The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-05-06
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

-Cupped Eggs: Butter half a dozen
egg-cups, break a fresh egg into each.
set in a steamer over boiling water I'M
til the whites are cooked. Serve in the
cups.-Harper's Bazaar.
An easy and good dessert is ba-
nanas sliced in thin round slices, with
sugar and orange juice over them and
served with whipped cream. Get your
dealer to give you Aspinwall bananas
if he can and will, and you never will
take any other.-N. Y. Times.
Fruit Bread Pudding; Half a pound
of fnely-grated bread crumbs. Half a
pound of fnely-chopped apples. Four
eggs. Six ounces of sugar. Two ounces
of citron. Half a pound of finely
chopped suet. Half a pound of eur
rants. A little nutmeg and lemon peel.
Boil three hours.-Ladies' World.
Bakers Yeast: Boil six potatoes.
mash them, add two level cups flour
and pour upon it a hot tea made of a
handful of hops and water enough to
make a strong tea. 1t should be
Strained before being poured on the
-four and potatoes. When milk-warm
add a cup of yeast or two dissolved
yeast cakes.-Detroit Free Press.
Pudding Sauce: Separate the whites
and yolks of three eggs; beat the whites
to a stiff froth. Care must be taken to
beat eggs in a cool dish with a cool
beaten. To the stiff froth add one cup
full of sugar, folding the mixture with
the spoon, not stirring; pour in the
yolks and beat rapidly, adding the
vanilla. This must be made just be-
fore serving.-N. Y. Observer.
Rice Toast with Poached Egg: Boil
the rice the night before it is to be used;
put it into a bread-loaf pan and keep
on ice; the next morning cut it in slices.
brush a little melted butter over the
broiler and the sliced rice, and broil, or
rather toast, before the fire. When done
butter the slices, place on each a
poached egg: spot the top of the egg
with a little black pepper and serve
Boston Budget.
Sauce for all Kinds of Fish: Take
some mutton broth or veal raw. and
put to it a little Of the liquor which
drains from the fish. Put it in a auce-
pan. with an onion, an anchovy and a
spoonful of catsup. Thicker with a
lump of butter rolled in -four, and a
spoonful of cream. Oysters. cookies or
shrimps may be put in after it is taken
off the fire. but it is very good without.
Good Housekeeping.
Baked Ham Hash: Mince cold.
boiled ham after taking off nearly all
of the fat and mix with it a pint Of
bread. crumbs and a tablespoonful of
flour. Place it in a pudding dish with
bits of butter and season with pepper
and a little cayenne. Nearly fill the
dish with milk, cover and set in the
oven to bake. In twenty minutes re-
move the cover and brown the top
Orange Judd Farmer.
-Savory Steak: Put several thin slices
of nice bacon in a hot frying pan. and
when beginning to curl, add two good
sized white onions, or a single small
Spanish onion cut in rings; when be-
ginning to brown, add a pound of lean
steak cut into collops and beaten with
the back of a knife until the fiber is
somewhat broken: season with pepper
and salt, and when this, also. is cooked
a rich brown, add sufficient water to
form a rich gravy: simmer until the meat
is tender, sprinkle over a tablespoonful
of minced parsley and the juice of half
a lemon. The fact that this recipe was
given a friend by a native cook OF
Brazil will not, we hope, prejudice any
one against it as a foreign mess" unit
they have tried it.-American Agricul.
turist.