Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE

Labor Saving Device For Seeding Cherries.

Most careful cooks stone the cherries before they bake the pie. but that is a long and tedious operation unless performed with the assistance of the seeding machine invented by a Pennsylvania man and shown in the illustration. The machine clamps to the edge of the kitchen table and has attached to it a plate to hold the cherries before the stones are removed. A plunger operates through a ring that holds the fruit. The cherry is laid Over this ring and the plunger pressed down, returning by the action of a spring The downward pressure pushes the pit ahead of the plunger, and it drops into a plate below. The good part of the fruit, cleaned much better and quicker than could be done by hand, drops into another dish. BrAwn Stew. Two pounds and a half of neck and shoulder of fresh beef cut in small pieces. If too fat. remove some of it. wash meat and put on stove in about two quarts or more of hot water in a good sized kettle. Add two onions sliced thin, two good sized carrots cut in dice, three medium potatoes cut up. Stew should cook about three hours and a half. Don’t boil too hard. Should be quite thick and very dark rich brown in color and not fat Put in onions, carrots, salt and pepper when you put on the meat; put in potatoes about half hour before stew is dpne.

Sauce For Spanish Omelet. The sauce for a Spanish omelet 'may be made in the morning or even the day before and be heated when it is wanted. Gook a slice of onion chopped fine in a tablespoonful of butter and then add a cupful of tomatoes and a red and a green pepper, both chopped fine, and cook for fifteen minutes. Add half a cupful of button mushrooms, each cut in two or three pieces, and cook for ten minutes more. Season with salt and paprika. Turn the sauce around an ordinary omeleL Any mushrooms may be usedRhubarb Chutney. Two pounds of rhubarb, cut in pieces; three quarters of a pound of seeded raisins, half a pound of stoned dates. Chop and soak raisins and dates three hours in two and one-half cups of vinegar, add one and one-half pounds of sugar, one ounce each of minced chili peppers, salt, ginger, garlic and one-quarter or one-half teaspoon of cayenne. Cook slowly. When raisins are soft add rhubarb. Cook until thick. Sultana raisins can be used and almonds, one cup, minced, added if liked.

Potato and Nut Croquettes. Mix together three cupfuls of mashed potatoes, one scant cupful of chopped nuts, one tablespoonful of finely chopped onion, one saltspoonful of sage, one beaten egg and pepper and salt to taste. Shape into croquettes, roll in crumbs, dip in beaten egg. roll again in crumbs, let stand one or more hours and fry in deep hot fat Serve with white sauce. Fried Veal. Take a cheap cut of veal and have It cut in thin pieces. Then take one slice of fat salt pork, cut into dice and fry until crisp. Put veal in fat and fry until dark brown all over, season and cover, put in oven or on back of range for about thirty minutes. Before covering put on a cup of boiling water. 1 London Fagots. One pound liver, one-half pound suet and one onion, all chopped fine; one quart stale breadcrumbs, one teaspoonful poultry dressing, salt and pepper to suit taste, one egg or a little milk to moisten it. Mold with flour inti cakes or balls and fry in deep fat Royal Pop Beer. Cream tartar, one pound; ginger, one and a half ounces; white sugar, seven pounds; essence of lemon, one dram; water, six gallons; yeast, one pint. Put in stone bottles if yOU have them and tie corks down tight Sour Milk Pie. One cupful thick sour milk, one cupful chopped raisins seeded, one-half cupful sugar or more if needed, piece of butter size of a walnut nutmeg and cinnamon and egg. Make with ■ two crusts.