Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-22
SaIt-Risins Bread.
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SaIt-Rising Bread.
Dissolve a half teaspoonful Of salt in
pint OF scalding water and beat in
gradually enough -four to make a soft
dough Or stiff batter. Beat for ten
minutes, cover and set in a very warm
place for eight hours. Now stir tea
spoonful of salt into two cups of warm
milk and add enough -four to make
very stiff batter before working 1t into
the risen dough. Mix thorouhgly. cover
and set again In a warm place to rise
until very light Turn into a wooden
bowl and work in enough batter to
make OF the consistency of ordinary
bread dough. Make into loaves. set
these to rise and bake when light
Tea Cake.
A delicious tea cake that may easily
give your 'hve o'clocks" a deserved
reputa ton Is thus made: Reserve the
white OF one Of six eggs. beating the
yolks to a stiff froth; add five ounces
of sugar and the same quantity of
almonds that have been blanched and
pounded fine in a mortar with three
ounces of -four, the grated rind or
half a lemon. one ounce of orange
peel cut very fine. a dust of ground
cloves and half a teaspoonful of cinna-
mon. Finally the single beaten white
is quickly stirred in and the cake
baked in small round pans.-Harpers
Bazaar.
FAXED Eggs.
To bake eggs. cook a dozen eggs
hard, drop them into cold water and
remove the shells. Arrange ten of the
eggs in a shallow dish, pour Bechamel
sauce over them, sprinkle the top with
the yolks of the two remaining eggs,
which have been powdered fine and
mixed with an equal quantity of bread
crumbs. Pour a little melted butter
over the top. garnish with triangles Of
bread dipped in melted butter, and
place in a quick oven. When colored
light brown. serve in the dish in
which they were cooked.
Mashed and Fried Egxp1ant.
Peel and slice the eggplant and soak
all day in salted water. Drain, boil
tender in fresh water. or until much
of the water has boiled away, then
mash and set aside to cool. Add a tea
spoonful of baking powder to the
mashed plant, stir in beaten egg, salt
and pepper and enough -four to make
the mixture like cake dough Drop by
the spoonful in deep, boiling fat and
fry to a good brown.
Waff1es.
Into bowl sift pint of -four with
a teaspoonful Of baking powder and
one of salt. Beat the yolks and whites
Of three eggs separately, stir the yolks
into pint of milk with tablespoon
full of melted butter. Make hole in
the -four and pour this liquid into it.
Beat all together and the stiffened
whites and pour the butter into the
creased waffle iron.
Gluten Gems.
With two cups Of gluten -four sift a
teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. Beat two eggs
light stir them into a pint Of milk and
pour this. with two teaspoonfuls of
melted butter, into the sifted -four.
Stir smooth, then pour into creased
and heated gem pans and bake imme-
diately in a hot oven.
GinEcrsnaps:
Two cups of New Orleans molasses,
one cup of butter; put these on the
stove and let them come to a boil
Remove and add one teaspoonful of
soda and one of ginger. Add enough
flour to make a dough; roll thin and
cut out.
Peanut Butter.
Pound or grind fresh-roasted pea
nuts to q powder and work into two
two tablespoonfuls of this heaping
tablespoonful of fresh butter. Spread
thin slices Of bread with this paste.
Pineapple Cream.
Heat to the boiling point one can of
shredded pineapple. Strain half an
ounce Of gelatine, which has been dis
solved in cold water, and add to the
pineapple. Remove from the fire, and
when it begins to chill stir in the
beaten whites Of three eggs and half
pint of cream. Pour into mold and
set on ice.
Tomato Soup.
Turn the contents of can of toma-
toes into a quart Of beef stock and
simmer slowly for half an hour. Strain
out the tomatoes and return the soup to
the fire with half-cup of rice that has
soaked for ten minutes. Cook until
the rice is tender. Season with salt,
pepper, onion juice and teaspoonful
of granulated sugar and serve.
Dunn plings.
Sift together a pint Of -four. a tea
spoonful of baking powder and half
teaspoonful of salt. Work into this
heaping tablespoonful of butter and
moisten with half pint Of milk. Work
quickly to light paste and drop into
the boiling gravy of the stew of what
ever you are cooking. Cook for ten
minutes before sending to the table.
Brief Suggestions.
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