Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-30
Household Hints.

High Bridge Gingerbread.-This is still
in use in an old homestead where the
fifth generation is in possession. Put in
"a pan one cup molasses, enc cup brown
sugar and one cup melted butter. Add
dessert spoonful soda and stir until dis.
solved and foamy. Add one cup sour
milk in which q dessert spoonful soda has
been dissolved and stir until the whole
mixture is foamy Add two beaten eggs.
a teaspoonbul grated nutmeg, and des-
sert spoonful of cinnamon, tablespoon
full ginger and three cups of -four. Stir
until well blended, then bake in moder-
ate oven
Maple Wood Hermits-Mix together
two cupfuls of sugar, one cup molasses,
one cup pure lard, softened, and two level
teaspoonfuls soda dissolved in cup Of
warm water. Add two well-beaten eggs,
two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one teaspoon
full cloves, six cups flour and one cupful
fruit, which may be seeded raisins,
chopped English currants or chopped
prunes. Mix very soft, cut out with
cooky cutter and bake on Toured tins III
medium hot oven.
Mrs. Strobeck's Fruit Cake.-Beat to
cream one cup butter and two of sugar.
Add one cupful mOlasses, one cupfuI sour
milk. one teaspoonful soda and stir until
the mixture stops ''purring." Add three
well-beaten eggs, teaspoOnful each OF
cinnamon, Cloves anu nutmeg, quarter
cup shredded citron or preserved water
melon rind and a cup each of seeded
raisins and currants, well dredged with
flour Add sifted -four to make rather
stiff, turn into bar tins lined with buttered
paper and bake in a SLOW oven.
New England Indian Pudding.-Boil a
quart of milk and turn it over pint of
sifted Indian meal. Stir it in well, so as
to scald the meal; then mix three table
spoonfuls wheat -four with pint of cold
milk, stirring it gradually into the flour
so as to have it free from Jumps. Turn
it on TO the Indian meal and mix the
whole well together. When the whole is
Just luke warm beat three eggs with
three tablespoonfuls sugar, and stir into
the pudding. with two teaspoonfuls salt,
two of cinnamon or half a nutmeg. graf
ed. and two tablespoonfuls butter or suet.
chopped fine. Add, if you wish the pud-
ding very rich, a cupful seeded raisins,
| but they should not be put in until the
pudding has baked five or six minutes.
| If raisins are put in, an additional cupful
of milk will be required as they absorb a
great deal of moisture.
| A very good Indian pudding may be
made without eggs, if cup more of meal
| is used and no -four. 1t takes three
hours to bake an Indian pudding without
eggs; with eggs ii takes less time.
! Philadelphia Lobster Salad--To make
| this delectable salad boil two large
| or two medium-sized Holsters and
| pick in pieces when cold. To make
| the dressing have every dish as cold
as possible. Beat the yolks of two
raw eggs lightly. add to them a
| teaspoOnful mustard wet with vinegar, a
| half teaspoonful salt and a pinch of
/ cayenne. Beat all together, then add
( gradually one cupful pure olive oil. at
1 first very slowly almost drop by DROP
then as il thiekens il can be added more
| rapidly. When quite thick. whip in the
! juice Of one lemon strained, beat five
! minutes and then add two tablespoonful
/ vinegar, preferably tarragon. just be-
/ fore the salad goes TO the table add half
| q cup sweet cream that has been
4 whipped to a cupful Of froth. Line a
I salad bowl with lettuce leaves. put in the
/ seasoned meat and cover with the rest
Il Of the whipped cream.
4 Anna Cofin's Wedding Pudding
i This delicious pudding IL still a standby
1 j. fSanSscket, though dating back to the
: prereyoIutionary days. After the wed
I ding day festivities. which were con
I Quoted with circumstance according e
Il the rsans and station Of the brides
i familv. il was the gr0OBl's family's turn
To shnw what they could do in the way
Il Of entertaining This grand feast went
I BIZ the name If the second day wedding
u and for this function this pudding was
4 held in high repute. Eleven ounces 81
4 crackers were FIRST pounded fine. and
4 over them was poured three pint'