The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-22
SOME CHRISTMAS DISHES.
RECIPES FURNISHED BY WILL
KNOWN WOMEN.

66ClFHS fOhN1SAED bI WHLL-
KNOWN WOMEN.
Jenny June's Plum Pudding - Ella
Wheeler wilcox's Mince Pies-Mary
e. Bryan Talks About Pumpkin
Sweetmeats, and Mrs. sangster
About Apple Souff1ee.
(Copyright)
New York, Dec. 21.-Olive Harper
says that the California Christmas dinner is
the most satisfactory holiday meal of which
she has any knowledge. At the Yule tide
the Golden Gate housekeeper does not bur-
den the digestions of her family with meal
of many courses provocative of dyspepsia,
but serves the national bird, the turkey, in
primitive and toothsoms simplicity, stuffed
with oysters and fianked by all sorts Of
fresh vegetables, which the kindly climate
produces, and celery such as eastern peo-
pie may dream of but seldom see. After
the turkey comes no pudding, but instead a
dessert of fruits, and the happy Californian
rises next morning none the worse for his
holiday indulgences.
st is an easy thing" continued the we'll
known writer, while the rain dripped
drearily upon the dirty December streets
outside, Ito equal the Roman emperor on
whose table pigs were said to appear
roasted on one side and boiled on the other,
and yet without cut or division, and often
serve a turkey SO for a Christmas meal
You must lay the fowl in deep pan, with
water enough to half cover; then place in
the oven. keep up the supply of water and
do not turn. Your turkey will be half
baked and half boiled"
A roasted pig is oftener served as a
Christmas dish in the south than in the
north, and this is the way in which Mrs.
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee responded sometime
since as o the approved Virginia method
of cookery. 1t is not quite
CapIit apri defero
Reddens laudes domino.
But the young porker in his bed of green
makes a dish quite as decorative as the
boar's head on golden platter.
When roasted whole a pig should not be
under four nor above six weeks old. Scald
on the inside, rub with pepper and salt, fill
with stuffing of the liver, heart and has
let's. stewed, seasoned, chopped and mixed
with mashed potatoes, to which has been
added large spoonful of butter, some hard
boiled eggs and thyme and parsley chopped
fine. Bend the forelegs under the body, the
hindlegs forward under the pig, and skewer
in position. Rub with butter and sprinkle
with pepper and salt. Place in deep bak-
ing pan with bunch of herbs, pour on a
quart of boiling water and invert a second
baking pan over the top that it NAV steam
until entirely done. Basic often. When of
fine brown, place the pig kneeling in
large dish edged with a thick fringe of
parsley. Sft powdered cracker over It and
put red apple or an orange in the mouth.
1t is best eaten cold.n
Mrs. Emma Beckwith, whose plucky cam
paign for the mayoralty of Brooklyn, at
the recent election, attracted to her general
attention, is as good a housekeeper as poll
tician, and offers receipt for baked maca-
roni for the Christmas table:
Break the macaroni in pieces about an
inch long. Boil twenty minutes in hot
sailed water. Have ready dish of grated
cheese and a CREASED pudding dish. When
the macaroni is soft, place alternate layers
of macaroni and cheese till all is used hav-
ing cheese for the top layer. Then sprinkle
salt, pepper and bits of butter on top, aud
pour on milk enough to be seen when the
dish is tipped Bake twenty ninutas or
half an hour"
This old Christmas song runs,
Then come boys, and welcome for diet the chief
Plum pudding, goose, capon, mince pies and
roast beef.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that she is
especially fond of mince pies at Christmas,
but as she has forgotten the cooking lessons
she took two years ago she leaves to her
good cook the making of them. Here, how
ever, is a recipe the results of which she
approves:
"Four pounds of lean beef boiled and
chopped fine two pounds of suet, picked aud
chopped, two pounds of currants, two of
raisins, three-quarters Of pound of citron,
twelve large acid apples chopped fine, the
Juice and grated peel of two oranges and
two lemons, a quart of brownsherry, mace,
cinnamon and nutmeg Add, if you like, a
little brandy to each pie"
The entrance of the Christmas pudding
is one of the chief events of the children's
especial festival II should be, says Olive
Thorne Miller, who did not begin her
charming sketches of bird life until she had
seen her children growing up about her, of
Equality that they can enjoy. The follow
ing is her recipe, which she warrants
plain but pleasing"
"One cup and a half OF milk, one of mo-
lasses, one of suet and four of flour. Three
teaspoons of baking powder, one of Glove,
one OF salt. Raisins, currants and citron
dd lib. Boil or steam two hours. at least.
She who has not heard Jenny June talk
Christmas has missed something. 1t Is the
great holiday of the year to Mrs. Croly, and
this is her rule for Christmas plum pud-
ding, which she stopped in the midst of a
very busy week organizing the woman's
press club ami doing twenty other things to
write out for me:
''One pound of stale bread crumbs, one
pound of kidney beef suet, one pound of
Sultana raisins, one pound Of cleaned Zante
currants. eight eggs, quarter of pound
OF mixed citron. orange and lemon peel
candied and chopped, a quarter of pound
OF chopped almonds; a teaspoonful Of salt,
acup Of yellow sugar, one large nutmeg
and pint of fine sweet cider.
Free the suet from skin, chop and mix
with sufficient -four to free it and make it
as fine as powder, cut and stone the raisins,
clean the currants with dry flour by rub
ping them twice and carefully with the
Hour through colander. Add two table
spoonfuls Of -four to the bread crumbs,
mixing thoroughly. Then put in the suet
and salt, then the cleaned currants, raisins.
sugar and spices, then the eggs, previously
Well beaten, lastly the candied fruit and
chopped sw eet almonds, and finally stir in
The cider, instead OF milk. Be up thor
ocughly, for all depends on careful prepara-
aon and thorough mixing. Fill large
mold well buttered, or a bag previously
upped in boiling water, but leave little
space to swell. Plunge into boiling water
sHd keep it boiling without any cessation
sor Tour hours. Serve with hot liquid sauce