Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-17
HELPS FOR THE HOME.
Recipes for SubstantiaIs and Luxuries -
Sauces, Salads, Puddings, Pies and Cakes
Useful Information for the House.
keeper From Ellice Serena.
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPATCH.l


Useful Information for the House.
keeper From Ellice Serena.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.1
Below will be found some general recipes
of thoroughly tested reliability. 1 begin
with pineapple trife, which is'made as fol-
lows:
Select ripe, sweet pineapple, pare and
chop in small pieces. Cover with two small
cupfuls of sugar and set aside. Cover a
package of gelatine with cold water, let
stand two hours, and then dissolve with
cupful of boiling water. Add to the pine
apple with the juice of one lemon and stir
the mixture on ice. When it begins to stiffen
turn in the frothed whites of six eggs and
beat until creamy. Serve with cream or
custard.
Salmon Salad.
Take medium-sized cucumbers cut in half
and carefully scrape out the pulp. Fill with
salmon picked in small flakes, and cover
with mayonnaise.
Tomato Salad.
Wipe round, ripe tomatoes with damp
cloth, hollow them out and mix with the
pulp some minced celery. Cover with
mayonnaise and refill the tomatoes
Mint Sauce.
Put four tablespoonfuls of chopped mint,
two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a quarter OF
q pint of vinegar into a sauce boat Let
stand an hour or two before serving, and add
little salt and pepper.
Sponge Pudding.
Three eggs, one-half cupful sugar. II table
spoonfuls melted butter, two level tea
spoonfuls baking powder.SS Add flour enough
to make stiff batter. Steam "a hours.
Stuffed Egg Plant.
Boil a medium seized plant for 80 minutes
the water should be boiling at the start. Cut
in half, scrape out the inside without break
ng the @ the Rhp bs ns steR
with bread crumbs and bake ten minutes.
Clear Lemon Pie.
Dissolve three tablespoonfuls of corn
starch in cold water Add pint and q half
of boiling water, and stir until it thicl1ens,
when dessert spoonful of butter may be
grated rind and juice of two lemons, add u
cupfuls of sugar Line pie tins with paste,
bake and fill with the mixture. Return to
the oven for few minutes spread with
merlngue Of the beaten whites OF three eggs.
Thin Corn Cake.
One cupful of Indian meal, one-fourth tea
spoonful of salt, butter the size of an egg,
one cupful and half of boiling water, one
teaspoonful OF sugar. Pour the boiling
water on the meal, sugar and salt. Beat
well, mix again and spread thin on buttered
tins. Bake 20 minutes.
Excellent Black Fruit Cake.
One cupful butter and lard, one of granu-
lated sugar, one and one-half small cupfuls.
milk, one and one-half cupfuls molasses, one
pound currants, one pound rafsins, two cup
fulS flour, two whole eggs dropped in, one
half teaspoonful each of mace and cloves,
two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, two of baking
POWDER one level teaspoonful salt, rind and
juice of one-half lemon. Put all ingredi-
ents in before mixing. Beat well. This
mixture may stand two hours before baking
Stir when about to put in pans.
Substitute for Cream.
Pour one pint hot milk on the well-beaten
yolks of two eggs, and add one teaspoonful
white sugar.
Cream Pie.
For one pie use yolk of two eggs, two cups
sweet cream, two tablespoOnfuls sugar,
beaten together. Bake in an under crust
only.