The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-17
VALUABLE RECIPES.

| GREEN PEA SoUP.-Take some young
carrots, turnips, onions, celery and
cabbage-lettuccs: cut them in slices,
and put them into a stew-pan, with a
little butter, and some lean ham cut in
pieces. Cover them closely, and let
them stew for short time. Fill up
with stock sufficient for the soup re-
quired, and let it boil until the yege-
tables are quite soft, adding q few
leaves of mint, and the crust of roll /;
pound all, and having boiled quart
of peas as green as you can, strain
them off and pound them also; mix
them with the rest of the ingredients,
and pass through sieve. Heat it,
and season with salt, pepper, and SUI
gar; Sdda few young boiled peas, and
use the spinach to restore it. r5
MENorNG KErTLEs.-If an iroa ket-
tie has hoe in the bottom of it, drive
In plug of lead, and hammer it down
on both sides. If kept covered with
water it will not melt. Or make a
cement Of six parts of dry clay and
one of irOn-filIing, made into q paste
with boiled linseed oil. Il. g,l o.. f.
STAINS IN MUsLIN.-The following
receipt is for taking out the stain of
fruit, red wine, ink, or mildew from
white articles: An ounce of sal-am-
monia, Cor hartshorn) and an ounce
of salt of tartar, well mixed put them
into pint of soft water, and bottle it
for use, keeping it very tightly corked.
Poura little of this liquid into saul
Ger, and wash in it those parts of q
white articlethat have been stained.
When the stains have been removed
by the process, wash the article in the
usual manner.
CHICKEN SALIp. Cut the white
meat of chicken into small pieces,
and celery also. Rub smooth with a
spoon the yolks of hard boiled eggs,
and to each yOlk teaspoonful of mix
ed mustard, half this quantity of salt,
teaspoonful of sweet oil, and wine
glass of good vinegar. Beat all the
ingredients well together, and then
mix in thoroughly the chicken and
celery. con "
CEMENT FOR FASTENING INsTRU-
MENTs' IN HANDLEs.-One pound of
Colophony (purchasablc of druggists, }
and eight ounces of sulphur, melted
together, and either kept in bars, or
reduced to powder. One part of the
powder is to be mixed with half a
part of iron filling, fine sand or brick
dust, and the cavity is to be filled with
this mixture. The stem of the knife
or fork is then 10 be heated and i'll
serted into the cavity and when cold
the instrument will be good as new.
JAPANESE RICE GLUE.-A cement
very elegant and strong, is made by
the Japanese out of rice. They sim
ply boil it in water, and work it into
a fine paste. 1t is said to be very
beautiful, snow white, almost trans
parent, and that papers pasted togeth-
er with it will separate in their own
substances before the glue will give
way. This article is very useful to
ladies when making nice white paper
boxes and other articles for ornamen-
tai purposes.
! twGr JBaEAUTlFY THE TEETH Dissolve
boiling water, and befdlgee pints of
add one .teaspoonful of the spirits 81
camphor, and bottle for use. A table
spoonful of this mixture, mixed with
an equal quantity OF tepid water, and
applied daily with soft brush, pre-
serves and beauties the teeth, extir-
patcs all tartarous adhesion, arrests
decay, induces healthy action of the
gums, and makes tho teeth pearly
white. ! 9.fi'sH