Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-07-09
Cherries Are Rip,.

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occasional padding, there are few fam
lilies where the possibilities Of cherry
diet are really appreciated. As tha
| cherry season is soon over, the de-
| liciou- fruit IL either canned or pre-
| served or dried Tor winter use. and the
delicious shortcakes and sherDcts and
| dumpliHgs made from the fresh fruit
are neglected for want Of experimental
| knowledge. Ono" try these tested
! receipts, ana y0u Will luxuiiate in
topthsDmc desserts through the cherry
season.
GELATINE.-Soak half a box Of gel
atinc in half a pint of cold water. Add
a pint Of boiling water. When
| thoroughly dissolved, turn it into on-
| ana a half cupfuls Of sugar. ana add
! ~ juice III three lemons. strain.
| when the grlltino begins to harden.
| turn into a mold, to the depth Of an
! inch. add A layer Of whole large
sweet cherries then add more geatina
ana more cherries until the mold is
fun Put in the ice chest till served.
Ec careful that the gel4tine is sufti-
citntly stiff to hold III the cherries
tine with sponge cake.
SHOETCAK E.-Make 4 crust as for
baking powder biscuit When baked
split and butter each half Cover one
half with cherries which have been
stoned as Wen AZ sWcetened Cover
With the other half Of the cake. and
pile the sWeetentd cherries on the top
This should he sent to the table at
once. y richer cake may. OF course, be
made. using any good rule for short
cake II is hardly advisable to use
whipped cream with cherries but they
are sometimes covered with a meringu9
made NY heating a teaspoonful II pow
dered sugar with the white Of each egg
PIpDING.-Oue pint of flour. a cup
ful of milk. butter the size of an egg
two eggs. half a cupful Of sugar two
teaspounfuls IF bakingpowder. little
salt ana a pint If cherries which have
been stoned. Foil one hour. II one
has not a regular boiler, the batter
may ho turned into a five-pound lard
pail, or any tin pail holding about two
quarts. Cover tightly and place in
large kettle of boiling water. whicn
should also Dc covered. Never let the
pudding stop boiling for a second until
it is removed.
SATCF,.-Put a pint Of milk in the
double boiler. ana when it comes to the
boiling point. add three eggs. well beat
en-. and stir till smooth and soft Ike
custard. When cool, flavor with lemon.
PUDDING NO. 2-onh-half cupful Of
butter a cupful Of sugar. two cupfuls
Of flour, half a cupful Of milk, four
eggs. fourth Cupful If milk, scant
traspoonful of baking powder one cup
full Of cherries. which have been stoned
ana swcetened after part Of the JUICE
has been drained off. Bake like cake
Serve with any sweet sauce. preferably
a hard sauce.
DTEMPLlNGS.-Sto some cherries
cover literally with sugar. and place
over them a crust made from pint OF
flour. one and one-hllf teaspoontuis ol
yeast powder. 4 lit IF salt, 2 slhah
rurful of milk Steam eighty coy
ored about half m hour and serVs
With any good sauce.
PIE.-Stone the cherries. and bake
he same way as an apple pie. with
cherries make nearly as good pie as
he fresh fruit.
SHEREET.-A pint " sugar ohe
uart uf water. Juice Of one lemon anu
me pint Of cherry juice. Boil the water
md sugar for half an hour. heh
partly cool, add the juice of the lemon
ma the cherries. When Thoroughly
ola. freeze in the same manner as ice-
rcam.
PICKLE.-Scven pounds " chefrle9
stoncn. four pounds of sugar QUE
uart Of vinegar. four ounces "f cas7 49,
wo ounces of cloves Tie the spices II,
bag. and boil with the vinegar anu
uyar for twenty minutes. Takt ~,
~ spice. plt III the cherries ai'u II
ia soft. Pour into jars. and put W
pice bags on the top. This should oo
lightly covered. but does not require
Ealing.
ROI.Y-POLIES.- delight the
hildrcn and make most WhoieSonie
nsscrt Spread an oval shaped pieoe
{ biscuit dough very thick WIS.,
herries: then after rolling il M ilke
nv cake and basting il in piece y
mslin wrunG ont of hot water, p'unse
into n pot of rapidly boiling "a'
nd let it boil steadily for an hour an
half. Serve with sauce mace ~
ibbinc one pint Of stewed chefiie
lrouch a colander. and standing 'h's
-cr the fire adj one teaspoohlui
litter ana a cupful of sugar. ana c''N
n minutes.
hnf
~ Il, ,iirestion Rurdock Blood BittetS
rnnnth.ns and times the StOIhdo''