The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-06-17
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

RECIPES FOR LEMON PIEs.--One lem
on-four eggs--ono and a half coffee
cups Of sugar-two thirds do. Of water
two tablespoonful of hour-take the
whites Of two of the eggs you use for
them, and after the pies are baked, make
frosting, put it on them, and place the
pies in the oven again for very few mo-
ments, only long enough to brown them
slightly. OF course there is no upper
crust to these pies. I have another,
which I will give you. tits much rich
er, though 1 do not think it as nice as
the above recipe; some may prefer it,
Three lemons-one pound Of sugar
one pint of milk-ten eggs---quarter Of
pound Of butter. NJ H. K.
TRANSPARENT AppLE.-Boil tart and
juicy apples in little water; then strain
through fine cloth, and add a pound
Of white sugar to a pint of juice. Boil
till it jellies, and then put into moulds.
It is very nice served with blanc-mange
in saucors.
BAKED MILK.-Put two quarts of
milk into a clean stone jar tie the top
over with white paper, and set it over
night in a warm brick oven. twill be-
come like cream, and is sometimes or
dered for consumptive persons.
SIMPLE D1sGNFEcrANT.--Cut two or
three good sized onions in halves, and
place them on a plate on the hoor they
absorb noxious efluvia, etc, in the sick
room, in an incredibly short space Of
time, and are greatly to be preferred to
perfumery for that purpose They
should be changed every six hours.
Do you eat onions2 A few grains of
roasted coffee, eaten Immediately after
ward, or teaspoonful or two Of vine
gar swallowed, will at once remove the
odor from the breath.
SHORT CAKEs.-Rub q quarter Of a
pound of butter into half a pound Of
-four: mix with a little water, enough to
form a dough. Roll it out into thin,
round cakes, prick them, lay them In
shallow tins, and bake.
CURE FOR WARTS. IF they give you
no special inconvenience, let them alone.
but if it is Of essential Importance to
get rid of them, purchase half an ounce
of muriatic acid, put it in a broad-bot-
toned vial, so that it will not easily turn
over; take a stick as large as the end Of
knitting needle, dir it into the acid
and touch the top Of ne wart with what
ever of the acid adheres to the stick
then, with the end of the stick rub the
Iacid into the top Of the wart, without
allowing the acid to touch the healthy
skin. Do this night and morning; a
safe, painless and efectual cure is the
result Halls journal Of Health.
THE NURSERY PUDDING,--Slice some
white bread, without crust pour scald.
ing milk on it; let it stand until well
soaked, then beat it we'll with four eggs
little sugar, and grated nutmeg, Bake
in small cups half filled.
PRESERVING FLowERs.--Our fair rea,
ders, all Of whom, we know love How
ers-the season Of which is now al
Ihand-will be interested in the follow.
ling manner of preserving them from
willing, which a cotemporary assures us
lis highly successful. The plan is this
Procure a fat dish of porcelain, into
which pour water; place.upOn ita vase Of
flowers, and over the vase, glass bel
with its rim in the water. The all
|tbot eurrounds the flowers being con
stantly moist with water, that rises into
lit in the form of vapor; as fast as the
water becomes condensed it runs down
the glass bell into the dish and if means
be taken to enclose the water on th'
outside of the glass bell, so as to pre-
vent its ovaporating into the air of th'
sitting-room, the atmosphere around th
flowers is continually damp. The ex
pertinent may be tried on a small seal
by inverting tumbler over rose-bu'
in a tumbler of water.