Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-01
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
ScaIds and Rurns.

scaIds and Burns.
Raw onions, pounded as fine as possible,
are said to be an excellent remedy for scalds
and burns.
Remedy for Chronic DIHrrhea.
Put tablespoonful of wheat -four in a
tumbler of water; beat until it foams, and
drink Immediately. If the patient is thirsty
more water may be added. 1t should be
taken four times day-before meal times
and on going to bed.
Boston Brown Bread.
One heaping quart of rye -four, one do.
of Graham flour, scanty quart Of milk,
same quantity of warm water, cOfeecup of
molasses, one peDny's worth of bakers
yeast, or one cOffeecup of homemade yeast,
teaspoon of saleratus, desertspoon of salt.
Grease an iron kettle, put in the mixture,
and bake in slow oven. Bake six or seven
hours.
Ham Toast.
Chop some ham (Which has been preVi-
ously dressed) very small, and to a large
teaspoonful of it add an egg well beaten
up, a small bit of butter, and little cream.
Have ready some neatly cut pieces of bread,
about the size Of Adollar piece, but little
thicker, fried in good butter; spread the
mixture on these, and serve them on nap
kin.
How to Make Soap.
A young lady, who makes all the family
soap, gives the following recipe for a good
cheap article: Add to 10 quarts of water,
pounds of quickiime (shell lime is best)
and pounds of common washing soda.
Put all together and boil for half an hour
and let it stand all night TO clear. Draw off
the lye, and add to ~ one pound of COM
mon rosin, and 7 pounds Of fat (any fat
will do.) Boil this for half an hour, then
let it stand till coal, and cut into bars.
Washing CahcOes.
Calico clothes, before they are put in
water, should have the grease spots rubbed
out, as they cannot be seen when the whole
of the garment is wet. They should never
| be washed in very hot soapsuds; that which
is mildly warm will cleanse them quite as
well, and will not extract the colOrs so much.
| Soft soap should never be used for calicOes,
excepting for the various shades Of yellow,
! which look the best washed with soft soap,
and not rinsed with fair water. Other
cOlors should be rinsed in water and dried
in the shade. When warm water, with
beef's gall in the proportion of teacupful
to four or five gallons of water. Rinse
| them in fair water; no soap is necessary,
unless the clothes are very dirty. If so
wash them in luke-Warm suds, after they
! have been first rubbed out in beef's gall
water. The beef s gall can be kept several
months, by squeezing it out of the skin in
which it is enclosed, adding salt to it, and
bottled and corked tight. A little vinegar
in the rinsing water Of pink, red and green
calicoes, is good to brighten the coloIs, and
keep them from mixing.
To Make Good Biscuit.
Take one quart good -four, one teaspoon
full Of salt, and of lard the size Of large
hens egg, mix and wet up with cold water
to tough dough. Have poplar or any
smooth grain wood Ga dressed stone is the
best) to beat the dough on, two feet square
and four or five inches thick; beat it with
large wooden pestle until blisters arise
when struck with the peStle. The more it
is beat the better, for in that lays one Of the
great secrets in biscuit making. Make into
biscuit, shape with the hand, and bake slow
until done; if too hard when done add
little more lard the next time. The biscuit
will be properly made if white in the inside,
brittle, and have increased in thickness. If
this is not the case, and they do not rise
third over the dough size by baking, they
are improperly made. Try again, and beat
the dough more. 1t is Of great importance
not to have the dough too soft. These bis
cults will keep month or two in the heat
of summer. For home use, butter and
sweet milk may be substituted for lard and
water, but double the size of butter must be
used, as over One-half Of butter is whey.
Soda or saleratus should never be used in
bread making, the human stomach being an
Inappropriate soap kettle.
How TO Prevent Spring Diseases.
From DIR. Halls new work, Health by
Good Living" we extract the following val
liable hints:'It is an indisputable, physiolog-
ical truth that if the instincts ofnature We're
yielded to in the spring; were cherished in
her desire to take less and less food as the
weather grows warmer, as they are yielded
to the autumn in taking more, a very large
amount Of the diseases of spring and sum-
mer would be avoided. The great practi-
cal lesson to be learned in reference to the
subject, question of health and disease,
yes, in multitudes of cases, a question of
life and death, is simply this: As the winter
passes, and the balmy spring-time comes,
do nothing to increase the appetite; eat no
more than is called for; do not be uneasy
because you have little or no relish fOryOur
food; eat less and less every day. The very
best.way TO increase your pleasure of eating
is to change the quality of food; use articles
less carbOnaceOus, less warming; send from
your table the pork and bacon, and fat
! meats and oils, and sugars, and starches,
and sage, and the tapioca pudding, and the
dumplings, and the rich pastries; get hold
of the early green's" the spinach, the sal
ads, the turnip-tops, the radsh, the early
berry and the early fruit, and lean meats;
pay increasing attention to the cleanliness
of the skin; be more in the open ar; sleep
in better ventilated rooms; let your windows
be raised high at night and your inner
doors be left wide Open.n