Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-10-02
sweet Potato Pie.

beaten eggs, little salt and nutmeg, and
Try like other fritters.
Sweet Potato Pie.
Take large sweet potatoes, and steam
them till they are soft, slice them very
thin. (The pastry is made in the usual
Way.) Lay the potatoes in deep pie pan,
sprinkle some flour over them, add two
! table spoonfuls of vinegar, one teaspoon
full of butter, half tes-cup of water,
sugar and nutmeg or allsplce to suit the
taste. Sweet potato pies should be eaten
warm.
To Cook Beefstesk
First have a hot fire; then, after the
coffee is made and the water drained off
the potatoes, place the steak, which has
been previously sailed and well pounded,
in spider, which should be hot enough
to smoke. After quarter of minute
turn it, and after another quarter of
minute turn it again, and so continue to
do until sufficiently cooked. The hot fire
and frequent turnings serve to cook the
meat and keep the juice in, which is the
deSlder0tk2l in steak.
To Bell Fish.
Fill the fish with stuffing of chopped
salt pork and bread, or bread or bread and
butter, seasoned with salt and pepper,
and sew it up. Then sew it in cloth or
you cannot take it up well. PUTT in cold
water, with water enough to cover it,
sailed at the rate of teaspoonful of salt
to each pound of fish; add about three
tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Boil it slowly
for twenty or thirty minutes, or till the
fin is easily drawn out. Serve with
drawn butter and eggs, with caper or
institutions in it. Fish can be baked in
the same way, except sewing it up in a
cloth. Instead of this, cover it with egg
and cracker, or butter crumbs.
Pumpkin Pie-An English Recipe.
Peel and cut a sufficient quantity into
thin slices, first scraping out the seeds,
and set it, with some dried currants and
sugar, in saucepan, over the fire, the
heat of which draws the juice out of the
pumpkin, and makes it tender. No water
is required. As this process occupies
about three hours, it is better to stew the
pumpkin the evening before it is wanted.
BY stewing the currants and sugar with
the pumpkin, q better flavor is impaired
to it. When thoroughly tender, so that
it might, if required, be passed through
colander, the stewed pumpkin, which dis
solves in boiling, is to be put into crust,
like mince pies, which it much resembles
in appearance and flavor; or a shallow
dish may be covered with a thin crust, on
which the mashed pumpkin and currants
are to be spread it is then to be covered |
with crust and baked A little candied
lemon or orange peel is an improvement. |
In this form pumpkin pie is wholesome
and cheap substitute for mince pies. The
pumpkin is in season in autumn and
winter.
New and simple Remedy for Burns.
The following appeared in late num-
Der of AppLetOn'S Journal: "The at
tention OF medical men in Paris has re-
Gently been directed to new remedy for |
burns, discovered accidentally by work |
man. A Varnisher of metals lately got |
his hand severely burned while at work, |
and, not knowing what to do to deaden
the acute psin, thrust his hand into pot |
of varnish. The pain ceased as if by
On the day following, he |
made a further application of his dis
covery, and in few days new skin was
formed over the burn, and the hand re-
covered its wOnted flexibility. All the
persons burned in his neighborhOod came
to get their wounds dressed, received the |
simple treatment, and went home re-
joicing. After the terrible gunpowder |
explosion at Metz, last month, the warm
ichor Woo cr1nmonad ~ tho hocpi,oI fbaro
to do his best for the victims of that |
great calamity, whose lives were de-
SPARED of on account of the gravity |
of their burns. He vanished and cured |
them all IN such short space of time, |
that the town of Metz was filled with |
stories of his success. The news of his |
wonderful cures reached Paris, the man
ager of one of the largest hospitals there |
sent for him, and DESTROYS of testing the |
accuracy of the reports, entrusted him |
with two patients who were dangerously |
burned. He covered them over with his |
varnish, leaving a spot upon each I'M
touched, to be treated with nitrate of sill |
yer (the usual remedy by the chief doc |
tor of the establishment. The wounds SO |
covered with varnish healed rapidly, |
while those treated with nitrate of silver, |
in spite of all the doctors efforts, did not |
close up. The services of the varnisher |
were again called upon, who accordingly |
applied his remedy to the spots which the |
nitrate of silver was pOwerless to heal. The
two patients obtained almost instant re-
lief, and, after a short detention, left the
hospital completely cured, thus once more |
the superlstIve excellence of |
his remedy for such cases. -