The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-30
SELECTED RECIPES:


Tomato Soup-A tomato soup that will
help the Lenten menu is made from a
quart can of tomatoes and q pint of cold
water. Put these together in a saucepan.
and in a frying pan melt a tablespoonful
of butter, adding when hot a large onion
cut fine. When the onion is colored stir
into the butter one tablespoonful of flour
and add all the tomatoes. Season with
one tablespoonful of sugar, one teaspoon
ful Of salt and one teaspoonful of pepper
Put the saucepan on the fire and let the
contents boil slowly for twenty min
utes. CO,or with a little burned sugar,
strain through a fine sieve, and serve with
bread cut into dice and fried a crisp
brown, or small squares of toasted bread.
Poor Mans Pudding.-Two quarts Of
new milk, four tablespoonfuls OF sugar
four tablespoonfuls of whole rice and one
of cinnamon. Bake two hours. Stir care
fully few times when it is first put in
the oven.
Apple Cocoanut Meringues.-Splce and
sweetcn apple sauce, beat in two eggs
pour into a pudding dish and bake quickly;
when well Crusted over, cover with the
whites OF three eggs, well beaten with
sugar, and add quarter of pound of
desiccated cocoanut
Fruit Candy.-Take one cocoanut and
one and one-half pounds of granulated
sugar. Wet the sugar with the milk OF
the cocoanut, put in q. saucepan, let it
heat slowly, then boil rapidly for five min
utes; add the cocoanut grated very fine,
boil for ten minutes, stirring constantly
Try IT on a, cold plate; IL 1t forms a firm
paste when cold take 1t from the fire.
Pour part of it out on n large tin lined
with buttcred paper. To the remaining
cream add one-fourth of a pound of rails
ms, stoned and chopped, one-half pound
of banched almonds, one pint of pecans,
one-half cupful of chopped walnuts. Beat
all well together, then pour 1t over the
other in the tin. and when cold cut 1t in
bars or squares.
Roxbury Pancakes (for breakfast. One
pint Of sour milk, one>egg, three cups of
rye meal, one of Indian, half u cup of
molasses, one small teaspoonful of soda
and one of salt. Fry like dOughnuts.
Take u tablespoonful of the mixture,
and holding 1t low over the fat, scrape it
out with a knife in such a way as to give
1t a round shape. stir and shake them
about constantly.
Beef Sausage one pound of raw
beef and one-quarter of n pound of suet
separately. Mix them and add half a tea
spoonful OF sage pepper and salt to taste
and few drops of onion juice. Mix thor
oughiy, make into small cakes and dredge
with flour Put two tablespoonfuls of
dripping in a frying pan when hohput in
the cakes, fry quickly on both sides, and
serve very hot.
Sour Cream Sauce.-Put together q cup
of sugar and a cup and u half of thick,
sour cream. Beat the mixture FIVE or six
minutes, then put It into a sauce tureen
and CRATE nutmeg over 1t. This sauce Is
especially appropriate for Indian pud-
dings, boiled or baked, and for boiled suct
puddlngs.
salslfy.-I}oil tender, mash, season with
| butter, salt and pepper; put in baking
| dish. Beat an egg, put into II cup of
| sweet cream, add one cup bread crumbs,
mix with the satisfy, and bake brown.
Vegetable Soup.--Two or three pounds
lean beef and salt pork mixed, one small
head OF cabbage, one turnip, one large
onion, one small beet; boil separately
from the meat. when the other voge,
tables are beginning to get done, add two
| or three potatoes. When all are done we'll
| chop fine; chop the meat, put together and
season.
Potato Pudding.-MiX well together six
| tablespoonfuls OF nicely mashed potato
one tablespoonful of sugar, one ditto or
| ange marmalade two ounces butter, and
four well-beaten eggs. Pour the mixture
| into a buttered pie dish and bake half an
| hour.
Digestive Biscuits.-Rub two ounces OF
butter into one-half pound OF whole meal
having previously mixed into the meal
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, to.
gether with two ounces OF sugar. Bea,
| up one egg and add to the meal and mix
in as much milk as may be required to
| make all into stiff paste. lRoll out this
| paste to any thickness that may be liked
cut into round biscuits prick the top OF
| them with q fork, and bake till ready In a
moderate oven.
$oME HOUSEHOLD HUNTS.