Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-29
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.


nutmegs, little black pepper, and as
much red pepper as will lie on silver
fiye-cent piece. Add piece of butter
the size of an egg, and one pint of
Drowned -four rub up in cold water
| Boil all together for half an hour, then
add two chopped eggs. A whole head,
liver and lights make about three gal
Ions of soup. The liver should only
boil half an hour. A skinned head,
with the bones of leg of veal, will
make about as much.
For force meat balls, take equal
quantities of veal, pork and pounded
bread, chopped together; season with
pepper, cloves, nutmeg, salt and small
bit of onion. Wet with an egg, and
roll into balls and fry in butter or lard.
HOW YANKEES COOK BEANS.
This is the way the down-East lum-
bermen cook them, who eat them twice
day for four or five months each
year:
Take one quart of beans; first soak,
if pea-beans, until they are swelled full;
it will take over night certain; if yellow
eyes, parboil until the skins crack open
when blown on with the breath; drain
off the water; put about two-t thirds of
the beans In the pot; put in about one
and one-haf pounds of salt fat pork,
then the rest of the beans; bake not less
than twelve hours, first covering the
beans with hot water. These are gen.
uine Yankee pork and beans. The
way they are cooked in the woods is
this: A hole is dug at the foot of the
fire, filled around with hot Goals and
covered with hot ashes, where it re-
mains from 3 o'clock p NJ. until break
fast the following morning-about four
teen or fifteen hours. There are prob
ably more beans eaten in Maine than
in the whole State of New York.
CHEAP AND GOOD SOUPS.
Recipes for two soups that are very
wholesome, palatable, cheap and quickly
made To good many, In part, they
may be old, to some entirely new:
Sift pint, or little more, of -four
into the bread-pan; break in one egg;
add little salt and about gill of
sweet milk (which is much better than
sour milk and soda or all eggs mix
together rather stiff Divide into about
three parts; roll quite thin; -four plen-
tifully SO as to prevent it hanging to-
gether; fold from each side; cut in two
in the middle, lay one piece on the
other and cut the corners off-first one
side and then the other. This keeps
them from being long and stringy. Put
about quart of water into vessel,
salt and pepper and a piece of butter
as large as an egg. Let it come to
boil and put in your noodles" let
them boil few minutes and send to
the table. They spoil by standing.
1t is one of the dishes that never hurts
one, though everything else may.
Chicken broth may answer; but for a
dyspeptic or an invalid the above is the
most digestible. This is enough for a
family of five or six.
Another way is to take half pint of
-four, put in dry pan, break an egg
into it, rub all round with the hand
until all the flour is wet and it is in
even humps; cook same as the other;
or it is nice to put in almost any kind
of soup; stirred into milk it is also
good.
HOUSEHOLD hNO " Ledge.
Common ley of wood-ashes will sof-
ten hard putty in few minutes.
The fumes OF birthstone mat b will
remove berry stains from a book or
paper engraving.
Dry paint is removed by dipping a
swab with a handle in strong solution
of oxalic acid. 1t softens at once.
If you want new shoe to fit as east
ly at an old one put on two pairs of
stockings before your measure is taken.
If there is rust on your fat-iron, or
other roughness, put some fine salt on
a board, rub it rapidly while warm I'M
til it moves smoothly.
If door does not shut without a
"slam,' put drop of sweet oil on the
catch, or on the hinge, if it creaks.
Soap will do, but not so well.
A single drop of the sequipede chloride
of iron, put on corn between the toes,
once day, with camel's hair brush,
will effect marvellous cure.
If you wish to make a nail drive east
ly and last long without rusting, dip it
in melted grease first. This is excel
lent for fencing and other exposed
work.
Ten grains of oxalic acid in half a
pint of water, will remove all ink and
fruit stains. Wet the article in hot
water, and apply it to the top of the
bottle, so that the liquid will reach it,
then rinse it well.
If glass stopper won't move, hold
the neck of the bottle to a flame, or
warm it by taking two turnsof a string
and see-saw; the heat engendered ex-
pands the neck Of the bottle before a
corresponding expansion reaches the
stopper.
If rats are about, scatter powdered
glass about their holes, or powdered
copperas, or FILL up the crevices with
hard soap, or smear their holes with
soft tar, or dip the rat in a cup of tar
and let it go, and it will tar-plaster
every hole in the house.
Borax, half teaspoonful in teacup
of water, makes the mildest and most
efficient hair and scalp cleaner in the
world. Rub it into the hair and scalp
with the balls of the fingers, head held
over water basin, eyes shut, until the
10 III 1Ocllll, OhC4I IA1oC
with warm water.
Keep some strong spirits of harris
horn in ground glass-stopped bottle,
A teaspoonful in tablespoonful of
Water will clean combs and brushes
and restore colors injured by acids. A
weaker solution, applied to ill-smelling
feet and arm-pits, removes the odor,
ann removes grease-spots from carpets.
A weak solution Ia water makes good
wash for the hair, and stimulates its
growth when impaired by fever, and
cleanses the scalp effectually. A weak
solution, scattered over the leaves of
plants, from a soft, fine, timber brush,
gives new life to plants. Even if lit
tie is sprinkled over the earth at their
roots, their growth is invigorated.
THE PEABODY SCHOOL FUND.