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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1909)
TO COOK POTATOES NEW WAYS OF PREPARATION NOT IN GENERAL USE. i Croquettes Are a Welcome Variation from the Ordinary Methods of Serving Potatoes and Eggs Souffle and Pudding. We all know how to cook the dish ol plain boiled or steamed potatoes, ol which we tire sometimes, hut to which we always return. But many excel- lent dishes can be made with potatoes and most of the recipes given here can be made with o!d or new potatoes. Potato Croquettes Boil six large potatoes, rub them through a sieve or beat them up with twj forks; work in, while hot, a tablespoonful of butter, half a cupful of hot milk, seasoning of Bait, pepper and paprika; beat in two epgs. then turn out on to a dish and allow to get cold; make the mixture Into neat croquettes, using little flour, then roll in beaten egg and fine bread crumbs; fry in plenty of smok ing hot fat. Drain and serve hot. Potatoes and Eggs Boil some large potatoes in their skins. Peel and cut in thick slices. Scald one cupful of cream, lay the potatoes in a fireproof dish; season with salt, pepper and grate of nutmeg. Pour on the cream. dd two or three small pieces of butter and bake till thoroughly hot. Serve with some neatly trimmed poached eggs on the top. Baked Souffle Potatoes Wash well and bake in a slow oven six large po tatoes. When ready, cut carefully in halves, scoop out the centers, and rub through a sieve. Weight two ounces. Boil one tablespoonful of milk and half an ounce of butter, add the potato and beat well. Next add the yolks of two eggs, salt and pepper to taste, then beat up the whites of the eggs and mix them in gently. Partly fill the skins, bake them till light brown and puffed up well, then serve quickly, as everything "souf3e" falls 85 it cools. Potato Pudding Rub half a pound of mashed potatoes through a sieve, add two tablesponfuls of sugar, rind and strained juice of half a lemon, one heaping tablespoonful of butter, two yolks of eggs, three beaten whites of eggs and three tablespoonfuls of milk. Mix and pour into a deep fireproof dish and bake till well risen. Recipe for Fig Jam. Cut up one pound of figs into small pieces, using small scissors for cut ting. Cover with cold water and bring to a slow boil. Simmer until soft and then add one cupful of granulated i sugar. Boil until thick and then set mixture to cool. An excellent plan when figs are to be used either as a filling for dough nuts or cakes, is to prepare them the night before they are to be used. Cut them up and cover them with the water they are to be boiled in. When soaked over night this way the tigs will cook in just one-fourth the time otherwise required. Baking Cake. An experienced cook says that there is no necessity of cake baked in a gas oven being over-done on the bottom if this precaution is taken: Before lighting the gas under the oven, slip out the bottom sheet of the oven, re placing it just before putting in the cake. Then the cake is not over beated at the start. That is when the damages is done to it. Beef Spanish. Two pounds cold boiled beef, three medium size raw potatoes, one bell pepper, one chili pepper, two small onions, three large ripe tomatoes peeled, small piece of butter, half a teaspoonful white pepper, half a tea spoonful salt; chop all very fine and turn out in a well greased baking pan bake half an hour in hot oven. Serve very warm from the oven. l wfcyoi FaI1 and Winter Shoes V vir or Women and Children Our Window Display will the right styles for mttv 110 No. 13th Street You are 1telcome to "look" and "try on." Legislative Gallery Clements Portrait and Landscape PHOTOGRAPHER I try to take the most pains to please 129 South Uth SL BOTH give you an idea of the new season. Lincoln, Nebr. PHONES LATEST TEA TABLE FITTINGS Almost Endless Variety Is at the Com mand of the Housewife This Season. New things for the tea table are seemingly endless in their variety. The "Brown Betty" the teapot in a recent offering is of a peculiarly lus trous china, as often blue or green as brown, and overlaid with bright silver. Of course, i!ie creamer and sugar bowl match. Teacups are of generous size, low and broad, and of fragile porce lain. One never see nowadays the rather thick usual shaded cups that held about a thiirbleful. The spoons, to facilitate conversa tion, perhaps, have fancy bowls and handles representing everything at most in fact or fiction. Other silver accessories are jam Tioiders, for in the English fashion, jam or marmalade is quite necessary at the modern tea. Then there is the wafer jar, apd the tea caddy, usually in old Dutch silver. An attractive shape is octagonal with a round hinged cover. Xew tea balls and strainers are se lected for their oddity or originality. One is a Chinaman's bead, and there are spoons united like the Siamese twins, only more so, as they fit closely face to face, although they open like pincers to scoop up a fresh portion of tea, and when they are put, closed, into hot water, their contents diffuses as from the regular tea ball. Some of the new sugar tongs are provided with a point designed to harpoon a refrac tory bit of lemon which so many pre fer to cream in their tea. And to fur ther burden the table there are recep tacles for the sliced lemon in cut or silver-mounted glass, pierced in many intricate designs, or showing a colored crrstal lining. JrThe Home Z3 After scraping fish, rub the stee! knife over an old lemon peel, and it will destroy all fish odor. The white of one egg "cut" with white vinegar makes an excellent leather furniture polish. Do not give the bird any fruit that Is likely to attract bees to the cage or you may lose a valuable pet. Soutache braid makes good laces for the baby's bootees and it is also useful for lacing corsets and the che mise. The curved butter knives for cutting little round pats of butter are more satisfactory if the knife is dipped into cold water or buttermilk before cut ting the butter. Kitchen faucets are quickly cleaned wtth any acid, such as lemon, salts of tartar, etc. Ammonia and washing powder are excellent cleaners. Dish mops can be kept odorless only by putting them in a solution of soda water. Do not attempt to use sour or moldy dour. Dry jt out in the oven and save Jt for starch. Southern Spice Pie. Two cupfuls of sweet milk, three Sgs (yolks), one cupful of sugar, four heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, one large lump of butter, one tea spoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of allspice, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of nutmeg, and one teaspoonful of lemon extract. Mix and cook until thick. While this cools bake pie shells; then add the filling, using the whites of the eggs for frosting. Brown and serve told. Turkish Scrambled Eggs. Beat half a dozen eggs up with pep per, salt and shopped parsley, stir in a tablespoonful of melted butter in a stewpan, and when lightly cooked ar range as a border around a hot dish ful of chicken livers sliced and fried. Pour over all a piping hot tomato sauce flavored with onion.