The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-29
HOUSEHOLD.
PLAIN CUsTARD.

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 Eutty or
cement or salve. Here is recipe for
a fine crust that will be fit to eat.
GOOD PIE CRUST.
Sweet cream made into q soft
dough with either fine or coarse
-four bake Immediately in 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 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 flour
to form a stiff dough, roll out to one
fourth inch thick ; 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 Dip a
broad-bladed knife into cold water,
and spread the icing over the whole
surface.
Use FOR OLD MUSLIN.
There is no economy in using old
muslin when it will be exposed to
much wear, but for some purposes
1T is cas- 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 yard in width. She then
sews the two selvedge edges togeth-
or, 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 for trimming, putting an
extra row of stitching through that
on the upper end to make a place
for tape to be run in.-Heath ana
Home.
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 il, or they feel that it is
well for them to take exercise Of
this kind. But what an unintention.
al disturbance they sometimes make
in poor Bridget's dominions! O
course it is the part eff well train.
ed domestic to run at her mistress's
beck and call to supply all her needs
to "clean UP after her." and tc
make no remarks but, on the 9th,
er hand, every lady should do hel
work as neatly and with as little
disturbance of kitchen routine as
possible.
It is a mistake, for instance, to
suppose that each distinct operation
in cake making, to be neatly done,
requires the use of q separate utensil.
Here are sugar, Hour, butter and
milk to be measured, eggs to be
beaten and soda to be dissolved.
One cup may be used first for sugar
and honr, as they both are dry, and
afterwards for the butter and milk.
Soda may be dissolved in the bowl
III which the eggs are beaten, after
the eggs have been added to the
cake. When all is finished it will
be found that very faw dishes have
been soiled. This is of course a
small item, but it tells in the long
run. Hearth and Home.
APPLE SHORT CAKE.
To one quart of sifted flour added
two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar
and one of soda, half teaspoonful
of salt, quarter Of pound OF butter,