The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-18

pour the sauce over them. This is a Lenten
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Crumpets-One quart of milk, half yeast
cake dissolved in warm waser. or four table
spo0nfuls of yeast, one tablespoonful of lard and
the same of butter, one-half teaspoonful of salt.
one-quarser teaspoonful Of soda. sifted twice
with the salt IN quart OF -four. Mix well over
night. Beat up hard in the morning; let it rise
for an hour longer; half fil heated and creased
muffin rings on heated and CREASED eridile
with the batter, and bake on the ton Of the
range, turning once. Run sharp knife aronnd
the inside of each ring to loosen the crumDet
Eat hot The cold ones left over are nice, If
split toasted and buttered.
Recipes for stewed potatoes have already az
pearea in this series.
LUNCHEON
OYSTERS on Toast.
Thin Bread and Butter
Jeied Tongue.
Hot Crackers Cheese.
An Excellent Cup Cake.
Cocoatna.
Oysters on Toast-Drain the liquor from a
quart Of oysters; cut each into four pieces and
drain again in colander for fifteen minutes.
heat the liquor and strain through coarse muslin
back into the sauce. When it boils again dip
out small cupful and keep it hot. Stir into
that left on the range liberal teaspoonfui of
butter, rolled In scant tablespoonful OF corn
starch. In another vessel heat half cupful of
milk Stir the oysters into the thickened liquor;
season with pepper aud salt, and cook, after they
are scaldng hot five minutes, before adding the
milk Line hot platter with neat slices of crust
less toast, buttered, wet with the reserved liquor
and cover with the oysters.
Thin Bread and Butter-Cut the kissing SLICE
from the end of the loaf; butter the exposed
surface and slice very thin. Butter again and
slice until you have enough cut. Draw sharp
knife across the middle of each slice and fold it
over upon itself, buttered sides inward.
Jeled Tongue-Clear p pint of the liquor in
which smoked tongue was boiled by heating to
a boil and stirring in the white of an egg, then
boiling fast for five minutes. Strain through
thick cloth without squeezing and pour it, boil
ing hot on half package of eelatine which has
been soaked for two hours in enough cold
water to cover it. Add to this blade of mace,
half dozen black peppercorns, and four table
spoonfuls of sharp, clear vinegar. Stir until the
gelatine is dissolved, and strain, without press
ing, through flannel bag. When it is cold and
begins to CONCEAL at the edges. fill mold or
bowl (wet with cold water) with slices of tongue
arranged in perpendicular rows, and pour tho
jelly over them. Set in cold place until firm;
turn out on cold platter You can jelly the
tongue whole, il you like. by cutting off the root
and trimming the rest into nice shape, pairing
away every particle of skin, and emitting the
tough tip altogether. Lay it in an oval pan or
mold and cover with the semi-lquid jelly. 1t
will be a handsome dish when turned out.
An Excellent Cup Cake-Two rounded cups of
powdered sugar, one even cup of butter one cup
OF milk. three cups OF prepared -four four eggs
one lemon, juice and rind; rub butter and sugar
TO a cream, UehL In the lemOQ the Wl1DDel YOlkS,
the milk; then frothed whites and -four by turns,
Bake in small tins or in two square tins.
Cocoatina-The only preparation in the market
is that manufactured by Fl. o. Wilbur, of Phila-
delphia, and nothing could be better.
DINNER
Gibet Soup
Roast Beef, with Yorkshire Pudding
Sea Kale Mont Blanc Potato.
Cream Sponge Cake
Branded Peaches
Fruit. Coffee.
Giblet SouD-Cook the giblets Of turk ey, or
those from pair of chickens, in pint of cold
water until tender, salt and set away in the
liquor until cold and stiff. Take them out and
chop fine when you have skinned the fat from
the liquor, and put it over the fire with pint of
soup stock. Boil up WE'LL ekim, strain back into
the pot, add the minced giblets, and season to
taste. Put into frying pan two tablespoonful
of butter which has been cut up and worked into
two of Drowned -four. Stir steadily until it melts
and SINNERS when add a small teaspoonful of
Worcestershire sauce. Turn into the sonp,
rinsing out the frying pan with few spoonfu!s
of the hot LIQUOR to get all the -four and butter
Cook gently for ten minutes. and serve.
Roast Beef, with Yorkshire Pudding When
q roast of beef is within half an hour OF the
'1turn" drain off the gravy into a bowl leaving
about teaspoonful in the dripping PAN Law
gridiron over the pan ii you have that will
sticks of oak Or hickory mot pine) laid across
the top of the dripping pan. Pour in the pui
ding, letting the fat from the roa ST drop on as
it cooks
Yorkshire Pudding-Fonr eggs beaten very
light two cups of milk, two cups of prepared
-four, one teaspoonfull of salt; beat whites and
yolks in separate bowls: into the latter stir the
milk, then frothel whites and sailed f1onr by
turns; mix quickly AMI bake at once. Cut the
pudding into strips m inch wide by three long,
and lay about the beef when dished. helping one
or two pieces with eacn slice of meat
Sea Kale-Thls j. a spring vegetable that
needs only to be better known to become widely
popular, Lay in cold water for half an hour
when you have washed and picked it over to get
out dead leaves, coarse stems, bits of sand etc; ,
cook twenty five minutes in boiling water
sailed; drain and press in colander, chop fine
return to the fire in a saucepan, and beat into it
great spoonful of butter. a little pepper and q
tablespoonful of vinegar; stir and toss until very
hot and DISH
Mont Blanc Potato-Instead of MASKING
boiled potatoes, whip light and dry with wood
or silver fork. At this point begin to whip
in acupful of hot milk for quart of mashed po-
tato, and, when all is in, beat in the frothed
whites of two eggs. Heap conically in a deep
silver or stoneware dish; set in Quick oven I'M
til the surface hardens slightly. Withdraw be-
fore it catches shade of brown, wash over
lightly with butter and send to table.
Dreamed Sponge Cake-Cut the top from
stale sponge-cake loaf in one piece, half an inch
thick. Dig and scrape the crumbs from inside
of loaf and upper slice, leaving enough to keep
the outside firm. Spread thick layer OF fruit
jelly on the inside. Heat cup of milk TO a boil
stir in a teaspoonful of corn starch wet with cold
milk, and the cake crumbs rubbed fine. Stir
until thick, take from the fire. beat in two
whipped eggs and two tablespoonfuls Of sugar.
Make all smooth batter, set in boiling water on
the range and stir for FIVE minutes after the
mixture is really hot through. Turn into bowl
flavor with a teaspoonful of bitter almond es-
sence and let it get cold. Fill the cake with it;
fit on the top, wash all over with whipped white
of egg, sift powdered sugar evenly over it until
no more will adhere to the surface and let it
harden
Send around branded peaches with this.
SENIOR Don JUAN VALERA. Spanish minister to
the United States, who 10 about leaving this