Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-06-26
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East Indian Preserves.

East Indian Preserves
Eight hard, green pears. chopped six
pounds OF sugar, One-quarter pound cr
green ginger root, one pint of water,
three lemons. Pour the boiling water
on the ginger root, let it stand for 4
few minutes. then scrape and cut THU.
Chop fine the yellow rind Of the lemons
and cook in hot water for fifteen min
utes. Put all the ingredients together
and cook for three hours or longer
Cheese Cakes.
Cream onehalf pound butter with
one pound sugar, beat in the yolks Of
six eggs, the Juice of one lemon and
the grated rind Of two, a grated nut
meg and two tablespoonfuls Of brandy.
At the last stir In the whipped whites
OF the six eggs. Bake in small open
shells Of pie crust, and IL you wish you
can lay narrow strips of the pastry
across the top.
Muscadine Comhts.
Take four ounces of double refined
sugar finely beaten and searched, put
thereto two grains Of muske, a penni-
weight of orris root in powder, heat it
TO perfect fine paste, then roll it as
thin as paper, and cut 1t like to dia-
monds with your knife, as with a fine
jagged Dwell (roll) cutter; so dry
them in your stove and keep them.
Sponge Pudding.
One tablespoonful milk, one cup
flour. one cup sugar, one teaspoonful
baking powder three eggs. Beat yolks
of eggs and sugar together light, add
-four and white of egg beaten very
light; add milk. Put the baking pow
der in the -four. Steam in cups twen-
ty minutes This makes seven cups.
To be eaten with rich sauce.
Lemon Sauce.
Three-fourths cup sugar, ne-third
cup water, level tablespoonful butter,
2 tablespoonfuls lemon juice. Boil the
sugar aud water for ten minutes. Re.
move to back Of range and add butter
and lemon juice. AS soon as butter
Is melted serve on the bananas, with
lamb as an entree, or with cake as a
dessert.
Shears for Carving Fowl.
A pair of carving shears has been
devised especially for those who find
the talent Of carving hard to acquire.
says Popular Mechanics. The upper
blade is carving knife and the dented
lower blade forms clip. The shears
are easy to handle and permit one to
successfully attack any part of the
fowl
Jelly Rice.
Boil one cupful of rice In sweet milk
until soft, adding a little sugar and
salt to taste. Pour into cups. and when
cool turn into dish, scoop out ta-
of rice from the top Of
each, and fill the place with Jelly. Serve
In glass dish with whipped and
cream piled over them light
Iy.
Fig Filling for Cake.
Chop figs fine, adding few seeded
raisins. Make an ordinary boiled frost
ing and put aside part of it in a separ-
ate dish (for the top. Mix the figs
with the rest Of the frOsting, stirring
until 1t is an even paste. You will
ind it cuts more easily than if the figs
we're boiled.
Cream and Banana Pie.
Heat together in basin little gran
llated sugar and lump OF butter, the
rolks of three eggs, little milk, and
sherry and some banana thoroughly
mashed. Pour the mixture into deep
1ish and stir in the whites OF two eggs.
we'll beaten. Bake in an oven not too
not, remove and serve.
Sponge Cake.
Beat together six eggs and half
pound of powdered sugar for fifteen
using wire whisk for the
purpose. Flavor with half teaspoon
'ul Of lemon juice or vanilla. Sift well
| half pound Of -four and fold this in
lightly with spoon. Bake In a good
wen for half hour.
Mexican Rice.
Put cupful Of dried rice into hot
rying pan containing tablespoonful
II olive oil. Roast the rice until well
,rown, but not scorched Add to this