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Have ready a lemon frosting, and the result will be a most beautiful cake, fit to grace any occasion. From MRS. ANNIE L. Y. ORFF, of Missouri, Alternate Lady Manager. Mix one and one-half cups pulverized sugar; one teacup flour; a little salt; one teaspoon baking powder; beat the whites of eleven eggs to a stiff froth; flavor with lemon or vanilla; mix all together and bake.
May be eaten as a dessert, warm or cold. APPLE STRUDEL, No. 1 Sift two cups of flour, add pinch of salt and one teaspoon of powdered sugar. Stir in slowly one cup of lukewarm water, and work until dough does not stick to the hands. Flour board, and roll, as thin as possible. Do not tear.
The following recipe for Suet Pudding has been unfailing in my family for forty years past. Sincerely yours, One cup molasses; one cup suet, chopped fine; one cup sweet milk; one cup fruit; one teaspoon salt; a piece of soda size of a pea; flour to make it as stiff as pound cake. Steam three hours. Prom MRS. L. C. GILLESPIE, of Tennessee, Lady Manager.
I was forced to collapse and I could feel my knees under the tea table begin to shake together and huddle for their accustomed and now missing skirts. "That's fine and dandy," answered the nice woman as she began to write rapidly upon the blank paper. "If you'd drawn fifty swords on Willie and he had knocked you down with the butt end of his teaspoon I'd have put Willie on the run in my write-up.
Take three pounds of beef, cut in dice and cover with three quarts of cold water. Simmer slowly for four hours. The last hour add one-half cup each of carrots, celery, onion, and season with one-half teaspoon of peppercorns and one tablespoon of salt. Add to the stock, stir constantly until it has reached the boiling point. Boil two minutes and serve. CHICKEN SOUP, No. 1
Add carefully one cup of boiling water, then season with one-half teaspoon of salt and a dash of pepper and paprika. Many sauces are made with drawn butter as a foundation. For caper sauce add three tablespoons of capers. For egg sauce add one egg, hard-boiled and chopped fine. There are several ways of making Bearnaise sauce.
Nine was the usual time, but the family always breakfasted an hour later on sabbath. Tibbs enrobed himself in his Sunday costume—a black coat, and exceedingly short, thin trousers; with a very large white waistcoat, white stockings and cravat, and Blucher boots—and mounted to the parlour aforesaid. Nobody had come down, and he amused himself by drinking the contents of the milkpot with a teaspoon.
When she wrote to Maclure for them, she sent him some housekeeping keys she had forgotten to leave behind, and an inventory of everything she had had charge of, which she had always kept carefully checked. He acknowledged the receipt of this letter, and informed her that he had gone over the inventory himself, and found some of the linen in a bad state and one silver teaspoon missing.
Cover the shelled beans with boiling water; bring to a boil quickly; then let them simmer slowly till tender. Drain and add salt, pepper and butter or hot cream or cream sauce. Scrape the carrots lightly; cut them into large dice or slices and drop them into salted boiling water, allowing one teaspoon of salt to one quart of water.
Next mix one-half pound of finely chopped citron peel with one-half pound of ground almonds, and three ounces of butter. Then flavor with one-half teaspoon of vanilla and bind with the yolks of two eggs. Roll out the dough and divide into two parts. Place one-half on a well-buttered flat pan and spread the mixture over it and cover with the other half of the paste.