The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-11-14
Not In the Cook Books.

Who knows how to make cracker
crnllersp In a dearth Of dread. when
Bridget has kicked over the traces. or
mother is sick, or Aunt Sarah with her
large family has unexpectedly arrived.
try this experiment for a side dish to
balance the plate of biscuit on the 9TH
or side of the table. Split common
white crackers. Prepare a bowl of
cold water with a trifle of salt dissolved
in it. Soak the divided crackers. one
or two at n time, in the cold water,
while the spider is heating on the stove
and a small lump of butter melting
within it. When the crackers are
partly swollen and are tender through
out, drain them quickly from the cold
water, and lay them in the spider,
there to sputter and brown on both
sides. Serve neatly piled in a hot
plate. and add more butter while eat
ing, if the palate demands.
Familiarity ~ they should be. Unripe
pears should not be used; but when
those of any variety are nearly mellow
enough to eat, then prepare q crust
AMI line pie-plates as for apple pies.
The pears must be cored and sliced;
they need not be pared unless the skin
is leathery. Sweeten moderately, dot
with butter and add a very little cold
water, according to tho juicineys of the
fruit. Use no spice. Be sure that the
undercrust is sufficiently done; an in
fallible test is that of its slipping upon
the plate. The crust should DO brown
and the filling, of honey richness. Eat
while fresh.
A nasty peach pudding may be made
as follows. Drain the liquor from a
can of peaches. Wet with it about a
cupful and a-half of ceralinc-more or
less, according to the juiciness of the
peaches. 1t should not be too thick to
pour. Add two well-beaten eggs, a
speck of salt, and a half cup of sugar,
Pour this mixture into a buttered pud-
ding dish. Now drop the reserved
peaches into the center Of the mixture
and bake from fifteen to twenty-five
minutes. No sauce is required, and this
pudding is good hot or cold.
A savory composite dish is made by
laying an onion sliced and fried down
in butter, in the bottom of n baking
dish; put a layer of cold boiled rice
next, we'll moistened with m equal
quantity of stewed potatoes. and cover
the whole with a layer of crumbs, wet
with milk. Set in the oven Till heated
through and brown on top. The rice
and potatoes should be previously sea-
soned.
One-tifth oatmeal to four-tifths rice,
sailed and cooked with sufficient milk
in 6 double boiler. is an agreeable varia-
tiop to the common boiled rice.
When making vegetable hash. the
wise woman, who has a spoonful OF
two of cold cooked oatmeal or cracked
wheat, will add it to the other in
gradients. 1t should not be distin-
guishable as a grain, but will assist in
giving a creamy consistency and flavor
to the compound.
Patrick's Bargain.
Lady Suddenly returned from Eu
rope)."Patrick, what does this mean:
/ left you in charge of our residence
while abroad, and I find the front yart
filed with clothes lines and every line
filled with clothes. Our beautiful placs
looks like a Chinese laundry. Yo,
promised me that your wife would no
take in washing"
Patrick-"We haven't taken in any
washin', mum. We've only been takih
in hangin' out clothes"
A Valuable Dog.
Observation-Disclosures by q piano mex
door, eh? Well, l have a dog which
always howls when my wife plays the
piano-howls so she has to stop; ant
I'd let you have him If it wasn't fol
n thing"
Wilkins-''Is he CROSSE"