The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-01

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To Boil Spinach.
Pick ii clean, wash in three waters,
put it in a small saucepan without any
water, so that the spinach may fill 1t.
Sprinkle a little salt over it, cover
close, set it over the fire where 1t is
not very brisk, shake it well; it will
shrink to the bottom Of saucepan; let
it then boil u minute In its-own liquor.
Strain, squeeze gently, sieve and send
it to table with melted butter, but do
not let any be poured over 1t.
Oatmeal Biscuit.
Stir together in a bowl a cupful OF
oatmeal and two cups Of -four that has
been sifted with teaspoon Of salt,
one Of sugar and two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder. Chop into this mix
ture two tablespoonfuls of shortening.
Add pint of milk or enough to make
a soft dough. Turn upon a Toured
board, roll out and cut into biscuits,
handling as little as possible. Bake In
a steady oven.
Mo1asses Candy.
Boil a pint Of molasses for twenty
minutes, then add scant half-tea-
spoonful of baking soda and boil for
fifteen minutes more, or until a little
dropped in cold water is brittle. Stir
steadily to prevent scorching. When
the cold water test proves that it Is
done add a teaspoonful of vinegar,
pour into buttered pans or pull to a
light brown.
Flannel Cakes.
Rub two tablespoonfuls of butter
into quart of flour until well mixed
add a teaspoonful of salt and make
into a batter with pint and a quarter
of milk, into which has been beaten
smoothly the yollls of three eggs. Last
and just before baking, stir in the
stifiy beaten whites. Bake on hot
griddle well creased.
TT Oh. Duri4.r #
Take some of the suspected water II
a clean, glass-stoppered battle; add
little pure cane sugar, expose having
we'll stopped the bottle, to the light il
warm room Should the water, ev
en- after a weeks exposure, become
turgid, it is dangerously impure fo
drinking; if it remains clear, it is safe
Angel Cake.
Whites of eleven eggs. one cup o
-four measured after sitting; one tea
spoonful of cream tartar, and fiou
sifted four times. Beat whites of egg
stiff, add IA cups of fine granulateC
sugar, one teaspoonful vanilla, ad'
flour; beat lightly and thoroughly; bak
in INCREASED pan forty minutes.
Dreamed Peas.
Drain one can of peas, rinse, cove
with boiling water, and drain AGAR
Melt two tabespoonfuls of butter
add one tablespoonful of -four wit
one teaspoonful of sugar and half
teaspoonful of salt; add peas and one
third cup of milk. stir, and let coo
until it begins to bubble.
Hot Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream.
Into six tabespoonfuls of creaI
rub four tablespOonfuls Of grated chO'
olate. When very smooth add pir
of boiling water and cook in a doub
boiler, stirring steadily for ten mil
utes after the boil begins. Flavor wit
vanilla extract, beat hard and. use.
Cheese Omelet.
Mix a quarter of a cup of cream wit
three-quarters of cup of CRATE
cheese, stir quite smooth, add the we
beaten yolks of three eggs and te
spoonful of flour; season to taste wit
salt and pepper, add stifiiy beatC
whites and cook as plain omelet.
Coffee a Purifier.
Coffee is a fairly good air purife
a little burnt on hot Goals will puri
Il sick room and abolish bad smell
Many physicians think highly of Il
bracing effects of coffee taken befo
they visit cases of infectious diseaS
Maple Carme1s.
Break two pounds of maple sug