The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-07

The following recipes have all been
tried and are recommended to house
keepers.
German Potato Salad.
Wash and boil six medium sized pota'
toas When done drain off the water
and peel while still hot. Season with
salt, pepper and celery salt mixed with
little finely sliced onion. Beat one
egg stiff, add it to two teaspoonfuls OF
melted butter, then drop IN gradually
one half cup of vinegar sweetened with
one teaspoonful of sugar. Pour this
dressing over the potato, toss lightly,
out into bowl and garnish with parS-
fey and sliced hard boiled eggs.
Dreamed Carrots.
Take Young tender carrots, scrape
and slice thin, boil until tender in salt
ed water, drain. add lump of butter
rubbed in -four. half a cup OF cream
and salt and pepper to season. Let bon
up and serve hot.
Banana Custard Pie.
Marsh fine 2 bananas, add TO beaten
eggs. whip all together till light and
frothy. add 1-2 cup sugar, / pint hot
milk and a pinch of salt. Bake in
rich crust.
Invalid Mafins.
One cup bread flour, teaspoon ibak-
ing powder, IL teaspoon salt, IL cup
milk, whites 2 eggs, tablespoons melt
ed butter. Mix and sift dry ingredients,
add milk gradually, eggs well beaten
and melted butter. Bake in moderate
oven in buttered gem pans. Let stand
in oven, AFTER baking, with door aJar,
that crust may be dry and crisp. To
be eaten hot or cold Very nourishing.
Salt Goldfish Omelet.
Soak a piece of salt Goldfish about
six inches square over night. Split six
crackers and lay in just enough water
to cover. Pick the fish fine and mix
with the crackers. Add three beaten
eggs and butter the size of an egg. Sea
son with salt and pepper and put in
baking dish. Boil one quart of milk five
minutes and pour over the fish. Bake
90 minutes.
Steamed Steak.
Into good round steak rub two
tablespoons of -four on both sides of the
meat. Melt some dripping in covered
roasting pan and lay the steak in this
browning first one side anda then the
other Remove the steak, fry one onion
lightly in the pan, return the steak, sea
son with salt and pepper, pour over
it II cups boiling water, cover the pan
and cook the meat slowly for 215 hours.
Serve whole on platter with the
thickened gravy poured over it.
Pineapple Compete.
Cook rice after the southern style,
sugar aud the pineapple juice and put
boiling quickly in a large quantity of
water, draining in a sieve and drying
in the oven. Make the rice, while hot,
into small molds. Place cut up pine
apples on top of each and sprinkle with
a tablespoon of whipped cream on top.
Sour Cream Cake.
One cup sugar, two eggs and the
yoke of a third (the remaining white
is reserved for frosting), one cup sour
cream, scant level teaspoon of soda
dissolved in the cream, two cups of
flour and one rounding teaspoon of bak-
ing powder. Mix in the order named,
favor with vanilla and bake in loaf
This is most useful recipe for the
simmer time when one often finds
cup of sour cream ON hand
Picked Prunes.
One pound prunes, one-half pound
sugar, one-half cup vinegar, one-fourth
tablespoon cloves, same of cinnamon.
small pinch of ginger. Soak the prunes
over night and simmer two hours Boil
sugar, vinegar and spice together ten