The Common sense recipe book

Chop fine, and sprinkle over with flour. Put.a small piece of butter in the oven to melt. Salt and pepper the cabbage, and put in the pan with the butter. Mix half a teacupful of cream, one egg, one tablespoonful of mustard, one teaspoonful of sugar, and heat thoroughly. Serve warm. LAYERED POTATOES: Slice raw potatoes very thin, enough to fill a one-quart dish. Have about half an ounce of lard, place a layer of potatoes in the dish, sprinkle pieces of lard and some pepper and salt over it. Repeat this until the dish is filled, and pour over it enough milk or cream to cover all. Cover and bake in a good oven about forty-five minutes; uncover and brown. Serve in the dish in which it is cooked. If the oven is not in good order it will require almost an hour to be thoroughly done. You will find this a delicious dish. BEATEN MASHED POTATOES. Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potatoes, and stir into it six tablespoonfuls of melted lard, beating to a white cream before adding anything else. Then put with this two eggs whipped very light, and a teacupful of cream or milk, salting to taste. Beat all well, pour into'a deep dish, and bake in a quick oven until it is nicely browned. If properly mixed it will come out of the oven light, puffy and delectable. CANADIAN BAKED BEANS: Boil the beans, until they begin to crack, with a pound or two of fat salt pork: put the beans in the baking-pan; score the [illustration: Advertisement - Royal Baking Powder] Baking Powder ADIES, if you think of BUYING A PIANO of any description get quotations rom W.H. LEACH 49 METCALFE ST., Who sells cheap, having small expenses and no agents. pork across the top, and settle in the middle; add two tablespoons of sugar or molasses, and bake in a moderate oven two hours; they should be very moist when first put into the oven, or they will grow too dry in baking. Do not forget the sweetening if you want Yankee baked beans. BEETS. Clean these nicely, but do not pare them, leaving on a short piece of the stalk. Then put over to boil in hot water. Young beets will cook tender in an hour; old beets require several hours’ boiling. When done, skin quickly while hot; slice thin into your vegetable dish, put on,salt, pepper and a little butter; put over a little vinegar, and serve hot or cold. CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN: One cauliflower, one ounce butter, one ounce flour, one gill of cold water, two tablespoons cream, three ounces grated Parmesan cheese, one grain cayenne, one saltspoon white pepper, one tablespoon salt. Boil cauliflower fifteen minutes, place in a vegetable dish, make a sauce of flour, butter and milk, add to it two ounces of cheese, pour this over the cauliflower, sprinkle over remainder of cheese, and bake in a hot oven till nicely browned. Serve very hot. A firm head of cauliflower must be selected for this preparation. Soaked half an hour in salted water. BOILED CAULIFLOWER: This universally-liked summer vegetable may be had from June to October, when its successor, brocoli, follows to supply the winter season. Cauliflower should be cut in the early Has stood the test of 40 years, and still takes Benson’s Starch the lead. Manufactured only by James M. Aird —& Bread, Cakes and Candies Pure, Good, Wholesome , Telephones 1025, 1340, 6488, 5052 & morning, while the dew hangs upon it; if this be suffered to evaporate, the vegetable becomes tough and vapid. Trim the;