The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-10
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

i'm cooking tough meat or an old
fowl, add pinch of soda to the water
to make it tender.
Cookies cups of sugar and
one cup of butter beaten together, two
egg yollxs and whites beaten separately,
one-half cup of sweet milk, one-half q
teaspoonful of soda, nutmeg and flour
to roll N. Y. World.
French Pudding.-One quart of
milk, 10 tablespoonfuls of flour, eight
eggs. Beat the eggs very light, add
them to the milk, with the flour. Butter
a pan, pour in the mixture and bake 1t.
Serve it hot with sweet sauce.-Boston
Budget.
Cruel Roll few butter crackers,
and sprinkle slowly into boiling water,
stirring constantly till about the right
consistency. Add little sweet milk or
cream, salt and dash of pepper
Good Housekeeping.
Gravy Toast.-TIeat a quart and q
cupful of rich milk to boiling, add salt,
and stir into it three scant tablespoon
fuls of -four which has been rubbed to
smooth paste in little cold milk. This
quantity will be sufficient for about
dozen slices of toast. Moisten slices of
zwieback with hot water, and pack in q
heated dish. When serving, pour a
quantity of the cream sauce over each
slice.-Good Health.
WATERS. one-half cup but
ter, add slowly one cup powdered sugar
and one-half cup milk drop by drop
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-four and one-half teaspoon of flavor
ing, spread very thin on the bottom of
a dripping-pan inverted and buttercd.
Mark in squares, sprinkle with nut
meats almonds chopped), bake in a
moderate oven about five minutes and
roll when warm.-llouse.
A fashionable fuel-for what Is
there nowadays that has not grades of
elegance-is the spectrum wood" of
the drawing room hearth. This Is
is fireplace lengths of the timbers of
old whaling vessels which, seasoned by
many a voyage and saturated with ac-
cumulated drippings of whale oil, offer
n beautiful blaze as they burn them
selves out on glittering andirons. AS
the supply is to some extent limited,
and as it cannot be manufactured in
day, but must accrue with the years, it
is likely to be kept suffi GENTLY rare to
retain its exclusive, and consequently
choice and fashio nable, characteristic. g.
n. Y. Times.
Chocolate Cale.-Boil together I'M
til they thicl<en half a teacupful of rich
milk, the yolk of one egg, and one
foruth of a cake of chocolate. Set aside,
and when cold add one teacupful of
sugar, or such other quantity as the
chocolate may require and the taste de-
mand, one tablespoonful of butter and
half a tcacupful of milk. Thicker with
two teacupfuls of -four, into which has
previously been sifted two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder. Flavor with va
nilla. Make into four layers and when
cold put together with boiled icing
Detroit Free Press.
Apple Pudding. quarter and
core enough sour apples to fill a deep
bread tin two-thirds full, add half a
cupful of sugar, a lar ge spoonful Of but
ter and one-third of a cupful of water.
Make crust of scant cupful Of -four,
one teaspoonful of baking powder, q
heaping spoonful of butter mixed
through the -four, and milk or water
enough to mix like biscuit. Roll out and
lay over the apples, cut a small opening
in the top to let out the steam. Bake
about one-half hour. Turn out bottom
side up on platter; serve hot, cut in
slices. Eat with sweet cream or boiled
sauce.