The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-06-29
VALUABLE RECIPES

To CURE CHAPPED HANDs.-Uso meal
to wash with instead of soap and battle
with sweet cream at night.
SPICE CAKE.-Ftve eggs; four and q
half cups of flour; three OF sugar ; one
of butter, and one and q half cup of sour
cream; q teaspoonful Of soda; CHINA
mon, nutmeg and cloves to taste.
SUGAR DRoPs.-One pound of flour;
three-quarters of a pound Of sugar half
a pound of butter; five eggs one gill OF
rose water. Drop them In white paper,
and CRATE loaf sugar over them before
baking. Y,.
MOUNTAIN CAKE-The whites OF eight
eggs, one cup of butter; II OF sweet
cream two and a halt teacups OF sugar;
three and a half Of flour, with two tea
spoonsful Of yeast powders stirred In
the flour.
CARAMELs-Four cups Of sugar, and
one of cream, and one of chocolate; a
piece of butter the size of an egg, and q
teacupful of vinegar. Stir until done,
then pour out in a dish, and when near
ly cold, cut In little squares.
SUGAR PIEs--One cup of brown SUI
| gar; add to it half a cup Of water; boil
Until thick; when cold add two eggs;
beaten with q tablespoonful of flour;
then a piece OF butter the size OF an egg,
melted, and put in the last; season to
YOU taste. Bake your crust q little be-
fore you put in the mixture.
FRENCH RoLLs.--Work one pound OF
butter into q pound Of -four, and u we'll
beaten egg; two t~ablespOOnsful OF yeast
and a teaspoonMl of salt, and as much
warm milk as will make q soft dough;
sprinkle flour over it with q cloth, and
set in a warm place, until light; bake In
u quick oven.
BREAKFAST Corn CAKE. Take one
pint of soul milk, one tablespoonful Of
Shortening, a little salt, one %teaspoonfuI
of salcratus dissolved in warm water
and two eggs, well beaten. Mix the in
gradients well, and add II pint of corr
meal. Bake in a quick oven.
Snow PUDDING.--Gratc a raw cocoa
nut, or use an equal amount OF the DIES
sicated, into a glass dish. Make a Gus
+ tard with one quart of new milk, ont
, level teaspoonful of salt, sugar to taste
and five or more eggs. Boil 1t, VINE
= done, pour over the grated cocoanut
which will rise to the top and make
! pretty appearance. Serve cold.
LIQUID SAUCE.--Take II cup of su
car, and with this rub one-third of
} cup of butter, until the whole is of til
!. consistency of cream; then take eithe
: one or two eggs, from which you re
move the yolks, and beat up the white
with the other two ingredients. Ju;
before you are ready to put it on tn
! table, add to the whole about onc-fourt
= of a cup Of boiling water.
COFFEE CUsTARD.--MiX II egg wit
y n cup OF fresh ground coffee, and pot
!; on it a pint OF boiling water; boil fv
minutes pour ina cup of cold water, an
leu it stand ten minutes. Pour it o
C clear into a saucepan, add q pint {
= cream, and boil. Beat from five to elgl
h eggs with one and a half cups of suga
and pour the boiling mixture over thi
! stirring it we'll, Set the whole in boi
u ing water, and stir till it thlckcns. Ser
u in cups to eat cold.
W A COOP BREAKFAST DIsH.--Cut +;
!; salt pork in thin slices, and fry it uni
=. brown; then place it Oh 4 heated pla
W ter. OF the grease that remains, POT
II Off one-half, and keep for slIortenin;
ii TO the remainder lett in the ~frying-pa
add a little boiling water, and two tabl
~spoonfuls of flour well beaten up wi
cream. Stir until It cooks and thicke
then pour over the pork and serve We
;s hot. A picc accompaniment to buc
~ wheat cakes.
,n CoCoANUr NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. i c
4. coanut, and spread it on a dish, and
N it dry gradually for u couple of day
=, Add to it double its weight OF iinel
ID sitted sugar, and the whites of Gig
~ eggs, beaten to a stiil troth. Roll t
ie, mixture into small balls, place them
to a buttercd tin pan, and bake them il
cs, gentle oycn for twenty minutes; mo
to them from the pan while warm.