The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1888-06-26
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CORN BREAD.

" CoR BREAD.
Three cups cornmeal, one cup -four, one
cup sweet milk, five eggs, four table
spoons baking powder.
POUND AXE.
One pound sugar, one pound butter,
eight eggs, two teaspoons baking powder,
and lemon havoring to suit the taste.
GINGER SNAPS.
One pint of molasses, two tablespoons
of lard, one of ginger; let boil. Cool and
add one teaspoon of soda and -four to
make stiff. Roll very thin.
LEMON PIE.
Crate two lemons, take two cups sugar,
two eggs, half a cup of water, one table
spoonful butter and one of -four. This
will make half a dozen pies.
~BUTTERMILK PIE.
One pint of buttermilk, one and one
half cups of sugar, one tablespoonful of
butter, three of -four, four eggs; flavor
with lemon and nutmeg; bake with lower
crust.
PRINCESS POTATOES.
Form cold mashed potatoes into balls,
brush them with melted butter, then with
beaten egg, and place them in a baking
pan. Baks in a very hot oven until a
golden brown.
TO DRESS cUcUMBERs.
Gather, or buy from market early, peel,
and put on ice until dinner; then slice as
thin as possible and put with sliced onions
in a dish. Salt and pepper freely, pour a
o,,o - oooor Oror thom anH law 100 on
top.
First make a nice crust; line a pie-plate
with crust, fill in with a layer of pitted
prunes, one tablespoonful of vinegar,
enough of the juice to just cover the
prunes, a few bits of butter, a little flour,
and sugar to taste; top crust.
SHORT COOKIES.
Rub half a pound of lard or dripping
into a pound of rice flour, add six ounces
of brown sugar, one egg and a table
spoonful of lemon juice. Mix with a cup
of warm milk, into which a t~easpoonful
of saleratus has been stirred.
sTEwED STEAK. o.
Take II pounds of sliced stewing steak,
dust the slices in a little flour, pepper and
salt then roll them up and brown in a
frying pan; put in a stew-pan with a few
onions; simmer for two hours, and
thicken the gravy with a little flour
EGGS IN SURPRISE.
Make a small hole in an egg and pierce
the yolk with a large needle in order to
empty it out of the shell; fill this by
means of a small funnel with warm jelly
and set to cool on ice; over the hole in
the egg you can paste a motto or the
name of a child or person.
ROLLS.
Mix thoroughly one quart Of -four with
three teaspoons of baking powder; rub
in one ounce of sweet butter or lard, and
salt; add one beaten egg and as much
cool sweet milk as will make a soft
dough; roll and cut out. large sized cakes,
wet half of top and fold over; bake i'm
mediately.
FISH BALLS.
Boil together one quart of sliced pota-
toes and one large cup of salt fish about
half an hour; mash and add two table
~spoonfuls of cream or milk, with a small
piece of butter the size of an egg beat
together with a sppon; then have the fat
boiling hot; drop in the hot fat a table
spoonful of the mixture.
GINGER CAKES.
Half a cup of sugar, one cup of mo-
~lasses, one-half cup of butter, two tea
s%poonfuls of ginger, one each of CHINA
mon and cloves, two ~teaspoonfuls OF soda
in a cup of boiling water, two and one
half cups of flour; add two well-beaten
eggs the last thing before baking. Bake
in gem-pans or as a common cake.
POTATO SOUP.
Cook as many potatoes as are needed
in salt and water, drain them and mash
fine, thin them with boiling water, and
pass the mixture through a sieve, boil a
leek and add it to the soup, as we'll as
some flour Drowned slightly in butter,
and cook for five or ten minutes. Just
before serving add the yolk of an egg.
STRAWBERRY CHEEsECAKEs.
Take one-fourth pint of hulled straw
berries, selecting those which are of good
flavor. Put them in a bowl, and after
MASKING them thoroughly with the back
OF wooden spoon, sweeten with table