Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-20
BREAK FAST.
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| New recipes are always welcome to
| the most experienced housekeeper and
| little hints on the way to do minor
things around the house, are gladly ac-
cepted. The many little helps come III
| handy When the woman of the house
has a large family of boys and girls to
look after and the following hints are
| al! timely:
| When boiling fresh potatoes or peas
try a sprig of mint in the water. 1t
gives a delicious flavor.
| TO avoid scraping new potatoes boil
them i'm their skins until tender, then
skin and put back in the steamer for
Il few minutes to dry out.
| \ pinch of soda in the water in which
green vegetables, peas, string beans
and cabbage are boiled will keep the
color.
In preparing cabbage wash it well in
sailed water, cold, then cook in boiling
water to which a tablespoonful of salt
to the half gallon has been added.
| If the lid is left off cabbage when
cooking it will keep its color better.
Do not put salt in the water in which
peas are cooked, as it causes the outer
skin to crack. Leave the lid off sauce
pan.
Try adding leaf of spinach to the
water in which peas are boiled if you
| wish to keen them q good COLOR.
| Soak caulii'owcr an hour before cook
ing. Put into boiling water to which a
tablespoonful of salt is added. Boil
| from twenty to thirty minutes, accord
| ing to size of head.
lnI &c,
will help out many a hurry-up meal.
| Simply peel large seedlesS oranges and
slice thick. Lay the pieces on lettuce
and pour rich dressing over them. Chill
ard serve.
Caramel sweet potatoes are delicious.
To prepare them, simply boil and slice
the potatoes and dip them first in melt
ed butter and then in graduated SUI
gar. Put into a hot oven, till a coating
of brown caramel is formed.
When cutting brick butter into small
squares for use on the table bits of the
butter often VIII cling to the knife and
spoil the looks of the square. If a
piece of parafIin paper is wrapped
around the silver knife, the butter will
cut in sharp, clear squares and will not
cling to the knife at all.
What can l bake that will be new
and change from what we have ev-
cry day?' is the cry of the busy moth
er, the young folks are corning in Just
starved" from school and play, and
there must be something ready for
them as well as for the tired father and
other working members Of the house.
hold. Just now, the thoughts of the
cook go toward Thanksgiving and the
following recipe for a fruit cake which
will be found reliable:
Two pounds of blue raisns, two
pounds of currants. one-half round Of
orange peel, one-half pound of granu-
lated sugar, one pound of flour, one
half pound of almonds; blanch and Gu,
into small pieces one-half ounce of gin
ger, One-half ounce of cinnamon. one
half ounce of Jamaica pepper one-haIf
| teaspoonful of black pepper, one small
teaSpCOnful of soda, one small teas
poonful of cream-of- tartar, one small
| breakfastcupful of milk. Keep the
| mixture stiff. Bake three hours in
slow oven. Allow to cool in pan, other
wise it would break when taken out.
The children all like candies and in
| the days work, it is not a lot of time
| wasted to mix up some of the dainties
| mentioned below:
Coffee CarameIs.
Cook two cups of brown sugar one
cup of strong coffee, one-half cup OF
| cream and a rounding tablespoon of
| butter until it has reached the brittle
| stage. Test by dipping a little into
| water. Pour into buttered pans and
mark off into squares.
Fruits GIace.
| Prepare sections of orange by taking
| off every bit of the white skin, rub
| Malaga grapes with wet cloth and
| shell some English walnuts. Make q
| syrup of one cup of sugar, a pinch OF
| cream tartar and one-half cup of wa
| ter. When it has REACHED the thread
stage dip the fruit and nuts into it and
lay on paper. When cold they will be
covered with coating of icing.
Butter Scotch.
Put one cup of sugar, quarter
cup of molasses. N tablespoons of vim
egar, three tablespoons of boiling water
and one-half cup of butter into a
saucepan and boil until when tried in
cold water the Syrllp will become q