The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-01-30

&c OI h8ht-bread-dough Con baking
the size of a quart dipper fatten
on your molding-board add to this
cup OF suet. one cup chopped
ms, one cup Zante currants; mix
Pther thoroughly and set it to rise
plate when light enough steam two
xoELLENT RECIPE FOR PorAro Sour.
SIX potatoes, medium size, and one
Pm; pare and put in one quart of
er boil one hour and then strain
pugh a colander, filling up if the
er has boiled away add a piece of
'er as large as an egg; pepper and
r TO taste, and, last, a quaI OF sweet
am as soon as hot, serve with crack
3 or bread.
y BREAKFAST PUFFs. two eogs
j beaten, and stir into pint OF milk.
little salt, two sp1onfuis of butter
| pint and half OF -four. Beat
eggs and stir into the milk. Add
salt, melt the butter and stir in.
en- pour all into the -four so as not to
7e 1T IumPy. Stir thoroughly. and
ease the cups into which the batter is
ured, filling them two thirds full.
VEAL RoLLs.-Cut a few slice from
old flIet of veal half an inch thick !;
them over with egg; lay a thin
zee of fat bacon over each piece of
al brush these with the egg, aud
er this spread force-meat thinly :;
II up each piece tightly, egg and
ead-crumb them. and fry them rich
own. Serve with mushroom sauce or
own gravy. Fry them ten or fifteen
inutes.
RECIPE FOR CooKINa DRIED GREEN
oRN.-Put in a basin two-thirds of a
Up OF dried corn. wash first add a
Iart of water ; let it stand back on the
owe, where 1t will keep hot, but not
oil, for four hours. Add more water.
needed, during this time. When
anted, pour in milk till you have
1art of syrup salt, pepper, lump of
alter, and tbicken with a spoonfuI of
our. Break up few crackers in
treen; pour over the corn and serve.
FRIED PATrIEs.-Mince a little cold
gal and ham, allowing one-third ham
nd two thirds veal add an egg boiled
ard and chopped, AMI a seasoning of
ounded mace, salt, pepper and lemon
eel &; molsten with little gravy and
ream; make a good puff-paste roll
Rther thin, and cut into round or
auare pieces put the minee between
wo of them, pinch the edges to keep in
he gravy, and fry light brown. Thew
nay also be baked in patty-pans in
hat case, they should be brushed ever
nth the yelk of an egg before they are
mt into the oven. To make a variety.
ysters may be substituted for the ham.
Fry the patties about fifteen minutes.
How 10 MAKE A MUSTARD PLASTER.
The ordinary way is to mix the mustard
With water, tempering it with a little
iour, but such a plaster as that makes
{ simply abominable Before it has
lalf done its work it begins to blister
he patient, and leaves him finally with
painful spot, after having produced
ar less effect in a beneficial way than
vas intended. Now, a mustard plaster
'hould never make a blister at all.
When you make n mustard plaster,
hen, use no water whatever, but mix
he mustard with the white of an egg.
nd the result will be a plaster which
will " draw ''prefectly, but will not pro-
luce a blister even upon the skin of an
infant, no matter how long il is allowed
o remain upon the part.
SAUSAGE DUAIPLINGs.- Make one
pound of flour and two ounces of drip
'ing or chopped suet, into a stiff paste,
~ adding just enough water to enable
Tou to knead the whole together. Di-
7ide the whole into twelve equal parts.
oil each of these out sufficiently large
o be able to fold up one pork sausage
n 1t, wet the edge of the paste to fas-
en- the sausage securely in it, and, as
you finish off each sausage dumping.
lrop it gently into a large enough
auce-pan, containing plenty of boiling
water when the whole are finished.
lllow them to boil gently by the side of
he FIRE for one hour, and then take up
Ire dumplings with a spoon from the
water, on to dish, and eat them while
lot.
ELASTIC VARNIsH FOR LADIES SHOES.
The Manufacturer and Builder gives
his recipe: Three pounds of rain wa
er are placed in q pot over the fire, and
When we'll boiling there are added four
ounces white pulverized wax, one
ounce clear transparent glue in small
pieces. two ounces white soap scraped
inc, two ounces brown pulverized su-
,ar ; the ingredients are placed in one
~ one, aud every time stirred up it Is
veil to take the pot from the fire every
ime a substance is added, to prevent
polling over when all is added the pot
s removed from the fire; when suffi-
iently cooled three ounces of alcohol
re ded, and finally three ounces fine
frankfort black, we'll incorporated by
Continued stirring. This varnish is put
N the leather with brush, and is very
for boots aud shoes, as it can
,e afterward polished with q large
brush like ordinary -blacking,
hows high polish, and does not soil the
lothing.
Indians of the Far West.
A traveller to the Pacific thus tells
What he knows of the aborigines of the
plains
We reached Black Rock, and rode
mi