New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-01
Especially for our Lady Readers.

LEMON PIE.-Take cup Of molasses beat two
eggs well, add cup of sugar, the juice and pulp
OF one and half lemons and a piece Of good but
ter, size OF walnut; make nice short crust and
bake the pie either as custard or with top crust
To REMOVE MILDEw.-Mix common yellow soap
and powdered chalk wet the cloth, rub on the mix
ture, and lay it in the sun.
CRoLLERs No. Put teaspoonful Of saleratus
into four spoonfuls of milk take tunbler of -four,
four spoonfus of melted butter and teaspoon
full of salt, beat four eggs separately, the yolks
with ten spoonfuls of sugar; work the above in
gradients together with grated nutmeg, add the
whites of the eggs beaten to froth, and -four suf-
ficient to make it stiff enough to roll out easily
take pound and half Of COED lard, heat it hot
in deep pot, cut your croIlers into slips or any
fancy shape you desire, drop them into the lard,
and watch constantly while frying when brown
on one side turn them. n
RICH HAsTY CAKE.-Pnt to cream half pound
of good butter and three quarters Of sugar, add
nut meg, five wel-beaten eggs (heaten separately
and quart of flour; when well mixed drop it with
spoon buttered pans and sift loaf sugar on it
| bake quick.
| SEDATTvE FOR WAsH--Take one pint of ordinary
salt. put it into three pints Of water and put it on
to boil. Take the scum off as it rises on top.
Let boil ten fifteen minutes, until the salt dis
solves, when cold strain it and take three teacups
of the liquid, two teacups of spirits of wine, one
tea-cup of tspirits of camphor, two tea.cups of
spirits of hartshorn, three tea-cups plain water,
mix we'll and bottle invaluable to sponge with in
fever, headache, neuralgia palms, or Erysipelas.
PASTE FOR PoT-PIEs.-Two pounds of flour, three
| quarters of pound of good butter, beat up the
| eggs well, add and mix with it cold water enough
to make paste, roll out thin and evenly.
To CLEAN INDIA RuBBERs.-Wash well in soap
| suds.
ORANGE PuDDING.-Take half-a-pound of butter,
six eggs, pint of good sweet milk, or better
still, of sweet cream, one pound of grated sugar
and a fresh orange. Rub the butter and sugar to
a cream, add the eggs well beaten, and the juice
and pulp of the orange stir the whole well for ten
minutes and bake.
To STUFF CRABs,-Boil your crabs, pick the
white meat from clans and bodies, take the yellow
/ fat also soak the outer crust of g loaf of bread
/ for ten or dozen crabs break on to your crab
meat two eggs, cut up very fine one onion if
/ liked, add a part of Glove of garlic, lump Of
good butter the size Of walnut, pepper and salt
to the taste, cleanse your shells, stuff into them
the above ingredients well mixed, and you have q
/ dish that cannot be surpassed.
/ TO HAVE GREEN CoRN N WISrER.-D During the
season for roasting-ears, boil the on the cob
| with little salt, select corn that is fresh young
and just fit for eating from the cob when well
boiled take it out, let it COOL cut it down from the
| cob, spread it upon clean cloth in the sun for
several days, until well cured or dried put it care
fully away and in the winter stew it with little
cream, or butter salt and pepper, with sufficient
water to stew it well it tastes exactly like green
corn steWed in summer. Lima or butter beans
dried are very fine stewed with it for those who
/ like sucotash.