Oxford Democrat., 1915-11-23
The Thanksgiving Table.


CRANBERRY CONSERVE
! qt. cranberries
2-S cup cold water
23 cup boiling water
IA lb. seeded raisins
1-2 ID. English walnut meats
orange
! IL lbs. sugar
Pick over and wash cranberries. Put
in sauce pan, add cold wster, bring 70
the boiling point and let boil until the
skins break. Force through strainer
and add seeded raisins, nut meats orok'
en- in small pieces, orange, wiped, thinly
sliced, then cut in small pieces, remov-
ING seeds, and sugar. Again bring to
boiling point and let simmer twenty
minutes.
ROAST PIG
Prepare dressing the same - dressing
for fowls, adding half an onion chopped
fine. Select q young pig about six
weeks old, wash inside and out thor
oughly. Put teaspoon Of baking soda
in another water and rinse out the In
side again. Wipe dry, salt the inside
and All with the dressing until 1t is origi-
nal size and shape. Sew it up. tie the
legs in position and place In q kneeling
posture in the baking pan. Pour little
hot salted water in the pan to use In
basting until the pig warns and then
baste with gravy from the pan. Rub Of
ten with rag dipped in melted butter to
keep the skin from cracking. Roast
from two to three hours. In garnishing,
place a wreath, or string OF cranberries
around its neck, lemon, carrot, or sprig
Of celery in Its mouth, and surround
with parsley or celery tops.
SAUSAGE AND WALNUT sTUFFING
To l at. of boiling water add tea
spoon salt and / pit. English walnut
meats; cook fer twenty minutes. Put 2
tablespoons butter in frying pan and
when it is melted add 4 tablespoons
chopped onion and the liver of the tur.
kew. Add all of the above ingredients
to / ID. we'll seasoned sausage, mix we'll
and stuff turkey.
JAM PUFFs
Roll plain paste 1-S inch thick and
cut in pieces Sx4 inches. Put IL table
spoon jam on lower half Of each. Moist
en- edges with cold water. Press togeth-
or and bake twenty minutes in hot oven
Mince meat may be used instead OF jam.
FRUIT SALAD
bananas
oranges
1-2 ID. white grapes
1-2 cup chopped pineapple
Sugar to taste
Juice of lemon
Scant IL cup English walnut meats
Cut the oranges in two crosswise and
save the peel for salad cups. Remove
all pulp from the peel. Skin and seed
the grapes, Mix the orange, grapes and
pineapple, add sugar and lemon Juice
and let stand in cool place until chilled
Before serving add the sliced bananas
and the nuts. Fill the orange shells
with this mixture.
| BAKED POTATOES AND PIMENTos
Dice enough potatoes to make qt
add / small onion minced fine. Cook IL
salted water until almost done. Add Is
can diced pimentos. Cook all FIVE min
utes more, drain and put in baking dish
Add sauce made OF 2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter, l pit. milk, salt and
pepper, and IL ID. grated cheese. Cool
until 1t bubbles and the cheese is thor
oughly melted, ponr over the potatoe'
and bake in the oven until COLDER
brown.
BREAD.BRAN MUFFINs
2cups bran
| cup dried, ground bread.crums
12 cup bread -four
31-2 tablespoons sugar
teaspoon salt
| egg
2cups milk
teaspoons baking-powder
Mix together dry Ingredients, bea
egg, add milk, or half and half Of mill
and water, and stir into first mixture
Bake about twenty-five minutes In we'll
oiled gem pans. This will make eight
cen mufins.
CHEESE CAKES
cup sweet milk
/ cup sour milk
cup sugar
4 egg-yolks
IA cup blauched, chopped almonds
Juice and rind one lemon
IA teaspoon salt
Pastry
Scald sweet and sour milk together
and strain through cheesecloth. Re
serve a tablespoonful Of the almonds
but add the rest of these, together witt
the other ingredients, to the curd, ant
pour into six patty-pans which have
been lined with the pastry. Sprinkle
the tops with the reserved chopped al
monds and bake in a moderate oven up
til firm to the touch. about twenty five
minutes. Three tablespoons cottage
cheese may be substituted for the milk.
BANANA CREAM PIE
2cups milk
3.4 cup granulated sugar
IA cup corn starch
IA teaspoon salt
Flaky pastry
eggs
| Vanilla
2 bananas
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
Scald the milk and stir into 1t the
sugar, corn.starcb, and salt we'll mixed
When smooth and thick, cool little and
stir in one whole egg and two egg-yolks
slightly beaten together. Flavor with
half teaspoonfuI of vanilla and pour
into pie plate lined with pastry. The
oven should be hot at first, then moder
ated to prevent boiling. When done,
peel the bananas, remove the bitter
threads, and slice the fruit over the Gus.
tard. Cover at once with meringue
made of the egg-whites, powdered sugar,
and fourth teaspoonful Of vanilla, and
bake ten minutes in slow oven.
ENGLISH BROWN PUDDING