Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-29
brown color, and serve them with wine


sauce.
a New Use for Onions.
A correspondent Of the Scientific Amer
icdn commends onions ae a specific against
epidemics-not as an esculent, but sliced
and kept in q sick room, where they will
absorb any atmospheric poison. They
should be replaced by fresh ones every
hour. 1t Is noticed that in the room of q
smallpox patient they will blister and de-
compose very rapidly, bat will prevent the
spread Of the disease. Their application
has also proved effective in the case OF
snake bites. 81 At
How 10 Cook Beans.
Very many people fail in cooking beans.
Put the beans in cold water, soft, and let
them soak three or four hours. Then put
these beans In cold water (two quarts of
water to one quart of beans, adding ia
blespoonful Of salt), bring them to boil
and let them simmer until tender, say two
or two and half hours. Pour the water
away from them; Let them stand beside the
FIRE, with the lid of the saucepan partially
of, to allow the beans to dry, then add one
ounce of buttur for every quart of beans,
and a seasoning Of pepper and salt.
Roasted Coffee.
Roasted coffee is one of the most power
full means, not only of rendering animal
and vegetable effiuvia innocuous, but of
actually destroying them. Aroom In which
meat in an advanced degree of deconpo-
sition has been kept for sometime, was in
stantly deprived Of all smell by an open
coffee reaster being carried through it con-
tanning pound of coffee newly roasted.
In another room the effiuyia occasioned by
the cleaning out of q cesspool, SO that sui
phureted hydrogen and ammonia could be
clearly detected, was completely removed
within half minute on the employment
of three ounces of fresh coffee. The best
mode of using it as disinfectant is to dry
the raw bean, pound it in q mortar, and
then roast the powder on moderately
heated iron plate until it assumes dark
brown hue, when it is ready for use. 1t
must, however, be remembered that the
the coffee, to be effectual, should be per-
fectly pure. Adulterated rubbish will only
make matters worse. safrs .r-.
How TO Make Toast.
A dish of good toast is rarity and is an
enjoyment. For breakfast few things sur
pass it, to those who are accustomed to that
and reliable, and is not very expensive. A
cup of tea or coffee, with baked Spleen
burg, or dish of any other sub-acid in adj
dition, will make 8 satisfactory meal to a
reasonable man. In tossting bread the fol-
lowing rule should be observed. Warm your
bread well, by changing the sides of the
slice when heated through, brown as de-
sired. There should be rather little than
much browning, and the slice should be
quite thin, say quarter or three-eighths of
an inch, no more. But do not scorch; avoid
that ia all cases. The philosophy in brown
ing is to take your time until you are done.
Where the toast accumulates keep in hot
dish, but use as soon as possible. What is
desired in toast is the rich color and flavor
formed by changing the starch into dex-
hine or gum. Heat evaporates moisture in
bread as well as elsewhere. The moisture
that escapes from toast leaves the bread
light, soft and porous inside.
Hints for Young Mothers.
The three requisites for babies are plenty
of sleep, plenty of food, plenty Of flannel.
The saying that man is bundle of habits
is as true of babies as it is of grown chill
iren. If an infant is accustomed from its
birth to sleep from six O'Clock at night until
daylight, the habit of early sleep will be
formed, and the mother may have all her
evenings to herself. II the baby sleeps a u
night, a long morning nap will naturally
come about dinner time, after which the
child, except when very young, SHOULD be
kept awake until six o'clock. Perseverance
in this routine will soon result ia securing
quiet evenings for both the child and parent.
Some mothers have long season every
and every night in getting the baby
asleep. They rock them aud sing them till
Morpheus euf0lds them. With most chill
1ren this is entirely unnecessary. An in
FAINT can be accustomed by few days.
raining to 90 to sleep itself for morn
ng nap as well as for the longer rest at
night.