The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-28
White Cake.

Whites OF four eggs beaten stiff: one
cupful OF sugar, three-fourths cupful
of butter. one-third cupful of milk, two
cupfuls -four and one heaping tea
spoonful of baking powder. Flavor to
suit taste.
Apple and onion Salad.
Boil one cup Of vinegar--if strong use
half water. Mix one teaspoonful mus
tard, one teaspoonful corn starch, one
half teaspoonful salt, and one half tea
spoonful pepper, with one well-beaten
egg. Stir this into the boiling vinegar
and cook until creamy. Pour 1t over
two mildly acid apples, and one onion
chopped fine. Serve with lettuce cups.
Light Fruit Cake.
Three-fourths cup butter, one and
one-half cups sugar. three eggs, one
half cup milk. one teaspoonful lemon
extract, three cups pastry -four, three
level teaspoonfuls baking powder. one
quarter cup of sliced citron, one-Quar-
ter of cup of currants and one cup
of chopped and seeded raisins.
Graham Crackers.
Put pinch of salt in one-half pound
of graham flour and wet It with one
half pint sweet cream. Mix quickly
in strips and bake in a quick oven.
Baked Omelet.
Whip five eggs; add one-half tea
spoonful of salt and a little pepper, and
stir in coffee cupful of milk. Put q
teaspoonful of butter in a baking dish.
pour In the omelet and let 1t stand on
top of the range long enough to set
TO the bottom; then add q little
chopped veal or lamb. Place In 4
quick oven until it becomes a light
brown.
Orange Pic.
Beat yolks of two eggs with one-half
cupful of sugar; add one heaping tea
spoonful of flour, one even teaSpQonful
of corn starch, dissolved In milk. Pour
into one pint of boiling milk and let
cook three minutes Cool, flavor with
orange and pour in baked crust. Beat
whites to q stiff froth and one-half
cupful sugar. Put on top and brown.
stuMng for Roast Goose.
Peel four large onions and simmer
them for ten minutes. Drain and chop
them finely with a dozen sage leaves;
add four tablespoonfuls of bread
crumbs. pepper. salt, and an ounce OF
butter or dripping; bind all together
with a beaten egg. Mashed potatoes
mixed with little -four. dripping,
chopped onion, and seasoned with pep
per and salt. are preferred by many
people to sage and onion stuffins.
Mushroom Rolls. ~.
Wipe, peel and break the mushrooms
into small pieces. Put them I'm pau
over the fire with butter sufficient to
cover the pan. Cook quickly until tar
Juice exudes, turning constantly; sea-
son with salt and pepper very spar
ingly, and when tender add cream
enough 10 moisten well. When hot turn
into roll crusts. Remove the soft In
side from the rolls and dry the crusts
slightly In the oven. replacing the top
ture.
Spices.
Housewives need not fear the too
generous use OF spices, for noted ply
sicians declare them conducive TO
health Doctors OF old were wiser iil
their generation than many OF our
present lights of medical science, and
they frequently employed spices In the
place OF drugs to cure the SICK
Apple salad.
Place I'm n saucepan one tablespoon.
full OF butter and one and -ona-half To-
blespoonfuls of -four. well mixed. and
when hot pour over II, stirring con-
stantly, one cup OF sweet cream. Let
boil for FIVE minutes. stirring all the
time. Remove from the fire and stir
ir one-half cup sour cream, the juice
OF half lemon and very little salt
and sugar TO taste. Allow 20 become
perfectly cold. Pare and slice some
mellow pippin apples; pour the mixture
over them and set on Ice one hour -