Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-04-02
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Corn "Slappers:" One quart OF
creamy sour milk, q scant teaspoonful
of saleratus, one beaten egg, pinch OF
salt, and one tablespoonful of wheat
-four. Then make with cornmeal the
thinnest batter you can manage TO
turn on the griddle, which should be
very clean and well creased. Drop in
small cakes.-Orange Judd Farmer.
Chicken Consomme: Take chicken,
cut it into pieces and put it into a
saucepan with two quarts of cold
water, and let it simmer gently until
the scum begins to rise. Skim until
every particle is removed, then add
salt, a carrot, an onion and a turnip
chopped in little celery. Boil gently
two hours, strain and serve.-Boston
Budget.
Corn Blocks: Put one pint Of milk
in double boiler; when hot stir in
sufficient white corn meal to make a
thick mush, about six tablespvonfuls.
Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar.
cover the kettle and cook slowly for
thirty minutes. Take from the fire,
add q teaspoonful of vanilla and turn
in square pan to cool. When cold
turn out, cut into blocks, dip in egg
and bread crumbs and fry in smoking
hot fat. Serve with sweet-cream sauce.
N. Y. Ledger.
Baked Apple Pudding: Beat two
eggs, add one cupful of sugar, and
beat it well. Add one cupful of milk,
alternating with two cupfuls of flour
in which has been mixed two scant
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Then
add two tablespoonfuls of melted but
ter. Pour this mixture into a buttered
dish, and covered we'll with sliced ap-
pies. Sprinkle sugar over, and slight
grating of nutmeg. Bake one-half
hour in quick oven. Serve with egg
sauce or lemon sauce.-Good House
keeping.
Heirloom Indian Pudding: This
pudding might well be termed "a sur
vival of the fittest," as it has been in
use for more than fifty years, holding
its place in spite of the competition of
more modern dishes, and always well
coined whenever it appears. Two table.
spoonfuls of cornmeal, one cup of milk.
Boil the milk and pour on the meal,
then add half a cup of molasses, pinch
of salt, one quart of milk (colD, heap
ing tablespoonful of butter dotted over
the top in bits. Bake three hours in a
moderate oven.-Harper's Bazaar.
-Beefsteal1 pudding is always IA
vorite dish on a cold spring day. Line
good-sized piedish with thin suet
crust. Cut up two pounds of rump
steak and half a pound of beef kidney
into thick, short pieces. Mix a tea
spoonful of pepper, half ditto of salt,
with three dessert-spoonfuls of -four.
Dip each piece of meat in this, then
arrange in the dish and add some good
gravy. Cover the dish with the remains
of the crust, tie a wellfoured cloth
over, and boi! slowly for over two
hours Care must be taken that the
water in the saucepan boils before the
pudding is plunged in.-Leeds Mer-
curry.
Ginger Nuts: One quart of New
Orleans molasses should be seasoned
with tablespoonful of grated CHINA
mon, the same of black pepper, a tea
spoonful of ground cloves, and the
grated rinds of two oranges and a
lemon, stirred well together and let
stand day. Then mix with it flour
enough for stiff batter, four tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, and a
large spoonful of lard. Roll into strips
as thick as your finger, and cut into
nuts half an inch long. Bake brown,
and keep apart so that they will not
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