The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-07-24
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
Tn-TOp CAKE.-One and n half cups
white sugar, | cup sweet milk, 2 eggs,
the white separated from the yelk, and
beaten to n stiff froth. Butter, size Of
n tablespoon bowl, melted and turned
into the milk; 2 teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, one te%aspoonful of soda, n spoon
full of lemon, and n little salt.
SPONGE CAKE.-Four eggs, the whites
beaten until II plate could DO turned
quickly over without spilling the con-
tents | cup fine sugar, the yolhs and
sugar beaten to n cream ] cups Of
flour soda size OF II pea, dissolved in II
spoonful of cold water; II little salt.
Bake in n deep tin in n quick G
TO CLEANSE FEATHER BEDs.-Takc
them on Il sunny day over aline or fence,
and with IL stick beat all the dust ont,
then lay on some elevated place to
give the mir FREQ circulation, and let
them remain there through short rain.
Shake up and turn every day, and your
beds will seem like new ones Be sure
they are thoroughly dry before using.
FRENoH MUsrARD. Slice up an onion
in II bowl cover with good vinegar;
leave two or three days pour off the
vinegar into n basin; put into it one
tcaspoonful pepper, one of salt, one ta-
blespoonful brown sugar, and mustard
enough to thicken smooth the mus
tard for vinegar as you would flour for
gravy !; mix all together set ON the
stove and stir till it boils, when remove
and uso it cold.
COUNTRY PUDDING. Mix the yelks Of
three eggs smoothly with three heaped
tablespoonfuls of flour, thin the batter
with now milk till it il the consistency
of cream; whisk the whites Of the eggs
separately, stir them INTO the batter,
and boil the pudding in n ilourid cloth
or basin for IN hour. Before it is
served, cut the top quickly in cross
bars, pour over it n small pot of rasp-
berry or strawberry jelly or jam, and
send quickly to the table.
EXCELLENT CUsrARD Pm.-Tako one
quart ofmilk, five eggs take out the
whites of the eggs beat the eggs add
half a cup of sugar, n little salt flavor
to suit the taste fill the pies and bake.
While tho pies are baking, beat the
whites of the eggs to n froth, adding
one spoonful of fine white sugar; beat
again, and when the pie is done baking
spread the frosting over the tops of the
| pies SGT in the over to brown, and you
have n pie that will satisfy the appetite
of tho most fastideous.
DRINKING IMPURE WATER.-Set n
pitcher Of iced water in a room inhabi-
ted, and in n few hours it will have alb
sorbed nearly all the perspired gases of
the ROOM, the air of which will become
purer, but the water utterly filthy.
This depends on the fact that water, has
the faculty Of ~condensing, and thereby
absorbing nearly all the gases, which it
does without increasing its own bulk.
tho colder the water is, the greater its
capacity to contain these gases. AT Or
binary temperature, a pint of water will
contain q pint of corbonic acid gas, and
several pints of ammonia. This capaci-
ty is nearly doubled by reducing the
temperature to that of ice. Hence wa
ter kept in the room awhile is unfit for
use, and should be often removed,
whether it has become warm or not.
And for the same reason the water in n
pump should all be pumped out in the
morning before any is used. That
which has stood in a pitcher over night,
is not fit for coffee or water in the morn
ing. Impure water is more injurious to
health than impure air, and every per-
son should provide the o of obtain.
ing fresh, pure water for all domestic
use.-Dio Levis.