Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-26
THE HOUSEHOLD.
GODS HEAD SOUP.

GODS HEAD SOUP
Boil in two quarts of water with two
onions, little sage or maloram, rind of
half a lemon; condiments to taste
Strain, return to the kettle, add gill of
cream thickened with a little corn starch
end bring to boil.
sAGo SOUP.
Take good clear soup stock; remove
the fat from the top and strain. Bring
to boil, and stir in half cup of pearl
sago which has been washed and soaked
! for half an hour in tepid water or three
hours in cold; season; simmer half an
hour and pour out. Serve with grated
cheese.
BOILED CUCUMBERS.
Peel and put into sailed ice-water for
half an hour, then slice thicker than the
table and put into sailed water and cook
until tender. Drain and add butter, salt
and pepper, with cream enough for a
dressing, and pour over buttered toast.
Serve quickly and eat at once.
SALAD DRESSING.
Put in basin a saltspoonful of pep
per and two or three of salt; mix well and
add a tablespoonful of good vinegar;
| stir it with fork and then drop in grad
! ually, stirring all the time with the fork,
three tablespoonfuls of the best salad
oil. just before serving add to it the
salad, mixing the dressing well in with
fork and spoon.
CUCUMBER SALAD
Pare fresh cucumbers and then slice as
thin as possible; ond or two large onions
are sliced in the same manner and mixed
with the sliced cucumbers, and the whole
wut into sailed ice water for an hour.
Drain them and put in shallow dish;
pepper and half cover with sharp cider
vinegar. This salad is appetizing frozen
and served with boiled fish.
VEGETABLE SOUP.
Scrape two carrots, an onion, quarter
of a cabbage, and two turnips, and cut
them into pieces little larger than dice.
Put the pieces into large saucepan with
a little butter and water, and cook half an
hour then cut the potatoes in the same
way, take the meat out of the soup kettle,
skim off the grease and put all into the
broth and cook another half hour.
PURE OF oAUL1FLowER.
boiled in salted water, taken up when half
done and boiled sufficiently in clear soup.
Then break it up and save the best tufts
for the finishing pass the rest through a
sieve. Thichen the soup to creamy sub
stance with flour, mixed with cream or
milk, add to it some neatly cut little piec-
es of fowl or veal and the PURGE of cauli-
flower, let it come to boil, beat piece
Of Trash h,1tfar m mi n the turepn
and well stir into it two or three eggs.
Pour in the soup scalding hot, and add
tina little tufts of cauliflower.
SPRING CHICKEN FRIED.
Put the spider on the stove with about
a tablespoonful of butter, when hot lay
in about tables poonful of butter, when
hot lay in chicken, sprinkle over with
flour, salt and pepper, place lid on the
spider and cook over a moderate fire;
when light brown turn the chicken and
sprinkle flour, salt and pepper over the
top as at first; if necessary add more but
ter, and cook slowly until done As
general rule half an hour is long enough
to fry spring chicken. To make rich and
nice gravy without cream, take the yolk
of an egg, beat up light strain and stir
slowly into the gravy after the dour and
milk have been stirred in and thoroughly
cooked; us soon as it boils up the gravy
is done and should bc removed from the
stove.
SUMMER SQUASH
Cut the squash in quarters, remove the
seeds and sdin, cover with sailed boiling
water and boil until done. When cooked
mash the squash and add one ounce of
butter for each small one. Moisten with
gravy or broth and put in little pans or
dishes; cover with bread crumbs, place
tiny bits of butter on top and bake del
icate brown in brisk oven.
TOMATO SOUP.
To one pint of canned tomatoes, or
four large raw ones cut up line, add one
quart of boiling water and let them bon
till done: then add nearly teaspoontul
of soda: when it foams up add one PINT
of milk, pepper and butter or one cup or
sweet cream instead of butter, few crack
ers rolled fine, and serve
DREAM CAKE
Make a rich batter and bake in three
layers. The layers should be frosted with
confectioner'S sugar and the whlte OF
eggs. The frosting for the hrst layer
should be favored with lemon, for the
next layer with Vanilla and the top layer
should be favored with q few drops OF
rose-water and thickly covered with CO.
coanut
TONGUE TOAST.
A very nice dish is prepared from eolu
boiled or ported tongue. Slice the tongue
and cut each slice into small, fine pieces
heat in pan with little butter 40
prevent burning moisten with warm water
or clear soup. Add salt and pepper
stir into IL two beaten eggs. When SET
arrange neatly on toast.
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