Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — THE KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

THE KITCHEN.

Practical Keel pen. Eoa Soup.—Boll four eggs for twenty minutes, let them cool, open them, and grate the yolks, and chop the whites. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour in a saucepan, and stir over the fire until they are thoroughly incorporated: then add one quart each of hot water and milk. Season with pepper, salt and a little nutmeg; add the whites and serve. Fisk with Cheese.—Cut up together a few mushrooms, some parsley and a small onion, and fry them in butter; season highly with salt and pepper. Butter a baking dish and put the fried vegetables on the bottom; then put in, a layer of cold cooked flounder or any other fish with large flaky meat. Sprinkle bread crumbs on top. moisten with stock and bake. Serve slices of lemon with this dish. Larded Liver. —Lard a calf’s liver with slices of fat bacon. Prepare some vinegar as follows: Take sufficient vinegar to cover the meat, and add thereto a slice of onioiq some sage, pepper and /

salt. Put tho liver In this and lot Itlie for twenty-four hours; then take from the vinegar and roast it, with a little water in the pan. Baste often and serve, with brown gravy. Fkif.d Onions and Potatoes.—Put two large tablospoonfuls of butter over the fire, and when very hot add two small sliced onions; sprinkle with salt and put a cover over them; when they have cooked ten minutes put in six goodsized potatoes that have been peeled and cut into dice. Stir all together, then add salt and pepper; cover tho pan again and let them cook until brown ou tho bottom, shaking the pan occasionally, but not mixing the potatoes and onions. Chocolate Cop Custard. —To a quart of milk add the beaten yolks of five or six eggs and two heaping tablespoonfuls of chocolate, vanilla, sugar to taste, and a very little salt. Melt the chocolate in a little hot milk before adding to the other ingredients. Fill cups with this, and set them in a pan of water to bake; they will need about fifteen minutes. Servo cold. Cocoa nut Cakes. —One cup powdered! sugar, two cupfuls desiccated coeoanut, two tablespoonfuls flour, whites of twoeggs. Mix well, roll into a sheet, cut into small cakes, and bake a light brown.