Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-11-29
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Mashed Chcstnuts.-Roil, cmoyc
brown skin and mash the same MS 10.
tntocs. Add butter or cream. salt. pep.
per ana serve ut oncc.-OranGc Judd
Farmer.
Baked Pears. Take good-sizcd
pears. arrange them in II deep baking
dish, into which pour half II pint Of hot
water IN which has been stirred half a
cIpful OF sugar. Cover with u lid or in
Fcrtcd dish and bake slowly. frequently
basting them with the sirmp till they
are tender. They are excellent served
with crcam.-Prairic Farmer.
Warm Ginger Cakc.-Two and ono
half cups Of -four, one cup of molasscs.
onc-hnlf cup Of sugar, onc-half cup Of
melted lard, one cup of boiling hot
water. ono large teaspoon of ginger
and one teaspoon of soda in the water.
When thoroughly mixed add two eggs.
beat together and bake in II dripping
pan.-f'ranccs T.. Owens, in Chicago
Record.
Fruit Cookics.-Two cups of sugar.
two thirds of u cup of butter, one cup
OF chopped rnisins. onc-hHlf cup u!
Nh''l' NV 'EEH wv 'h"l'''l'' VI
baking powder. Flavor with cloves.
cinnamon and nutmeg. Cream the but
ter and sugar. add the other ingredients
and flour enough TO render il stiff
enough To roll out. Bake in u uuici
oycn.-lioston budget.
-I'oiicd Okra.-Wash ono uunrt q,
young white okra well in cold water,
put into n porcclnin-lincd or granite
KEITH" Tan iron kettle discolorg the
"kral with u half pint OF water and u
i~"nsuoonful Of salt. Cover the kettle
and simmer gently thirty minutes:
then add one tablespoonful of butter,
on" Tablespoonful Of vinegar. and pep
per. and T'orc salt IL necessary. Roll
up ono" rnh s"ryc.-Rural New Yorker.
-Dc"il"d I.Cgn.-Iioil n number NJ
eggs hard. and when cold eat crch IN
two lcugihwigc. TAX" ont tho yolEs
mash them with II fork. mis- vii" ! ut
Ter and add minced uo'ich rum mud
French mustard. The followed NshitC.
OF III" eggs should he filled with this
mixture. the twO hnlvCs of each lring
pressed together and then cnch cEi!
wrapped in tissue paper. the cr,ls 80
which are twisted Ia keep the halves in
plncc.-Ilonsckccpcr.
Flour Gcma.-Onc and onc-hulf cup.
fuls Of -four, u and onc.half cupfuls az
milk. M tcnspoonrul Of butter. enc
egg. one and onc.hnlf tC~aspooufuls of
baking powder. MiX the flour and hnI-
ing powder together. stir In the melted
butter aud the milk. and then thc c"r'.
well beaten. l!cut the whole untiI light
and foainy and with IT, nearly ill the
gem pans, which should he hot aud wrll
buttcrcd. Bake for fifteen minutes in
n quick ovcn.-l'rairic Farmer.
A Fast Beard.
Three brothers bearing n rcrnrhuI''
resemblance to ono another rrc IN tho
habit OF shaving at the spmc tarlrT'n
shop. Not long since II % tt@
brothers entered tho shop carly int.
morning, md wac shaved by n Gctmyn
who had been al work IN the aliop orr
n few days. About noon ccp'ia'
came In md underwent q G'r'-
liar operation nj tho horda Of The came
In the evening the third brother
his appearance. when the Cc".
man, dropping hls razor In aHionis1.
exclaimed.
well. upon my vord! dat Innn la. :,
1c fashtcst beard I ever saw. I sliavrl
him dis morning. Rhnvcs him NJ az.
ncr-timcs, and lie g0mcs back now. M.
his beard 80 long as IL mover voGh.'--.
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