Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1885 — HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS. [ARTICLE]

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Broiled Quail. —After dressing, split down the back, sprinkle with salt and Spper, and lay them on a gridiron, the ride down. Broil slowly at first. Serve with cream gravy. Sponge Cake.—Three eggs, one cnp sugar, one cup flour, three table-spoon-fuls sweet milk, two table-spoonfuls melted butter, two heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, one-half teaspoonful extract of lemon. Baked in layers, this makes a very nice jelly cake. Cheap Fruit Cake. —Soak one large cupful of dried apples over night in a little water; take out, chop as fine as raisins, add one cup raisins, cook them in one cup molasses until well preserved, drain off molasses and add to it four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup butter, one cup sour milk, two teaspoonfuls soda, one-half nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful cloves, flour to make a stiff batter, add fruit and bake in a slow oven. Metropolitan Cake.—-Light part: Two cups augur, three-fourths cup butter, one cup sweet milk, two and one-half cups flour, whites of five eggs, three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in two cakee. Dark part: OneMM *»» one MW «hd leu.

one cup. raisins, one teaspoonful ctnnamon, one-half teaspoonfl cloves, two large spoonfuls of the light part. Bake in one cake and place between the two light cakes with jelly or frosting. Chicken Choquettes. One cold boiled chicken chopped fine; then take a pint of sweet milk, and when the milk is boiled stir into it two large tablespoonfuls of flour made thin in a little cold milk; after the flour is well cooked with the milk, put in a piece of butter the size of an egg, add salt and cayenne pepper; stir all well into the chicken; roll up with your hand, and dip first into an egg beaten up, then into cracker rolled fine, and fry in hot tallo,w (fresh tallow, half and half lard, is very nice). Almond Pudding.—Turn boiling water on to three-fourths of a pound of sweet almonds; let if . emain until the skin comes off easily; rub with a dry cloth; when dry, pound fine with one large spoonful of lose water; beat six eggs to a stiff' froth wth three spoonfuls of fine white sugar; mix with one quart of milk three spoonfuls of powdered crackers, four ounces of melted btftter and the same of citron cut into bits; add almonds, stir all together and bake in a small pudding dish with a lining of pastry. This pudding is best when cold. It will bake in half an hour in a quick oven.