The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-11-08
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

Melted butter is a good substitute
for olive oil in salad dressing. Many
prefer the butter to oil.
Always serve oysters in hot dishes
Cook the oysters only until they curl. i
cooked too long they are indigestible.
To brighten the inside Of tea OF
coffee pot fill with water, add a piece o.
soap, and boil for about forty-fve min
utes.
Quail on Toast: Pluck, draw ant
singe the quail, wrap it with a slice o.
bacon in vine leaves, and afterwards
in buttered paper. Roast until well
Drowned. Serve on buttered toast.--N
Y. Observer.
In damping clothes for ironing, use
warm water as hot as you can bear the
hands in; sprinkle fine, fold smooth,
roll up tight and they will iron much
easier; the hot water ponetrates more
readily and you do not need to dampen
SO much as with cold water.
Lemon Jumbles: Use one egg, one
teacupful of sugar, one-half of tea
cupful of butter, three tablespoon
fuls of milk, one-half of teaspoonful
Of soda, one teaspoonful of cream OF
tartar, two small lemons, grated rind of
for rather stiff dough.--N. Y. World.
Excellent Gingersnaps: Bring to a
boil ono cup molasses and stir in one
tablespoonful of soda, and while foam
ing pour it over one cup of brown sugar;
beat one egg and one tablespoonful gin
ger and flour enough to roll; bake care
fully ~ Poston Globe.
Potato Scallops: Boil some potatoes,
slice them fine and heat as above; put
them into scallop shells which have
been previously buttered and busted
with bread crumbs; fill the scallop
shells only half full of potatoes; then
add some egg and cream beaten up to-
gether; sprinkle the top with bread
crumbs and bake in quick oven.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
Coffee Cream: Dissolve two ounces
gelatine in just enough water to cover
it; put to pint and half Of cream
teacupful and half of very strong,
clear coffee, with powdered sugar. Add
the dissolved gelatine, let it just boil,
leave it standing until nearly cold, then
pour into mold and when quite firm
turn it out. t.-Housekeeper.
Orange Cake: Take two even tea
cupfuls each of sugar and flour, half
cupful of water, the yelks of five eggs
beaten very light, also the whites of
four, the juice and grated rind of one
orange, and two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder sifted with the flour. Bake in
1o, oil fha ,n;p cd
rind of one large or two small oranges,
threefourths of teacupful of sugar,
and the white of one egg beaten stiff.
Spread this between layers, adding more
sugar to that used for yhe top. Boston
Budget.
-Scalloped Meat: Cut thin slices Of
roast or boiled beef or NUT
ton; lay them in a baking tin; stew over
them some chopped capers, onion and
little parsley; add pepper and salt and
pour in at the side as much stock or
water with pieces of butter added, az
will come up to the crust: strew well
with bread or cracker crumbs, and put
the pan in the oven for half an hour, or
until nearly all the moisture is dried up.
Boston Herald.
Fish Coquettes: Chop pound of
cold or canned fish fine, add teaspoon
full of SALT tablespoonful of chopped
parsley, the juice of half lemon, and
pinch of cayenne; mix thoroughly. Rub
a tablespoonful of butter and three of
flour together, and stir in the boiling
milk; let cook two or three minutes and
add the fish, stir altogether; turn out on
a dish to cool. When cold form into CO.
quettes; roll first in beaten egg then in
bread crumbs, and fry in boiling lard.
Garnish with parsley and serve hot
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