Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-01-26


A greeting to the Farm and Home
department" of THE AMERICAN. May it
long continue to be Of interest and bene-
fit to the housekeepers and home
makers OF our county.
According to the prospectus" at the
hea ding OF our column, we have 1t in our
power to he helpful to each other, so let
us scour up our rusty pens, add little
tea or vinegar to our dried-up ink, wipe
the steam of the kitchen from our
glasses, look over our stock OF soiled
newspaper clippings, and from our
tested recipes, our experiments or our
sharp-eyed observations, contribute our
share to this new department.
Never, my sister, allow yourself to
think that because your time seems to
you to be filled wit continual care of
household tasks, cooking, eating, dish
washing, bedmaking, and this repeated
day after day, that you have not part in
the interests of the outside world. Your
life touches other life; we are all links in
the chain of vast humanity. The bread
you make will become brain or bone or
muscle for some one who is among the
worlds active workers. Stocks rise and
fall; one party succeeds another in power:
laws are made and then amended or an
nulied, but it is the little homes like
yours and mine all over this great coun-
try that make it 1.-The land of the free and
the home of the brave. Blot every hill
side home and lowland farm from the
surface of this fair land, and tell me " hat
would be the condition of our country?
SO my first message to you is, do not un-
dervalue the place you fill in life.
| enclose two or three recipes which
perhaps the editor will print if l have not
already taken too much space:
SPONGE CAKE.
l egg, we'll beaten, l cup sugar, scant y
cup sweet milk. y cups flour in which
have been silted TWO tesspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder or ! teas spoonful cream of
tartar and p tessl oonfui soda, flavor
with lemon or vanilla to TASTE. Add x
cup of boiling water and bake immedt-
ateiy. This is also very good for jelly or
cream pie.
SPLENDID CAKE.
cup butter. = cups sugar, cups -four
] cup water, four eggs. L" the four cups
OF slfted -four add l easpoonful cream OF
tartar and y teaspoonful of soda. Bett
the butter and sugar to n cream, then add
the beaten egg; next the water; after
adding -four bake at once; flavor to taste.
When the cake il ready for the oven sift
sugar over it which gives the cake a
meringue- like crust if the oven is not too
hot.
Bluehill, Me. NJ.
Our grandmothers and great aunts
used to make some very sppetIzing dishes
which are just as good now and ought
not to be forgotten. One of them is
PANDowDY.
Line deep dish (of size convenient for
the family with pie crust rolled rather
thick, pet in layer of sliced apples, or
quartered il preferred, sprinkle on a lit
tie -four and sufficient molasses to
sweeten the apples, pinch Of salt and
cassia i'll good quantity, then add anot her
layer of crust and the same of all the
other things, cover with thick crust
and bake in slow oven three hours or
more. This can he varied by sweetening
with part sugar if preferred, but it must
be baked slowly till the apples are well
cooked through and the longer the
better. Serve warm or cold as preferred
it is good any way.
AUNT sALLY's PUDDING
is anot her delicious old -fas hioned dish
Pour a bout pint of boiling water into a
pan of flour, stir we'll, add cup molasses,
l teaspoon soda, l cup chopped suet or
pork, with dessert spoon of salt il suet
Is used all even teaspoonful if the pork
is sailed, stir all i'll with the scalded flour
and add enough to make batter as stiff
as can be easily stirred; add l cup raisins,
and steam an hour or more. These pro-
portions can be varied and still the re-
suit will be good. Serve hot with sugar
sauce.
The beauty OF these old ashioned dishes
is that they don't depend upon the exact
number OF drops OF liquid or teaspoon
fuls of -four USED, out can be varied to
suit individual tastes and still be good.
PORK CAKE.
eggs, "a cup sugar, y cup molasses,
e cup each OF chopped pork, raisins. cit
ron, currants and dates, two heaped tea
spoonfuls cassia, do cloves, y teaspoon
nutmeg, l teaspoon lemon, / do hes ped
soda, l tablespoonful butter, do sour
cream, l spoonful sweet milk to dissolve
the soda, 2l2 cups flour, teaspoon salt
Sprinkle another heaped ia bles spoonful OF
Hour over the fruit before stirring in.
Beat the cake well before adding the fruit,
then stir this in evenly. Bake in slow
oven like other fruit cake at least two
hours.
PUMPKIN PIE.
scant quart sifted pumpkin, same
quantity of milk. Have the pie dishes
ready with deep crust, pumpkin, hot milk
scaldlng, don't skim it either. Now beat
eggs, aud stir gradually into the pump
KIN then add the scalding milk, q cup
moiasses, e cup sugar, teaspoons salt
seant, heaped teaspoons csssia. This
makes two pies. Bake slowly at least two
hours. A teaspoonfui of caraway in
proves the pie for those who like this
spice, and the pie beats the world. Try
it.
South Deer Isle. EGO.