River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-07-06
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Baked Peaches: Wash the peaches,
which should be firm, put them in a
deep dish: sprinkle well with sugar.
cover and bake until tender: serve with
the strip in the pan poured over them.
These are very nice indeed. Home.
birthday Cake: One pound sugar.
ene-half pound butter. one pound flour.
eight eggs. one cupful sweet cream. two
teaspoonfuls baking powder. Flavor
with extract of orange. Use little
more -four If needed. Detroit Free
Press
Leg of Pork: Remove skin. Law in
jar, pour over one pint of white wine,
two tablespoonfuls of oil, sage, pepper.
pinch of nutmeg. Leave. two days in
winter, one in summer. turning often.
Roast. bssting with jar liquor, which
strain and thicken for sauce.-Good
Housekeeping.
Orange Layer Cake: Two csps SUI
gar; two cups -four; one-half cup water:
yOlks of five eggs. whites of three
beaten to stiff froth: one teaspoon
full of baking-powder; juice and grated
rind Of one orange. Bake in two tins.
For filling, use: Whites of two eggs,
one cup sugar, juice and grated rind of
one orange.-Home and Country.
Asparagus: This delicious vege-
table should never be cooked lying
down. but standing on the stalks with
the heads two inches above water. In
this way thirty or forty minutes boil
ing are required, but when done. fully
third more of the stalk will be edible,
while the head will have been cooked
BY steam. Agriculturist.
Frozen Fruits: Frozen fruits are
preferred by many people to either ice
cream or water ice. Strawberries. rasp-
berries, pineapples, oranges, peaches
and cherries are the fruits which give
the best results served in this manner.
Raspberries and strawberries are i'm.
proved by the addition to the fruit OF
the Juice of a lemon. - Ladies' Home
Journal.
-Polatina: Take one cup of stewed
tomato and the gravy left from roast
beef. Let them boil, and season with
cayenne and salt. Slice two onions
soak them in cold salted water, drain
dry. and fry in deep fat. Cut about q
pint of cold roast beef into the thin
/ est possible shavings Have the plat
ter as hot as possible, Law the shaved
beef on IL. pour on the boiling sauce
and garnish with the fried onions
Boston Budget.
-Cornmeal Gems: One cupful each
| of Indian meal, -four and sour milk
onehalf a cupful of sugar, one table
spoonful of butter, one teaSpoonful OF
salt, two-thirds teaspoonful of soda
and two eggs Beat the eggs and sugar
| together. adding the butter and salt
/ then the milk with the soda dissolved
in it, and stir in the -four and meal
Beat hard, drop from the spoon into
hot butterd gem pans or muffin rings,
and bake in hot oven fifteen or TWEEN
~ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
breakfast Coffee: Wash up an egg
break up the she'll and beat light,
coffee and use one-half the mixture
setting the remainder aside for next
morning. The yolx of the egg doe,
| not clarity like the white, but it add.
! color to the beverage. Stir the cot
fee down when il boils. and never boi
/ coffee over three minutes as by that
means the tannin is extracted: on,
minute is sufficient. Good coffee ear
not be made with the finely powdered
berry; it will be muddy in spite of any
precaution taken. Before decantinl
clear the spout of the coffee pot. ther
turn out slowly.-Cooxing School.