Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-01-28
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Sour Milk Cake: One cupful each
of butter and sour milk, two cupfuls of
sugar, four cupfuls of -four, four eggs,
one teaspoonful of soda; put in the
milk, nutmeg, one and one-half cupfuls
of raisins or currants, Good House.
keeping.
"A good dish of orange fritters can
be made by taking four oranges, peel
them, taking off all the white pith
without breaking into the pulp; divide
in four or five pieces, through natural
divisions of the orange; dip each piece
into common batter and fry in hot
lard. Serve on napkin with powdered
sugar, Ladies' Home Journal.
Baked Fish: Spread some butter
over dripping pan, sprinkle over it
one onion minced fine, lay on this
thin slice of halibut or any small,
whole fish, aplit down the middle. Add
one tablespoon of vinegar and spread
thickly with butter Bake until done,
the time depending upon the thickness
of the fish, Remove to platter. Add
flour to the butter left in the pan, and
when well mixed add water until is the
desired consistency; add three or four
minced mushrooms or pickles, Pour
this over the fish. Garnish with lemon
points and parsley. -Boston Budget
--Candied rose leaves for table deco
rations; A mold of snow-white blanc
mango made of whipped cream stiffen-
ed with gelatine or isinglass is very or
namental served on low crystal plat
ter, wreathed with whipped cream,
tinted delicate rose color with drop
or two of cochineal, and scattered with
candied rose leaves Or the blanc
mango itself may be tinted rose color
and wreathed with the candied rose
some and delicious because it seems al
most too dainty to be eaten.
In really quaint, old-fashioned
houses it is very much in keeping to
have suggestive phrases over the fire.
places. In one such house in New En-
gland is inscribed over the library and
irons: 'Old wood to burn, old books to
read old friends to talk" and in the
dining-room the cheer of the family
altar is sung in Scotch phrase: East,
west, hame's the best" That these in.
scriptions are not common is evidenced
by story concerning the latter. A
lady entering the dining-room at once
noticed the lettering. "Ah," she said
reading, "what is this? East, west
hams the best That's so--ham is
good; quite agree with you," she fin
ished, turning with a smile to hei
amused listener-N. Y. Times.
--Raisin Cake: One cupful of butter
rubbed to cream, with two cupfuls o.
powdered sugar. Beat up separately
the yolks of five and the whites of foui
eggs and to the yollSs add one cupfu
of milk, and pour it into the butter an(
sugar; now add the juice and grated
rind of half an orange and half a lemon
and quarter of a teaspoon of salt; pu
in two cupfuls of flower and one-hal
cup of corn starch, sifted together will
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
beat well, and put in one cupful o
stoned raisins, and lastly the heater
whites; bake in one large, square cak
or two small ones, and when done cove
with an icing made of the extra white
and favored with rose water.-House
hold Monthly.
-Partridges: If you can procure par
tridges, ruffied grouse, quail or widgeon
which latter, when it has fed upon will
celery, becomes. almost equal to canvas
back, you can afford to let the turke
you had destined for your table go t
market There is nothing SO easil
cooked as partridge. There is II
dressing to be made. You require onl
the hottest of ovens and the ability t
lard the breast with strips of fat porl
which is more easily done if it be frs
exposed for a few moments to a bris
fire to stiffen. Then bake twenty-fv
! minutes, or if you do not pride yoursel
upon your epicureanism, you can Civ
it ten minutes more. Garnish the dis
with neat squares of toast and littl
' mounds of water cress, and serve
e brown sauce made by thickening tn
0 gravy in the pan, or a celery or brea
: sauce. Celery and currant jelly mus
$ of course, grace the table. America
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