Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-25
E0R THE HOUSEWIFE.
Nice soft Gingerbread.


cream, l cup sweet milk, l egg, l spoon
ful ginger and the same of soda; mix
about as thick as fritters.
Cheap Pudding.
Soak one cup Of bread crumbs in one
quart Of milk two hours, then add four
eggs, well beaten; one table spoonful of
butter, little salt, nutmeg and sweeten
to taste. Bake one hour AID a half.
TO Use Dry Bread.
Cut up the bread, tie it up in a clio tn,
putting in with the breai some raisins or
sliced apple, q prefer the apple.) Put
1t into water that b0ils, and boil one half
hour. Prepare sauce as for minute pud-
ding.
Remedy for a FcIOn.
Take the yoll1 of an egg, with an equal
amount of soft homemade soap and an
equal quantity of common salt; add a
teaspOonfGl of spirits of turpentine; mix
well, and apply the poutice on going to
bed. If the felon be so far advanced as
10 render lsncing necessary, then apply
d new one after lancing, as before.
Corn Meat Rolls.
Make kettle Of corn meal mush. To
two quarts of mush add tea-cup of IN
melted lard and teaspoonful of salt, and
when sufficiently cool, a cup of yeast.
hngaC in flour till it is about the same as
any other bread, and let it rise over night.
IL the morning, roll out and bake in
moderate oven.
Lyc EAOminy.
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pin. OF strong I've, Cor one quart strong
ashes, if you have no lye,) and sufficient
water 10 boil. Boil until the hull becomes
loose, then wash thoroughly; put on aud
boil few minutes, then pour off the I've
water anl add fresh water. Boil now
until thoroughly done, and you will have
'Iye homjny" good enough for any one.
apple Cake.
Take cups dried apples, soaked over
night then Of they are not sliced apples)
chopped, (ori if they are sliced, all the
better, as they resemble citron in cake)
and boiled in cups of mOlasses, II
hours; then add J cup butter, stirring it
till the butter is melted; then set it off till
almost cold, then add ! cup sugar, two
eggs well beaten, ! spoonful soda, 2 cups
buttermIil, all kinds Of spice; make stiff
as loaf cake.
ss8cas.TEeai GFiddlc Cakes.
Make IA porridge with about three heap.
ing sp0olfUls Of cat meal, hominy, rice,
OF very coarse corn meal, in a pint of
water. Boil twenty or thirty minutes, or
If you lave either of these articles al
r,-Jy cooked, It can be made much
quicker. Add one plat of cold water and
wal-, meal, sitting it slowly, enough. 10
make "a batter g little thicker than for
raised g-l-dle cakes. Bake on a slightly
oiled ot s0apstone griddle, spreading
out with "a spoon rs you put them on.
Bake them brown, and put them on each
other as fast rs cooked. Keep them close
md warm, and let them stand ten or ff-
teen minutes before serving. If soft and
sticky after standing, you have made
them too thin.
washing Recipe.
'EEPuinc.' sends the following
20 t-g ITs5.-rg Buru2, Take one pound
so2a asia and quarter Of q pound good
lime % four gallons rain water; boil half
aL hour; when coo. and settled, pour off
into iu~s soak cIothc5 over night; into a
common sized boiler, pat teacupful Of
.l. lgi3; soak the clothes and put them
in sla water when cold, and boil half an
hour The 5iriie5. places in the clothes
VII need some rubbing. Rinse aud hang
ont to dry. j. S believed that this pro
cess saves half the labor of washing
EitECu. tho EUil Th0se that have tried
both say s-- soda makes clothes yellow,
while the soda asl leaves them white.
E.--acls and calicoo8 may be cleansed in
be- saulG soda su5s- ~ boiling them.
Ebc - ey TO c0Oi, Beans.
The usual aay people cook beans is to
u--10. them: Tu. them in q kettle Orpan;
Sc. them .H .au0TcC 10 bake, with a chunk
F fs polk IN them. The grease bshes
.r. Into .A- 0eal., making a most IN
Wholesome al. ui'gcs,lbia mgss, destroy
IL al the good G-VorottDe beans. Now,
my method iyg cooking them (Which all
H-. have u.eu it. pronounce excellent
/, Is follows. Fagyoii IS usual, putting
81 sl.s {. sgl5 the taste. Then put them
Ill g I-l and set in the oven 70 bake,
pai.In- IN piece Of good sweet butter
tie slzg ot q 3utiernut viii answer. Bake
m.G ..o3.. and nicely Drowned over on
top. Bans are very nutritious; and
cooked IN ti5 Wy are paiaiab,e, digesti-
ae, and On nc eaten hyany one. If you
want tho pOIA, COOK IL = dish by itself.
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