St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-03-10
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

-Rejuvenating Stale Bread: Dip the
ioaf, or loaves. in cold water. put in the
oven and heat thoroughly; take out,
wrap and sweat.
Fried Celery: Cut large stalks Of
celery into three pieces. Boil till ten
der: then dip each piece into batter
made with two eggs and few spoon
fuls of milk. Roll in fine bread crumbs
and fry brown in hot bntter.-Bost0n
Budget.
Peach Shortcake: One quart Of
sifted flour, two tablespoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, \ pinch of salt, table
spoonful of sugar, three tablespoonfuls
of butter and milk to make . soft
dough; bake in two layers, one on top
of the other with butter between; when
cool slit open with . knife and cover
with canned peaches sprinkled with
sugar. put other layer of crust on top
and cover with peaches.-farm. Field
and Fireside.
-Savory Soup: Take two cups Of
cooked split peas which have been rub
bed through = colander, one cup Of
mashed potato. and one-half cup OF
strained, stewed tomato. add sufficient
hot water to make of proper consis-
tency, season with salt Sand add IN
onion sliced. Reheat the whole until
we'll favored with the onion. Remove
the pieces with fork or turn the whole
through q soup-strainer when 1t Is
ready to serve. A little cream may be
added If desired. Health.
Yorkshire Pudding: Five table
spoonfuls of -four, two eggs. pinch OF
salt, milk enough to make . batter
the thickness Of cream (about . pint).
Mix eggs. -four and salt with . little
milk till smooth. adding gradually the
rest of the milk Pour the batter into
large dripping pan which has been
thoroughly creased with hot beef drip
ping. Bake in hot oven fifteen or
twenty minutes Serve with the beef.
with gravy poured over.-Good House
keeping.
Fish Forcemeat: Take two ounces
of turbot, sole. lobster. shrimps. or
oysters; free from skin. put into .
mortar, with two ounces of fresh but
ter, one ounce of bread crumbs. yolks
of two eggs, boiled hard, and little
eschalot, grated lemon peel. and pars.
lev, minced very fine. Pound we'll till
thoroughly mixed and smooth; season
with salt and cayenne pepper: break
| in the yOlk and white of one egg. rub
we'll together, and the meat is ready
for use. Oysters parboiled and minced
fine, and nm anchovy may be added
Housekeepcr.
-Cocoanut Pudding: Break the co
coanut and save the milk; peel on oil
the brown part and then CRATE the CO
coanut very fine. Take the same
weight of the cocoanut of powdered
white sugar and one-qusrter pound ot
fresh butter; rub the butter and suga,
| to a cream, and add to it five eggs. wei
beaten, one cupful of sweet cream. o.
rich sweet milk, the milk of the cocoa
nut. Stir all well together. Line .
deep pudding dish with rich paste, put
IN the padding, and bake it IN hour
and a quarter. To be eaten either hot
or cold without sauce.-Ohio Farmer.
Sponge Cake: Take the weight o.
ten unbroken eggs in sugar and hal
that weight in -four. Beat the yolk'
till very light, then add the sugar snt
heat five minutes; add the rind ant
juice of one large lemon. or two small
ones, and the whites beaten to . stif
froth. Stir in the -four gradually and
thoroughly. This measure makes thre'
eood-sized loaves Bake about half n
hour in a moderate oven. The over
door must not be opened till the cak,
is nearly done. as it will be likely =
fall. II you wish to make . smaller
measure take the weight Of i've eggs IL
sugar. and half that weight in dour
Sponge cake should always be broken
| never cut it with . knife.-Bostoz
Budget.