Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-11-30

Three well beaten eggs, one pint
Of milk three or four tablespoons
fuls OF sugar, stir well together and
bake twenty.
Pie crusts are usually so full Of
shortening as to be unwholesome
and the under crust is like rutty or
cement or salye. Here is a recipe for
a fine crust that will be fit to eat.
GOOD PIE CRUST.
Sweet cream made into a soft
dough with either fine or coarse
flour bake Immediately in Il quick
oven, will make a good crust for any
kinds Of pies,
Those who are about to travel for
a few days are sometimes puzzled
to know what kind of cake to take
in the haver-sack for a lunch by the
way, Such will find the following
most excellent and substantial
JOURNEY CAKES.
One pint of sweet cream, half tea
cup Of sugar, stirred into coarse -four
to form a stiff dough, roll out to one
fourth inch thick F.; bake in a quick
oven.
ICING FOR WEDDING CARE.
Beat the white of four eggs to a
stiff froth !; then add to them half a
pound Of ground or powdered white
sugar, beat well until it will stand
like foam. Flavor with vanilla,
lemon or rose. This will frosts the
tops of two ordinary sized cakes.
Heap as much as you deem sufficient
in the centre of the cake, then din a
broad-bladed knife into cold wate1,
and spread the icing over the whole
surface.
A USE FOR OLD MUSLIN.
There is no economy in using old
muslin when it will be exposed to
much wear, but for some purposes
it is 'as good as new" A lady
writes us that for years she has
made her partially worn sheets into
simple window curtains. From the
center of the sheet she tears the
worn portion this leave two strips
each Of two and one-half yards in
length and from three .fourths of a
yard to a yard in width. She then
sews the two selvedge edges togeth-
er, and turns the raw edges back to
form a seam. All around the cur.
tain she now stitches, at about an
inch from the edge, narrow strips of
some pretty and washable cambria
or calico tor a trimming, putting an
extra row of stitching through that
on the upper end to make a place
for a tape to be run in.-Heah and
Home.
A LABOR SAVING ITEM.
Many ladies prefer to attend to
the more delicate parts of cookery
themselves, as the pie and cake
baking, etc. they have a natural
fondness for it, or they feel that it is
well for them to take exercise of
this kind. But what an u~nintention.
al disturbance they sometimes make
in poor Bridget's dominions! Of
course it is the part of a we'll train
ed domestic to u at her mistress's
beck and call to supplyall her needs,
to "clean up after her," and to
make no remarks ; but, on the 9th
er hand, every lady should do her
work as neatly and with as little
disturbance of kitchen routine as
possible.
1t is a mistake, for instance, to
suppose that each distinct operation
in cake making, to be neatly done,
requires the use Of a separate utensil.
Here are sugar, 4our, butter and
milk to be measured, eggs to be
beaten and soda to be dissolved.
One cup may be used first for sugar
and -four, as they both are dry, and
afterwards for the butter and milk.
Soda may be dissolved in the bowl
II which the eggs are beaten, after
heneggs have been added to the
SA,.all is finished it will
dishes have