The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-21
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WHITE CAKE.


WHITE AXE.
One cup of sugar, three eggs, half-cuP
butter, one cup milk, two t~easpoontuls OF
baking powder, -four to form a batter.
Take bread sponge and thin out with
warm water; use three eggs to a quart OF
batter; set it to rise, put into muffin rings
and bake.
FRIED PUMPKIN.
Slice the pumpkin and boil until tender;
remove from the fire and mash with a
fork; add two eggs; and fry in butter un-
til brown.
HEAD CHEESE.
Boil the pigs head until the bones drop
off; chop fine, add six rolled crackers, salt,
pepper and spices to taste; pack in a stone
Jar and serve cold.
CREAM CAKE.
Four cups of sifted -four, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder, three cups of white
sugar, n cup of butter, one cup OF sweet
cream, and five eggs; flavor with lemon.
CRANBERRY SAUCE.
Allow a quart of water to a quart of
cranberries. Place on the stove and stew
until the berries will mash with a spoon.
Stir until all are crushed; add sugar, a
pound for a quart, and more if 1t is desired
to have it jelly.
TAPIoCA JELLY.
One-half pint of ~tapioca, one quart of
water, the juice and grated rine Of a lem
on. Soak the tapioca over night in wa
ter; sweeten and boil for an hour in afari-
ma kettle. When nearly done stir in the
lemon and pour it into nolds. Serve with
cream sweetened.
OMELETE soUFTLE.
Five eggs, a quarter of a pound of but
ter, four ~tablespoonfuls Of sugar, one OF
flour. Mix we'll. add last the stiff froth
of the whites of the eggs. Melt a piece
of butter in a saucepan, pour in the mix
ture, and stir with a broad knife until
done. Sprinkle with lemon juice and SUI
gar, or serve wrh preserves.
APPLE CUsTARD.
Another way to prepare apples for des-
sert is to core, pare and CRATE them. For
Quart Of grated apples stir in a quarter
of a pound of melted butter and a half
pound of sugar. Beat the yolks and
whites of eight eggs separately; stir in the
whites the last thing, and bake like Gus
tard in a deep dish lined with puff-paste.
LEMON PIE.
One cup each Of sugar and hot water,
two tablespoons Of cornstarch rubbed
smooth in cold water, a small piece of but
ter, grated riud and Juice Of one lemon;
cook till clear, and when cold add the yolk
of one egg; bake with N undercrust only;
beat the white of the egg to afroth, sweet
en-, spread over the top aud set in the oven
to brown.
sPICED BEEF.
Take from four to six pounds of beef,
wash and cut off any part of the skin
which is not sweet and clean, pick off all
fine fragments of bone, and cut meat into
several pieces; cover with boiling water,
skim carfully as it boils, and then simmer
till the meat falls to pieces, and the liquor
reduced to half a pint. Remove the meat,
season the liquor highly with salt, pepper,
sage and thy me; add it to the meat, and
mix with a fork till the meat is all broken.
Pack IN a brick loaf pan, and when cold
cut in slices.
WINTER SALAD.
To one gallon of finely chopped cab
bage add half a gallon of green tomatoes,
one pint of green pepper pods, seeded,
one quart of onions, all chopped fine
Strain off the juice and throw it awav
Then add four ta~blespoonfuls of mixed
mustard, two tablespoonful of ground
ginger, one tablespoonful of, cloves, two
ounces of tumeric. one ounce of celery
seed, two pounds of brown sugar, two
tablespoonful of salt to two quarts of
good vinegar. Boil slowly to the other
ingredients and mix thoroughly. Put in
large crock and keep well covered.
CHOCOLATE PIE.
One cup of milk, three eggs, tw thirds
of a cup of granulated sugar, two heaping
tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, a pinch
of salt, and vanilla extract enough to
flavor. Mix the chocolate in two table
spoonfuls of milk. Stir in the cup of
milk, and scald. Beat one whole egg
and the yolks of two with the cup of
sugar. Pour the hot milk on to the egg
and sugar, stirring while pouring~it on.
Bake in a deep pie plate, with one crust.
When done, beat the whites of the two
eggs used in the pie to stiff froth. Add
two tablespoonfulsI of pulverized sugar ;
spread over the top \of the pie and return
to oven until sliohflH drowned