Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
The Blackberry Season

skinner and spread on a platter while
the juice is cooked down to half the
original quantity. Pack berries in stone
or glass jars. pour strip over them and
seal.
Cherry and Rice Dumplings.
These are excellent and nutritious.
Cook half pound OF rice In boiling SALT
ed water for five minutes. Then drain
and rinse with cold water. Put into a
double boiler with two cupfuIs of milk. n
half teaspoonful of salt and a table
spoonful Of sugar and a teaspoonfui OF
butter and cook until thickened. Take
from the fire and add two Well beaten
eggs. Have in readiness six or eight
dumping cloths, either crocheted or SIM
ply made or squares of thick cheese
cloth, wiring out of hot water, sprinkle
with flour and place In the center of each
a portion OF the cooked rice spreading
out smoothly. Place a tablespoonful or
two OF pitted cherries In the center OF
each rice blanket and sprinkle with sugar
according to the acidity of the fruit.
Draw the corners and sides OF each cloth
together and tie securely. Drop into
boiling water and cook half an hour
without allowing the water TO stop boil
ing. Turn out of the pudding cloths and
serve with hard sauce or q fruit sauce
made In this way.
Fruit Sauce.
Cream together one Tablespoonful OF
butter and one cupful of powdered sugar
Add gradually one well beaten egg and a
half cupful of cherry OF lemon Juice
beating until foamy.
Cake Icings.
The simplest filing or frostins Is made
from the white of one egg, one teaspoon
ful of lemon juice and one scant cup OF
confectioner's sugar. Put the egg in I.
bowl and with an egg heater whip until
you can invert the bowl without its con
tents falling. Add sugar gradually. to
gether with lemon juice, beating all the
time until letting some run from =
spoon. 1t maintains threadlike appear
ance. Spread upon the warm cake with
a bread knife, dipping occasionally ia
cold water. Put in cool, dry place 10
harden. If the cake is very rich duet
with flour or corn starch, brushing or
lightly with a napkin before putting on
tho frosting.
Soft Icing.
Allow 10 one cup of graduated sugar
i half cupfuI of milk. Boil until tha
sirup strings. pour into a bowl add -
teaspoonful Of -four, beat few moments
and let stand In a cool place until thick
ened enough to spread
Ornamental Icing.
Put the whites OF three eggs IN lavca
bowl and sprinkle with three tablespoon
fuls OF sifted confectloners sugar taken
from three cupfuis, measured out for use-
Beat with an egg beater. add sugar very
gradually. When IL begins To thicken, add
three teaspoonfuls OF lemon juice After
beating until the mixture will not run
together. when cut with a knife add a
few drops or a grain or two of ultra
marine or indigo blue. Mix carefully, 40
it will not streak This blue Is HARM
less and keeps tile icing pure white.
winch Is an essential in ornamental frost
ing. In decorating cake Tor wedding
or twelfth night cake spread two or three
coats Of PLAN icing over the cake first.
allowing each one to set before the next
Is added. Now, with a confectioner's tube
fitted in the mouth OF a pastry bag, Of
simply stiff white paper funnel, press
the frosting through the tube in any de
sign desired-roses, dots, figures or letteri
Chocolate Icing.
Crate a square and n half OF unsMeet-
ened chocolate and add To il five table
spoonfuIs OF sugar and three Of water.
Stir over tho fire until smooth and glossy,
beat and spread over the cake. This makes
rich. black icing with a strong choco-
late flavor and not very sweet.
EMMA PADDOCK FGLF0RD