The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-09-19
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-Spiced Fruit: Six pounds Of fruit
four pounds Of sugar. one cup Of vine
gar. one tablespoonful Of cinnamon. one
teaspoonful OF cloves. ono teaspoonful
Of alispice. Detroit Free Press.
Picnic Cake: Two eggs. white Of
one. two cups Of sugar. half cup Of sweet
milk. three cups OF -four, two teaspoon
fuls OF lemon or any other fiavoring. -
Yankee Blade.
-Succotash: Three ears corn. one
pint lima beans. one tablespoon butter.
one cup milk. Boil corn and beans
until done; turn Of water. add milk,
butter, pepper and salt and lot simmer
ten minutes - Housekecper.
Apple Cream Custard: Bake fve
apples and then remove cores and
skins; beat whites OF three eggs To .
froth. add apple and beat Serve with
boiled custari made OF one quart Of
milk. yeIks Of three eggs, small cup Of
sugar. quarter Of . cup OF -four. little
salt Ladies' Home Journal.
Picked Nasturtiums: Pick the
green seeds latter the flower has
dropped on with stems about one and
one half inches long. lay them in mod
erately sailed cold water for forty
eight hours. Then lay them in fresh
cold water twentv-four hours, drain,
pack in bottles or jars. and cover with
boiling vinegar. Tie up. and stand
away At least four weeks before you
use them. These may be used as q sub
stitute for capers Boston Budget
Frozen Pudding: One large pint
milk boiled, one cup powdered sugar
onc-fourth cup -four, two tablespoons
gelatinc dissolved in a little water.
three beaten eggs. Cook all ingredients
few moments until thick. Strain;
when cool add one pint OF cream, one
pint cold milk. one cup sugar. onc-half
pound candied cherries. few slices OF
citron. onc-fourth cup dried currants,
one-fourth cup seedless rasins. Freeze.
then pack 1t until you wish to use it,
Pineapple for Diphthcria: Pineap-
pie juice $ now reported to be a sure
cure for diphthcria Get ripe pine
apple, squeeze out the Juice. and let the
patient swallow it. This juice is OF SO
corrosive a nature that ii will cut out
the diphtheric mucus. and IL you vii.
give the juice OF pineapple. not yet
ripe, 70 person whose throat Is well,
II will make the mucous membranes OF
the throat sore Pineapple Juice IS
simple remedy. cheap, easily procured
and easily tried.
Slowed Corn: Cut young corn from
the cob. put il in basin. and add
enough milk TO cover il. Stir il fire.
quently. Let il cook for fifteen minutes,
then season TO taste with butter. pep
per and salt and add some rich cream.
in which has been stirred little -four
The addition Of little sugar is great
improvement to all corn except the very
sweetest kinds. Corn should never be
cooked in iron; tin is preferable. ~
ousenold.
French Soup: Take two dozen
frogs legs and pour over them luke
warm water. let them remain in it
about five minutes. but not to cook,
pour OF the water and add equal guam
titles OF milk and water sufficient to |
cover; cook moderately about half an
hour; simmer . small onion chopped.
N butter: add IL to the soup with one
quart of rich milk. two tablespoonfuls
,f butter, little salt and pepper and
J desertspoonful OF chopped parsley;
kim the legs from the soup, and re-
move the meat from the homes, put the
neat into the tureen with tablespoon
ul Of thick cream and little celery
chopped very fine; pour in the hot soup