The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-04
ROME HINTS AND HELPS.

-Spiced Veal: Chop fine four pounds
IF veal, season with salt, pepper, cloves
and cinnamon, add four small crackers
rolled fine, one egg and a piece Of but
ter the size of an egg. Mix thoroughly,
pour in baking tin and bake two hours
and half. When cold slice thin.-N.
Y. World. 4.
A properly fried potatoe is not
greasy, is not indigestible, is not I'M
healthy. Potatoes should be fried ex.
actly like croquettes, in boiling fat,
that is sweet, white lard melted, and
should be drained in the same manner
as the croquette. They may be cut into
balls and fried.
Baked Eggplant Peel a purple
eggplant and boil until soft. Then
mash as you would mash potatoes, and
season with salt, pepper and butter.
Put into a shallow baking-dish and
cover the top with thick layer OF
cracker-crumbs. Bake in moderate
oven until we'll Drowned. Serve in the
dish in which it is bakcd.-Demorcst S
Magazine.
johnny Cake: Three teacupfuls OF
white cornmeal, one teaspoonful of salt,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Sift all together while dry; then add
one tablespoonful of melted butter and
enough sweet milk to make soft
dough. Roll out one-half inch thick,
and bake in shallow pan well but
tered. After it has begun to brown
haste it frequently with melted butter.
When served break it into stable pieces;
do not cut it.-Detroit Free Press.
AT pretty dinner given recently,
the guests, numbering forty, were
seated, eight each, at five round tables.
Each table was decorated with one
variety of flower, and on arriving each
guest was presented with small bou.
quet of the flowers corresponding tc
those on the table at which he was tc
find his place. The table where the
host and hostess were seated was placed
at snch an angle as to command view
of the company by one or the othcr OF
them.-N. Y. Times.
-Custard Pie: Beat together two
eggs and two tablcspoonfuls of sugar;
add pint Of milk: flavor with nutmeg.
Pour into 4 pie-plate lined with crust
and bake in a moderately hot oven. In
baking custards much depend, upon
the baking; if left in the oven few
minutes too long they are spoiled. They
should be baked until of the consis.
tency Of cream, not a minute longer.
In berry time a handful of fresh berries
-blackEerries or aspberries-stirred in
Just before the custard is put into the
oven are pleasant addition. Ohio
Farmer.
Vegetable Soup: One bunch of
celery, one pint of stewed tomatoes, one
onion, three carrots, four turnips, lit
tie salt. Chop all the vegetables, ex.
cept the tomatoes, very finely, and place
them in the pot over the fire, with
about three quarts and one pint of hot
water. Let them cook slowly about an
hour, then stir in the tomatoes, and
boil about half an hour longer; remove
from the fire, and rub the mixture
through a colander, then return the
soup to the fire. Now stir in table.
spoonful of butter and half cup OF
milk, with little corn starch or -four
mixed with it. Let the soap boil ur
once, and it will be ready for the table.
Boston Budget.
To Preserve Ounces: The apple
ounce is best. Select smooth ones. rub
well, pare, quarter and core: if large
cut the quarters in two, put them in a
porcelain kettle. cover with cold water
and cook slowly. If ounces are put
into sirup of sugar first they will get
hard instead of soft. Cook until tender.
skim out in dish, put in the skins and
cover and cook until very soft Strain
through jelly bag; to every pint of
this juice allow one pound of white
sugar: when dissolved put in the fruit
and cook slowly: when tender skim out
in a jar. If the strip is not thick
enough boil it five or ten minutes and
pour it over the ounces. Keep them
covered while cooking to make them
red and a handsome color.-House.
keeper.