The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-06-11
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-DOughnuts: One egg, enc cup OF
Sour milk, a little salt, one cup of sugar,
one tcaspoohful Of soda. Mix as soft as
consistent with handling and fry in hot
lard.-N. Y. World.
Common sulphur will kill or drive
away the little tish-shaped, silvery pest
which infcsts our pantry. Sprinkle
the sulphur freely about, and the place
will soon be cleared of the eermin.
-Ecntil Biscuit Cook one cup OF
lentils in water sufficient to make one
pint in all when cooked, and rubbed
through a colander. Add to the lentils
thus PREPARED salt to season. and two
and one=fourth pints of grated bread
crumbs. Shape into biscuits and brown
in a hot oven ten or fifteen minutes
Good Health.
-Fricasseed Tripe: Cut a pound of
tripe in narrow strips, put a small cup
of water or milk to it. add a bit of but
ter the size of an egg, dredge in a large
teaspOOnful of flour. or work it with the
butter: season with pepper and salt, let
it simmer gently for half an hour. serve
hot. \ bunch of parsley cut small and
put with it is an improvement-Boston
Budget.
Butter Cakes: Half a pound Of fresh
butter. half u pound of melted butter;
the grated peel of a lemon, three eggs,
two pounds Of -four and two teaspoon
fuls of rum or arrack are kneaded to-
gether and set away for a few hours;
hen the dough is rolled out about the
thickness of the back of a knife blade,
cut out in any fancy shapes with a tin
cake-cutter. and baked on a sheet of tin
in a moderately hot oven.-HRrper's
Bazaar.
Apple Snow. Put twelve good-sized
tart apples in cold water and set them
over the fire. When soft drain off the
water. strip the skins off the apples,
core them and lay them in a deep dish.
Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff
froth: put half a pound of finely-pow-
dered white sugar to the apples. Beat
them to a stiff froth and then add the
beaten eggs. Beat the whole to n stiff
snow. turn into a dessert dish and
serve.-Detroit Free Press.
Cottage Pudding: One cupful of
sugar, one egg. one tablespoonful of
butter. one cupful of sweet milk or wa
ter, n t~easpoonful of vanilla extract,
flour enough to make stiff as cake, and
two tablespoonfuls of baking powder
sifted into dry -four. Bake in a long,
fiat tin and cut In squares. For sauce,
1nat {hn xrktTo. &c tl-,, ,-r- s.,r LII
The three volks and beat together fif-
teen minutes. Add two tablespoonfuls
of fine graduated sugar and one tea
spoonful of vanilla. Serve on the pud-
ding.-lIousekeeper.
To a waiter belongs the proud dis
tinction of uttering what is probably
the most ungrammatical sentence evcr
evolved from the brain of ~illiterata
man. One afternoon an old MA took
his seat at the table and gave his usual
order to d new and rather casc-har-
dened knight of the napkin. Waiter"
he piped. as the dishes were slammed
down before him, this beef isn't suf-
ficiently ~underdone." With a smile of
contempt the servitor bore the viands
back to the kitchen window and re-
turned a moment later without having
changed them. I'm sorry. sir" he
said. I'VE amt got no beef what's no
Observation-Disclosures.
Quite the gem of the furnishings in
the parlor of Il pretty apartment mp
town Il il lovely statucttc of Cupid
standing on a pedestal, behind which is
draped in loose folds crimson cloth. as
an effective background. The peculiar
tint of the marble (?l attracted a visitor,
who inquired concerning it, whcreupon
the mistress confessed: Il saw in some
paper that to brush a plaster cast with
orange shellac diluted with alcohol
would impart this peculiar creamy tint
like old ivory. and. CHANGING upon this
excellent reproduction in plaster, |
bought it for experiment. You see how
successful have been. Every one adj
mircs the color of my boy so much. And
I'll tell you Il bit more. That rich Grim
son drapery is a last years dress, which
faded in strcaks. / had it dyed. and
evolved the rest of my art corncr."-N.
Y. Times.