Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — THE KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

THE KITCHEN.

Jelly Toast. Cut stale bread into neat rounds or squares; fry each slice in boiling deep fat; spread it thickly with some fruit jelly and serve very hot. Gold Feather Cake. One and a half cups sugar beaten to a cream with half a cup of butter, half a cup of cold water, two cups sifted flour, 1A teaspoons of baking powder, throe eggs. Flavor with one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Vanilla Snow. Cook one cupful of rice in a covered dish to keep it white. When nearly done, add one cupful of cream, a pinch of salt, the beaten whites of two eggs and a cupful of sugar. Flavor with vanilla. Pilo In a glass dish and dot with jelly. Servo with cream and sugar. Sugar Cake*. One cup butter, one cup sugar, four cups flour, two eggs, one teaspoonful vanilla. Cream butter and sugar, mix with the beaten eggs, add the flour and the flavoring, roll out very thin, and bake in a moderate oven, sprinkling the cake with granulated sugar just before baking. Small Cucumber Pickles. Wash and wipe 100 small cucumbers, and place them In jars. Cover them with boiling brine, strong enough to bear an egg; let stand twenty-four hours. Then take them out, wipe, place in clean jars, and cover with hot vinegar spiced with an onion, twelve whole cloves, one ounce of mustard seed and three blades of mace. They will ba ready to use in two weeks.