Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — THE KITCHEN. [ARTICLE]

THE KITCHEN.

Hec: Inin. Chocolate Cabamkls.— One pint or brown sugar, one gill of sweet milk, onehalf pint of molasses, one-half cake of Baker’s chocolate, grated, and a good teaspoonful of butter. Boil over a slow fire, stirring until the Ingredients are dissolved, and occasionally afterwards, as it burns easily. Test it by dropping a little Into cold water. If it hardens quickly remove nt on:e froth the ftf-p, flavor with vanilla aud pour Into buttered tins. One should be careful in. adding the extract, as the heat is likely to set fire to the ah i>hol, especially if.' added while on the stove. When cool,, mark the caramels ia squares with a buttered knife. -* Velvet Sponge Ca i:e. —Two cups of sugar, six eggs, leaving out the whites of three, one cup of boilitig hot water, 2>£ cups of flour, one tablespoonful of baking powder sifted with the flour: beat, the yolks a little, add the sugar, beat, fifteen minutes, then the three beaten, whites, and the cup of toiling water just, before the flour. Fit tor with a tc&spoouful of lemon extract gnd bake in three layers. When baited, put between the cakes Icing made adding to the three whites reserved, beaten to a soft froth, six dessertspoon"ols of pulverized sugar to each egg; flav.r to taste. Almond Topry.—Bell together half ». pint of wafer and one pound of koqA brown sugar for ten minutes; bldneli. one and one-half ounce* of sweet almonds, and slice them through the center; add them to thi syrup with iwo ounces or a. little more of fresh butter; let all boil for ten minutes nooie (when the toffy Is suffliciently done it will harden at once when dropped on a plr.te, or lr.to a little cold water), ponr it on a well-buttered dish; it should nut be more than half an inch thick. apple Budding.—Pare, core, and\ chop very line six apiples; mix these with, six ounces of grated bread crumbs, six. ounces of currants (washed and dried),, five ounces of moist sugar, a little nutmeg and a little grated lemon zest.. When these ingredients are all thoroughly mixed acd six eggs, the yolks> and whites beaten separately; butter a. mold and pour in the mixture; let it simmer for three hours; serve without sauce.