Evening star., 1905-09-30


| samp. The sportsman feasting his friends
has corn bread served with his roast
haunch OF venison and hoe cake with baked
raccoon.
Fried Mush-Fried nush makes an
Ideal breakfast dish. quickly and easily pre-
pared The mush should be boiled the day
before 1t Is to be fried, then poured into
brick loafed pans to mold. Mix pint OF
cornmeal with teaspoonful of salt. one
heaping tablespoonful sifted flour and one
pint cold water and stir slowly, mixing
gradually into one quart OF boiling water.
Cook half hour, stirring often, then pour
into the pans and set away in a cool place.
When ready to use, cut in slices half an
inch thick. flour on each side and fry brown.
In hot fat on griddle or frying pan. Serve
with syrup.
'Possum. 'Taters and Pone.-It is not
given to every one to know the gastronomic
delights Of this famed southern culinary
combination, which, like Izaak Waitons
fish, Is too good for any but very honest
| man. Having caught your 'possum, which
at this season should be as fat as butter,
skin, put into pot of cold water and par
boil. Remove, rub over with lemon juice
and teaspoonful of sugar sprinkle with
salt, pepper and a mixture of powdered
| joram. rub well with flour to coat the sur
| face, and lay tenderly in a baking pan
amply fitted to his dimensions. Surround
with peeled sweet potatoes and set in a hot
oven for about fifteen minutes. Then add a.
| pint of boiling water and keep basting until
| tender and rich brown. Lift on 70 a hot
| platter and keep hot. while rich brown
| gravy is made T.
| meal, one teaspoonful salt. two teaspoon
! fuls sugar. Add one pint scalding hot milk
and beat WELL Sift together heaping
| pint flour and two teaspoonfuls baking
+! powder and stir into the batter together
with the beaten yolks of two eggs Beat
hard. Fold in the stiffiy beaten whites of
the eggs. turn into a long shallow tin pan
and bake in hot oven. This is a famous
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| for one quart buttermilk, two teaspoonfuls
soda, one quart cornmeal, and. one pint of
| flour. Bake for three hours in stone
crock
Corn Dodgers.-These cakes made from
| the earliest times by the Indians and ne
groes, and baked in leaves or on hoe in
| the hot ashes, may be successfully initiated
| by the modern cook in her. up-to-date oven.
Scald one pint southern cornmeal sifted
with one cup of -four and a teaspoonful of
salt with two cups boiling water milk,
in which rounded tablespoonful of short
ening has been melted. This should result
in a moist but sufficiently firm batter that
will keep its place when dropped from a
| spoon into a well-greased baking pan. Two
tablespoonfuls will be enough for each
dodger, about three-fourths of an inch in
thickness. The cakes may be even smaller
If preferred. To give them the old-fashioned
southern finish, leave the full length imprint
of the finger across the top of each cake.
Bake in a moderately hot oven half an
hour and eat hot with butter for break
fast or luncheon. If preferred, the dodgers
may be baked on a well-greased griddle.
Cook slowly and when well Drowned on one
side turn to the other.
Brown Bread with Pumpkin Juice.-This
is another delicious autumnal bread, in
digenous to New England. To make it
properly one should have the fresh sweet
yellow cornmeal and rye meal. not rye
flour, which is a very different product. To
make a large loaf of this genuine Boston
brown bread, sift together cup and a half
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meal and a half teaspoonful of salt. Add
quarter of a cup of molasses, one cup
pumpkin juice, one cup of milk and half
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two table
spoonfus of milk. Beat the batter thor
oughly, turn into a two-quart brown bread
tin and steam for five hours. When this
is intended for Sunday mornings with baked
beans it should be made on Saturday, then
resteamed In the morning. This makes eX-
cellent toast
Hominy Muffins.-Take a cup of warm
boiled hominy cooked to the proper con-
sistency for a breakfast mush and mix
with it tablespoonful of butter, half
teaspoonful salt and a cup of milk. Sift
together cup and half of pastry flour
and teaspoonful and half of baking
powder and add gradually to the hominy
mixture. If the boiled hominy was rather
thin little more flour may be needed to
make the proper consistency. Lastly, add
two well-beaten eggs and bake in a hot
oven for half an hour.
Cornmeal Muffins.-When one can be sure
of getting the sweet. freshly ground meal
of the south neither eggs nor sugar is re-
quired to furnish richness. The kiln-dried
yellow meal of the north is different
food proposition. and not only sugar and
eggs, but butter must be added to give
the richness the meal lacks. Beat to a
cream in a warm bowl a quarter cup of
butter and the same amount of sugar. Add
two well-beaten eggs and cup of milk.
Have sifted together a cup and a quarter
each pastry flour and cornmeal, with three
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in with the butter and sugar mixture, using
plenty of muscle in the beating. Add an
other cup Of milk. beat again and pour into
well-greased muffin tins. Fill about half
full and bake in a hot oven thirty minutes.
A Real Old-Fashioned Pumpkin Pie
Select a solid-meated, golden, glossy pump
kin, not too large. The smaller ones. fiat
at the ends, are usually sweetest. Cut up
into pieces without peeling, rejecting the
seeds and inner ShredS. Put into a large
porcelain-lined kettle with about a cupfui
of boiling water to keep from sticking,
cover and set on the back of the stove
where 1t will cook slowly in its own juices.
This will require five or six hours, prefer
ably longer, until sweet, tender and nearly
dry. Pull off the loose skin and rub
through a colander. If 1t seems watery let
1t drain over night, keeping the juice for
brown bread. When ready to bake the pies
measure the pulp, and to every five cups
allow one teaspoonful of salt, half grated,
nutmeg, tablespoonful of mace, two tea
spoonfuls of ginger and a large cup of
sugar. Beat four eggs and stir into the
pumpkin pulp, together with four cups
sweet milk and a half cup of cream if con-
venient. Beat well and taste to see if sweet
enough. Turn into deep pie plates lined
with good pastry and bake three-quarters
of hour until a rich golden brown and
firm In the center. Serve with good Amer
lean cheese.
Timely Items.-When you are making
your apple jelly try bruisng a few of the
leaves of a rose geranium. Cook with the
jelly. but strain out when you pour into
glasses.
If your door or bureau drawer sticks In
damp weather simply moisten cake of
laundry soap and rub over the parts of
wood that stick This is a particularly
good thing to know when one has new fur
niture that bothers,. or is moving into a
new house where the doors scrape at the
top
Time to pot hyacinths for Christmas
blooming or Chinese lilies for Thanksgiving.
After putting the hyacinth bulbs in pots
with ordinary garden soil mixed with a
quarter sand set in pan of tepid water
until the earth looks moist on top. Then
set in cool. dark place for six weeks
until the thread-like roots are seen growing
through the drainage hole. Bring into the
light, but not sun. until the white foliage
turns green. and then set in sunny win