THE HOUSEHOLD CIRCLE.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 525, 12 January 1889, Page 4

THE HOUSEHOLD CIRCLE.

1 Keep thy house, and thy house ivill keep thee .' SOME RECIPES. Tomato Souj\— Two quarts of tomatos, peeled and sliced ; three pints or broth— veal or chicken is best ; one tablcspoonful minced parsely and the same quantity of minced onion, one teaspoonful of sugar ; pepper and salt to taste ; browned flour i'or thickening ; tablcspoonful of butter, fried bread dice. Stew the toniatos in the broth until they are broken ail to pieces ; add herbs and onions ; stew twenty minutes ; rub through a colander ; season ; thicken with a tablespoonful of browned flour, rubbed in one of butter. < Boil two minutes. Pour upon the fried bread in the tureen. Gingkii Beer. — Take 101 b sugar, 9oz lemon juice, \\h honey, lloz bruised ginger root 9gal water, '1 pints yeast. Boil the ginger half-an-hour in Ig&l water, then add the rest of the water and the other ingredients; and strain it when cold. Add the white of an egg beaten, and -ioz essence of Joinou. Let it stand four days. Then bottle"; and it will keep many months. Summit. Br.oxn. — Nine or ten pints of water, half a pound of barley, a quarter of a peek of green peas, one small turnip, two carrots, a little parsley, one onion, four pounds of mutton, one teaspoonful of salt, one of pepper. Cut into small pieces the turnip, carrot, and onion (after well washing them), and put the moat fiist into the saucepan with the water ; skim till no more scam rises, then add tho vegetables. Any one of theso may be omitted except the green peas. 1-Jotch Potch. — One pint of peas, three pounds of n lc.ni end of a loin of mutton, one gallon of water, four carrots, four turnips, pepper and salt, ono onion, one head of celery. Pub a pint of peas in to a stowpan with a quart of water, and boil them iiiif'-i! they will pulp through a sieve. Then take the lean end of the loin of mutton, cut it into choi-rf. } >at it into a stewpan with a gallon of water, the carrots and turnips cut into small pieoo.-j, and a reasoning of pepper and salt. Boil it i;util the vegetables are quite tender, put in tho pvilpod peas arid a head of celery with an onion sliced; lot it boil fifteen minutes then serve. liEiTirr vok Bjsc;i:ii>'. — Take two cups of flour, oiio cup of Fiigtn 1 and ono of butter, half a toKspoonj'ul oi' carbonate of soda, and one teaspoonful o? even ill of tartar : then add one cup of milk. Mix all well together; roll out thin, and lial"(:i?i a mcdor&te oven. Wanoaxuj,