Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-31

Helpful Hints for the Housewife

ROLL CANE.
Three eggs; one cup of sugar; one
cup of -four; stir well into one tea
spoonful of cream tartar and half as
much soda; bake quick, and roll with
Jelly when hot; bake IN square tins.
SPONGE CAKE.
One pound Of white sugar, three
fourths of a pound of flour, two
lemons (grate the rind), oneidozeneggs.
Separate the whites and whip; stir the
yelks and sugar twenty minutes; add
the flour very gradually; then stir in
the whipped eggs; bake slowly.
CURE FOB FELON.
Many persons are liable to extreme
suffering from felons on the finger.
These affections not unfrequently Occa-
sion permanent Gripping of the mem
bers affected. The following simple
prescription is recommended as a cure
for the distressing ailment: Take
common rock salt, such as is used for
sailing down pork or beef; dry it in an
oven. then pound it fine and mix with
spirits of turpentine, in equal parts.
Put it in a rag and wrap it around the
parts affected, and as 1t gets dry, put
on more; and in twenty-four hours We
are cured-the felon viii be dead. 1t
viii do no harm to try 1t.
BLEACHING DIsCOLORED FLANNEL.
1t is found by Prof. Artus that fan
mel, which had become yellow by lying
for some time, when treated with a So
luton of one half pounds Of Marseilles
soap in fifty pounds of soft water, with
the addition of one-third of an ounce of
ammonia, and subsequently rinsed, is
much improved In appearance. The
bleaching is more quickly accomplish
ed by soaking the articles for an hour
in a dilute solution Of acid sulphite of
soda. then stirring in dilute hydro
chloric acid fifty parts water to one OF
acid, covering the vessel and allowing
it to remain a quarter of an hour, and
afterward thoroughly rinsing the ar
ticles.
CURE FOR NEURALGIA.
One Of our exchangessays: Afrlend
of r who sufferedhorrib painsf from
neuralgia, hearing of a noted physician
in Germany who invariably cured the
| disease, crossed the ocean and visited
Germany for treatment. He was per-
| m%anently cured after a short sOJOurn,
and the doctor freely gave him the sim
pie remedy used, which was, nothing
but a poultice and tea made from ou1
common field thistle. The leaves are
macerated and used on the parts aWic'
ted. as a poultice, while a small quaint
tv of the leaves are boiled down to the
proportion of 4 quart to a pint, and 8
| small wine-glass of the decOction drank
before each meal. Our friend says he
has never known it to fail of giving re
lief, while in almost every case at hat
effected a cure
THE VIRTUES OF BUTTERMILK.
NJ. R0bing, in a paper presented t.
the French Academy, thus extols the
virtues of buttermilk: Life existsonly
in combustion, but the combustion
which occurs in our bodies, like that
which takes place IN our chimneys
leaves a detritus which is fatal to life
To remove this he would administer
Tactic acid with ordinary food. Ihl'
acid is known to possess the power o.
removing or destroying the incrusta
tions which form on the arteries, car
tilages and valves of the heart. Al
tptfer milk abounds in this acid, anC
is. moreover, an agreeable kind o
food. its habitual use, it Is urged, vii
free the system from these causes
which inevitably cause death betweel
the seyenty.hfth and hundredth year
To USE CoLD POTATOES.
The boiled potatoes left after yestef
davis dinner are very good choppe,
fine and warmed for breakfast in goot
milk and butter, with salt and pepper
When you are boiling your tcakettle a
night. You can boil half II dozen GOO
sized potatoes, and when cold sic
them the long way, sometimes lesstha'
a quarter OF an inch In thickness. Il
the morning lay them one by n o,
the griddle, to slowly toast or brown Il
GOOD butter or fat, sailing them care
fully and evenly, after placing them /
a covered dish. Men always like thes
"a their coffee; and these or the pots
WI. are an addition to the tea tabl
w VI DnT T;sitors are present, still anothe
w WlrvI to fry is to pare the o0toto rom sg
and round, like an apple,
used, cooking slowly and evenly IN
covered spider" until brown.
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