Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-11-21
FiRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

How to Use Lard: Lard for pastry
may be used as hard as 1t can be cut
with a knife, and will make far better
paste than If let stand to warm. II
needs only to be cut rhrough the flour,
not rubbed. Christian Inquirer.
-Ladys Fingers: Beat two eggs
very light, add one cupful of white
sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, two tea
spoonfuls cream tartar and flour to
make stiff dough. Roll thin and
sprinkle with sugar Cut the size of
the middle finger. Do not let them
touch in the pan or become too brown
In baking N. Y. World.
-Hickorynut Candy: Take one cup
of hickorynut meats two cups of sugar,
half a cup of water. Boil the sugar and
water together without stirring, until
thick enough to spin to a thread. Flavor,
If desired; then set in cold water. Stir
quickly until white, then throw in the
squares. Home Journal. y.
Rice Cakes: Ten ounces of sifte ed
loaf sugar, one-half pound of ground
rice, fifteen eggs, two lemons, orange
water to flavor. Beat the yollss of the
eggs with whisls for nearly half an
hour; add the sugar. the rice, the orange
water and grated rinds of the lemons.
Put into vessel and bake in quick
oven for half an hour Detroit Free
Press.
If pumpkin is peeled, cut up and
stewed rapidly, it makes coarse pies
which have very little of the native
sweetness of the vegetable. If it is
cooked in a very small amount of water,
in thick, porcelain-lined kettle, where
it will gradually steam for six or eight
hours, it acquires richness and sweet
ness that can NOT be obtained by any
other process of cooking it.-Boston
| Budget.
-Croquignoles: One pint of cream,
three eggs, one cup of white sugar, two
tablespoonfuls of baking powder, four
/ cups of flour; whip the cream to thick
froth; whip the yolks and whites of the
eggs separately. and beat the sugar
well into the yollts, to which add the
cream and the whites of the eggs. TIC
the four cups of sifted flour add two
tablespoonfuls of baking powder. >Sti,
into the mixture as much of the flour
and baking powder as will enable you
to roll it out into soft paste. Cut the
paste into fancy shapes, and throw into
boiling lard until they turn a light
brown, then take them out, laying them
over a drainer to dry; while still hot dus,
them with fine white sugar. Boston
| Herald
The engravings which form the
frontispicces of magazines, if carefully
taken out and laid fat with n piece o.
tissue-paper over the black ink, will, il
time, form collection. Make or buy
portfolio large enough to project ar
inch beyond the pictures ~ d have G
separate portfolio for French, German
and American pictures. Make title
page index of white Bristol board. ant
write in legible letters the name OF
each artist, the dates of birth and death
and the title of the picture that repre-
sents his work These portfolios will
be found to be great help in entertain
ing visitors, art being a neutral topic
and not likely to provoke the clash o.
opposite convictions, like personal be
liefs in religion or politics. .-Demorest'.
Magazine.
| ~ ucllClOuS lllctnOu VI SeTNluS GUN
potatoes for breakfast is hashed ant
Drowned. Hash eight cold boiled pota
toes Put a tablespoon and half o
butter in a frying pan: season the pota
toes with pepper and SALT turn then
into the hot butter in the frying pan
smooth them out and set them bacl
where they will brown slowly. In from
ten to fifteen minutes begin to turl
them. Fold them over on one side o
the pan like an omelet and dish th
Drowned roll as you would an omeie,
into the center of meat platter. IT.
quires some skill to manage this disl
without breaking it in the taking up. l
is sometimes an improvement to adj
two tablespoons of cream to the hashe,
potatoes before they are put in the pan
Boston Budget.