The Van Buren press., 1895-10-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Tomato Sweet Pickle.-Peel and
slice seven pounds ripe tomatoes. Mix
with them three and one-haf pounds
sugar, one quart vinegar and one
ounce each of cinnamon and cloves.
Stew one hour -Farm and Fireside.
Cucumber Catsup Crate the cu-
cumbers and strain OF the water
through colander Add six large on.
ions chopped fine to one gallon of the
grated and strained cucumbers. Add
vinegar, salt, cayenne pepper and
horse-radish to taste. Bottle without
cooking. Orange Judd Farmer.
Veal Outlets the meat In
beaten egg. then in cracker crumbs.
Fry until done. Remove and strain
the grease where it has been cooked.
Add one cupful of tomatoes pressed
through sieve, pepper and salt to
taste. Allow it to boil few minutes
and pour over outlets. Farm, Field
and Fireside.
Bread Salad.-Cut into pieces about
half an inch square a stale Loaf OF
BREAD chop equal parts Of cold boiled
potatoes tomatoes and cucumbers; sea-
son with little grated onion, one ta-
blespoonful of oil. the juice of two
lemons; pepper and salt, and chopped
parsley; mix with the bresdj let stand
for quarter of an hour before serv.
ing.-Harper's Bazaar.
Preserved Ounces. Pare, core and
quarter the ounces. Put them into
the kettle with just enough water to
cover them and boil until tender. Take
them out and spread on large platter.
Put the cores and parings into the
water in which the ounces were boiled,
and let them boil twenty minutes.
When they are done, skim them out
carefully or pour through a colander.
Put the liquor back on the stove, and
to each pound of the ounces used, al
low one pound of sugar. Let 1t boil
until it is clear, rich sirup, then put
| in the ounces and cook until done
Farm and Fireside.
Chocolate Marble Cake. Put one
ounce chocolate and one tablespoon.
full in q cup and set this in pan OF
boiling water Beat to a cream half q
butter and one cupful of sugar. Grad.
ually beat in half cupful of milk.
| Now add the whites Of six eggs, beat.
en- to stiff froth, one teaspoonful oi
vanilla and cupful and half OF
sifted flour, in which is mixed one tea
spoonful of baking powder Put about
one-third of this mixture into smother
bowl and stir the melted butter and
chocolate into it. Drop the white-and'
brown mixture in spoonfuls into q
well-buttered deep cake pan and bake
in moderate oven for about forty-five
minutes; or, the cake can be baked IN
a sheet and iced with chocolate On
white icing. .-Bosi on Budget.
| Tomato Omelet.- Dissolve an ounce
of butter in a stewpan, and fry table
spoonful of finely minced onions til
tender. Have ready four or five toma
toes which have been scalded, skinned
and cut up small. Season all with
pepper, salt and cayenne peppsr, and
simmer slowly for halfa an hour Turr
the mixture into basin to cool, add .
good cupful of fine bresd-crumbs ant
four well beaten eggs. Dissolve Z
piece of butter in an omelet pan, poul
in the mixture, stir it slowly till 1t be
gins to set, then draw all the omelet t.
one side of the pan, and let 1t brown
Turn it over so that both sides will b,
Drowned, and serve at once. Insteat
of frying the omelst, it may be turnet
into buttered pie-dish and baked til
set in steady oven.-Leeds Mercury