Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-08-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Creamed Potatoes-Melt one table,
spoonful of butter and add one table,
spoonful -four Then add, in small
portions, half a pint of milk, stirring
constantly. Season and stir in cold
sliced potatoes.-Chicago Record.
Vegetable Salad.-Use any remnants
Of vegetables from yesterdays dinner
green peas or beans, boiled potatoes,
slices of beets, green onions or celery;
cut small and heap together on leaves
of fresh lettuce; a mayonnaise dress
ing.-Prairie Farmer.
Potato Puffs-Boil three large pota-
toes, mash while hot, add pepper and
salt, little onion juice, a bit of but
ter, and an egg. When very light,
drop by large spoonfuls on to a layer
of crumbs and roll into balls or cro-
quettes, frying in hot fat.-N. Y.
Ledger.
Ginger Cookies.-One cup of but
ter, one cup of sugar, one cup of mo-
lasses, one egg, one tablespoon soda,
one tablespoon ginger; mix not very
stiff; sprinkle with sugar before bak-
ing. These cookies took the premium
at a state fair.-Mrs. II. NJ. West, in
Western Record.
-Radishes-A little while before
using lay them upon ice or put them
in ice water To prepare them for the
table cut off the leaves, cut the red
part into petals, in order to have them
look like a rose, put them into a small,
fancy cut glass dish with pieces of
olraI nd RtrHrra
Who has not felt annoyance end
disgust at the smudgy appearance of
her doors after well-meaning maid
has polished the knobs and bells to a
glistening state of brilliancy and
daubed the woodwork in so doing?
Pieces of cardboard cut to fit over the
knobs and protect the surrounding
woodwork during the polishing, are
valuable accessories in cleaning time.
IN. Y. World.
Pressed Veal-Select bony piece of
veal, boil it until very soft, remove the
meat and chop fine, season with salt
and pepper and return il to the broth.
Have sufficient broth to make it quite
moist, bring it to a boil. Then place
a layer of meat in a long narrow tin,
next layer of hard boiled eggs; cover
with the rest of the meat and set II
away. When used il slices cold and is
an attractive relish for tea.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
-Hominy Cakes.-Boil a cupful of
hominy in milk until tender and the
milk is absorbed; this will take some
hours, as hominy requires slow cook
ing When cooked, add an ounce of
butter and remove it from the fire un-
til slightly cool. Then stir in gradu-
ally three ounces of flour, with which
is mixed a teaspoonful of baking pow
der and two well-beaten eggs. Place
the mixture in buntins, and bake IN
quick oven for fifteen or twenty min
utes.-Leed's Mercury.
Coffee Jelly-For coffee jelly Use
two cupfuls of clear strong coffee, one
cupful of sugar, one cupful of boiling
water. one and half cupfuls of cold
water and one-half box of gelatine
Let the gelatine soak for one-half hour
in the cold water, stir the sugar into it
and pour over it the boiling water and
coffee; strain it into a mold. When it
hus become cold turn it into a glass
dish; let it get perfectly cold and serve
with whipped cream. A nice hot
weather dessert-Farm, Field and
Fireside.
-Jellied Tongue.-Put into basin
one teacupful of Drowned meat gravy,
one pint Of the liquor in which the
tongue was boiled, one tablespoonful
of sugar, three of vinegar and one of
burnt sugar dissolved in water. Add
two ounces of gelatine dissolved in
half pint of water. Heat all togeth-
er cad strap Through a flannel bag.
Cut the tongue in slices. Let the jelly
cool and thicken a little. Then pour
a little into a mold, alternating layers
of sliced tongue and jelly until the
mold is full To turn out, dip the mold
into hot water for an instant. Cut
perpendicularly with sharp knife
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