The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-04
Household Hints.

Boston cream pufis are favorites wherever
tried. To make them, put half pint of
water into a saucepan; add four ounces of
butter, and bring slowly to the boil; then
stir in gradually half a pound of -four,
beating well. Let it boil a couple of min
utes then turn out until cool, when the
yolks of six eggs should be beaten in, and
finally the whites, whisked to stiff froth.
This must be dropped from dessert spoon
upon sheets OF creased paper, laid upon a
tin IN hot oven. When baked, slit one
side with a sharp knife and fill with corn
hour blanc mango mixture, made in the
usual way, but with extra sugar, as it will
be noted there is none in the batter for
the cakes themselves.
A very nice breakfast dish, or side dish
with roast turkey or duck, is made by fry
ing oysters in jackets. They are also called
Little pigs in blankets" TO make them,
you need one pint of nice, large oysters,
and piece OF bacon cot in very thin slices.
Take one slice, place an oyster on one-half
the slice, fold the other half over. and pin
the oyster in by running q wooden tooth
pick through. Put in a spider and fry
without seasoning. When done send to
This is very delicious with buckwest cakes
in winter.
Old-fashioned New Years cakes, which
were once considered an essential part of
the refreshments set out for callers on New
Years Day, are made by the following
rule: One and one quarter pounds sugar,
one pound butter, one-half pint cold water,
Two eggs, three and one-quarter pounds
-four, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in
hot water, four tablespoonfuls caraway
seeds sprinkled through the -four. Rub the
butter, or, what is better, chop it up in the
flour; dissolve the sugar in the water; mix
al nall NIT fh0 -
cakes, or with an oval mould, and bake
quickly.
Very nice cakes to prepare tor New
Years party are daisy cakes, which should
be made and finished in the following man.
ner One cup OF granulated sugar, one
hall cup of butter, and one-half cup of
| sour cream, two eggs, one scant teaspoon
| jul OF soda dissolved In a very little cold
water; flavor with nutmeg and use -four to
rol, Taking care not to get the dough too
hard. Roll out and cns With scolloosd
cookie cutter. Bake in a slow oven. and do
not let them oyerdo. Prepare an ordinary
frosting with tie white Of one egg and
powdered sugar, having it stiff enough to
keep the shape. Take some of this IN q
confectioner's syringe or q little roll OF
stiff white paber with the point cut of, and
put white petals on the cake when cold
not bringing them quite together in the
center. Make a frosting of the yelk of egg
and sugar, and make the center or the daisv
Of this spot about the size of G copper
cent. Flavor both kinds of frosting to
taste.
A Hamburg cook gives good way for
using kind of steak, the round, which
usually is well favored, but is too tough
to broil in the ordinary way. To prepare
it remove the skin, fat, and sinews from
two pounds of the lower part of the round.
Chop the meat very fine, add to it a Glove
OF minced garlic and one small red onion
chopped fne, half teaspoonful of pepper
and tesspoonful of salt Shape the mass
into little steaks an inch in thickness by
wetting your hands 30 the meat will not
cling to them Fry the steaks in hot but
ter and serve them with or without tomato
sauce. Hamburg steaks may also be broil.
ed In double broiler which has been well
buttertd.
With the Hamburg steak cold boiled
potatoes may be made into q most appe-
tizing dish by making q scollop Of them.