THE HOUSEHOLD CIRCLE.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 530, 16 February 1889, Page 4

THE HOUSEHOLD CIRCLE .

Keep thy house, and thy house will keep ihee.' SOME RECIPES. Potato Balls. — Mash six boiled potatoes and add enough cream or sweet milk to moisten ; add 'pepper, salt, butter and one beaten egg ; make into balls, cover with flour and fry in butter. Fried Potatoes. — Peel and slice into a pan of cold water ; drain and season with salt and pepper, add one tablespoon of flour aud mix well ; fry in hot lard or beef dripping twenty minutes. Stewed Potatoes. — Cut in slices twelve cold boiled potatoes ; add a pint of milk, a tablespoonful or butter, pepper and salt and a tablespoon of minced parsley ; stew ten minutes. Fpjed Boiled Potatoes. — Slice thin, add pepper, salt, and a piece of butter the size of an egg ; fry brown in butter. Baked Potatoes.— Take them as near of a size as possible. Wash very clean and cut a slice off both ends ; bake in a hot oven. Saratoga Ceips.— Thinly peel and slice, let stand in salted water twenty minutes ; take out, dram and dry on a napkin ; separate the slices 'and drop a handful at a time in boiling lard ; stir with a fork until a light brown or crisp, as desired ; skim out, drain well and serve. Fiued Chicken— Pud in a frying pan a tablespoonful each of lard and butter ; when hotl ay in tiie chicken cut open on the back ; sprinkle with

flour, salt, and pepper ; when a light brown turn it over and sprinkle again ; cook slowly until done.

Apple Tapioca Pudding.— Soak over night one cup of tapioca in six cups of water. Next morning add one cup of sugar, one egef, and beat well together. Then pare, core and chop fine six or more apples and stir with the tapioca in the pudding dish, and bake slowly. Lady Fingers.— One cup of sugar and one-half cup oil butter, beat them together ; then add one e Sg Mid beat well ; add one-fourth cup of milk, in which ona half teaspoon of soda is dissolved : a pint of flour, with a teaspoon of cream of tartar m it. Cut in strips, roll in sugar and bake in a quick oven.