Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-06-20
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-Crumb Griddles: One pint milk.
one cup bread crumbs, soak over night.
then add half teaspoon salt, one egg.
two tablespoons molasses, one table,
spoon melted hard, one teaspoon soda.
-four enough to make batter.-Orange
judd Farmer.
Dreamed Potatoes: Put enough
milk to cover the potatoes in skillet.
add butter. salt and pepper, and when
1t begins to boil put in the cold boiled
potatoes cut in small pieces Add .
teaspoonful Of -four wet with cold milk.
stir all together a few minutes. and it
will be ready to serxe.-0hio Farmer.
--Stewed Duck: Cut the duck in
small pieces, peel and chop an onion,
and fry 1t brown in dripping or butter.
Brown the pieces in this; then remove
them and put in a heaping tablespoon
full of -four and stir until smooth and
brown Return the pieces. cover with
boiling water and stew gently until
tender--Country Gentleman.
Spaghetti: Boil cne-half pound OF
spaghetti or small macaroni in salted
water. Drain, throw into cold water
for fifteen minutes. and drain again.
Fry a piece OF onion in two table
spoonfuls OF butter, add table
spoonful of -four and q pint Of
strained tomatoes. Stir until II boils;
then add four ounces Of cheese. salt and
pepper. and n dish of nutmeg, and the
spaghetti. and when very hot serve -
Western Rural.
"A Very Toothsome Pudding: One
pint of bread crumbs. one quart OF
milk. one teacup Of white sugar, yolks
OF four eggs, grated rind OF one lemon.
Beat the eggs. sugar and lemon. thea
stir In the crumbs; bake until a nice
brown Beat to a stiff froth the whites
of four eggs with four tablespooufuls
of sugar. Spread fruit jelly or jam
over the pudding. cover with the FROST
ing and set in the oven TO brown
slightly. Serve cold.-Y. Y. Ledger
-Lyounaise Tripe: Boil the tripe in
salted water, unless, as is often the
case. it has been boiled before II was
sold. Cut it in long. narrow strips.
Put a Tablespoonful of butter in the
pan, and when il browns add a small
onion, cut into bits When this has
Drowned, add tablespoonful OF vine
gar. the stripe, little chopped pars-
icy. salt and pepper to taste. II the
picked tripc is used. omit the vinegar,
called for in the recipe. House.
keeping.
Shepherds Pie: A pound OF NUT
ton, minced fine, or any scraps of cold
meat can be minced and used for this
dish. Two and a half pounds of pota-
toes boiled and peeled. Mash the po-
tatoes with a little MAX until quite
smooth, and add little salt, or butter.
Put the meat into a deep pudding dish,
season with pepper and salt II cold
meat is used, add a verv little stock or
water just to moistcn it. Cover the
minced meat over with the potatoes.
Make IL look as neat and as much like
real pie as possible. and bake in gem
tie oven for half an. hour until the DO
tatoes are nicely Drowned II liked, a
finely chopped onion can be added to
the minced meat
-Mackerel Au Bcurrre Noir. Spill,
the mac<erel open at the back, season
with little salt, pepper and butter il
all over, lay il upon a gridiruu over a
moderate fire, turning il when about
half done. Cook IL about a quarter OF
an hour. When done place it.ou hot
platter. Then put six ounces Of fresh
butter into a stew pan overs, hot FIRE
and cook until the butter becomes
black but not burnt, then throw In
about fifty leaves of parsley. which FRY
crisp and pOnr over the fish. Put thye.
tablespoonfuls of vinegar into the
stewPan, let it boil half a minute. sea
son with pepper and salt and pour this
over the fish also. The yut il into the
oven for five minutes and serve very
hot Boston Budget