Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-10
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
Cocoanut Pie Imitation.

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Cocoanut Pie Imitation.
An imitation Of cocoanut pie can be
made by grating raw sweet potato into
the custard before baking.
Potato Cream.
Boil fine white Irish potatoes, sufficient
number for dish full, and mash while
hot; add one teazcup of rich milk or
sweet cream, one ta6le-sp spoonful of fresh
butter, and salt to iaste-then beat with
the spoon till it becomes perfectly white
and light. This is very nice dish.
Beef CoIIops.
Cut the fillet from the under part of
rump OF beef into thin slices, and broil
until nearly done; put into a stew pan
with little beef stock; add slices of
lemon or picked cucumbers, two table
spoons of ketchup, and stew till tender.
Half pint of oysters is an improvement
to this dish.
TO Settle Coffee.
A lady correspondent of an exchange
gays that she finds the best method of set
Ting coffee is, as soon as you brown your
coffee, and while the kernels are still
warm, to mix with it beaten egg, say
one egg to pound. The egg forms a
covering around the kernels, preserving
the aroma, and when ground acting as an
admirable settler.
Fruit Cake.
Simple receipt for one loaf: One coffee
cup melted butter; one of sugar; three
eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately
to froth; half cup of milk; half
cup of rasins, stoned, chopped and soaked
in brandy; teaspoonful of powdered cloves
and half a nutmeg; a teaspoon of soda in
three cups of flour sift well the soda and
flour.
Bean Soup,
Clean and wash the beans over night, and
pour on cold water next morning; put
them in pot with plenty of soft water;
if soft water is not available, add a tea
spoonful of soda; boil half an hour, then
pour off the water; turn on fresh hot
water; 10 two quarts of beans add five
pounds of the lean of fresh beef and one
pound of pork; cut up in small pieces;
season with pepper; skim as soon as
boil is reached, and keep closely covered
until done.
How to Cook Old Fowls.
For the possible benefit to some other
young house-keepers, wish to.tell them
how to cook an old chicken. Prepare as
for roasting, then boil three hours IN a
covered pot, with one quart of water, to
which add two tablespOonsful of vinegar;
Of Dinhv iv, in, hot
for about one hour, to brown. The liquor
in the pot to be prepared for gravy;
should the water boil away too much,
more should be added. The result is
meat as tender as young chicken, and
some think richer and better.
Indian Pudding.
One of Miss Leslie's recipes: Melt q
pound Of butter in pint of molssses;
stir a quart of boiling milk into pint of
sifted Indian meal of medium fneness;
stir in the butter and mola5ses; cover and
let steep for an hour. After it is allowed
10 become cold, sir in, gradually, six
well beaten eggs, a tablespoonful of mixed
cinnamon, nutmeg and the grated peel of
lemon. Stir the whole very hard; put
it into buttered dish and bake two hours.
Serve up hot, and eat with wine sauce, OF
with butter and molasses.
Apple MeIauge.
Stew the apples perfectly soft, and
sweeten and spice to taste. Beat the
whites of four eggs with pounded sugar
till smooth like icing; spread it over the
apples and bake I'LL light brown. Serve
with cream. This makes a very nice
desert. In the absence of green fruit,
dried fruit may be used as substitute.
Chicken PIE.
SINCE the bipeds fret; everybody ought
to know that there's nothing like alcoho
for singing poultry. A Tablespoonful
will SINCE fifty pounds. Set it on fire,
and proceed to SINCE; not spot of black
will be produced. After being vel
cleaned, cut up into small pieces; wasf
thoroughly, and let them cook for twenty
minutes in water sufficient to cover them.
Mix tablespoonful of flour in cold watel
to thin paste, and STIR in the gravy; ado
! lump of butter, and season thoroughly
with pepper and salt; let all cool. To make
paste, equal quantity in measure of lard
and water, a little salt; mix; roll. out
thin; line the deep pie dish; alter rolling
out the top crust to half the size required
spread over it butter to the depth of one
quarter of an inch; roll up and roll gu
again, and repeat the operation two OF
three times; put in the chicken, and pu
on the top crust, and pinch the edges well
together; cut slit in the top crust.
The Use Of Lemons.
| A lady correspondent writes: 81 dc
not think that there is an hundredth part
of lemon juice used generally as its valu-
able qualities would seem to commend. |
know of nothing better as q stomachiC
corrective, as well as strengthener of the
nervous system. We all know that it i:
used for rheumatism, and have no doubt
is also good for govt, if taken regularly
three times day, and at least half gil
| at time. It can be taken in much OF
little water, or no water at all. 1t is not
unpleasant; one soon becomes accustOm-
ed to it, with than the pure water. Fo
headache it is the best cure | have evel
used. 1t will relieve it in from ten t
fifteen minutes by single dose. I would
not advise less than half gill at time
| know poop lie who take it three times
day as preventive of disease, and as {
refres bener in hot weather. 1t quenche
thirst also better than anything else. N
sugar"
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