The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-28
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Household Hints.

Cocoanut Drops. = One pound desic-
Gated cocoanut, half-pound powdered
sugar, white of an egg. Work all to-
gether, roll into little balls in the hands.
and bake on buttered tins.
Birds Nest Pudding.-Pare and quar-
ter tart apples, set them around in dish,
put in little water, and stew them. For
crust, take onehalt cup buttermilk, one
half cup cream, one-half teaspoon soda,
salt, flour to make as stiff as soft cake,
and spread over the top of the apples.
Bake, then turn them bottom side up
ward in deep dish, put on butter, sugar
and plenty of cream milk will answer.
but it is not SO rich), and set into oven to-
warm.
Floating Island - One quart milk.
four eggs, beaten separately, four
heaping teaspoonfuls white eugar, two
teaspoonfuls vanilla or essence of al
mond, one-half cup currant Jelly. Beat
yolks WE'LL stir in sugar and add TO the
hot milk-not boiled little at time.
Then boil until it thickens. When cool
flavor and pour into glass dish-frst
stir we'll. Heat meringue, made of the
beaten whites and one-half cup jelly
gradually beaten in dots with bits of Jelly.
Charlotte Russe.- Make a sponge cake
OF four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup
flour, one-balf teaspoon soda, one tea
spoon cream tartar. Bake in thin loaf
When cool cat into rounds with tumble
cutter. Take one pint Of COOL sweet
cream, whip with Dover egg beater, add
sugar, and flavor to taste. Place the
rounds of cake upon dish, and pile.
cream upon each. This will make cream
enough for ten.
Cheap Cream Ptfs. = One half CUP
butter, one cup cold water boiled togeth-
or, add one cup -four, simmer short time.
When pertly cool add three eggs, one at
time, without beating. Drop on pan
a dessert spoonful, bake thoroughly in q
very, very hot oven. When cool fill them
with cream, made of two cups of milk.
one cup sugar, two eggs, two small table,
spoons -four, flavor to taste
Lemon Jelly.-One quart water. four
heaplng tablespoons corDstarch, one cup
sugar, three or four lemons. DISSOLVE
the starch and sugar in the lemon. pour
In the water. Boil several minutes. STIR
ring constantly. This may be nodded.
and the white of an egg beaten with two
tablespoons of sugar spread over the top
Ratsin Pie. : Crate the yellow from
one lemon, discard all the white rind and
seeds; chop remainder of lemon, and one
cup stoned raisins. Add to these little
salt, piece of butter size of walnut. one
half cup molasses, one cup brown sugar
two cups water. Boil all together five
minutes, then thicken with five table.
spoonfuls -four. Bake between two.
crusts. This makes two medium sized
pies.
Stuffed Beef Ste0k.-Take thick slice
OF round, and sew the edges together.
leaving place at one end. Fill the hol-
low roll thus formed with stuffipp. and
finish sewing together. Have ready a
stewpan with one or two slices of pork.
ana an onion or two fried crisp. Take
out the pork and onions, lay in the steak
and brown on every side, then put in two
gills OF water, sprinkle well with salt,
cover close. and stew steadily an hour
and a-half. Add water as it becomes
dry. When done lay on a platter, thick
en- the gravy if not thick enough already,
and pour over the meat. Cut into slices
through the roll.
About Flowers
Concerning the beauty of double flow