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 stcwing them with
either sugar or molasses and lemon. Pare,
quarter. and core or cook whole. Simmer
gently until done.
Citron Preserves. After peeling, 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
sirup 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 tabespoonfuls Of melted butter, table
spoonful Of white sugar, two large tea
spoOufuls 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 solid head
OF cabbage into thin shreds, and throw
lightly into salad bowl or vegetable dish.
Cut q few thin slices OF bacon into small
dice, and fry until they begin TO brown;
then pour in some vinegar, the same guam
| tty 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 potatoes.
Tropical Snow. Ten sweet oranges; one
cocoanut, pared and grated; two glasses
| sherry; one cup powdered sugar; six ba-
nanas. Peel and cut the oranges small,
taking out the seeds. Put layer in glass
bowl aud wet with wine, then strew with
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 cocoanut. Eat
soon, or the orange will tougher.
Cucumber Pickle. Make brine by put
ting on e pint Of coarse salt into gallon o.
boiling water. Pour It over sutil cient guam
tity Of small cucumbers 70 inst cover them
Cover the vessel tight to keep In the steam,
and lei them remain thirty-slx hours. Then
rinse aud wipe them dry, and lay them in q
Jar. Scatter cloves and few pods OF pepper
among them and cover them with boiling no
vinegar. A small lump Of alum to eacl
gallon will make the pickle firm.
Tomato Omelet Take equal parts Of slice'
onions aud tomatoes peeled and freed from
pips. chop them both coarsely. Fry tn
onions in butter. When cooked, without be
ing colored. add the tomatoes with pepper an
salt, aud keep stirring the mixture on th'
fire till it formsa sort OF PURGE. Make
plain omelet In the usual way and insert thi
10 the fold on dlshing It.
There Is an unual battle between Ameri
. can martins and English sparrows observed Q
Midvale, n. j., for the possession OF DO
upon a fixed pole In which the martin
/, uested for many years. This box is covete
bv the sparrows and every spring before tn
, martins return from their autumn migration
they build their nests and set up housekeeI
ing in it. This year proved no exception
and when the martins came they found thei
, house occupied by strangers. After fiyin
! abou; the box for some time the whole AUc
Of martins betook themselves 10 neighbo
. ing tree aud there kept up chattering whic
, had all the appearance Of an indigatio
= meeting. Then they made an attack on IN
box. and for some time there was 4 scriu
!. mage. The American birds succeeded i
driving away the pugilistic foreigners after
: hard fight and then began house cleaning
: The nests Of the sparrUws we're ruthless
; dragged to the opening Of the box and throw
:, 10 tue ground. Every bit Of straw or 9TH
material composing the sparrOws' nests ";
!, thrown out and the discousolaie birds had
a seek a new home.