The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Beefsteak Stew.-Put one quart Of
seasoned tomatoes with two pounds of
round steak cut up. three cloves one
tablespoonful of braided flour in pan
End simmer tender, but add no water.
Strain liquor for sauce.-Good House
keeping.
Green Corn Pudding. cups
of sweet corn pulp, two quarts of sweet
milk, six well beaten eggs, and one
half cup melted butter. Bake slowly
until the custard is set, but be careful
not to let il bake long enough to whey.
With rich sauce this may be used as
| dessert.-IIome.
-Snow.-Grate a cocoanut and pile
it in the center of a glass dish; beat
the whites of five eggs to stiff froth.
| add two large spoonfuls of fine white
/ sugar. spoonful of rosewater or pine
| apple. Beat the whole well together.
| add a pint of thick cream and turn
| over the cOcoanut.-Home and Coun-
try.
| Potato Balls.-Moisten two cupfuls
| of cold mashed potatoes with one-haf
\ cupful of hot milk. and when Softened
| stir in two sailed well-beaten eggs
Drop carefully from spoon INTO flour.
or egg and crumb them the mixture
| should be very soft, and brown either
! in hot butter or boiling fat.-House-
keeper.
Roses Cake.-Three cupfuls light
! bread dough, two cupfuls sugar, one
| cupful butter, one cupful raisins, chop
ped; onC-half cupful flour, two eggs,
| three tablespoonfuls sour milk, one
teaspoonful soda, one nutmeg. Mix
| thoroughly. Let rise half an hour,
then bake This makes two cakes
Detroit Free Press.
To make the lemon water ice, boil
for five minutes exactly one quart of
water and one pound and quarter of
white sugar, to which has been added
the rinds of three lemons and of one
orange. Remove whatever scum arises
and strain the strip while hot through
a muslin bag. When cool mix the juice
of four lemons and of one Orang5 with
the sirup; strain second time and
freeze
Saratoga PotatOes.-Cut raw pota-
toes in slices as thin as waters. with
thin, sharp knife; lay them in cold
water over night, bit of alum will
make them more crisp; next morning
rinse in cold water and dry with
towel. Have ready a kettle of lard,
hotter than for fried cakes. and drop in
the potatoes few at time. They will
brown quickly. Skim out in u colander,
and sprinkle with salt or lay them on
double brown paper in the oven till
dry. If any are left over from the meal
| they can be warmed over in the oven
and will be just as good for another
time.-BostOn Budget.
Caramel cake is generally voted
delicious" Beat to cream two cup
fuls of sugar and half-cupful of but
ter: add a cupful OF sweet milk and
three cupfuls of flour, into which has
been sifted two teaspoonfuis of baking
powder, and last of all. the whites of
six eggs. Bake in three deep layer
cake pans. Loosen and spread on
plate after baking each cake. Make
filing of two pounds of confectioner's
sugar. dissolved in sweet cream until it
is just thick enough to spread. Put this
mixture on the tops of two cakes, and
let it dry for few minutes. Then over
the top of the cream filing spread
thickly melted chocolate. Put You:
cakes together; the warm chocolate will
make them stick. Ice the top one with
boiled icing. made by cooking to-
gether until it hairs" one cupful of
sugar and half-cupful of boiling water.
Pour this boiling mixture on the beaten
white of one egg.-N. Y. Observer.