St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-24
Practical RECIPES.

Stewed Pears. Flavorless pears can be
utilized for sauce by stewing them with
either sugar or molasses and lemon. Fare,
quarter, and core. or cook whole. Simmer
gently until done.
Citron Preserves. After peelng, weigh,
cut into pieces an inch in length. Boil In
water to which you have added little salt,
until tender Allow not quite an equal
weight OF sugar with the fruit. Make a
strip OF the sugar and some of the water in
which the citron was boiled, add the drained
pieces and few slices of lemon, free from
seeds Cook slowly half an hour.
Corn Meal Mullins. Two cups of Indian
meal. one cup of -four three cups OF milk,
two tablespooufuls Of melted butter, table
spoonful Of white sugar, two large tea
spoonfus OF baking powder. Mix quickly,
beating all OF the Ingredients thoroughly
together, and pour into hot, creased gem
pans, and bake in quick oven.
Cabbage Salad. Cut part of a solid head
of cabbage into thin shreds, and throw
lightly into a salad bowl or vegetable dish.
Cut few thin slices OF bacon into small
dice, and fry until they begin to brown ;
| then pour in some vinegar, the same guam
tity Of water, add lump Of butter, pepper
| and salt, pour all warm over the cabbage.
This is a very nice supper dish with warmed
up pstatoes.
Tropical Snow. Ten sweet oranges; one
cocoanut, pared and grated; two glasses
sherry; one cup powdered sugar; six ba-
| uanas. Peel and cut the oranges small,
taking out the seeds. Put layer in glass
| bowl and wet with wine, then strew Will
sugar Next put layer of grated cocoauut
slice the bananas thin, and cover the cocoa
nut with them. When the dish has been
filed in this order, heap with cocoauut. Ea
soon, or the orange will tougher.
Cucumber Pickle. Make brine By put
ting one pint OF coarse salt into 4 gallon o
boIlinp water Pour IL over suffi Client guam
tity of small cucumbers 10 just cover them
Cover the vessel tight to keep in the steam
and lei them remain thirty-siI hours. Their
rinse and wipe them dry, and lay them In
lar. Scatter cloves and few pods OF pc ppe
among them and cover them WITH boiling DO
vinegar. A small lump of alum to eac
gallon will make the pickle firm.
Tomato Omelet. Take equal parts Of slice
onions and tomatoes peeled and freed from
pins. chop them both coarscly. Fry tn
onions i'm butter. When cooked, without be
ing colured. add the tomatoes with pepper 10
salt. and keep stirring the mixture on III
fire til il formsa sort OF PURGE. Make
plain omelet in the usual way and insert TIL
In the fold on dshing 1t.
There Is an annual battle between Amer
. can martins ard English sparrows observed 1
Midvale, " j., for the possession OF DO
upon a fixed pole In which the martin
uested for msuy years. This box is eoyete
by the sparruws and every spring before ih
, martins return from their autum migratio
, they build their nests and set up housekeeI
Iur in il. THIS year proved no exception
and when the martins came they found the
+, house occupied By strangers. After fyin
! about the box for some time the whole foe
: Of martins betook themselves to neighbo
: ing tree and there kept up chaitering whic
had all the appearance Of an iuiigstio
: meeting. Then they made an attack on u
! box. and for some time there was seriu
: mage. The American birds succeeded
driving away the pugiiistie foreigners after
:, hard fight and then began house cleaning
. The nests OF the sparrows were ruthless
: dragged to the opening Of the box and throw
:, 10 the ground Every bit Of straw or 9th
material composing the sparrUws' nests "
: thrown on, and the discou ISOLATE birds had
!, seek new home.