The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-01-26
A COMPANY DINNER.
TITS English-quite English, you know"
Ice cream
Dear Polly

to a dyspeptic pocketbook, but even
chronic dyspeptics occasionally risk all.
for the sake OF one good dinner. should
not advise long course Of this treatment
In a majority OF cases like yours, but
once I'm a while 1T makes q sort OF fresh
starting point.
was sitting In my Office. knitting, the
other day, when j ohanced TO spy Mi
randy Simmons coming up the road.
AS soon as she could get her breath, she
said, "Oh, doctor, am so glad 10 find
you at home. Please prescribe dinner
for me for a special occasion"
what sort of a special occasion? said
l. why. Josiah's English cousins are
coming TO see us and will arrive Tues
day night Josiah says we must feed
them WELL for all Englishmen are fond
OF good food. They are on their way
west. to invest in some mines, and VIII
eat only one dinner with US"
| "Wel. well!" / said. I'VE can fix that
| all right. The dinner will have to be
| English. but not too English, else they
| Will not know that Americans have q
| culinary art Of their own"
Mirandy was satisfied with my reason
ing. and so / gave her a prescription for
q company dinner, which, she said, just
suited her complaint.
WHITE SOUP.
Boil half dozen tomatoes and three
onions in two quarts of water. When
they are soft, lift them out and rub
through sieve. Return the paste thus
obtained to the water. and add four
tablespoonfuis of perfectly crushed tapi-
eea, and heii fer a quarter OF an hour
Season with pepper and salt. add a fair
sized piece OF butter and pint and
half OF milk. Let IT come TO the boiling
point. and serve quickly
Mirandy felt sues she could do this
easily. so told her how to prepare
ROAST BEEF WITH YORKSHIRE
PUDDING.
Sprinkle the meat with salt and pep
per. then spread very lightly with the
best grade OF salad oil. Set IL away in a
cool place for a couple OF hours. Have
your oven hot when you put in your meat
ard let il cool slightly after the first ten
minutes. Allow fifteen minutes to the
pound for roasting Lay the meat on q
rack having a pan underneath IL To
catch the drippings. Baste quite often
at first. Three-quarters Of an hour be.
fore your meat is done, mix up a pint OF
milk. four eggs beaten very light.
pinch of salt and one cup of flour, and
pour into the pan under the meat. Cut
In pieces. and serve with the roast.
ROAST STUFFED TURKEY.
BE sure TO wash poultry thoroughly in. |
side In the third rinsing add a teaspoon. |
full OF soda, shake well. throw out and |
rinse once more in clear water. STUFF |
the craw and the body with a dressing |
made OF bread or cracker crumbs, mixed |
with butter. pepper, salt, thyme or sweet |
marjoram, the yolks of two eggs wen |
beaten and a dozen oysters chopped fine:
eggs and oysters may be omitted, and q |
little chopped sausage added, If pre-.
ferred
Put teacupful of hot water in the pan
and dredge the turkey with -four before
putting 1t in the oven. Allow ten min.
utes 70 the pound. and baste often with
butter and water at first, afterward
with the drippings Chop the stewed
giblets ine,stir UP n spoonful OF Drowned
-four in cold water. and add to the drip
ping To make gravy.
AiFafAaS said SHE knew how To prepare
potatoes and turnips. but the thing she
did not know how TO make was
ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING.
Seed two pounds OF ralsins, and mix
with two pounds Of thoroughly washed
currants and quarter pound OF sliced
citron. Beat six eggs. two pounds OF
light brown sugar. one cup molasscs.
two grated nutmegs. one teaspoonful
each cinnamon. allspice and mace. one
OF salt and cup of milk
stir the fruit up thoroughly I'm this. then
add two pounds grated bread crumbs.
cup and half of sifted -four, two pounds
finely chopped suet. and the Juice OF
three lemons. Work this al together
having the mixture just molat enough tc
stick well, but not wet Tie i'm Toured
pudding-cloths,p plunge into boiling water
and boil steadily for eight or ten hours
This pudding viii keep a whole year
and may be boiled or steamed foran hour
before serving
SQUASH PIE.
Steam your squash until thoroughly
,oollod. then press through a fine sieve
To one pint OF squash add three egys
vel beaten, scGnt tablespoonful ~
starch. sugar to suit the taste.
, little nutmeg. teaspoonful Of vanilla
Ind enough milk to make a thin batter.
ICE CREAM
Ono quart OF scalded milk. two egg.
well beaten with two CUPS of sugar.
then add two tnblespc0nfuls eelatina
dissolved ip cold water. Set over slow
FIRE until thick as cream Remove. stir
Illl cool add one pint of cream and any
favotins 90 taste. Freeze
Ntraudy won't home wcls satisf~d. and
sct about compoundinr her
jFEscfiptioU WtT-rr- VIC saiT T1T70T out
% he the best possible medicine for.hcr
ln.cnt.
Please tell me. when you write. how A
tits yoHr case
Yours culinarily.
COnfVppr TpN-t,c