The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-03-15
HOUSEHOLD saEviTiEs.

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Mock Cream Sauce--.0.le Tuai's OF
milk ttoiied}, one cup Of sugar, two
eggs, ono teaspoonfnl OF vanilla, same
of corn starch; stir together and put IN
the milk when it boila.-Farm, Field
and Fireside
Cure for q Cough. Slice three Or
four onions ON a. shallow plate, pour
over them half a cupful of sugar, cover
with another plate, place on Tie back
OF the stove and let them simmer until
cooked. Eat the preserved onions IN
stead of supper. and repeat next day II
the cough is not cure;.--R'ral Ne"
Yorker.
Good Fruit Cake One cup
n1olasses, one cup sugar, one cup strong
coffee, one-half cup butter, one cup
seeded raisins, one cup English cur.
rants, one.half pound Of canaied
orange peel or citron. All kinds OF
spices. q spoon of soda and -four to stir
quite thick. It is best to bake small
cake as trial, before adding too much
flour.
-Escalloped Tomatoes. Pat in
buttcred baking dish Il layer or bread
or cracker crumbs seasoned with bits
of butter, then layer OF tomato >.
(canned ones just as good as freshl,
seasoned with pepper, salt, and sugar II
desired, then another layer OF rs,
and so on, finishing with crumbs. Bake
one hour. This dish may De prepared
early in the day, thus making it easier
for the busy housewife. 7. Observer.
Seasoned Pudding. One pound OF
stale bread without crust, soaked till
soft, in enough cold milk to cover It,
Squeeze all the milk out. Add six
ounces of finely chopped beef suet,
three onions boiled and chopped; sea-
son with salt. sage, n1arjoram, thyme
and little grated lemon peel ADD
three we'll beaten eggs. Bake in a
well creased fat pudding tin. 1t will
take almost an hour to bake and shonld
be nicely Drowned on top. 1t is served
with the goose and eaten with gravy
poured over it.-Good Housekeeping.
Potato Salad.-Cut ten medium
sized potatoes into thin slices or dice,
according to taste. Put them into a
salad bowl with one teaspoonfcl OF
chopped parsley and some slices OF
picked cuculnbers Or carers. Put a
heaping saltspoon of salt and an evon
saltspoon of pepper into cup nnd add
one tablespoonful Of oil. Mix thor
oughly, and add two tablcspoonfuls OF
oil, one Of vinegar aud four or five
drops of onion juice Pour this dress
ing over the potatoes, toss them over
carefully and serve. The onion juice
is obtained by pceling the onion, cnt-
ting it in half and squeezing it in a
lemon squeezer exactly as You would
squeeze lemon. a good-sizod onion
vii give about tablespoonful Of juice.
This is a much quicker and easier
method than grating. -Boston Budget.
Pork Cheese.-TelSc the heads,
tongues and feet of young fresh pork,
or any other pieces that are convenient
Having removed the skin, boil them till
all the meat is quite tender and can
easily be stripped from the bones.
Then chop 1t fine and season it with
salt and pepper to your taste. Add a
few sage leaves rubbed to powder
Mix the whole well together with your
hands. Put it into deep pans with
straight sides (the shape OF a cheese,
press it down hard and closely with a
plate that will fit the pan, putting the
underside Of the plate next to the meat,
and placing heavy weight on it. In
two or three days it will be fit for use
and you may turn it out of the pan.
Send it to tho table cut in slices, and
eat mustard and vinegar with it. 1t is
generally eaten at supper or breakfast
Ohio Farmer