The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-18
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

TR-TOP CAKE.-One and a half cups
white sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, eggs,
the white separated from the yellz, and
beaten to a stiff froth. Butter, size of
a tablespoon bowl, melted and turned
into the milk; 2 teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, one teaspoonfuI of soda, spoon
full of lemon, and little salt.
SPONGE CAKE.-Four eggs, the whites
beaten until a plate could be turned
quickly over without splitting the con-
tents cup fine sugar, the yelks and
sugar beaten to a cream Il cups of
-four; soda size of pea, dissolved in
spoonful of cold water; a little salt
Bake in a deep tin in a quick oven.
To CLEANSE FEATHER BEDs.-Take
them on a sunny day over aIine or fence,
and with a stick beat all the dust out,
then lay on some elevated place to
give the air free circulation, and let
them remain there through a short rain.
| Shake up and turn every day, and your
beds will seem like new ones. Be sure
they are thoroughly dry before using.
FRENCH MUSTARD up an onion
| in n bowl cover with good vinegar
leave two or three days pour off the
vinegar into basin; put into it one
| teaspoonful pepper, one of salt, one Ia
blespoonful brown sugar, and mustard
enough to thicksn; 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 use it cold.
COUNTRY PUDDING. the yelks of
three eggs smoothly with three heaped
| tablespoonfuls of -four, thin the batter
with new milk till it is the consistency
of cream whisk the whites of the eggs
| separately, stir them into the batter,
and boil the pudding in a fOurid cloth
or basin for an hour. Before it is
served, cut the top quickly in cross
bars, pour over it a small pot of rasp-
berry or strawberry jelly or jam, and
send quickly to the table.
EXCELLENT CUsTARD PE.-Take one
quart of milk, five eggs; take out the
whites of the eggs beat the eggs add
half a cup of sugar, a little salt flavor
to suit the taste fill the pies and bake.
While the pies are baking, beat the
whites of the eggs to a 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 set in the oven to brown, and you
have pie that Will satisfy the appetite
of the most fastideous.
J DRINKING IMPURE WATER.-Set {
pitcher of iced water in a room inhabi
ted, and in a few hours it will have alb
: sorbed nearly all the perspired gases o
= the room, the air of which will become
purer, but the water utterly filthy
a This depends on the fact that water ha
o the faculty of condensing, and thereb.
, absorbing nearly all the gases, which /
], does without increasing its own bulk
y tho colder the water is, the greater it
It capacity to contain these gases. At or
Il binary temperature, pint of water vii
n contain pint of corbonic acid gas, ant
e several pints of ammonia. This capaci
/; ty is nearly doubled by reducing tn
t temperature to that of ice. Hence wa
d ter kept in the room awhile is unfit TO
7, use, and should be often removed
q whether it has become warm or not
II And for the same reason the water in
If pump should all be pumped out in tn
1t morning before any is used. Tha
e which has stood in pitcher over night
p is not fit for coffee or water in the morn
e ing. Impure water is more injurious
d health than impure air, and every pei
( son should provide the means of obtain
" ing fresh, pure water for all domesti
e use.-DiO LelOiS.