The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

II have found it an excellent plan to
mix corn starch with salt before filling
the salt shakers. We have no trouble
with them now.
If you never owned a busting apron
you do not know what a convenience
Is 1t has n long pocket for the
feather buster, a smaller one for the
busting cloth and still another for the
whisk broom.
-ShirrSd Eggs: Literally grease
the egg dishes with butter and place
them in the oven for an instant. Care
fully break an egg in each cup anG
bake IN the oven for eight minutes.
Remove, season with salt and pepper
and one-half of a teaspoonful of melted
butter to each egg. Serve at once
n. Y. Observer.
Green Tomato Catsup: One peck of
green tomatoes, one dozen large
onions. one-half pint of salt. Slice. add
salt and let stand tw~enty-four hours.
Drain, and mix with tomatoes one
half pound of mustard seed, one table,
spoon of allspice, one ounce each of
cloves, ground mustard, ground gin
ger, pepper, celery seed and one-fourth
pound of brown sugar. Cover with
vinegar, boil two hours and bottle hot.
-Housekeeper.
Apricot Souhie: Put one pint of
bread in half a pint of milk over the
fire and stir till boiling hot. Press
twelve pieces of apricot or peaches
through the colander, stir into the
bread and milk. Add a teaspoonful of
lemon juice, two tablespoonfuls of su-
gar and the slow-beaten whites of four
eggs. Put this mixture into creased
custard cups. Stand the cups in a bak-
ing pan of hot water and cook in a
moderately hot oven of twenty min
utes. Serve with wine sauce.-Boston
Budget
Picked Apples: Scald together one
quart vinegar (half water if very
strongG, three pounds sugar and two
ounces stick cinnamon: add seven
pounds apples with four cloves stuck in
each apple. and simmer very gently
until tender. Large crabapples nav
be used in this way, but russell apples
are best: they are excellent in the early
spring, and l Hi a two-gallon jar sew
eral times from the last bin of apples.
Pears, peaches and plums may be
picked by the same recipe, the fruit
being pared or not, according to taste.
Ripe peaches do not need to be boiled.
but should have the strip .scalded and
poured over them hot a second time.
Sour piuns require FIVE pounds of SUI
gar to seven of fruit. Country people
spice May apples" in the same man
ner.-Country Gentleman.
-Sultana: Dissolve one and a half
ounces of gelatine in a little water,
clean o~ne-luarter of a pound of sultana
raisins and One-quarter of a pound of
c%urrants. and cut o~ne-quarter of a pound
of candied lemon peel into small dice.
Meanwhile boil a vanilla bean five min
utes in n quart of cream. add three
quarters OF a pound of sugar. remove
from the fire and let the cream remain
covered until nearly cold: take out the
bean, beat the yolkS of fifteen eggs
with the cream, strain, put over a slow
fire and stir until it thickens. taking
care not to allow it to curdle; add the
~raisins, currants, lemon peel and dis
gelatine, and the whites of the
eggs beaten to a stiff froth: pour the
whole mixture into a mold and set it
on the ice or in a cool place to harden.
When ready to serve put the mold into
warm water for a few minutes, turn
out into a dish and garnish with
whipped cream favored with VANILLA
Harnpr'S Razar