River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-03-21
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Fried Cakes, with Sour Milk: Two
cupfuls of sour milk. one teaspoonful
OF soda dissolved in one-quarter cupful
of hot water, one cupful of sugar, one
beaten egg. three tablespoonfuls of
butter or good meat drippings. Flour
to roll.-Good Housekeeping.
To Dress Cold Fowl: Take the re-
mains of a cold fowl, remove the skin,
Their the bones, leaving the flesh in as
large pieces as possible; dredge with
-four and fry light brown in butter;
toss it up in good gravy well seasoned
and thickcned in butter rolled in -four;
serve hot with bits of toasted bread
Farmers Voice.
Rye Bread: Take two quarts warm
water. and melt in this enc tablespoon
full of lard, then add tho same quantity
of sugar and salt, stir in rye -four,
making a thin batter; then add a cup
of yeast, and let it stand over night to
raise. In the morning stir in more
flour, making a thick batter, and when
il again becomes light, put into pans
and bake, either with or without rails
ing a third time.-City and Country.
Beef Collops: Any tender cold beef
will serve for this. Cut the beef into
pieces about three inches long, beat
them fiat, dredge them with -four, fry
them in butter; lay them in a stewpan
and cover them with brown gravy; put
in half an onion finely-minced, a lump
of butter rolled in flour to thicken, and
a little salt and pepper. Let it stew
very gently until done. Serve with
pickles or squeeze in the juice of half
lemon to suit taste. Must be served
very hot.-Housekeeper.
-Banana Fritters: Mash three or
four bananas to a cream. Add one
egg, one cup of -four in which one tea
spoonful of baking powder has been
sifted, pinch of salt and one gill of
sweet milk. One teaspOonful of lemon
juice may be added. Beat until thor
oughly mixed. Have the fat heated.
as for doughnuts. SO that the batter
will rise to the top Immediately. DO
net make fritters too large. Fry un-
til well Drowned, drain on soft paper.
sprinkle with powdered sugar and
serve with lemon juice.-Lced's Mer-
curry.
Fruit Candy: Take one coconut
and enc and one-half pounds of granu-
lated sugar. Wet the sugar with the
milk of the cocoanut, put it in sauce
pan, let IL heat slowly. then boil rap
idly for five minutes; add the cocoanut
grated very fine, boil for ten minutes,
stirring constantly. Try it on cold
plate; il it forms firm paste when
cold take i from the fire. pour part
of it out OF Il large tin lined with but
tered paper. To the remaining cream
add One-fourth of a pound of raisinS.
stoned and chopped, one-half pound OF
blanched almonds, one pint of pccans,
onc-half eupful of chopped walnuts.
Beat ali well together, then pour it
over the other in the tin, and when
cold cut it in bars or -Boston
Budget.
-Fishernan's Soup: Any sort of
fish may be used, the smallest fresh
fish resulting from the days angling of
the small boy, or one or more kinds of
salt water fish. Cover three pounds of
fish with a quart of water, adding a
tomato, lcek. a small carrot and one
onion, With parsley and tho usual soup
herbs; cook In pulp and press through
a SIEVE, rejecting skin and bones to
facilitate the process. Return to the
soup-llettle, and add a quart of hot wa
ter and pint of hot milk; season to
taste; add tablespoonful of butter
rolled in flour, and when it comes to a
boil, pour into the soup turcen over
dice of fried or toasted bread. For a
change You may put in the tureen a
half-cupful each of dice, of boiled
turnip and celery. - Orange Judd
Farmer