Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-20
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

GRILLED OYsTERs.-On a very fine
wire grid-irOn Cor one made OF wire net
used for screens place some slices Of fat
pork, cut as thin as possible; on each
slice lay a good-si2ed oyster or two
small ones; broil and serve hot with fried
parsley.
To make stewed vegetable marrow peel
the marrow, take out the seeds and cut
into slices; put into the saucepan with
one ounce of butter a few small onions
sliced and little seasoning; cover closely
and let fl cook in the butter and its own
juice; thicken the gravy with a little -four.
Serve very hot.
For Mrs. WIS White mountain cake,
take one cup Of butter beaten TO a cream,
with two cups OF sugar; add one cup Of
sweet milk three cups of -four, with two
teaspo0nfuis Of baking powder mixed
with it and the well beaten whites of five
eggs. Flavor with lemon and put straw
berry Jelly between.
ENTREE FOR ROAST PORK.-Peel as
many potatoes as will cover the bottom of
a big pie dish. Sprinkle half a teaspoon
full Of dried sage over them. Cut an onion
in thin slices and spread them over this.
Add salt and pepper and Jumps of butter.
Cover the bottom of the dish with water
or milk, and bake in a moderate oven.
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 tablespeOnsfuls
Of yeast, a saltspoon of salt, flour enough
to make a stiff batter. Leave the whites
Of the eggs until the batter has riser, then
add them. Set the puffs to rise the night
before, and they will be very light and
Gne.
For cold fab outlets melt an ounce Of
huff 4 80 e,1 oil Of
milk; let it boil and thicken. Then stir
in the 1avOring, lemon juice of vinegar,
salt, cayenne, or a little anchOvy sauce or
paste. Last Of all add about a breakfast
| cupful Of cold cooked fish cut small
| When this mixture ia cold shape it into
outlets or balls, egg and bread-crumb
them and fry in hot fat or Oil.
ROYAL CROQUETTEs.-Roas plump,
tender chicken, and, when cool, chop the
white meat as fine as possible. then pound
to a smooth paste. Scald a sweetbread
and remove the einews. Fry it brown in
butter, then let it cool. Pound it to smooth
paste and add it to the chicken. Season
to taste with pepper and salt, and add a
well-beaten egg. MOisten it with rich
cream, and work into it a teasp0onful OF
flour to give it consistency. Stir it well
over the fire until it becomes hot, then
spread it upon a buttered dish TO cool.
Form the mixture into cOrk-shaped cro-
quettes, and egg, bread-crumb, and fry
them in the usual way.
To make cackle cake take three-quar-
tiers of pound of shelled almonds, half
pound of citrOn, three-Quarters of pound
flour, six eggs. Blanch and halve the al
monds, and slice the citron; mix them
well together and roll them in flour; add
to them the sugar, then the eggs, we'll
beaten; lastly the flour. Butter shallow
pans and lay in the mixture two inches
thick. After it is baked in a quick oven
slice the cake into strips one inch wide,
and turn every strip; return the pan to
the oven and bake the sides a little; when
cold put it away in tin boxes. This cake
will keep a year or more, and for reserve
use is quite invaluable.
THE discovery that castor-oil plants
possess the faculty Of killing and keeping
away files, mosquitoes and other insects
was recently made by a French scientific
man named Raford, who noticed that
certain rooms in his house in which cas-
tor-Oil plants were growing were entirely
free from disagreeable insects, although
other apartments were infested with them.
He found lying near the plants great
quantities of dead flies, and large num-
Der OF dead bodies were hanging to the
under surface Of the leaves, and this
caused him to investigate the matter;
and the discovery was made that the
plants gave out an essential oil, or some
toxic principle, which was deadly to in
sects,