The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-04-16
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SQUASH PIE.

SQUASH PIE.
One ego. one pint of milk, one cracker
rolIed fine, one cup of sifted squash, sugar,
nutmeg and cinnamon to taste.
CAKE
Reat six eggs light; stir in two pounds
of Ao.r. one gill of yeast salt and sutlclent
milk to make a thick batter; make them
at nioht for breakfast. Have your grlddle
hot: butter and send hot to the table.
HAM AND EGGS.
Soak ham over night in milk. In the
morning fry until brown, then remove TO
a platter. Fry eggs by dipping gravy over
them until done, instead OF turnlng, tnen
take 10 carefully and lay upon the shoes
of ham.
LEMON PUDDING.
Six ounces of melted butter; pour 1T
over the same quantity of sugar; stir 1t
well until cold. Crate the rind OF a large
lemon and add to it eight eggs well
beaten and the juice of two lemons; STIR
all together and bake with putt paste
around the edges OF dish.
BAKED BEANS.
Soak one quart of beans in water over
night. in the morning put them IN an iron
kettle with one-half pound OF salt pork
and water to cover. When tender, but
not broken. take out of the liquor with a
skinner. and put in a baking pan with
the pork on the top and bake unit Drown.
BUNS.
Break one egg into a cup and fill with
sweet milk; mix with it half a cup OF
Yeast, half a cup of butter, n cup OF
sugar. enough flour to make soft dough;
flavor with cinnamon and nutmeg let rise
till very light, then mold into biscuits with
a few currants; let rise a second time and
bake.
CHOCOLATE CAK
One pound of sugar, six eggs, one pound
of flour, one-half pound Of butter, n cup
of milk, one teaspoon of baking powder
bake in layers. For the dressing take one
half pound chocolate, two pounds of sugar,
one cup milk or cream, one-haf cup but
fer: cook until thick and spread between
the layers.
ORANGE FLOAT.
One quart of water, the juice and pulp
of two lemons, one coffee-cup of sugar.
When boiling hot add four tablespoons of
cornstarch. Let boil fifteen minutes, stir
ring all the time. When cold pour it over
four or five oranges that have been sliced
into a glass dish, and over the top spread
the beaten whites o. three eggs, sweetened
and favored with vanilla.
CINNAMON RUsKs.
One cup Of mashed potatoes, one of hot
yeast and three eggs. Mix all together.
When light add half a cup of butter, one
tablespoonful of ground. cinnamon and
flour to make a stiff dough. Let il rise,
make it into small cakes and put in but
tered pans. When light grease. the tops
with butter, sprinkle thickly with sugar
and cinnamon. Bake in a quick oven.
CHOCOLATE.
A Senator's wife, who is said to serve
the best chocolate in Washington, gave
the following receipt to Miss Edith In
gals: Three quarters of a cake of Bakers
chocolate, one quart of cold water, one
quart of sweet, rich milk, sugar to taste.
Crate or scrape the chocolate and mix
with the water, thoroughly and smoothly
then sweeten and allow TO boil until it is
quite a thick paste. Boil the milk sepa-
rately and stir it into the chocolate MKT
ure, and cook a few minutes longer.
SALLY LUNN.
One and one-half pounds of flour, two
ounces of butter, one pint of new milk,
one s~altspoon salt, and three eggs; one
tablespoon yeast. Warm the milk and
butter over water until the butter is
melted; beat the eggs in a two-quart tin
pail, and if the milk is not hot pour it over
them. Stir in half the -four, then add the
yeast, stirring thoroughly with the rest of
the -four. Let rise over night. Bake a
little brown in a quick oven. Some add
two tablespoons sugar and a teaspoon of
soda and two of cream tartar, instead of
the yeast.
One pint of milk, two eggs, one table
spoonful of sugar, one cupful of -four, one
teaSpoonful of baking powder, one cup
= full of cream, a pinch of salt. Sift the
-four, salt and powder together, add to it
the eggs beaten with the sugar and diluted
with the milk and cream; mix into a thin
batter; nave a small, round frying pan.
melt butter in it, pour about half a cupfui
of batter il it, turn the pan around that
the batter may cover the pan, put on hot
fire; turn it and brown the other side;
butter each and roll it up; sprinkle with
powdered sugar.
DEvILED NGU
Slice a cold-bolled tongue fresh OF
smoked) and fry the slices quickly in nice
~drippings. If you have none, use butter
Chop a little onion fine and stir in before
the tongue is fried. Take up the slices,
arrange neatly, overlapping one another,
in a hot-water dish. Strain the fat: re-
turn to the fire; stir in a t~easpoonful of
Drowned -four, half a ~teaspoonful of Wor-
chestershire sauce, a tablespoonful of vine
gar, a quarter of a ~teaspoonful of mustard. q
pinch of cayenne and half a cup of boiling
water. Stir and boil for one minute and
pour overthe tongue.