River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-06-01
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DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

--Poached Eggs: Place a generous
slice of butter and a cupful of water in
a frying-pan. When hot. pour in the
/ eggs carefully; cover closely and set
where they will not burn. Serve with
salt and pepper over the top House
/ keeper.
Oyster Salad: Drain the oysters and
/ plump them in hot pan until they are
fairly ruffied. Season with pepper and
salt and let grow perfectly cold. Dress
with mayonnaise before serving. Crisp
lettuce leaves are sometimes used for
garnishing. Judd Farmer.
Cooking Spinach: Spinach is some
times boiled with a little salt pork, but
the addition of the pork was never
agreeable TO me; | simply boil IL in
I slightly-salted water until il is tender;
then drain it carefully in a colander,
chop il fine, put it in spider and heat
it with enough butter, pepper and salt
/ TO taste. When the spinach is put on
/ the table few slices of hard boiled
/ eggs are used as garnish on top
/ Prairie Farmer
Egg Cruel for the Sick: One ounce
| of sago one, pint of water, one glass of
/ sherry, sugar and ginger, little lemon
/ juice or nutmeg. Stand the sage in a
| pint of water ON the hot stove to soften
1 for two hours. Boil for quarter of an
| hour, when all the ingredients are
/ added. keeping il well stirred; sweeten
/ land add the wine if wished), lastly
beat up an egg finely and to high
| froth; add il to the Cruel and beat well.
Good Housekeeping.
Minced Sandwiches: Chop half
1 pound OF lean ham very fine; add one
minced pickle and tablespoonful of
mustard; put four ounces of butter in
a frying-pan; stir over the fire until it
/ creams; add the ham, the beaten yoll1
of one egg, with aslittle salt and pep
/ per. remove the pan from the fire. stir
/ all together, pour out on a large dish
and let cool. When firm cut in slices
] and lay between slices of buttered
bread.-Boston Budget.
-Molasses Layer Cake: One cup of
sugar, one-half cup of molasses, one
fourth cup of butter, one-half cup of
buttermilk, two cups of flour, yoll1s of
three eggs, white of one egg, one tea
/ spoon each of soda, cinnamon and nut
meg, one-half teaspoon of cloves and
salt. Bake in layers; put together
with boiled or cold frosting made of
one cup of sugar and the whites of two
eggs, or can be baked in loaf. Spleen
sid.-Detroit Free Press.
--Graham Diamonds: Some people
are very fond of graham cakes or crack
ers, generally called graham dia-
mOnds," on account of their shape.
They are made in this manner: Add a
teaspoonful each of graduated sugar
and salt to a quart of graham flour
Pour boiling water upon it until thor
oughly scalded. Work into a soft
dough and roll ont until about half an
inch in thickness. Then, with a sharpe
knife cut it into diamonds or squares,
place ma baking pan and bake in a
hot oven half an hour, or until well
done and crisp.-Boston Globe.
Here is a recipe for the bite of a
mad dog, taken from the Universal
Magazine of knowledge, published by
John Hinton at the Kings Arms in
| Newgate street, London, May, 1883:
Take the Youngest shoots of the elder
tree. peel off the outside rind then
scraping off the green rind, take two
hanifuls of 1t, which simmer a quarter
of ar hour IN five pints of ale; strain it
off, nd, when cold. put it in bottles
Take half pint. make warm, the first
thing in the morning and the last at
night, and be sure 10 keep yourself
warm: also battle the part affected
with some of the liquor warmed. The
dose to be repeated the next new or
full moon after the first. 1t is good
for cattle as well as the human species