Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1898-08-23
RECIPES
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soups made Of fruit are Swedish
dish and worth trying for the summer
menu. To make one Of these soups take
a cup OF dried or evaporated apples, two
tablespoons Of uncooked rice, table
spoon OF raisins, three or four whole
cloves. After the apples have been thor
oughly soaked, put them with the other
ingredients in saucepan with three
pints of water and cook for one hour.
Then rub through sieve, add a little
salt and triile Of sugar and serve.
ArPLE JELLY.
This Is the time for apple jelly, when
red sstrschsns are ripe.
Wash the apples or wipe them with a
clean cloth, cut In pieces, taking out all
bsd places do not pare or remove the
seeds; put them In saucepan, nearly
covered with water. Boil them until
they are reduced to pulp. Remove
from the fire; pour than into large
cheese cloth bag, which u better than
flannel; hang this bag up to drip. The
Jelly will be clearer fyou do not squeeze
IL. Measure the juice and TO every pint
allow an equal quantity Of graduated
sugar. Return the juice to the kettle,
and when IL boils add the sugar slowly.
Remove the scum from time To time.
Let II boil until il jellies, which Will be
10 twenty or thirty minutes. Put II In
the tumblers, and when cold cover Ii
with two thicknesses OF thin paper, each
one dipped In white Of egg. which will
keep the paper as tight and smooth as a
bladder. A delightful suggestion Of
flavor IL added TO the jelly, IL n leaf or
two Of rose gersnium Is put In the boil
ing LIQUID for few minutes before It's
r, movsl from the fire.
PEAS AND BEANS.
Peas in can We have but slight re-
gard for In summer, when fresh ones
are In abundance in the garden. Un-
fortunately some years, the dry weather
quite destroys the crop, and being oblig-
cd 10 content ourselves with what we can
find at the grocer's, IL Is the wise house
keeper who prepares them In the follow
ing way:
Drain them quite dry as soon as the
can il opened, throwing away the water
In which they have been put up, cover
them with cold water for ten minutes 10
freshen them, then turn them In sauce
pan Of boiling water In which they re-
main for about four or five minutes,
hen they are ready TO serve after being
sailed and having a bit Of butter added.
With peas prepared In this method,
one may deceive the very elect-even
the clever woman who declares with
emphasis that canned peas are snare
md delusion and she wouldn't eat
them even under protest.
IL you have never tried string beans
cooked with cheese, you have made one
III the mistakes OF your domestic career.
Grated parmesan cheese, milk, little
butter, salt and "a trifle OF cayenne pep
per are added TO the beans after they
have been boiled in the usual way. After
draining off the water put the butter In
a frying pan over hot fire, add the
beans, about half cup OF milk and sea-
sonlng and then scatter in the cheese
with rather lavish hand. Let IL cook
for or 10 minutes, when you will have
delicious dish. Beans prepared In this
manner must not be cut in half-inch
lengths, but sliced lengthwise In almost
infintesimal bits.
LEMON SANDWICHES.
Lemon sandwiches make an appetiz-
ing morsel for different occasions; one
may surprise ones friends with this
lovelty when they drop in for their cup
Of afternoon tea. Finely chopped
parsley, a little lemon juice and grated
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and butter previously having been treat
to short process OF absorption OF
lemon flavor. To manage this,
cut the bread in thin slices and place for
An hour in q covered dish with slices OF
lemon; the butter Is also trested In the
same manner.
DRESSING FOR TAME DUCKS.
The usual accompaniment for roast
duck Is, as we all know, stewed apple.
But apples for a stufiing OF the fowl are
noyelty-not Of Spanish, but Of Ha-
waiisn origin.
Not apples alone, but combined with
prunes; stew the latter in the usual way,
using little sugar, then when cold, mix
them with uncooked apple, taking twice
the quantity Of the latter fruit, which is
peeled and cored and cut In pieces as for
stewing. Then proceed to stuff Mr..
Duck, and when he appears upon the
table done 10 turn you will before the
meal call down choicest blessings upon
the cook.
FRENCH CHICKEN SALAD.