Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — RELIABLE RECIPES. [ARTICLE]

RELIABLE RECIPES.

Roast Sweet Potatoes. Choose even sized potatoes, cleanse them with a brush and put them in a quick oven. They are done when they will yield to Eressure between the fingers. Serve ot. A Nice Dish.— Moisten two cupfuls of cold mashed potatoes with one-half cupful of hot milk and when softened stir in two salted well beaten eggs. Drop carefully from a spoon into flour or egg and crumb them—the mixture should be very soft—and brown eiiher in hot butter or boiling fat. Seasonings for Soups. —Seasonings for soups may bo varied to suit tastes, the simplest having only salt and pepper, while the richest may have a little of many savors, so delicately blended that no oue is conspicuous. The best soup is that whose flavor is made from the blending of many. For brown soups, dark spices may be used; for white ones, mace, aromatic seeds, cream and curry. Many herbs, either fresh or dried- such as sage, thyme, 6weet marjoram, mint, sweet basil, parsley, bay leaves, cloves, mace, mustard, celery seed and onions, and all choice catsups and sauces, are used as seasoning. For coloring and flavoring soups use caramel, browned flour, onions, fried brown or meat with cloves in It or browned in tu tor.