The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-08
Household Hints
The Table.

Steamed Eggs-Butter small molds
or tiny cups. Sprinkle each Win
chopped parsley. Break an egg into
each and place in sauce pan with boil
ing water to come half way up. Put
lid on pan and let eggs steam until
set Have toast hot and buttered and
slip an egg carefully on each.
Baked Cabbage-Cabbage cream
sauce, bread crumbs, butter. Chop
cabbage fine, boil to tenderness in hot
water, sailed. Drain and pour over
cream sauce in a baking dish. Sprin-
kle bread crumbs over all and also
dots of butter. Bake in oven about
fifteen minutes or until it is Drowned.
Pepper Salad-Peppers cut in rings
with dull scissors. Mix with lettuce
and French dressing.
Prune Tart-One pound of prunes
soaked over night; two eggs; whites
and yoll&s beaten separately; half tea
spoonful baking powder, one tea
spoonful sugar, half pound English
walnuts chopped. Bake twenty-five
minutes. Serve with whipped cream.
Devils Food-Grate one-fourth
cake of unsweetened chocolate in a
bowl; add one-half cup of boiling wa
ter and a teaspoonful of soda and let
stand until you get the following
ready: Take two cups of sugar. one
half cup butter, two eggs, one-half
cup of sour milk and two and one-half
cups of flour. Mix with chocolate
and bake in layers. For froSting, take
one cup of pulverized sugar. butter
size of an egg, and cream. Flavor
with vanilla.
"Hop-in-John" (southern dish)-
Soak one pint red beans overnight;
drain, cover with cold water and cook
slowly. After two hours add half
pound fat bacon, a chopped sweet pep
per, salt if needed and one pint rice.
Cook two hours longer, or until all is
tender and nearly dry. Serve on plat
ter, bacon in center.
Veal Loaf-Three pounds lean beef,
one-half pound veal six soda crack
ing, one teaspoon salt, one-eighth tea
spoon pepper, few drops of onion
juice. Put meat through chopper and
add other ingredients. Mix well and
pack in bread pan. Smooth evenly on
the top. Brush with white of egg.
Bake slowly three hours, basting with
one-fourth cup fat. Prick frequently
while cooking.
Charlotte Russe-One-fourth box
gelatine one-half cup cold water, one
teaspoon vanilla, whites of two eggs,
speck of salt, one-half cup hot milk,
four tablespoons of sugar. one cup of
cream, two cups of whipped cream,
four tablespoons powdered sugar.
Soak gelatine in cold water one-half
hour, add hot milk, vanilla and four
tablespoons sugar. Stir until sugar
is dissolved, add cream and put on
ice. When it begins to stiffen beat
with an egg beaten until very light.
then add the stiffly beaten whites of
two eggs, to which the powdered SUI
gar and salt have been added. Beat
well and add whipped cream. Pour
into wet mold lined with ladyfingers
or sponge cake and put on the ice to
stiffen.
Dreamed Cauliflower. Two cups
cooked cauliflower, two cups milk,
one teaspoon salt, one-third teaspoon
pepper, one tablespoon butter, one
half tablespoon flour. Break cauli-
flower into branches and season with
half the salt and pepper. Put the
butter in a saucepan. When hot, add I
the flour and stir until smooth, then
add the milk, stirring all the time
when sauce boils, add salt, pepper and
caulif1ower Cook ten minutes
Uses of Pears.
Pear Marmalade-Three pints
sliced Kiefer pears, three lemons and
three oranges sliced and cooked with
pears until tender, three pints sugar.
one pint raisins, 10c jar preserved
ginger. Put in glasses.
Pear Conservative pounds pears.
one pound figs, three pounds white
sugar, two tablespoonfuls vinegar.
Grind or chop pears and figs, then
boil all together until thick, add one
and one-quarter pound nut meats cut
in small pieces. This makes a fine
cake filling.
Fried pears-Wash, pare. quarter
and core Keifer pears, put into sauce
pan with sufficient water to cover,
put on lid and cook until tender.
Sweeten to taste. Put in colander and
drain, heat skillet, use level teaspoon
full butter and when melted and sides
and bottom are creased, turn pears
into skillet, add small amount of
sugar, cover close and when syrup is
formed increase heat until pears are
nicely Drowned.