The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

a fine garnish for beef steak.
Care in the details is the secret of all
nice cooking, and the reason of so
much that is poor and monotonous in
our mode of living is the want of Just
this care. Education and intelli-
gence are as valuable in cooks
as in any walk of life, and even
more, for the health and comfort of
present and future generations depends
upon them.
Drowned Potato-Bo and mash q
quart of potatoes; moisten with boiled
milk. Beat separately the white and
yolk of an egg; add the yolk to the po-
tato, and little salt Whisk the white
to froth and add, just before putting
in the oven. Put the mixture in large
soup plate and bake fifteen minutes;
serve as soon as taken from the oven.
Breakfast Hominy-Boil large cup
full the night before, pour it into yell
low dish and place it in the ice box with
a weight upon it. The next morning
cut it in half-inch slices, brush little
butter over them, place the slices be-
tween the double broiler and toast to a
delicate brown; pour little melted
butter over them, add salt and the
juice of an orange.
Ignorance, as well as necessity, some
times invents, or causes to be invented.
A new girl, stranger to this country,
not knowing the difference between
Jelly and spiced currents, used the lat
ter in layer cake. The result was un-
expected and delicious, and hereafter
the quantity of spiced fruit usually put
up will be increased, with regard to the
requirements of layer cake.
Apple-Compote-Take six or eight
medium sized apples; see that they are
not bruised, peel them carefully, and
take the core out with cutter. Let
them boil in thin syrup till they are
sufficiently cooked, but not so soft as to
fall to pieces. Lay the apples on a
hair-sieve to drain while the syrup in
which they were done is boiled up to
thicken. Place the apples in dish,
pour the syrup round them, and serve
when cold.
Greens, such as beet tops, dandelion,
Brussels sprouts, and the like are at
their best in May and June. Always
have dish of one or the other on the
dinner table while they last. Wash
them thoroughly, with little salt in the
final water, to draw out the insects, or
kill the mfHsoria. Boil in just enough
water to cover, and boil fast; drain thor
oughly. Chop fine, with pepper and
salt to taste, and little butter. Use
lemon juice as q condiment, instead of
vinegar, for greens. !"
Pineapple Pyramid Make some good
calves foot jelly, or get it from your
grocer. Surround pyramid-shaped
mold with ice, keeping the pointed end
upward; put in enough jelly to cover
the bottom of the mold; when firm add
a layer of diamond-shaped pieces of
pineapple, then add more jelly and
pineapple, until the mold is full and all
the fruit is used. Keep it as cold as
possible until wanted, then dip the mold
quickly in hot water and turn out the
form on an. ice cold dish.
Buns Rub half a pound of butter in
to pound and quarter of -four, add
three gills of milk, half wine-glass of
brandy, little rosewater, some nut
meg, grated, four eggs beaten very
light, handful of dried currants, and
half teacupful of yeast, wineglassful
if very strong. Mix all well together
and set to rise. When light, add half
a pound of sugar (dried and sifted),
and make out as biscuit, letting them
rise in the pan. Bake in quick oven,
and when you take them out sift sugar
over them.
The bread for poached eggs should
be cut thin, trimmed neatly, and toast
ed light brown, each piece buttered
and put on a hot dish. Have shallow
pan ready, two-thirds full of boiling
and salted water. Break each egg very
carefully into a shallow saucer, and
slice it off gently into the water. Drop
a little of the boiling water from a
spoon over each egg, and when a
s'skin" has formed and the white set,
take each one up with skinner, lay
it on Is toast, trim the edges, and in
stantly send to the table.
Tomato Omelet--Scald and skin
three ripe tomatoes, quarter them; fry
quarter of an onion (minced) in an
ounce of butter, toss the tomatoes in
this, add little water to prevent burn
ing; season with salt, pinch OF cay
enne and a very slight suspicion OF
mace; simmer until reduced toa pulp.
Break three eggs separately, beat them
together, put them in the frying pan,
and when slightly Drowned on the bot
tom prepare to fold the onielet; just
before doing so add the tomato pulp
and turn the omelet out in a hot dish;
surround it with little tomato sauce,
and serve.
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or square-topped table with good-look-
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