Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — Four Simple Desserts. [ARTICLE]

Four Simple Desserts.

• To one half pint of milk add the same of coffee; sweeten a little. When boiling hot add two tablespoopsfuls of cornstarch, wet up in milk. Stir well, and pour off, when it thickens, into shapes. Serve with cream. One pint of milk, sweeten; onehalf cupful of stoned raisins. When .hot, add two tablespoonfuls of cornstartch. Flavor with lemon. Cook and serve as in No. 1. One pint of milk, one-half cupful of blanched and pounded almonds, one-quarter cupful of sugar, almond to flavor. Heat and add two tablespoonfuls of cornstartch. When a little cool, add beaten whites of two eggs. Serve with whipped cream. One quart of milk, flavoring, and one-half package of gelatine. Soak one hour in milk, then let warm—not boiling. Pour in a mould. It makes a very delicate blanc mange. Little Dot —“Mamma, I’ve read both hoods all through.” Mamma —“Hoods! What hoods?” Little Dot —“Little Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood. ” —Street & Smith’s Good News. Books were formerly sold in stalls stationed at the gates of universities, hence booksellers become known as stationari, whence comes our modern word stationers. An inch of rain means 100 tons of water on every acre. If persons would bring to bear the same amount of common sense, in buying a remedy for bronchitis, coti&h, cold and eroup, that they do in the purchase of their family supplies, they would never fail to secure Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. George W. Roberts the cowboy evangelist, who was convicted on December 24 of a heinous offense, received his flogging, as provided by law. at the central prison in Toronto, Ont., Wednesday.