Lincoln County leader., June 07, 1912, Image 2

MOST USEFUL RECIPES
'REPARATIONS ON WHICH, ONE
MAY 8URELY RELY.
From Successful Housewives' Owr.
Cookery Books, and the Writer
Who Makes Them Public Is
a Weil-Known Authority.
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You will And sure reliance In these
recipes with their Individual "home"
phrases because they are from the
successful housewives' own cookery
books and the little "ladv-llke- touch-
es, In the way of combining and flavor
ing and serving are practical and will
piease tne amateur or the professional
Scollops In Batter Have this on
Monday, as It may be made from
cold beef or roast veal or any sliced
cold meat Cut In half-Inch thick
slices and brown In hot butter, sea
son with salt and pepper, add all
the gravy that was left and thicken
with flour rubbed smooth In cold
water. Set aside while you make the
batter with a cup of flour, two-thirds of
a cup of milk, one eez beaten llcht. a
pinch of salt, a heaping teaspoon of
yeasc powder.
Put the meat and sravv In as manv
small dishes as you have persons to
serve and cover with the batter and
bake until browned, or bake In one
large dish.
Beef Frizzles Cut thin dried beef,
that has been freshed In cold water
Into strips with the kitchen scissors
and brown In bubbling butter. When
it browns a little sprinkle on a table
spoon of flour and stir about with a
fork while the flour browns. Pour In
a cup and a half of cold milk, con
tinue stirring until thick and smooth;
pepper but do not salt Minced green
peppers may be added to this while it
Is cooking If their flavor Is liked.
Corned Beef and Potato Cakes
Chop, two cups of cold boiled corned
beef In a bowl and season with pep
per, add mashed potatoes to equal the
amount of meat and one egg beaten,
roll Into a loaf or shape Into cakes
and fry brown; serve with young
beets dressed with butter fat.
Another way to use the meat and
potatoes Is to enrich the mashed pota
toes with egg and cream and butter
and form them Into a mound In the
center of a platter. Chop the meat,
corned beef Is excellent for this, and
lay It around the meat for a border,
sprinkle all with pepper, parsley
chopped fine and butter, and grate
cheese over the top of the potatoes.
Set under the broiler burner until a
dark brown 'and hot through. Hen
rietta D. Qrauch, Domestic Science
Lecturer.
English Brown Soup.
Two tablespoonfuls of butter, three
pints of boiling water, two tablespoon
fuls sugar, one teaspoonful salt, two
tablespoonfuls flour, one teaspoonful
of any good extract of beef, one salt
spoonful of pepper, one good-sized
onion. Rub the butter and flour to
gether, dissolve the beef extract In
boiling water. Add It to the butter
and flour, and stir until boiling. Put
the sugar and onion chopped fine In a
sauce pan; shake and stir over a hot
fire until they become a dark brown.
Then add to the soup,' boll and stir
for five minutes; add the Bait and pep
per; strain and serve with croutons.
Cuban Chicken.
Cut ud a chicken as for a fripasspo
Dry each piece and dip In beaten egg
and roll in cracker crumbs, season with
pepper 'and salt, and fry each piece
brown In half butter and lard or pork
drippings. When well browned add
a cup oi not water, cover and .simmer
half an hour. Then take out chicken
and put on dish In warming oven.
Have ready a bowl of boiled rice, put
It into frying pan with,, liquid chicken
Simmered In, add two tomatoes and a
Chill pepper chopped fine. Toss all
together lightly with a fork, pile In
center of platter and lay around it
the pieces of fried chicken.
8tuffed Tomatoes With Beef.
When you have boiled the beef
chop It very fine, then mix It with an
equal quantity of potatoes cooked in
water, drained and mashed, or mix the
beef with an equal quantity of sausage
meat Cut the tomatoes In two, re
move the seeds, then fill them up with
the haBh. Place them In a gratln dish
which was previously buttered. Scat
ter the surface of the tomatoes with
small bread crumbs, then moisten
with melted butter. Put them in a
moderate oven for 35 minutes and
serve hot In the gratln dish.
Shad or Codfish Roe.
Wash the roe and dry it thoroughly;
season with salt and pepper and sprin
kle lightly with flour. Try out a slice
of salt pork in a hot pan and pour off
the grease until only a tablespoonful
Is left Cook the roe in this, adding
a little butter, when the pan gets dry.
Place the roe on a hot dish, put the
pork crackling on top, and trim the
dish with fresh parsley and slices of
lemon. Either shad or codfish roe may
be broiled, but either should be cov
ered with a slice of fat pork while
cooking.
USE FOR "LEFTOVER" STEAKjSAYING TOILET TABLES
With Other Ingredients, a Most Palat
able Dinner or Luncheon Dish
May Be Evolved.
Cold beef steak forms the "motif"
or a dish that Is greeted with lively
applause whenever It nnneara uDon
my table. It frequently happens that
a large sirloin steak Is pruned of the
more tender portions which prov6
enough to satisfy the family appetite,
leaving perhaps a pound and a half ot
lulcy solid meat that Is yet too tough
to please those who know what a eood
steak Is. I have heard house mothers
object to buying steak because they
"can do nothing but make hash or
siew or wnat must be left"
Set every scrap aside until next day
Or In Winter the nt dav hut on
Trim the meat away from the bone;
crack that, and cover with cold wa
ter, and set over th firn tn simmer
into gravy. Do this some hours before
you are to use the meat. When all
the "goodness' has cooked out of the
Done, drain off the broth; set the pan
containing it in cold water to throw
up the grease to the top. When it is
nearly cold skim off the fat? nut th
liquid Into a saucepan and lay ln-the
cuDes of meat. Season with a tea
spoonful of onion lulce: covar clonal v
and cook slowly. In another saucepan
cook six lambs' kidneys, halved. In
sun another stew in lust enoucrh wa
ter to cover a squab Jointed as for
mcaB8ee. Exchange.
WASHING DAY CONVENIENCE
The value of the-wash-bench illua.
trated here is explained in the
Housekeper. By its use the whole
washing can be done without liftine
the tubs or changing the wringer. The
wringer fits over the cross-piece
which Is high enough for the tuba to
slide under. Each tub Is fitted with
a plug so that they may be emptied
Dy letting the water flow Into a palL
Tea Muffins.
These take their name, not hwanaa
they are so much enjoyed with a cup
tf tea. as might be buddobrH. hut ho.
cause they may be mixed at two
ociock in the afternoon and baked by
tea time. Use the best ve&at. am
twice one quart of flour, put Into It one
cup or fresh yeast, one gill of fresh
cream, one large spoonful of melted
butter, one teaspoon of sugar, ene-
nan taDiespoon or salt and then add
enough milk to make a stiff ha.tt.Ar and
beat In four eggs and continue beat
ing un,tll the mixture is full of bub
bles; let this rise to double Its bulk
and bake In muffln rings in a quick
oven.
HOUHOLD
IQyESTIONS
To clean straw matting put three
pints of bran In two quarts of water
and boll. When It is nearly cool wash
the matting with It and afterward dry
it well with a clean cloth. Add a lit
tle salt to the water for white mat
ting and vinegar for red.
J Before washing lace collars baste
tnem closely on a piece of white cloth
They will not be stretched nor fnrn
If no starch is put in them' they will
look like new.
" When making pies, If you will tuck
the upper crust under the lower and
presadown with a fork, you will never
have an trouble with your cle stick
ing to tee plate or the Juice running
out
A woman with a badlv farfnri hlnn
shawl ' gave it a bath in cold water
with -which a tablespoonful of vinegar
bad been mixed and the color returned
perfectly. Not all dyes yield to this
treatment '
To use sour milk for griddle cakes,
never add baking powder, but Instead
an even teaspoonful of baking soda
to each cup of milk.
Tangle Breeches.
Beat an egg until llaht Add a ntnnh
of salt and enough flour to make a
moderately stiff dough. Roll out thin
ana cut into pieces about tho size of
a narrow playing card, and slit the
long way half way up. Toss Into
boiling lard and fry a Jlght brown.
To Set tho Colors.
If one cupful of vinegar Is put with
the water In which colored tablecloths
are washed It will prevent the color
from running. Iron when tin !mn
.and they will look equal to new.
MEEDFOR MATERIAL UNDER THE
EMBROIDERED COVER.
Idea Is to Prevent Disaster When
Liquids Are Spilled Rubber
Sheeting, While Expensive at
First, Really Economical.
As a rule, It Is not the mere spill
Ing of a liquid on one's pretty em
broidered bureau, dressing table or
washstand covers that spoils them, but
the Instant effect of that moisture on
the varnished surface beneath. In
fully nine cases out of ten on the
dressing table, at least the cause of
disaster is toilet water, tincture of
benzoin, spirits of camphor, or some
Blfflilar article with the alcohol base,
that at once dissolves the varnish It
touches and makes a nasty mark on
the linen above.
Where the old-fashioned washstand,
with Its bowl and pitcher and soap
dish, Is used instead of a stationary
one with running water, the splashes,
while less disastrous, have to be tak
en at once Into account, as even wa
ter standing more than a few mln
utea will make sad blemishes on pol
ished wood.
Many housekeepers put folded pa
per under the embroidered covers, but
this was never more than a make
shift Even sheets of blotting paper,
recently recommended, can only part
ly arrest the possible damage where
alcohol has been spilled, as that fluid
will penetrate with rapidity and even
a few drops are able to eat Into the
varnish.
A far better protection la given by
Borne of the waterproof fabrics now to
be had. Rubber sheeting, covered with
fabric on either side, while expensive
in comparison with blotting paper, is
true economy in the end, as It Is odor
less and impervious to all moisture,
Next to this, In point of desirability,
would be a sheet ot oiled silk but
this would need an undercover of plain
muslin, to keep it from sticking to the
wood in case anything warm happened
to be set on the bureau or stand.
Still less expensivo would be ordi
nary whit. table oilcloth, but if this be
chosen, It Is wisdom not to use it
while perfectly new, as It has rather
a pungent odor until after it has been
exposed to the air for some time aft
er leaving the store. This, too, would
require a cover of muslin or white pa
per on itb waterproof side, but, like
the other two materials mentioned; It
affords perfect security and Is well
worthy the attention of any one to
whom the welfare of fine linen covers
e a matter of interest
English Stuffed Ham.
Select a freshly cured ham ant
have the bone removed. Fill with a
stuffing made of bread crumbs, pars
ley, marjoram, white pepper, salt, one
green pepper and butter. Tie up se
curely and inclose the ham In a paste
of flour and water to keep the Juice
from escaping. Tie In a pudding
cloth, put In a pot of boiling water
and boll gently for two hours, or allow
20 minutes for each pound of ham
After this, remove the crust, pare off
the skin carefully so as not to injure
the shape of the ham, put in a roast
ing pan, sprinkle well with bread
crumbs, set in a moderate oven and
roast, allowing six minutes to every
Oound of ha,m.
Ginger Candy.
Put one pound of loaf sugar Into t
saucepan, with two tablespoons of wa
ter, and a email piece of bruised gin
ger. Let sugar dissolve s'owly and
come to the boil.
v Stir in four ounces of honey and
boil again for 15 minutes. Add a small
piece of butter, the size of a nut and
-oil mixture until it will candy when
dropped into coid water. Remove the
ginger and pour on to a buttered plate,
and when cold break up into small ir
regular pieces.
Egg Dish. .
. A pleasant variation of shirred eggs
Is made by covering the bottom of the
buttered ' egg shlrrer with ,-' bread
crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese.
Pour over each egg a tablespoonful of
cream and bake until the white is set
Cold Bread Griddle Cake.
To one and one-half pints of cold
bread broken fine (biscuit preferred)
add. one quart of buttermilk and let
remain over night In the morning
beat hair teaspoon salt and enough
dour to make thin batter.
Minced Green Peppers.
Stewed potatoes are delicious with a
little chopped green pepper as a sub
stitute for parsley. Minced green
pepper Is also delicious with boiled
rice, and with stewed tomatoes it is an
addition par evcellence. .
Fruit Trifle.
For a quick dessert try beating one-
lalf cup of cream until thick, then fold
In pint of canned peaches, which have
been, drained. Sweeten - to taste.
serve very cold. Other fruit may be
used.
EASY TO KEEP A LOG BOOK
Apparently aa Complicated as Double-
Entry Bookkeeping, But Little
Study Solves Problem.
How many landsmen, know bow a
log book Is written up? It seems Just
as complicated as double entry book
keeping when one does not know, but
after a little careful attention and
study it's as easy to keep a log book
as to eat hot gingerbread. There is a
list of letters arranged and they look
like so much Greek to the uneducated.
The letter b, for instance, stands for
blue sky, whether there be clear or
hazy atmosphere; o indicates cloudy
or detached opening clouds, d denotes
Irlzzllnx rain, a small f fog, a capital
F thick fog, g gloomy, dark weather;
h hall, 1 lightning and m misty or hazy
o as to interfere with the view.
The letter o represents overcast, or
when the whole sky is covered with
one impenetrable cloud. Passing show
ers are noted by the letter p, and q In
dicates the weather to bo squally. Con
tinuous rain is indicated by an r, snow
by an s. and thunder by a t
An ugly, threatening appearance In
the weather calls for the letter u, and
visibility of distant objects, whether
the sky be cloudy or not Is repre
sented by the letter v. A small w is
wet dew. A full point or dot under
any letter denotes an extraordinary
degree.
As an example of how the letters
are used take q p d 1 t This reads
very hard squalls and showers ot driz
zle accompanied by lightning with
very heavy thunder. Numerals de
note the force of the wind.
A cipher Indicates calm, 1 light air,
2 light breeze, 3 gentle breeze, 4 mod
erate breeze, 6 fresh breeze, 6 strong
breeze, 7 small gale, 8 fresh gale, 9
strong gale, 10 whole gale, 11 storm
and 12 hurricane. This system of ab
breviation is generally adhered to on
all merchant vessels.
CAGES FOR SINGING INSECTS
Tiny Houses, Constructed In Japan,
for Little Bugs That Have Ten
dency Toward Music
In Japan people keep singing insects
In cages, as we do canary birds, and
Cage for Singing Bugs.
have them hanging about the house.
They are supposed to brine eond limv
In Tokyo and other cities some of the
shops are devoted entirely to the sale
of these bugs and thnlr OA COO Th
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practice Is beginning to show signs ol
Decoming a rad In this country. It Is
doubtful, however. If the American
will take the same Intereat in ...
diminutive pets as does the Japanese.
Then, too, the variety of singing in
sects in this countrv la not an ni..
Ing as it is large. The moat widely
Known memDer or this ramily Is the
mosquito.' who Is never liklv tn h-
come popular as a household pet. and
even a cage as small as that shown
In the illustration would be too room
for him. A kind of cricket Is the In
sect most Often domesticated In
japan. ,
Why Flower Pots Have Holes.
Perhaps you have wondered
they alwavB nut a hol in th iwtAm
uwtLUUl
of those red clay flower pots and
stand them In a saucer. It is not to
let you Stick the seeds Id frnm .,n.
neath, as one little girl thought, but
It is to prevent the earth round the
roots of the flower from turning tn
mud.
If the water is allowed tn inv
th bottom of the vessel and cannot
get away it will soon kill the plnnt.
Flowers must have fresh WatF amA
the saucer is to catch all that runs
trough so that it can be poured off.
Highest Form of Animal.
A Boston teacher had been iin
a familiar talk on zoology to a class
K ten-year-oids, in a grammar school.
To test their Intelligence, ha mm i
the course of his remarks; "Who can
ten me tne highest form of animal
uier- a mue gin held up her hand
"Well, MaryT" "The hy-ena shouted
Mary, seriously, but triumphantly.
Repressing a smile, the teacher said
In it MaryT ' Think again. Is a
hvnn. tha wmmw W I . V. . art n .
t.u uo mi uiguesi: un, now I
I w--. rli1 Marv: "fa tha lraa-.
HELPS IN EMERGENCY!
PANTRY 8HELF OF GREAT VALUE
TO HOUSEWIFE.
Should Hold 8upply of Canned Goods
From Which to Form a "Pickup"
Meal Wben Situation Demands
, Immediate Action.
Every housekeeper has or should
have an emergency shelf where she
may keep on hand a small supply ot
canned goods which can be brought
out and used as needed.
Canned salmon Is almost sure to
have a 'place on this shelf and the
following recipes may offer variety for
one who finds it necessary to serve
this fish frequently.
Salmon Pudding. One can salmon;
2 eggs; 1 tablespoon milk or water;
1 teaspoon salt; 1V4 tablespoons but
ter; 2 tablespoons flour; 1 cup milk,
tablespoon salt
Drain the salmon and remove skin
and bones. Beat eggs until light, then
mix with salmon, milk and salt
Put in a buttered dish, set in a
pan of water and bake in a moderate
oven 20 to 25 minutes.
Turn out on a hot platter and
pour around It the white eauc which
Is made by melting the butter and
mixing with It the flour and salt, then
adding the milk gradually and cook
ing until It thickens.
Scalloped Salmon. One can sal
mon; 1 cup bread crumbs; 1 cup
white sauce; 1 teaspoon salt, 1 lemon.
Drain the salmon and remove skin
and bones. Mix salmon, bread
crumbs, white sauce and salt, and put
In a buttered dish. Bake 15 to 20
minutes. When done, garnish with
half slices of lemon. Charlotte E. Car
penter. Colorado Agricultural College.
SOAP AND WATER FOR CARPET
Treatment That Will Serve to Give
.the Floor Covering a New
Lease of Life.
To wash the carnet th
will require a bucket of warm water.
a cane or carpet soap, a piece of houBe
flannel, and, if you are going to tickle
a fair-sized piece of carpet at once, a
supply of dry cloths.
Do not begin near the donr aa vnn'
may require to leave the room for frpnh
water, and It is unwise to walk on the
carpet when damp. Make up your mind
to do without the room till all Is dry.
Start washing as far from the door as
possiDie, ana work towards it The
flannel Is wetted, and a nortlon nf th
carpet well rubbed. It must not be
overaone, only wetted sufficiently to
secure a good lather by rubbing the
carpet soap ball well in. Then with
xi
me ciean, wet flannel remove the
soap. Well rinse the flannel after
wards, so that It Is quite soapless
when you begin again, later on anoth
er fresh piece.
No soap jnust be left in the carpet
when the final rubbing commences.
Take a dry towel, and rub to your
best Though you cannot git rid of all
dampness, you can almost dry the
patch with friction, and this brings up
the nap beautifully, also the colors.
Chocolate Nougat.
Take four ounces of blanched al
monds, six bunces of Icing sugar, the
whites of two eggs; two ounce's of
grated chocolate; a few drops of '
vanilla esence, and some almond oil.
Put the sugar, chocolate and whites
of eggs into a lined saucepan, and
WhlSk them tOCPthpr until iw
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Cut each of the almonds into three
pieces; warm them slightly in the
oven, and stir them Into th mh..
with the other Ingredients. Add van
illa essence, let all get thoroughly hot
when turn Into a tin which has been
greased with almond oil. Smooth over
with a knife dipped in hot water, and
when nearly set, cut In squares and
pile in fancy dishes.
Small Angel Cake.
Whites four eggs, half level tea
spoon cream tartar, half cup granulat
ed sugar, half cup flour, one-quarter
Stractn BaU' ha'f tea8poon almond
Put the cream tartar In the whites
of the eggs and beat to a stiff froth,
men beat In tho rmo-ot. oi u.
... -"ow win i Lit) gait
with the flour and stir lightly into the
w. .lure. Ada tne flavoring and
PUt into a small mn.....J .
, , , ""B'wocu antrm
ZXVt 18A 5h tP wi sugar.
mmuies in a moderate
Panned 8weet Potatoes.
Boll sweet notatn. i .... .
slices and lay these in a baking dish
with sugar and lemon Juice Ken
Pour in a half cupful of cold water'
and bake until th nntt i. " J
-orbed this and are brown on top.
Ground Ham.
Grind up the lean of a fresh bollea
ham passing It several times through
the chopper; season with cayenne and
add enough sweet cream to soften the.
nam. Add a imiM n
I leuiuu juice.
For graham or rye bread.