Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1893-01-12
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Pancakes. Two cups of milk. one
sgy. two spoons Of sugar, two tea
spoons Of baking powder, little salt,
four for stiff batter; fry in hot lard
Boston Budget
-Molasses Drops. One cup Of nolas-
ses. oue-half cup of butter, oue-haf
cup OF warm water. three cups of -four,
one teaspoonful Of soda and two tea
spoonfuls of ginger. Drop from a
spoon into well-buttered tins, and bake
in 4 quick oveu.-Old Homestead.
Fish Omeiet: Make a plain omelet
with six eggs. and when ready TO fold.
spread over fish prepared as follows;
Add to a eupful Of any kind Of cold
fish. broken fine. a eupfuI Of cream and
a teaspoonfuI OF butter. To be sea-
soued with salt and pepper-Detroit
Free Press.
Fruit Blanc Mango: Take a can Of
straw berries. rsspberries or currants,
stew, and strain of the juice; sweeteu
and place over the fire When il comes
to boil, stir in tablespoonful Of
moss farina to every pint OF juice. add
a pint Of milk, set on ice to cool Serve
with cream and sugar-Farm and Fire
side
Frozen potatoes can be restored tn
palatableness by peeling them and let
ting them lie in cool place with plen-
ty Of cold water poured over them. In
twenty-four hours all the sugar which
has been formed during the freezing
process will have been removed. and
the potatoes can now be boiled in fresh
water and viii b. found to be perfectly
palatable- Chicago Herald.
Portuguese Cakes. Take butter,
eggs, sugar and -four of equal weight
Beat the butter to a cream. add the
eggs, then the sugar and at last
the -four. Stir half an hour and drop
in little heaps the size of n walnut. on
sheet iron pan. which you have
slightly busted over with -four. Take
some preserved cherries and place one
in the center of each cake. pressing II
down TO steady IL Bake in n moder-
ately hot oven. Boston Budget
New Years Cake: Cream one and a
half pounds Of butter and one and half
pounds Of powdered sugar. beat well
together. Beat fifteen eggs, and add.
with pound and half of sifted -four
and three teaspoonfuls Of balxing-pow-
der; CRATE two lemons in half a teacup of
molasses and add the butter. with two
pounds of ine-ehopped almonds, two
pounds of seeded raisins, and one
pound of sliced citron. Turn in n cake
mould, and bake two hours in n moder-
ate oven--TIarper's Bazaar.
Potato Balls: Pare the potatoes
smoothly and evenly. Cut out the balls
with French scoop. dropping them in
cold water rs soon as they are cut
When ready to do the cooking. put
them in n saucepan with boiling water
enough to cover them. Place on the
fire, and cook until tender II the
scoop used be one of medium size, II
will take just eight minutes to cook the
balls; but IL the large size be used,
twelve minutes cooking will be re-
quired Drain off all the water, and
dredge with one teuspoonful of salt
Farm. Field and Preside.
DO not keep a sick person too long
in one room without taking him on;
and furnigatin0 it. Put sulphur in an
iron or earthenware pan that will stand
the heat. and set IL on bricks placed in
another and larger pan eontaing water
up To the top of the bricks. Set the
sulphur on fire; close all the window.
and erevices so il can not escap@
Loosen and hang upon chairs all the
clothing to be freshened: keep the door
closed six or eight hours: then open al
the windows and doors and freely ven,
tilate the room for day. Nothing
rests a sick person 50 much as to thinL
of the pure, clean room he is lying in
y. Y Recorder.
1t Is very much more convenient tr
have raisins already stoued for us.
when they are needed Five or ST,
months supply of raisins or of currant.
may be prepared at a time in colo
weather. To prepare raisins, pick of
the stems, seed them. one by one, will
the fingers or small knife In orde
10 prevent the fingers becoming stick
dip them in a bowl of warm water ken
near at hand for the purpose. As tn,
raisins are seeded close them up, on
by one, so as to make them look as the,
did before This is necessary to pre-
vent them sticking together, as the
will il put in the jar or box turned in
side out IL will also make them kee,
better A tin box. with clcse-fittin,
cover. is the best thing to keep raisin
| or currants I'M Y. Tribune.