River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-05-26
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


Fried Boiled Eggs: Slice hard
boiled eggs, dip in raw egg and bread
crumbs, fry in butter. and serve on tiny
sippets of ast.-Houselxeeper.
Always sift all flour before using it.
For convenience a quantity may be
sifted apart in a close-covered pail, so
as to be ready in cases of emergency.
Cruel with Raisins: Invalids some
times fancy the flavor of raisins. The
fruit must be boiled in very little water
for about twenty minutes, and if milk
Cruel is desired it should be poured on
the cooked raisins. They should be
strained out before the Cruel is served.
N. Y World.
Good Coeoanut Soup: Crate very
finely one-quarter pound of the white
fresh cocoanut, and let simmer gently
for one hour in two quarts beef broth.
Strain the liquid and thiclxen with one
half cup ground rice. Season with a
little salt, cayenne mace. just before
serving add a cupful of thick cream
Ladies' Home journal.
A pretty wedding gift, planned for
several Easter weddings, is the combi.
nation set of the long glove. handker.
chief and nightdress cases, together
with the toilette cushion, all made to
match in design and treatment They
are made of white silk and embroidered
in orange blossoms. A frill of pink
silk and lace edges them.
Cold Cocoanut Pudding: Put pint
of milk in a sauce pan; moisten three
tablespoonfuls of corn-starch and add
to the boiling milk: stir until smooth.
Beat the whites of six eggs stiff and
add with the sugar to the milk. Bea
over the fire fifteen minutes. Crate
two cupfuls of cocoanut and mix in
with a teaspoonful of extract of vanilla,
and pour in mold to harden. Serve
cold with vanilla sauce.-Home.
Tea Cake: Rub one heaped tea
spoonful of baking powder into a
pound of flour Add two ounces OF
butter, also rubbed in; quarter of a
pound of sugar and two ounces of cur.
rants. Mix it with two eggs well beaten
and stirred into half pint of butter
milk or new milk. Roll out and make
of the quantity six tea cakes. Bake in
a moderate oven, and when half done
wash over with the yelk of an egg
beaten up with a teaspoonful of milk.
These tea cakes are very nice cut in
slices and buttered cold for tea.-Spring.
field (Mass.) Republican.
Orange Cake: One cupful of sugar,
half cupful of butter, three eggs, two
cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful of sour
milk, one teaspoonful of baking powder:
beat the butter and sugar to a cream,
add the yollzs of the eggs, then the milk,
then the flour with the powder added,
and lastly, stir in the whites beaten
very lightly; bake in small tins, squeeze
the juice from one orange, add TO the
grated rind, make the juice thick with
powdered sugar, and stir in the white
of one egg well beaten; spread this on
the cakes and place one on another like
jelly cake. Boston Herald.
Spinach: Spinach requires more
care in picking and washing than most
other vegetables. Wash it several times:
drain the water well away; put it into
a pan of boiling water; add salt and a
very small piece of soda; boil quickly
and skim it; when quite tender spread
a clean cloth over colander; pour il
the spinach, and squeeze the water well
from it; chop. and put it into "a sauce
pan with little butter and salt; stir il
on the fire one or two minutes; put it or
a hot, fiat dish; put another hot dish
over it to smooth the surface; cut OF
mark it in squares and serve immedi-
ately.-Boston Budget.