The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-03-30
Useful Recipes.

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TENNESSEE CORN BREAD.-One
heaping cupful of flour, five cupfuls
! of corn meal, one teaspoonful salt,
four tablespoonfuls of sugar, two
teaspoonfuls soda, sour milk to
make a soft batter. Bake thirty
minutes in hot oven.
ROSE DROPS.-Cream one cupful
of sugar and one half cupful of
butter together, then add three
fourths of a cupful of sweet milk,
one and one-half cupfnls of flour,
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
whites of two eggs, and four tea
spoonfuls of red sugar. Flavor with
vanilla.
CHOCOLATE BIsCUITS.-W hisk
the whites of two eggs to a stiff
. froth, mix in lightly two and one
half ounces of grated chocolate, one
and one half ounces of fine flour,
and one ounce of caster sugar. Drop
the mixture in small heaps on a
paper and bake for few minutes
in brisk oven.
flashed POTATOES IN CREAM
Chop cold boiled potatoes. Put one
spoonful of butter or beef drippings
into the potatoes, salt and stir so
they will not burn. When nearly
warm add sweet cream. Let them
remain in the spider just long
enough to heat the cream, then
serve. If you cannot spare cream,
wet spoonful of flour in cold milk
and use instead.
CRACKERS. Crackers that have
become stale by keeping can be
made crisp again by placing in
moderately hot oven for few
minutes. They must not be allowed
to brown. Many crackers are now
sailed when bought. If not, a
slight sprinkle before being warm
ed will be an improvement. This
applies to either soda or the small
oyster crackers for soup.
! A DAINTY DESSERT Nicely
made cranberry jelly which has
been thoroughly strained, and made
a little sweeter than when served
with turkey or as sauce, makes a
/ beautiful dish in connection with
blanc mango. Put into the mold
first a layer of cranberry jelly, then
blanc-mange, alternating these
layers until the mold is full, set in
the ice box until wanted and serve
with powdered sugar and cream.
SWEET BIsCUITs.-Rub four
ounces of butter (cost eight cents)
into one pound of flour (cost four
cents); dissolve four ounce of sugar
(cost three centS) in half a pint of
warm milk (cost two cents); pour
this into the -four, mixing it
smoothly; then dissolve half level
teaspooniul of cream of tartar in
one gill of cold water, and stir it
into the above ingredients. When
they are thoroughly mixed, roll out
tae paste about quarter of an inch
thick, cut ii out in small round
cakes, and bake them golden brown
at once, in quick oven.
| BAvARIAN VASES NESTS Take
a pound and a half of -four, sift it
into large pan or bowl, add six
eg rs, half a pound of melted butter
(Which must not be hOD, one pint
of cream or rich milk, one ounce
and half of yeast dissolved in the
latter, and a saltspoonful of salt.
Work all this together until IA
pretty firm blistering dough, and
let it rise. Then remove to flour
ed baking board and roll out the
dough into a thin sheet. Brush it
over with melted butter and
sprinkle thick with well picked and
wash dried currants, almonds
blanched and minced, powdered
cinnamon and sugar. Then cut the
dough into strips of three fingers
width, roll up these strips from one
end in a buttered high trimmed
form. Cover it up with a warm
cloth and let it rinse again. Bake
in moderately hot oven for three
quarters of an hour.