Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-23

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spoons of sweet cream, two teaspoons of
made mustard, little butter or oil, ten
tablespoonsfRl Of vinegar, a little cayenne
pepper and salt; place it on the fire and
stir until it chickens. This is also a very
good dressing fer cold cabbage.
Snow Balls.
One cup of sugar, two eggs, four table
spoonfuls of milk, one teaspoOnful Of cream
of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda if the
milk is sour, if sweet, one-hslf teaspoonful,
-four enough to roll into balls. Fry in lard,
dip in the white of an egg, then white sugar
till white all over.
Potato POne.
This is a favorite dish in the West India
Islands. Wash, peel and CRATE two pounds
of.potatoes, add four ounces each of sugar
and butter Cor beef dripping,) melted, one
teaspoenful each Of salt and pepper; mix
well together, place it in baking dish, and
put it into brisk oven until it is done and
becomes nicely Drowned.
A Good Ginger Cake.
Mamie G.. tells Our Home journal how
to make what she calls ''first rate ginger
cake" as follows: "Fer two eggs add one
and half cups of molasses, one cup of fresh
milk, one teaspoonfnl of soda, salt to suit
the taste, one teaspoonful of ginger, four
cups of -four, four tablespoonsful Of melted
lard. This will make a COED sized cake.
1t must be baked quickly"
A Home Made Dfsinfectant.
Dissolve bushel of salt in barrel of
water, and with the salt water slack a bar
rel of lime, which should be wet enough to
form kind of past. For the purpose of
disinfectant this homemade chloride of
lime is nearly as good as that purchased at
the shops and doug stores. Use it freely
about sinks, cellars, gutters,and out-houses,
and In this way prevent sickness, suffer- ng,
and expense.
Potato Puff.
Take cold roast meat-beef or mutton,
or veal and ham together-clear from girls.
tie, cut small, and season with pepper and
salt, and cut pickles, if liked; boil and mash
some potatoes, and make them into paste
with an egg, and roll out, dredging with
flour. Cut round with saucer, put some
of the seasoned meats with one-half, and
fold it over like puff; pinch or nick it
neatly round, and fry it light brown. This
is a good method of cooking meat which
has been cooked before.
Meat Pie.
Cut up some pieces of good, tender raw
beef or mutton, season with pepper, salt,
and, if liked, one finely minced onion; boil
a half-dOzen good-sized, mealy potatoes,
mash smooth and wet with enough milk to
form dough to make the crust, salt to
please the taste, roll out full half an inch
thick, and line buttered dish large enough
to hold the meat; lay in the meat, add a
teacup of water, or less, if the pie is to be
for small family, then roll out thich crust
ofthe potato, covering the top of the pie at
least an inch thick and bake about an hour
and ahalf.
Onions.
DR.. Hall says that the onion is one of the
most nutritious, healthful, and delectable
articles of food in the market. He further
adds that few grains of coffee eaten i'm
mediately afterward, or a teaspoonful of
vinegar swallowed, removes the odor of the
breath; aud that if onions are half boiled
and then put in soup to be
boiled till done, the odor will
be but little noticed. We have seen
it mentioned that onions and salt are con-
sidered a specific in all cases of snake bites;
and that when onions are sliced and kept
in sick rooms, but frequently changed, they
are good disinfectants. But also they are
thought by some persons, when thus used,
to remain and communicate the virus alb
sorbed for many weeks. By their power of
absorption they may thus prevent the
spread of an epidemic, but it would also
seem that during a prevailing epidemic
would be safer to avoid them as an article
of food.