Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-04-16
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'''N'o ANU TEIfS,
Cherry Pie out of Pieplant; Make
as strong tea as possible by sleeping
cherry leaves IN water. Prepare your
pieplant pie as usual, and add two or
three tablespoonfuls of tea, 1t will re-
semblc the cherry taste very much
Ohio Farmer.
-Graham Tea Cake; One cupful of
sugar, one-half cupful of sour cream
lhll the cup with milk, one egg, one
half of teaspoonful of soda; graham
flour enough to thiclSen it so that II will
drop from the spoon. May be baked in
a loaf or in cup-cake tins
One should be careful to have shell
fish as fresh as possible. HOLSTERS are
much nicer If bought alive and boiled
at home. Plunge them into strongly
sailed boiling water and boil thirty or
forty minutes, They are unfit to eat
later than fifteen hours after they arc
boiled.
Bread Baking Powder Crackers:
Sift together seven cups flour, two even
tablespoons baking powder and two
teaspoons salt, then rub in one-half cup
of lard. Mix very hard, using either
milk or water, Knead well, roll thin,
and bake in hot oven. Nice with
oyster and other soups Household.
-"An excellent cement for mending
broken crockeryware is pure white
lead, or zinc white, ground in oil and
used very thick. 1t takes a long time
to harden and the mended article
should be stored safely away, TO re-
main for several months. When it be-
comes thoroughly united it will not
break again in the same place and will
stand water and heat as well as ever.
No cement shows less on white ware.
think this most valuable thing for
every house-keeper to Known. Y.
World.
Pork Tenderloins: Split nearly in
two, fattcn, sprinkle with salt and pep
per and cook in a frying pan with lit
tie lard Cook slowly after they are
brown, and be careful not to burn
them. Serve with sauce piquaute.
Brown two tablespoonfuls butter, add
Two tablespoonfuls flour and brown.
Pour on slowly one pint hot brown
stock, add one-half teaspoonful salt,
one-half saltspoonful pepper, one table
spoonful chopped pickles, one table
spoonful capers and one tablespoonful
vinegar.-Boston Globe.
Banana Cream: One-half package
gelatine, one pint cream, one pint milk,
two eggs, five bananas, sugar to taste;
soak the gclatine for two hours in just
emo. RI water to cover it, then pour up
on il the pint of boiling milk, add
the yolks Of the eggs well beaten
with one-half cup sugar, return to
the saucepan and stir over the fire until
the consistency of custard add the ba-
nanas, which should be well mashed
with silver fork and, lastly, the
cream; whip until it begins to stiffen,
pour into mold to cool; reserve small
cup of cream and add the whites, whir
and serve around the shape.
hold.
-Marbled Chicken: After dressing a
fat, full grown chicken in the usua
manner, wash and boil until it becomes
tender, using as little water as is need
ed to keep from burning and to cook
properly Season with salt, pepper anC
butter Trim all the meat from til,
bones keeping the light and dark mea
separate, Chop the meat moderately
fine with sharp knife and press it il
a pan, putting the light and dark mea
in alternate layers. The liquor il
which the fowl was cooked should b.
strained and poured over the meat. Sc
in cool place and when thorough,
cold, slip a thin-bladed knife between
: the meat and the pan, turn it out on ;
platter and slice in thin slices. 1t viii
be found an improvement to serve thi
with sliced lemon.-Prairie Farmer.