The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-05-10
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g s.. phi!l .nI we haye what is known
ms the tlev "pihilafelphhia , Brol' which, by
tiers are cooked after the following fash.
ION: Drain the oysters. put the liquor
over the fire. boil and skim It; for each
twenty oysters allow one Tablespoonful Of
butter, which put in a saucepan and
brown; add tablespoonful of Drowned
flour, then add q half pint. of oyster
liquor, which has been boiled and
skinned; stir the mixture until boiling:
add5half a teaspo0nful of salt, two table.
sDOOnfuls of sherry and one of paprica,
Turn all this into double boiler and add
teaspoonful of Kitchen Bouquet.''
Have very hot an ordinary cake griddle;
q 9. It lightly with butter; throw on a;
few oysters Mt a time. As soon as they
3 brown and curl turn and throw them Il,
once into the saucepan, and so continue
until all the oysters are brOiled The
4 griddle must be very hot, or the juice Of
the oyster will prevent the browning
Household News.
i. A bahia is for 4 hot desert, Il sort of
Turk head cake, with hot fruit compete
poured over it. Canned aDricots or
peaches, nectarines or preserved ounce
all are good as sauce with "baba." Rub
pound Of butter into pound of flour,
strew into it a pound Of fine seedless
raisins, four ounces of finely sifted sugar,
half Il teaspoonful of salt. Make a hol-
low in the center and put in it table
spoonful of yeast, eight eggs beaten to
a foam; boil drachm of saffron in IL
quarter of Il pint of water, strain it,
add to the liquor whatever fayoring is
preferred. then stir all in the paste. Beat
it. for half an hour, cover and leave it
for six hours; then beat it again for a
quarter of an hour, fill a buttered mould
and bake Immediately for half an hour.
fhnr hI1v< f,,,.,, Of +l,
mould and pour the hot fruit over it. Even
it has grown slightly .cold the scalding
syrup will bring it right again.
Thousands would be much fonder of
terrapin it they were cheaper.
Too much scrapple will cause one to
regret not having a large life insurance.
Proper manufacture of mayonnaise is
an y, art almost akin to china painting.
English prejudice against us does not
lessen their affection for American ap-
pies.
In many cases alleged preference for
''gamy game'' is Il silly affectation.
Shakespeare. was right when he wrote:
'Un1uiet meals make i'll Digestion
A monotonOus dish at public banquets
is everlasting tenderoin Of beef, larded.
Southern shad is plentiful, but the wise
one is content to wait for the .Northerner
German cookery, after awhile, makes
one feel as If having been born in Greece.
A Chinese dish, successfully reproduced
here, is broiled ham with honey sauce.
Fruit as restorative is receiving more
and more attention from medical men.
1t is easier to match pearls than to sue
cessfully eat an antichoke the first time.
Pliny believed in simple dinners. for he
said many dishes bring many diseases.
Sailed peanuts have to great extent
taken the place Of sailed almonds at din
nGr.
Refrigerated game is = moor suhs+itn+o
for the green, even among the Indifferent
eaters.
Egg bread is Il sophisticated form of
presenting corn meal, much approved as
breakfast dish for the holidays and for
the lavish table thought necessary to set
before a guest. 70 make this in perfec-
ton, use only the top Of the buttermilk
Beat three eggs yolks and whites to-
gether, with long sweeping stroke that
quickly brings them to creamy foam;
add to them one and one-half pints but
termilk, a heaping teaspoonful each Of
salt and soda, a pint and a half of meal
Beat them we'll together and pour about
one-half inch thick into well-greased
pan; bake gently for half an hour. A
favorite addition, to pancakes, and ,wafiles
is i; few spoonfuls of mush; the following
receipt is from Georgia housekeeper,
whose waffies were a model of tenderness
and delicacy: Make a thin mush with
one pint of water, one gill Of meal, let
ting boil until smooth and thick; while it
is cooking make the batter with four
eggs, one pint of sour milk or buttermilk.
one teaspoonful of lard, softened enough
to beat in easily; one teaspoonful of soda,
one and one-half pints of pastry flour.
Beat in the cooled mush and bake in
waffle irons well rubbed with rind of fat
pork. ..-.-..