The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-14
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freshly mado solution of gum tragacanth
in water.
Wheat Cakes: One cup of butter.
milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, u
littlo SALT and flour to make batter.-
Household.
Add a tablespoonful OF borax to q
pan of hot soapsuds, put the table silver
in 1t, and let it stand two hours. Then
rinse it with clear water and polish with
a soft cloth or channels skin.
Baked Bananas: Select large, ripe
bananas, and bake them in the oven as
you would potatoes. When the skin be-
gins to split at the seams they are done.
Take them out and serve one to each
person, as a vegetable. They should
be pealed, and eaten with butter and a
little salt.-Boston Budget.
legged Bread: Bread. fresh or stale,
Is cut in long strips. or in squares or
rounds with cake cutter. Let them
soak till soft, but not broken, in one
pint Of saltod milk into which two eggs
have been beaten. Bake nice brown,
OF fry on griddle in half suet half but
ter. MAY DO made with one egg).-N.
Y. Observer.
Tomato Jelly: Break ripe tomatoes
into pieces and stew them until done,
in as little water as will keep them
from burning. Pour all the pulp into
tho jelly bag, and whom tho juice has
trickled through add pound of loaf
sugar to zach pound of the juice. Re-
turn it to The stovo and let it boil rapid
ly until it jellics. This is very nice
with
Stockman.
Sweet Picked Grapes: Either ripo
or green grapes may be made and put
up in the same way by using strip of
one quart of the best cider vinegar and
three pounds of sugar to seven pounds
of fruit. boiling such spices as seem de-
sirable in the sirup Or take fine full
stems and dip them in the boiling syrup
long enough to become thoroughly
heated, then place them in jars and pour
tho syrup over them scattering whole
spices among them if liked. House
keeper.
Chocolate Marble Cake.-One heap
ing cup sugar, one third cup butter, one
egg, one small cup milk. two small cups
flour, one and one-half teaspoons yeast
powder. Take one-half Of the mixture
out into another dish and mix ono cake
of melted chocolate with it; flavor the
light with vanilla; put ono spoonful of
the light. then one Of the dark, into the
pan until used up. Frosting-One cup
powdered sugar, ono and one-half table
spoons milk, one-half teaspoon straw
berry lavoring.-Boston Globe.
Cabbage Salad. with French Dres-
sing: Shave n mcdium-sized cabbage
fine, sprinkling with salt and pepper,
pour oyer it tho following dressing: Hoat
onc-half cup milk to boil, beat together
ono egg, onc-half cup sugar, piece of
butter size of n walnut; stir in the boil
ing milk: let come to = boil; then add
onc-half cup vinegar; pour over the cab
bagc; let cool: stir occasionally. Quick
graham bread: one and a-half pints sour
milk. onc-half cupful molasses, two tea
spoonfuls of soda a little salt, stir thick
with graham flour; bake slowly. De-
troit Free Press.
Sweet Corn Soup: Ono pint of
chopped corn, two-thirls of = quart of
milk, two teaspoonfuls of butter, one
tablespoonful of flour, two eggs, one
half toaspoonful OF salt. ono teaspoonful
Of sugar, one small onion chopped. one
half tablespoonful OF pepper: after
cutting the corn from the cobs, put them
on to boil in water enough to cover, let
them boil twcnty minutes: then remove
them; add the corn. after chopping it
quite fine, and the onion: cook fifteen
minutes; thcn add tho milk and the rest
OF the seasoning; thicken with the flour,
which should be mixed smooth in milk;
cock about five minutes after the thick.
cning is in: beat the eggs we'll. and stir
them III after tho soup is removed from
the fire. Boston Herald