Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-18
FOE THE HOUSEWIFE.
COOKIES.

Beat two eggs in cup, add two
tablespoons OF melted butter. two
tablespoons sour milk; fill the cup
with sugar, half teaspoonful soda,
-four to roll; bake quick; best if kept
in g. stone jar.
CREAM FOR PUFFS.
One quart OF milk; let the milk come
to boil. Mix together four table
spoonfuls of corn starch, five table
spoOnfuls of sugar and four eggs, pour
into the milk, stirring constantly. Cut
the puffs in half and fill with the
cream.
Dreaded POTATOES.
Boil potatoes in their skins until
done, but not too soft. Peel them,
cut them in thick slices, dip them in
beaten egg and roll them in fine bread
or zwieback crumbs. Fry the slices in
hot butter or drippings until they are
q golden brown, and serve.
CREAM PUFFs.
One pint boiling water; win lie boiling
stir in one cupful of butter, two heap
ing cups OF flour and eight eggs, yolks
and whites beaten separately. Stir
until well mixed, then take off the fire.
When cool stir in one teaspoonful of
soda. Now drop in gem pans and
bake in hot oven.
GREEN PEA PANCAKES.
A cup of boiled green pess, rubbed
smooth with q teaspoonful of butter
and season with salt and pepper;
should have been put aside after din
ner yesterday for this purpose. Mix
with it now q cupful of milk, two
beaten eggs and three tablespoonful
of prepared flour. Beat to q soft bat
ter and bake as you would griddle
cakes.
RASPBERRY JAM.
Warm the fruit, mash it well in an
earthen jar, and boil twenty minutes.
Then to every pound of fruit use three.
fourths of a pound of sugar. After
this is put in, let it boil till by taking
some out On a plate to try it no juice
gathers about it. Then it is ready to
put away, as you would jelly, in
glasses Or stone jars. Seal with paper
dipped in the white of an egg, when it
is quite cool.
SNOWBALLS.
One cup of small hominy, three cups
Of water, one cup of milk, half tea
spoonful of salt. Boil the hominy In
sailed water for one hour, stirring
often. Add the milk, beat smooth and
cook ten minutes longer. Set to cool
in small cups wet with cold water.
turn these out when cold on saucers,
strew with sugar and cover with cream.
Cook the hominy the day or night be-
fore using it, and leave the cups in the
refrigerator
RASPBERRY PIE WITH CREAM.
Line pie plate with a good paste
and fill with riperaspberries sweetened
abundantly, says Marion Harland.
Lay the upper crust on evenly, but do
not fasten by pinching or printing the
outer edges. When the pie is baked
set aside to cool. The crust should
be cold and stiff when you lit it to
cover the contents with cup of
whipped cream, sweetened with pow
dered sugar. Replace the upper crust,
siet sugar over it and send to the table
WATT MELON RIND PICKLE.
Pare the outer rind off watermelons
that are brought from the dinner
table; cut them simply into strips,
leaves Or stars, any shape, in short,
that you may fancy; take ten pounds
of this rind and boil it in clean water
until tender; make q syrup of two
pounds of sugar, one quart of vinegar,
half an ounce of cloves and half an
ounce of cinnamon; the syrup to be
boiled and poured over the rinds boil
ing hot; drain the syrup off and let it
come to q boil, and pour over the
rinds three days in succession. 1t will
keep for years.