The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-14
FiREslDE FRAGMENTS s;

Potatoes Ia Maitre d. Hotel: Wash
potatoes and boil them in cold water
slightly salted. When done, peel them,
and cut in thin, round slices. Put them
into saucepan with three tablespoon
fuls of butter, salt, pepper, and q little
nutmeg, the juice Of lemon and q
tablespoonful of chopped parsley, and
when very hot serve with the fish
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Lady Sutherland's: One quart of
flour, three eggs, one piece of butter
tho size OF q walnut. three cnps Of
sweet milk and q teaspoonful of salt
Beat very light after you mix the in
gradients. Bake quickly in small tin
patty-pans Make as shortly before
these cakes are to be served as possible,
lest they fall, and lose their delicacy
with their lghtness-Rarper's Bazar
Chocolate Vanilla Creams: Take
two cups of pulverized sugar and a half
cup OF cream. Boil for five minutes,
and divide of into balls while hot Take
as much grated chocolate as is neces-
sary and steam over a tea-kettle. When
soft. cover the balls and set away to
harden. 1t you wish to have vanilla
flavor, add the extract before putting
on stove.-Ladies' Home Journal
Spread Eagle Pudding Cut off the
crust of three good-sized rolls. and slice
them in dish; set three pints of milk
over the fire, and let it scald. but not
boil; then pour over the bread; cover it
close and let it stand an hour; then put
in large spoonful of sugar, q very
little grated nutmeg, a pound of suet,
half a pound of currants, four spoonfuls
OF cold milk, ten eggs-but the whites
OF five only-after all ingredients are
in, mix well and put in buttered dish
and bake.-Boston Herald.
TO cure the very worst cold catch.
able. take one teaspoonful of haxseed,
one ounce of licorice, and one quarter
of pound of raisins. Put the above
named ingredients into two quarts of
water, and over slow fire boil it down
to one-half its original bulk. Now,
pound till very fine one-quart,r of a
pound of rock candy, add it to the mix
ture. and finish by adding one table,
spoonful of lemon juice. Drink half q
pint of this upon going to bed, and a
little more whenever the cough is
troublesome. This is sovereign bal
samic cordial for the lungs.-Detroit
Free Press.
-Beefsteak bones need never be
thrown away. as they will make an ex-
cellent soup Crack the bones in pieces
and put them in closely covered sauce
pan with just enough water to cover
them; let them simmer slowly couple
OF hours. then add two sliced potatoes,
two carrots chopped fine and one sliced
onion. If you want tomato soup, add
half dozen tomatoes peeled and sliced.
or tapioca or vermicelli Add as much
water as you will need for the quantity
of soup desired, boil for two hours, re-
move the bones, season and serve-N.
Y. Tribune.
Apple Cream Cake (excellent-) y
One-half cupful each of sugar and sweet
milk. one egg, one-third cupful (scant)
OF melted butter, one teaspoonful each
OF lemon and cream tartar, aud one
half teaspoonful of soda mixed with
-four to make smooth batter, by sift-
ing twice. This will make three rounds
in layer-calze tins Between the layers
and on the top put filing made by
grating one large sour apple, adding
one cupful of sugar, the beaten white
of an egg, one teaspoonful of vanilla,
and beating together with an egg
beater:--Good Housekeeping.