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For Woman’s Work.
Leaves From my Cook Book.
By Hannah Huglies.
“Such, whose whole bliss is eating; who can
give
But that one brutal reason why they live.”
. —Juvenal.
TO ROAST CANNED OYSTERS.
Drain them, and put them in a spider
which is very hot. Turn them over every
few minutes, so they will cook on both
sides. When done, put in a hot plate,
which contains salt, black pepper, and a
little hot melted butter. Serve them im
mediately. They have the flavor of oys
ters roasted in the shell.
“We mav live without poetry, music or art;
We may live without conscience and live with
out heart,
We may live without friends, we may live with
out books:
But civilized men cannot live without cooks.”
—Owen Meredith,
FRIED CORN MEAL MUSH.
This makes a delicious breakfast dish.
Make the mush the night before, and put
it in a square dish to cool. The slices are
a prettier shape if the mush is molded in
a square dish. Slice it, dip each slice in
well beaten eggs, then in rolled crackers
or bread crumbs, and fry a light brown.
Let the lard be boiling, so that the cook- 1
ing may be done in a few minutes.
“Gather at your table only such persons
as can sympathize in thought and feel
ing.”—Marquis de Cussy.
TO BAKE MUTTON.
Take the piece you have selected to
cook, pepper and salt it on both sides; then
make long, deep gashes about it, and fill
them with a stuffing made of bread
crumbs, pepper, salt, onions and sage.
Then sprinkle the meat lightly with flour,
and put it in the baking pan. When it
begins to cook, pour a little hot water in
the pan, and baste the meat whenever it
seems to need it. Three or four times will
be sufficient.
MUTTON CHOPS.
Cut the chops from either the loin or
the best end of the neck, trim them neat
ly, taking off some of the fat if necessary,
and scrape the bone clean, for an inch, at
the end where there is very little meat.
Pepper them lightly and put them on the
gridiron over a clear fire. Turn them
three or four times. When sufficiently
done, remove them to a hot dish, sprinkle
a little salt over them, and lay upon them
a few small pieces of butter. One of the
principal points to be observed is sending
them hot to the table. Wrap the end of
the bone that has been scraped, in curled
white paper, that the chops may be taken
in the fingers without soiling them at the
table.
CAPER SAUCE.
Two tablespoonfuls of flour and a half
cupful of butter, beaten to a cream ; then
add a pint of boiling water. Set the mix
ture on the Are and stir it continually, un
til heated to the boiling point; then add
salt and pepper to taste, three tablespoon
<uls of capers, and one tablespoonful of
lemon juice. This is the best sauce to
serve with lamb.
Capers are the unopened buds of a low
trailing shrub that grows wild in the fis
sures of rocks in Greece and the north of
Africa. They are extensively cultivated
in France, especially in Savoy. They
grow wild in toe Balearic Islands. The
vines climb over the rocks in a very beau
tiful way, and the berry, which is the seed
vessel of the plant, is gathered by the
peasantry. Capers are sold in all Balea
ric towns,and shipped to Spanish or French
ports for exportation.
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MINT SAUCE.
Pick, wash, and shred fine, some fresh
mint, put on it a tablespoonful of sugar
and four tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Nice
with mutton and lamb.
BROILED PIGEONS.
Take young pigeons, split them open in
the back, roll them so as to break the
bones, lay them on the gridiron, and put
a tin cover over them. Watch them
closely, and turn them two or three times.
When nearly done, dip them in melted
butter, and lay them back on the gridiron
until done. After they are taken up,
sprinkle salt and pepper over them.
Serve hot.
The Russians never eat pigeons, be
cause the Holy Ghost appeared under the
form of a dove..
JUMBLES.
One and a half pounds of flour, and one
scant pound of butter, mixed thoroughly
together; then add one pound of sugar
and a small quantity of nutmeg.
three eggs very light, with three spoonfuls
of rosewater. Work all into a paste, but
do not add any more flour. Take off a
small piece, sprinkle sugar on the bread
board, and roll the piece lightly with the
hand, until the proper length; then join
the two ends to make the circle. Bake
them a light brown, on tin sheets.
‘‘Catherine, too, had recovered her equa
nimity where the dames and damsels of
the period were apt to lose theirs—in the
kitchen, and in the superintendence of
household affairs, in which she was an
adept. I question much, if the perusal of
Seneca for as long a period would have
had equal effect in composing her mind.”
—Fair Maid of Perth.
SOUTHERN STRAWBERRY SHOBTCAKE.
Make dough as if for beaten biscuit, roll
the whole of it in a round cake an inch
thick. Stick holes about in it, and bake
like biscuit. Prepare the strawberries
two or three hours before they are needed,
that a quantity of juice may be extracted.
Make the berries very sweet. When the
cake is done, split it open, and while it is
lot, pour the juice slowly upon the crumb
sides until they are saturated, then put the
berries evenly on them. Put one piece on
the top of the other, like jelly cake. Cut
in pie-shaped pieces and serve with plenty
of cream.
‘‘On the threshold of summer, Nature
proffers us this, her virgin fruit. It is
born of the copious dews, the fragrant
nights, the tender skies, the bountiful
rains of the early season. The singing of
lirds is in it and the health and frolic of
usty nature. It is the product of liquid
May touched by the June sun.”— John
Burroughs.
ROYAL STRAWBERRY ACID.
Take three pounds of ripe strawberries,
two ounces of citric acid, and one quart of
spring water. Dissolve the acid in the
water, pour it on the strawberries, and let
them stand in a cool place twenty-four
hours. Then drain the liquid off, pour it
on three pounds more of strawberries, and
let them stand twenty-four hours. Then
add the liquid to its own weight of sugar,
boil it three or four minutes in a porce
lain-lined kettle, and when cold, cork it in
bottles lightly for three days, and then
Eush the corks in tight and seal them.
.eep it in a dry, cool place—where it will
not freeze. It is very delicious for the
sick or the well.— Miss Katherine Beecher.
The strawberry derives its name from
an ancient custom of putting straw be
neath the fruit when it began to ripen.
The small red strawberry which grows
wild in England, is mentioned as an arti
cle of ordinary consumption in the time
of H enry VI. Shakespeare men tion s them
three times. The leaf has come to be the
emblem of nobility in England. It is used
to surmount the coronet and also the bish
op’s miter.
STUFFED HAM.
Take a medium-sized ham that is two
years old, put it to soak over night, in
cold water, with the skin side up. The
next morning, scrape, wash, trim and
weigh it, and put it on the stove in cold
water; when it begins to boil, allow fifteen
minutes for each pound; let it boil slowly,
keeping it covered with hot water all the
WOMAN’S WORK.
time. When the allotted time for boiling
has expired, try it with a fork; if the fork
pulls out easily, the ham is done. Take it
up; while it is still hot, strip off all the
skin, and trim off all the fat around the
edges, so that the shape will be compact
and handsome. Make a stuffing thus:
Soak one teacupful of breadcrumbs in
cream enough to moisten them thoroughly.
Add two tablespoonfuls of fresh butter,
six cloves, twelve grainsofalispice, twelve
grains of black pepper, (all finely pounded
together) a half saltspoonful of red pepper,
a teaspoonful each of thyme, marjoram,
sage, savory (pounded and sifted) and salt
enough to season. Add a teacupful ot
veal, or chicken breast, ground fine. Mix
all as thoroughly as possible. With a
sharp-pointed knife make incisions in the
under side of the ham, almost clear through,
and one and a half inches apart, all over
the ham, turning the point of the knife so
as to make as large a cavity for the stuffing
as possible. Have the yellow of two eggs
beaten very light, spread them thickly all
over the ham ; set. it in the oven and bake
it slowly for an hour. The ham will be so
delicious you will not mind the trouble.
“God sends the meat, but the devil sends
the cook.”— Scotch Proverb.
CRUMPETS.
Take three teacupfuls of raised dough,
beat into it three eggs, and sweet milk
enough to make a thin batter. Fry like
buckwheat cakes, for which they are a
good substitute.
CORN LIGHTBREAD.
Take one quart of sifted meal and a
heaping teaspoonful of salt; make a stiff
dough (about the same consistency as foi
pone bread) with hot water, which musi
not be hotter than you can comfortably
bear your finger in. Put it to rise in a
thick earthenware vessel. In the summer
set it in the sun and it will rise very quick
ly. When perfectly light, put it in a tray
and work in a double-handful of seconds;
flour will do, but the flavor of the bread is
not so flue. Grease the oven well, ii
which it is to be baked, put in the bread
and let it rise the second time—which will
not take long. Bake in a slow oven. It
will take longer than lightbread made of
flour. This bread is much better if baked
in an oven in an open fire-place, than in a
stove.
In culinary matters Sicily was to Greece
what France afterwards was to the rest of
Europe. Mythicus, of Sicily, was said to
be as great a cook as Phidias was a sculp
tor, and was highly appreciated, except in
Sparta. He wrote the first cook book.
SALLY LUNN—A SUPPER DISH.
Seven cupfuls of sifted flour, a half tea
cupful of butter warmed in a pint of sweet
milk, a teaspoons ul of salt, three well beat
en eggs, four tablespoonfuls of liquid
yeast. Mix in the usual way, and put it
to rise in the pan in which it is to be baked.
Bake it as soon as it gets light. It must
not be made over night, as it is apt to
sour if it stands too long. It will rise in
four or five hours.
“Rather go supperless to bed than rise
in debt.”
When making a bread pudding do not
use any of the crust. Crumble the bread
into a bowl, and add some water; then, in
stead of letting the bread soak into a pulp,
take an egg-beater and whip the crumbs
into a smooth batter. Put in milk, sugar,
butter and eggs according to judgment.
Add some raisins, and reserve the whites
of the eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, to add
as the last thing. Bake immediately. In
stead of baking this pudding, put it in a
tightly closed tin mold, in a kettle half
full of hot water, and let it steam for an
hour. This pudding can be made the
foundation for many delicious desserts, by
omitting the raisins and adding prunes,
sliced apples, cranberries stewed and
sweetened, or any fresh berries.
SAUCE FOB BAKED PUDDING.
One pint of sweet milk, one tablespoon
ful of butter, one tablespoonful of flour,
one cupful of sugar, the yellow of one egg.
Let the milk come to a boil, then stir in
the other ingredients beaten together, and
let them boil a minute or two. Let it cool
before the flavoring is added. Flavor to
tarte.
SILVER CAKE.
One pound ot sugar, three quarters of a
pound of flour, six ounces ot butter, the
whites of fourteen eggs, and a half pound
of citron. Beat the sugar and butter to a
cream, add the eggs cut to a stiff froth,
then the flour and citron. For flavoring,
use either rose-water or essence of bitter
almonds.
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