Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-03
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VARIOUS NOTES.

stir in while boiling one cup of butter or
lard, one tablespoonful ginger When
cool add two teaspoonfuls soda and
sufficient flour to roll and bake in quick
oven.-rE. l.. Patterson.
spanish stew: Boil u pounds steak
till tender-boiling gently. Save the
liquor. Next day cut the beef into small
pieces, put it in saucepan, with one
tea-spoonful of butter, one-half pint
highly seasoned strained tomato sauce,
and the liquor in which it was boiled,
and let simmer one-half hour. just be-
fore dishing, mash fine the yolk of a
hard-boiled egg, stir into it One-quarter
teaspoonful of curry powder, and add to
| the stew.
Wilted cucumbers are one of the last
whms of the epicure. Peel number of
cucumbers, cut them in long thin strips
lengthwise. throw them in pan of cold
water in which handful of salt has been
cast. and let them remain for at least an
hour. Take them out and lay them in Il
dry, coarse towel and wiring them thor
moisture. When taken from the towel
they will be found limp and wilted.
Serve them at once on the table. They
are eaten like celery, with little salt,
and are said to be less injurious served in
this way than in any other.
Chow-chow: Procure wide-mouthed
glass jars. To fill four quart bottles
take two large perfect heads of cauliflow-
err. divide them into small pieces. so as to
leave little of the blossom unbroken on
each one. one quart of cucumbers not
over two inches in length, one dozen
small green pepper pods, and one quart of
garlic, cloves. or tiny onion bulbs peeled.
Steep the vegetables for "a hours in
brine. first scaldng the garlic Or onions,
and leaving tn IN in salt water by them
selves. Next morning mix all together,
and let them drain for two hours in a
colander. If they are too salt to the
taste, run little hot water over them
while still in the colander. Put them in
preserving bottle over the fire, sprink-
ling through them two ounces of
turmeric, two scant tablespoons of
cayenne pepper and quarter of pound
of English mustard, mixed smooth with
tea-spoonful of warm water. Add
sufficient cider vinegar to cover well. and
simmer until the vegetables are tender.
A little sugar is an improvement.
The women inmates of an English
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catsup in Great Britain. This is their
method: "Bake the tomatoes in an oven
and when quite soft rub through sieve.
add to every pound of pulp Il quart of
Chill vinegar, one ounce of chalot quar-
ter of an ounce of white pepper, half
an ounce of salt. Boil all this together
until soft, then rub through sieve and
add to every pound of sauce the Juice of
three lemons. Return to the saucepan
and cook thick like cream: when cool,
BOTTLE. cork and seal.
Green pea soup Put fat. full-growr
chicken to boil in five quarts of water.
When it has boiled slowly for two hours.
take out the chicken and put into the pot
wo quarts of green peas. Let these boil
until soft. then remove and mash them
thoroughly. Put them into colander
and pour the soup through it, rubbing
he peas about so as TO let all of the pulp
mix with the soup while the hulls re-
main in the colander. Return the soup
TO the pot. adding quarter of pound OF
butter, salt and pepper to taste, and a
tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Rub
smooth a tablespoonful of flour into
some of the butter, add that and let ii
boil up briskly for minute or two
Fl Ladies Home journal.
\ stoned olive stuffed with a well.
favored chicken force-meat is IA delicious
id-bit at "a picnic, or for any cold lunch
eon. Select the large queen olives fol
his purpose, cut with penknfe IA slant
nc lcngthwise cut in each olive. and con.
inue to hold the knife next to the stone
[nd thus remove it. 1t will come on
Fasily. Stone number, fill the opening
With chicken force-meat. and if you wisl
o keep them perfectly in shape tie eacl
|ne up and remove the string after a few
hours and just before serving.
Dreamed apples: Select thin-skinnet
pples, such as the Fameuse. or Snow
ore. without pairing, fill with sugar anC
aGe. While cooling whip one and one
alf cups of cold sweet cream till smooth
nd firm; add two tablespoonful pow
cred sugar, Il little vanilla or lemon
lace apples in sauce-dishes. cover viii
ream and serve at once Ladies' Hon,
ournal.
Baked apple dumplings: Pare anC
ore TART apples. Make good pie-crust
ut out with pail-cover, if you hav,
o large CUTTER rounds, in which wral
ach apple. Bake; serve with cream AM
lgar.- Ladies' Home Journal.