The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-08-22
Recipes.

Fried Squash-Cut a crook-neck squash
in slices and soak them in cold sailed
water one hour. Wipe them dry. dip
them in butter and fry brown in a little
butter. or dip them in egg, roll in fine
bread crumbs and fry in boiling hot fat.
Brown Chocolate Cake-Take two cups
Of sugar. one cup of milk, four cups OF
flour, three-Quarters Of a cup Of butter,
three eggs, boil half a cake of chocolate
in a cup Of water. favor with a full
teaspoonful OF vanilla Sweeten the
chocolate to suit the taste.
Eggs in Hot Weather-An egg is near
~ perfect food. Although summer time
is egg time. it is hard TO get reliable
material in town. There is only one way
TO make sure Of fresh article-have 1t
poached. An egg will not poach unless
It is absolutely fresh. The slightest al
lection will cause a CONFUSION the mo-
ment the yolx and boiling water meet.
Picked Cauliflower-Very small and
imperfect heads can be used for this pur-
pose. Take six small ones and cut them
up. Take also one pint Of small white
onions and two small red peppers. Dis
solve a cup Of salt in one quart OF hot
water and pour over the caulifiOwer
draining off the next morning. Boil two
quarts of vinegar with three tablespoon
fus Of mustard seed, add the vegetables
and boil half an hour
Pineapple Pie-Prepare the pineapple
chopped fine or grated, and otherwise
made ready for a compete. Have shell
Of nice pastry spread with a little apple
sauce-just enough to glaze the crust. Fill
the pie plate with pineapple and orange,
strips of pastry across. Bake the pie
about forty-five minutes in an oven quite
hot for the first fifteen minutes and a
very little more moderate for the last
half hour. When the pie is removed
from the oven dredge it with powdered
sugar and set it back in the oven just
long enough to allow the sugar to melt.
Serve ice cold.
Welsh Custards-One cup Of dry grated
cheese. four eggs, one cup of milk, one
of prepared flour mixed with the milk, bit
Of soda the size of a pea, half a teaspoon
full of salt and pinch Of cayenne. Heat
the milk, stirring in the soda, butter, salt
and pepper, with the -four, wet up with
a little milk and pour ii scaldng hot on
the eggs beaten light in bowl; add the
cheese. beat up Nor a minute, pour into
buttered custard cups and bake in a brisk
oven for about twenty minutes. They
should be puffy and lightly Drowned and
served instantly in the cups. as they soon
fall Pass the waters with them.
A New Way of Keeping Fruit-It is
stated that experiments have been made
in keeping fruit in jars covered only
with cotton batting, and that at the end
Of two years the fruit was sound. The
following directions were given for the
process: Use crooks. stone bottom jars
or any other convenient dishes. Prepare
and cook the fruit precisely as for cam
ming in glass jars, fill your dishes with
the fruit while II is yet hot, and immed-
lately cover with cotton batting, securely
tied on. Remember that all putrefaction
is caused by the invisible creatures in
the air Cooking the fruit expels all
these. and as they cannot pass through
cotton batting. the fruit thus protected
will keep an indefinite period. 1t will
be remembered that Tyndall has proved
that atmospheric germs cannot pass
through layer of cotton.
Sweet Cucumber Pickles-Take perfect
" rips cucumbers. peel, extract the seeds,
cut lengthwise. then once across, and
steam until quite tender, or else soak in