The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-12-14
HAPPY HOUSEHOLD.
Tried Recipes from the Loyal Home
Workers,

Workers.
OLD RHYMES FOR C. C. COOKS.
Always have lobster sauce with salmon,
And put mint SAUCE your roasted lamb on.
In dressing salad mind this law
With two hard yoks one that's raw.
Roast veal with rich stock gravy serve;
Aud picked mushrooms, too observe
Roast pork sans apple sauce. past doubt.
j. Hamlet" witlthe Prince left out.
Your nutton-ehops with paper cover.
Aud make them amber brown all over.
Broil lightly your beef-teak-io fry it
Argues contempt A. Christian diet.
To roast Spring chickens is to spoil EN-
just split 'em down the back and broil 'en.
il gives true epicures the vapors
L" see boiled mutton minus capers.
The cook deserves hearty cutting
Who serves roast fowl with tasteless stufing.
Smells require egg and biscuit powder;
Don't put fat pork in your clam chowder.
Egg sauce-=few make it right, alas!-
J. good with buefish or with bass.
Nice oyster sauce gives zest to cod
A f-h. when fresh. TO suit god.
But one might rhyme for weeks this way.
Aud sill have lots OF things TO say.
And SO III close: for, reader mine,
This 10 about the hour dine.
BOILED ONIONS.
To boil onions properly is a secret worth know
ing. Peel and wash them ia cold wafer and let
them stand f.w minutes before putting them on
to cook. They should be whole, aud boiled in
pleniy of water about one hour. Draiu the water
ali q, place them on the sove. and add plenty Of
butter and ennngh sweet milk to almost cover
them. Salt after the milk has come to IA boil AZ
salt curdles the milk. little pepper should be
added. Mary A. Seward, San Diego, Cal.
ROASTED PIG.
pig for roasting should be small and fat and
dressed Carefully the day before cooking. Prepare
"A dressing OF bread-crumbs seasoned with salt
pepper, and sweet herbs; add little butter to
mol ten with and u Tablespoonful Of hot wafer
ST If and neatly. Rub butter on the outside
To prevent blisiering. Put little water ia the pan
aud roast from two-ahd-a-haIf TO three hours.
Cut the head off. split the pig in halves and lay
them tho pintler with the dressing under Serve
with tomato catsup. baked beans. aud artichokes.
Carrie HailOwell. Kidder, No.
CHICKEN SOUP.
Take the tips of tie wings the backs rumps
and neck- of two chickens. and with "a sharp knife
separate the meat from the boues If the legs aud
thighs. Break the bones, aud place them with the
several hours.
Take them from the fire and strain through
salt and pepper. and serve "a dish 10 each person
with spoonful Of rice which has been cooked
tender in sailed water.
Rhoda J. Woodruff. oskaloosa, Iowa
FRUIT PUDDING.
One cup OF brown sugar; q cup of nolssses;
half cup 81 butter; a cup OF strong coffee; one
egg: four even cups of flour; heaping teaspoon
fu OF coda in the -four: tablespoonful OF CHINA
mon: ieaspoUufni of cloves; two pounds of raj
sins; fourth Of pound Of csron. Mix the butter
and sugar; add egg, spices mola-ses aud coffee,
then the -four, and lastly the fruit dredged with
four
Bake one hour in a moderate oven This may
be prepared n week before using. Cut into slices
aud hay in "A steamer until hot. Pour over lemon
and serve.
Lemon sauce: Two iablespoonfuls Of butter one
cup of sugar: tablespoonful of -four, mixed with
coid water To- the consistency OF cream. Add u
pint OF boiling water; boil several minutes stirring
constantly. Add the juice Of lemon. or some
bottled grape-juice. Serve hot.
May Todd. Bridgeport, o.