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1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Boil the milk with the bntter in it and a spoonful of the sugar to prevent burn- ing. Mix the iiour and sugar to^^ether dry, stir them into the boiling milk quickly with a wire egg beater, like making mush and take from the lire as soon as it begins to thicken. It will finish cooking in the pies. Line 2 deep custard pie plates with crust rolled very thin and pour the whole 3 pints 01 mixture into them — if you have people enough to eat so much, if not, of course the receipt can be divided. The butter is the only flavoring needed in this mixture and must be good. Bake m a slack oven until the filling be- gins to rise in the middle. It will rise and flow over the edge if baked too long. Cost of mixture here 17 cents and crusts of rich paste 10 cents for two. Cut each pie in eight — they are deep enough for that. Can be made richer yet with cream. Supper. Beefsteak do orders, 20 ozs, 25 cents.) Mutton chops (9 orders, 24023,2006 nts.) Cold boiled ham (8 ozs, 10 cents.) Potatoes (5 cents.) French rolls (35, 14 cents.) Batter cakes ( 2 qts, 14 cents.) Syrup [12 cents.] Blueberries [2 cans,and sugar,33 cents.] Molasses fruit cake [No. 578, ij^ lbs, 15 cents.] Butter 15, milk, cream 25 coffee, tea 8. Total, $1 96; 25 persons, nearly 8 cents a plate. 573— Molasses Fruit Cake, Cheap. 3 cups raisins— a pound. 4 cups currants — a pound. I small cup sugar— 6 ounces. Same of butter. 1 large cup molasses— 12 ounces. 2 eggs. I cup sour milk and teaspoon soda — or else use sweet milk and baking powder. 6 cups flour— I ^ poundMolasses Fruit Cake, Cheaps. Spices if desired. Prepare the raisins and currants and dust them with flour. Mix all the rest together and beat well, then aad the fiuit. May be baked in a shallow pan to cut out squares warm or in deep mold. Makes about 5 pounds, costing 45 cents, or 9 cents a pound. Divide before baking and you can have one cake and the other half steamed to-morrow for pudding. There is music on the water to-night — serenading party in boats— fifteen young ladies have come to the Trulirural House to board for a week or two — glee club or seminary class or something of the sort from Basswood City, and they are down at our boat landing singing. Proprietor of the Trulirural l.as instigated th^m to that — knows ttiat our side cannot muster even a parlor quartette. If Mr. Farewell would put his hired girls in a boat and tell them to sing their loudest that party would soon be put to fl2:ht. I suppose that would not do— It would make what they call a scandal, and, instead, the manager, the housekeeper and 'bus driver are hang- mg the trees full of Chinese lanterns, and the boat boy with the big hat, is getting out some fire-works. "For it makes the heart so gay. To hear the sweet birds singing On their summer hol-i-day." _ It does put new life into a fellow who IS weary of his ill success when duck hunting to see the game come circling around at last. 579— Wrs. Tingse's Costard Pie. The glory of the custard pie, is in the depth or thickness of it. The distance should be great between the glossy surface SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S Mrs. Tingee's Costard Pie