The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-25
SOME GOOD RECEIPTS

bers, chop them fine With small onion:
put them on with very little water and
stew for ten minutes. Prepare rich
dressing as for poultry, bread crumbs
with herbs and yolk of egg; pour off all
the water from the cucumbers; add the
dressing and one tablespoonful of butter
and bake in deep dish.
Rice Credm.-One teacupful of boiled
rice. Mash the rice very smoo u, and add
to 1t the stiffiy beaten whites of six eggs
and two heaping tablespoonfuls of white
sugar; lastly, add three tablespoonfuls of
sweet cream, and delicate favoring of
vanilla or roses. Fill blanc mango
mold with the cream, and leave it some
hours to harden. Serve with custard or
whipped syllabub.
Steamed Potatoes. - Professor Wagner
publishes analyses in support of his con-
cluslon that steamed potatoes are far
more nutritious than boiled ones. In
the process of boiling, the vegetables
give up a. considerable portion of nutri-
tious salts. while they also take up more
water than when steamed, and become
proportionately weaker.
Gooseberry JANA gill of water to
each pound of ripe fruit; boil for an
hour. Then add the sugar, three-quar-
tiers OF pound for every pound weight
of the fruit. Cook slowly for another
hour.
Cocodnut Jumbles. = Two cups Of
sugar, one cup Of butter, two eggs, two
cups of cocoanut, small teaspoonful
OF soda and enough -four to make stiff
batter. Drop by the teaspoonful upon
buttered paper in pans.
Rhubarb Paddino.-Take of pie plant
what you can hold in one hand, one cup
OF sugar, three eggs, one cup of butter,
one cup of milk, sour is best, heapng
teaspoonful of soda, -four to make stiff
batter, nutmeg; bake until DONE
About Grape Growing.
1t is surprising that there are so many
farms in every section of the west on
which not single grapevine can be
found. With reasonable attention no
fruit is more certain to yield returns
every year. Three years from planting
the vines are in bearing condition, and
yet many farmers have opened up farms
on the Western prairies, and gone for
years without fruit of any kind, when
with triftiing trouble and expense, they
might have enjoyed the use of an album
dance of one of the finest fruits. Others
In the older settled portions of the coun-
try deny themselves grapes through
sheer neglect to plant, and lack of
knowledge as to the cheapness of vines,
A dozen Concord vines can be obtained
at an expense OF not more than so, and
this variety gives good returns to the
farmer. The much praised new varieties,
selling at from 30 oents TO SIS per vine, are
we'll worth the attention of professional
fruit growers or enthusiastic amateurs,
but the farmer who does not care to in
cur the trouble and expense of expert
menting would probably save much vexa-
ton and disappointment by planting the
old reliable Concord. - Prairie Farmer.
How to Judge Timed Goods.
A hint now about timed goods, meat
especially. Note, when about to pur-
chase the condition OF the tin; if bulged
outward, don't have it even as a giftl
We will explain the process of canning to
give weight to our warning. The meat is
packed In tins while raw, then sealed, and
cooked in an outer vessel of boiling wa
ter, with sometimes the addition Of a
chemical to raise the temperature. When
cooked the can is pierced, and us soon as
the air and steam have been expelled it is
soldered. Experts know when it is ready
for soldering; moment too soon and
the mischief in done, because if air is
left in, the tin bulges and the meat will
not be good. On the contrary, if the tin
has sunk it is an infallible sign of good
ness; 1t proves vacuum, which is natur-
al, as the meat shrinks when no air is left
in the tin.
Some may say, what matter if air be
left in the tin? Simply this: Nitrogen, an
element of air, imparts. to the bodies with
which it comes in contact a tendency to
change and decay. Often, on opening a
tin of preserved goods, people are heard
to say "the air is escaping" instead of
which the slight Kissing sound is the re-
suit OF air rushing Id, another proof that
there was vacuum. Well, we go SO far
as to say that, assuming the outward sign
OF goodness above referred to; a label
bearing the name of a good exporter or
importer; and also reliable vendor of
the article, whether meat, fish, milk, soup
or vegetable, the chances are a million
to one against any one being injured,
much less poisoned, by timed goods.
Another caution, though: always look
out for any little globules of solder that
sometimes find their way inside the tin;
and take care, especially in the case of
salmon and lobster, to empty the con-
tents, as soon as opened into an earthen-
ware vessel. This is necessary for every
thing except milk.
will Carleton, the author of Betsy
and are Out" is going TO lecture and