powder. Mix lightly and bake IN
layers. Make an icing Of the whites OF two
eggs and one and s-half cups OF powdered
sugar. Spread this on the layer, and then
cover quickly and entirely with bananas
sliced thin. The cake may be favored with
vanilla. The top should be simply frosted.
The season will soon arrive when the cook
who delights 10 labor in her vocation, can
experiment with fruit; here is one OF the
MANY Wsys in which she may use rsspber
ries: Stew the fresh berries, strain the Juice
sweeten it, and put it over the tire IN por
celain kettle. When It boils STIR IN some
corn starch rubbed cool in cold water. The
starch should be used IN the proportion Of
two tablespoonful to one pin: OF luice
When thickened and thoroughly cooked
pour into molds which you have wet with
cold water. Fancy-shaped molds are desifa-
bic. Serve with cream and powdered sugar
. A SPRIxG SoUP.-Wash, drain aud chop
fine a quart Of sorrel (rejecting any thick
stalks, dozen sprigs Of chervil and q
small head of lettuce. Put two ounces o.
butter into q stewpan and set it on 3 good
FIRE. When melted add the sorrel, cbervil
and lettuce, and stir until cooked; then add
two quarts of broth and simmer gently for
half an hour. Beat up the yolks OF three
eggs with one tablespoonful OF water, ana
mix with the soup Just as it is taken from
the FIRE. Have some croutons in the soup
tureen; pour the soup on them and serve.
Coon CAEE.-One cup Of milk, one cup
of butter, two cups Of sugar three cups OF
-four, one hesping teaspoonful OF baking
powder and the whites of five eggs. Bake
in good oven. Cover with frosting made
with the whites Of two eggs, the same
quantity of cold water and enough OF the
finest powdered confectionery sugar, mix
ed together, to make the frosing OF the
proper consistency to spread On the cake
Any favoriug may be used. This trostlng
is quite soft.
RHrRARB PCDDIxG.-Prepave the stalks
As for pies; cover the bottom Of a buttered
pudding dish with slices Of bread aud but
ter; co ier with the rhubsr5 cut in short
pieces, spriukle abundantly with sugar;
then nut on another LAYER OF bread and but
ter and rhubarb until the dish is full. Have
plenty of sugar on the top. Cover so as to
steam while baking half an hour. Remove
the cover and brown nicely. Eat with!any
hot sauce.
VEAL CUTLETs.-Cover each outlet with
a dressing made of minced veal, bacon, fue
bread crumbs, chopped parsley salt and
pepper to taste. Mix with an egg vel bea-
len. Put the outlets in battered pan and
bake. When done take the outlets out OF
the pan, pour over them some strained
gravy in which little celery has beea cook,
ed and serve with slices Of lemon.
Drs.yrEcTAxT.-An excellent end sim
ple disipfectant for sinks I'd waste pipes 10
made by mixing one large t1blespootul Of
copperas with one quart OF boiling water.
This solution is odoriess and deeGerizes in
stantly. The copperss may be So1ght at
any druggists for or 10 cents pound.
CHIcErx FAT FOR CASE.-The fat OF
chickens is said by a casemazer OF great
experience to be superior II the finest butter
for making the most delicate cake. II the
at of boiled chickens is 10 be used cook
them without salt and there will not be the
slightest favor Of fowl
SoDA BrsCUIT.-Put one quart Of flour,
Sefore sitting, into sieve with one teaspoon
! of soda and two Of cream tartar or three OF
baking powder, one Of salt,Snd tablespoon
| IF white sugar; mix all thoroughly with
| The -four. run through sieve, rub in one level
| TABLESPOON Of lard snd butter, or bali Of
each. wet with hah pint OF sweet mix; roll
| on board about 40 inch thick, cut with bis
cult cutter and bake in quick oven fifteen
minutes. If you have not milk use little
more butter and wet With water. Handle
as little and make as rapidly as possible.
SALAD DRySSING.-Beat one raw egg in
IN ear,heu cake-dish until il is smooth, then
add olive oil, very little at time, carefully
stirring it into the egg with the right hand as
you drop it 10 with the lett. When the egg
and oil make thick mixture poura little
vinegar over it, then stir Ia more oil, aud &C
on in this way until you have the desired
Quantity of dressing; season with lemot
Juice. pepper, mustard, pickles or onion:
chopped very fine, or with celery, water
cress, parsley, capers, olives or with any
favor you chose. Hari boiled eggs may bt
added also.
ECONOMICAL SUET CSUsT FOR BAEING.-
If properly made, this paste will be fount
equal to pastry made from the best trest
butter. Take some fresh beeEkidney suet
and having removed the skin, proceed t
shred, not chop, the suet in as thin fakes a
possible. For ordinary iaky paste the sue
may be mixed in these flakes lightly IN To-
-four With knife, sd ling a little salt ant
cold water, and, if at hand tew drops 0
lemon juica The Ia,;o then turned an
! rolled as for rough put or fakey. II requires
for q better class of pastry, the suet, sf,e
being shred up, must be placed in moFta
and pounded to the consistency OF butte'
adding, if the suet is hard, few drops o
best olive oil to it during the process. Whel
reduced to the desired consistency, the sue
may be used either for short crust or put
pastry in exactly the same way as butte
would be employed; and if properly pre-
pared, will Be quite as good, and far superior
to any Past,y prepared with lard.
ORANGE SALAD.-This is q delicious sals(
and EASILY made Peel two or three sweet
Juicy oranges and Gu: up the quarters il
nice noathfuls, removing all seed Servt
with half dozen bits Of lettuce, and pou
Msyonnaise sauce over each nest. 4 SINH
lsr sauce of spples can be made when tn,
apples are very ripe, JUICY and sour.
| BAKED the bones removed
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