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Show HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Baked Bananas Slice the fruit into a pie dish; sprinkle them thickly with susrar and lime juice, and bake. Oyster Toast Heat a teacupful of oysters to the boiling point in their own liquor; add a teaspoonful of nicest butter, a tablespoonful of cream, and j season nicely with salt, adding a little I pepper. Dip a delicately toasted slice of bread quickly in and out cf boiling hot water; pour the oysters over it, and serve at once. Steamed Banana - PuddingPut one-fourth one-fourth pound of flour in a basin with one ounce sugar; drop in two eggs and beat smooth. Mix in gradually one pint of milk. " Put half of this batter into a pudding mould, then four bananas (in slices), two ounces sugar, and the rest of the batter. To Bone Fish Fish are boned by cutting cut-ting them down the belly after cleaning them. Keep the knife close to the bone each side; the side bones are then easily eas-ily pulled out. Flat fish are boned by cutting the rlesh right off with a sharp knife both s'ides. Beef Fritters Take slices from the undercut of sirloin: flavor an ordinary batter with a seasoning of pepper, pounded allspice, ami salt; dip the slices cf beef in it, and fry in boiling lard a nice brown. Take care the meat is well covered with batter. Banana Surprise Pudding Peel and cut in slices six bananas and lay them in a pie dish. Beat an ounce of butter and two ounces of sugar together? mix with this a large teaspoonful of flour and a well-beaten egg. Pour this over the bananas and bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutea This pudding pud-ding is best hot. A Good Winter Cake, which does not require eggs, is made as follows: Take one pound of flour and well-mix it with a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; rub into the flour four caneeo of good beef dripping, four ounces of sugar, su-gar, eight ounces currants, and one ounce of finely chopped peel. Mix all with one-half pint of milk, to which has been added a tablespoonful of vinegar. The cake may be flavored with ground ginger, mixed spice, etc., to taste. Bake this novel cake in a slow oven for one and a half or two hours and you will be delighted with it. Pancakes Three eggs, one pint of milk, salt, flour, lard, sugar and lemon, if liked. Beat the eggs well; mix with them about a third of the milk: add sufficient flour, in which put a pinch cf salt, to make a stiff paste, which should be beaten until it is quite smooth. By degrees add the remaining milk and stir well. This batter is improved im-proved if made some hours before being fried. Melt in a frying pan about an ounce of good lard and pour into it not quite a teacupful of batter, which should be fried a light brown on both sides. The pancakes are lighter if eaten as soon as cooked, spread flat on a plate, thougt they are often sent to table covered with sugar and lemon juice and rolled. |
