Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-10

Most fastldious Palatss - Puddlnfs,
Sauces and Creams.
wnirrEN ron THE pIsPATcH,I
To make fne charlotte russo, first make Q
large thin sponge cake, taking care to bake
II In an oven sheet about an inch thick.
When done and cooled, cut out piece to
ft the bottom Of q rounded dish four or q We
inches deep. and then cut regular pieces to
fit around the sides. Into this pour acream
prepared ~ follows; Whip one pint sweet
cream. favored with orange or vanilla, to a
stiff froth, and add to 1t the frothed whites
of two eggs and Q cupful of pulverized
sugar. Stir all lightly together, pour upon
the cake until filed, set upon ice, with
pan turned over it until the cream is stiff
ened.
A simple dessert of this sort is made BY
laying lady fingers or:squares OF sponge cake
around the sides of q fancy dish, filling it
with whipped cream and putting il in 3
cool place to harden.
Iappend I some general recipes that will
be found reliable:
Cream Gravy for Toast
For family OF six pour IL pints milk and
Icup cream into a saucepan with a half tea
spoonful salt. MIX large tablespoonful -four
with of cold milk; stir into boiling milk, and
when thickened remove it from the fire and
stir In the beaten yelk of one egg. This is not
only nice for toast, but also for baked and.
boiled potatoes. asparagus, peas and string
beans.
Graham Puffs.
Beat one quart sweet milk, add one quart
sifted Hour together for ten minutes. Add two
beaten eggs and one teaspoonful salt. Half
this quantity is sufficient for small family.
Mock Cherry Pie.
Qna-half oupfnI r.;eina eaadad ara ,honra1
fine, one cupful cranberries cut in two pinch
OF salt one cupful sugar, one teaspoon vanilla.
one tablespoonful -four, one-half cupful boiling
water. Bake with two crusts.
PIanked Shad.
Nail the sbad to a white oak plank and place
IL before hot open fire until it is cooked. The
acid in white oak (pyroligenous) gives shad a
peculiar flavor which is very much liked. Serve
with mushroom sauce, parsley or egg sance.
Bread stuffing for Baked Fish.
Mix with bread crums little fat pork,
chopped hne,a tablespoonful of minced parsley
the same quantity of minced onion. a piece Of
butter large as walnut, q little powdered sage.
and sweet marieram seasoning also of salt and
pepper. Put into pan for a few minutes and
stir over hot fire. Remove and add one
beaten egg
Rhubarb Pudding,
Butter baking dish and cover the bottom
with thin slices of buttered bread. Add layer
of rhubarb cut in small pieces, and few drops
of lemon juice. Strew thickly with sugar. put
in another layer of bread,and so continue until
the dish Is full. Cover we'll and bake for an
hour and half. Remove the cover for few
minutes If not brown enough. Serve with
sauce.
Apple Trife.
To pint of hot apple sauce, sweetened and
fayored-and pressed through a sieve-add two
Iablespoonfuls OF soaked gelatine. Stir until
dissolved. Pour into wet mold and set in a
cold place. Serve with cream.
Mashed Eggs.
Into stew-pan put a little good gravy, stock
or drippings from roast meats of any kind.
When quite hot break IN a number of eggs and
stir until they become stiff Season with salt
and pepper.
Peach Custard
Press through sieve one-half dozen canned
peaches. Add the beaten yelks of four eggs, o
pint Of milk and one-half cupful OF sugar.
pour In the custard and bake without upper
crust Remove from oven, cover. with
mertngue of whites, and set in the oven again,
until the meringue is SET
Baked Custards.
Mix ~ pints new milk, one cup sweet cream,
four weli-beaten eggs. one cupfrl white sugar,
one teaspoonful orange or lemon extract. Fill
small cups two-thirds full, put them into
baking pan containing hot water and let them
remembering that it will continue to cook for
a minute or two after being removed from the
oven.
Whipped Cream.
This is palatable served with fresh fruit,
turning the cream from a mold upon fancy
dish and surrounding with fruit.
Lemon Butter for Filling.
One.fourth. cuptul Of hot water. one scant
cupfui OF granulated sugar, one large lemep,
Juice and rind, tiny bit of butter Let come
TO the boil, add one teaspoonlul cornstarch,
wet In very little water. Boil ten minutes, add
one well-beatea egg.
Lemon Jelly Cake.
One-half cupful of butter, two of sugar, three
o. four eggs beaten separately--whitcs added
last-juice Of half lemon, one cupful Of milk.
three OF hour. three level teaspoonfuis baking
powder
Make cup cake after this recipe, using -four,
eggs and generous half cupful Of butter.
Good Cookies.
one-half cupful butter one of sugar, one egg.
cne.half cupful OF milk, spice to taste and -four
TO roll. ELLICE SERENA.