Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-11-07
USEFUL REC EIP 7 5

PLAIN OMELET.-Break three eggs
into bowl, and beat them until they
are of one color; add pepper and salt,
and spread the egg very thin in hot
buttered pan over the fire; as soon as
the egg begins TO set, roll up careful
ly, by putting broad bladed knife un
der one edge, and turning over and
over until it is folded; serveit hot.
The famous st. Charles Indian
Broad.-Receipts for making the cele-
brated St. Charles Indian Bread, as
prepared at the st. Charles Hotel, New
Orleans:
! Beat two eggs very light; mix alter
nately with them one pint of sour milk
or butter-milk aud one pint OF fine In.
dian meal; melt one table spoonful of
butter and add to the mixture; dissolve
one table spoonful of soda or salaratus,
&c, in small portion of milk. and add
to the mixture the last thing, beat very
hard, and bake in pan in quick
oven.
Receipt for making Beer.-To make
the best beer in the world take one
pint of corn and boil it until it is a lit
tie soft; add to it one pint of molasses
and one gallon of water; shake them
well together and set it by the fire,
and in twenty-four hours the beer will
be excellent. When all the beer in the
jug is used just add more molasses and
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for six months, and it will be fit for use
in twelve hours by keeping the jug
which contains it warm. In the alb
sence of molasSes, sugar or h oney will
answer in its place. in this way the
whole ingredients used in making a
gallon of beer will not cost exceeding
four cents, and it is better and whole
somer than cider.
Receipt for Tomato Wine-To one
quart of juice put pound of sugar, and
clarity as for sweetmeats.
The above is very much improved
!. by adding very small proportion OF
the juice of the common grape. The
subscriber believes this wine far better
: and much safer for tonic, or Other
medical uses, than the wines generally
sold as port wines, &c, for such purpo
J ses. 1t is peculiarly adapted to some
/ diseases and states of the system, anc
: is particularly recommended for de
: rangements of the liver.
, HUSH Beds.-No one who has no
; tried them, knows the value of husl
, beds. Straw and mattresses would b.
t done away with, if husk beds wer
a once tried. They are not only NOR
S pliable than mattresses, but are NOR
5 durable. The first cost is but trifling
l To have husks nice they may be spill
after the manner of splitting straw 70
! ! braiding. The finer they are split tn,
l softer will be the bed, although the,
9 will not be likely to last as long a
: when they are put in whole. Three
B barrels full, we'll slowed in, will fill
/ good-sized tick; that is, after they hav
: been split. The bed will always b,
S light; the husks do not become matte.
It down like feathers, and they are Ger
: tainly more healthy to sleep on.
$ Feather beds ought to be done ava,
with, especially in warm weather. Fo
> spring, summer, and fall, husk bed
ought to be call the co. and such un
e doubtedly will be the case, when the,
: are once brought into use. There is n
= better time to procure husks than whel
i the corn is being harvested, and tn
It husks will be much nicer and cleane
e when corn is cut up at the bottom an
{. put in stacks. They do not become s
u dry and weather beaten. 1t is calcula
n ted that good husk bed will last fror
twenty-five to thirty years.