The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-04
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

-Currant Ice: One pint currant
Juice; n quart water: one cup sugar.
STR until the sugar is dissolved. strain
and freeze.-Harper's Bazaar.
Pepper Sauce: One pint of large or
mango pepper chopped, one quart of
chopped cabbage, and enough of mixed
spices to flavor. Scald enough vinegar
tocover. Put in cans or bottles.-Wom-
ans Home Journal.
Pineapple Cake: Three cups sugar.
one cup butter, five eggs, three and a
half cups of flour. one-half cup cold
water and two teaspoonfuls baking
powder. Bake in layers. spread each
layer with icing. then cover with
grated or finely-chopped pineapple
Prairie Farmer.
Lettuce Salad: Take the yolks of
three nard-boiled eggs. salt and mus
a to taste, and mash fine. Make a
paste by adding a dessertspoon Of olive
oil or melted butter. Mix thoroughly
with a teacup of vinegar. Pour over
the lettuce and garnish with rings Of
whites of the observation-disclosures.
d 'ouD Vic quart Oh water.
one pint of raw sliced potatoes. butter
size of an egg, salt and pepper to taste:
cover and cook until the potatoes are
soft: add a well beaten egg and half a
pint of creamy milk, let it boil again
and stir in two tahlespoonfuls OF flour
mixed smoothly with a little creamy
milk. Serve hot with crackers.-Ohio
Farmer.
Veal Chops a Ia Nayonnaise: Put
eight veal chops in Il fiat saucepan,
muistcn them with Il little high stock.
add a little salt. pepper and nutmeg.
and simmer gently for an hour. after
which take hem ont and put them on
ice until very cold. Serve them in 3
circle with whatever Jelly remains.
and in the center a sauce mayonnaise.
Good Housekeeping.
Cherry Pie: Chcrry pie should not
have an under crust. but an inch-wide
strip Of paste should he placed around
the side of the pie plate. Pat in a
layer of cherries. then a tablespoonful
of fine bread or or acker crumbs and
two tabIespoonfGls OF sugar. Continue
until the plate is full. then with
d rich crust. Sift one tablespoonful of
powdered sugar Ovc the top. and bake.
Country Gentleman.
Lobster Salad: Cut or chopthe meat
of two Holsters into pieces about half
an inch square. Arrange in a neat pile
on the dish. The coral and tomalley
may be placed on top. or served on Il
separate dish-but not mixed in with
the meat. Garnish the whole with let
tuce and the small claws, or slices of
hard-hoiled egg. Serve with V
naise dressing.-Ladies' Home Journal.
delicate Pudding: One pint of milk.
one ounce of gelatine. one-half pound
Of sugar. six eggs. one quart of whipped
cream. Put the milk and gcla-ine in
double boiler and let them come to a
boil. Beat the sugar and yOlks to-
gethcr and stir in the milk. When cold
stir in the whipped cream, and lastly
the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff
froth. Pour into molds that have been
wet with cold water and put on the ice
t o harden.-BoSton Budget.
Graham Bread: Two cups of wheat
-four. four cups of Graham flour, two
cups of warm milk. one cake of com
pressed yeast, half-cup of molasses,
two teaspoons of salt, one teaspoon of
soda, dissolved in the water. Make as
stiff as can be stirred with Il spoon.
Let it rise over night. In the morning
beat it a little. form in one or two
~loaves, put in pans. and when it rises
again bake one hour in a moderate
oven.-Christian Inquirer.