Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — RECIPES, ETC. [ARTICLE]

RECIPES, ETC.

—Humbug Pie. —One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one tup of chopped raising two-thirds of a cup of roiled cracker, one clip of cold water, one-half a pup of vinegar; spice like mince pies and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. * —Black Pudding.—One cup of chopped i suet, two cups of chopped raisins, one cup.of molasses, one teaspoonful each of soda and salt, four cups of flour and one cup of sweet milk; mix well together and steam live hours. Make a sauce. —Crust Coffee.—Take two cups of Graham meal, three of corn meal and mix in one of molasses, burning carefully, like common coffee. Of this about one teaspoonful to a pint of water is sufficient to make a delicious and wholesome drink, not “bilious” in its tendency. To try it is to use it. —Hygienic Coffee. —What is called hygienic codec may be made from rye, corn, sweet potatoes, peas, beans, etc. It may be made by roasting these articles and treating them in the same way that coffee is treated. As an occasional drink they are wholesome, and if well made delicious. —The following recipe recently received a prize at London, Ontario, as the best method of keeping eggs over win--ter: 1 ‘ Whliter er excludes —the air prevents the decay of the egg. What I have found . to be the most successful method of doing so is to place a small quantity of salt butter in tile palm of the left hand and turn the egg round in it so that every pore of the shell is closed; then dry a sufficient quantity of bran in an oven (be sure you have* the bran well dried or it will rust). Then pack them with the small ends down, a layer of bran and another of eggs, until your box is full; then place in a cbol, dry place. If done when new laid they will retain the sweet milk and curd of a newlaid egg for at least eight or tep months. Any oil will do, but salt butter never becomes rancid, and a very small quantity of butter will do a very large quantity of eggs. To insure freshness I rub them when gathered in from the nests; then pack when there is a sufficient quantity.”—E. Alexander.