The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-03
DOMESTIC HINTS
CANNED FRUIT.

CANNED FRUIT.
Put the prepared fruit in a jar, and
cover with boiling syrup sweetened to
taste. On three successive mornings
drain off the syrup, boil again, and
pour over the fruit. The last morning
| let the iruit and syrup come just to
the boiling point. but do not boil; then
seal Immediately. Fruit prepared IN
this way has be tested by the author
and found perft:5. Strawberries pre-
serve their shape, and never terment.
SWEET PICKLES.
Eight pounds of fruit, four pounds
of best brown sugar, one quart OF vine
gar and n cup Of mixed whole spices,
stick cinnamon. caSsla buds, allspiCe
md clOves--leSs of the latter than of
the former. Tie the spices in a bag
and boil with the vinegar and sugar.
Skim well; then add the fruit. Cook
ten minutes, or till scalded and tender.
Skim out the fruit and put into stone
Jars. Boil the syrup five minutes
longer and pour over the fruit. The
next day pour off the syrup and boil
down again, and do this for three
mornings. Keep the bag of spices in
the syrup.
POACHED EGGS.
Break your egg INTO a teaCup preVi-
OuSIy well buttered, stand it into a
frying pan of boiling water up to the
middle of the cup; as soOn as the white
hardens it is done; put a knife gently
around the edge and slip the egg onto
a plate; it is rather more trouble to
dress them this way, but repays you
we'll, as they come out nice and COM
pact and do not look so ragged as
when broken into the pan of water,
the usual mode of cooking them.
ALMOND CAKE.
One-half cuptuI butter. two cupfuls
sugar, four eggs, one-half cupful al
monds, blanched-by pouring water
on them until skins easily slip off
spoonful extract bitter almonds, one
pint flour, one and a half teaspOonfuls
baking powder, n glass brandy, one
half cupful milk. Rub butter and
sugar to smooth white cream; add
eggs, one at a time, beating three or
four minutes between each. Sift -four
and powder together, add to butter,
etc, with almonds, extract of bitter al
mOnds, brandy and milk; mix into
smooth, medium batter, bake careful
ly in rather hot oven twenty minutes.
APPLE JELLY CAKE.
One cupful butter, two cupfuls
sugar, four eggs, three cupfuls flour,
n and One-half teaspoonfuls baking
powder, one cupful milk, six apples,
six ounces sugar, one teaspoOnful but
ter. Rub together butter and sugar to
fine light, white cream, add eggs, two
at a time, beating ten minutes between
each addition. Sift flour and baking
powder together, add to butter, ETC.,
with milk, and mix into rather thin
batter. Bake in jelly cake tins care
fully CREASED. Meanwhile have apples
peeled and sliced, put on fire with
sugar; when tender remove, rub
through fine sieve, and add butter.
When cold use to spread between
layers. Cover cake plentifully with
sugar, sifted over top.
LUNCH CAKE.
Two cupfuls butter, two cupfuls
sugar, one and a half pints flour, one
teaspoonful baking powder, six eggs,
one teaspoonful each of extract rose,
cinnamon and nutmeg. Rub the butter
and sugar to a very light cream; add
the eggs, two ala time, beating five
minutes between each addition; add
the Hour, sifted with the powder, wine,
extracts; mix into a smooth batter;
put into a thickly papered, shallow
cake pan and bake in moderate oven
one and a quarter hours. When cold
ice the bottom and sides with white
icing.
RICE CAKE.
One-half cupful Of butter, two cup
fuls sugar, four eggs, one and a half
cups rice flour, one and a half caps
-four, one teaspoonful baking powder,
one-half cup cream, one teaspoonful
extract lemon. Beat the eggs and
sugar together ten minutes; add the
butter, melted; sift together flour, rice
flour and the powder, which add to the
eggs, ETC.. with the cream and the ex
Gract; mix into a thin batter, and bake
in patty pans, well CREASED, in a hot
oven, ten minutes.
RICE PUDDING.
0ne-half cupfut rice, oae and one-
half pints milk, one-half cupful sugar,
large pinch of salt, one tablespoonful
lemon rind chopped fine. Put rice,
washed and picked, sugar, salt and
milk in quart pudding dish; bake in
moderate oven two hours, stirring fire.
quently first n and quarter hours,
then permit it to finish cooking, with
light colored crust. disturbing it no
mere. Eat cold with cream.
nhravva,