The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-25
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DRY BREAD.-Dip the slices in beaten
eggs and fry in butter; it relishes well
with coffee, and is most excellent for little
girls that are hungry.
SAND TARTs.-l pound sugar; pound
butter; yelks of two eggs, white of one
take the other and put il over the top of
them); with cinnamon and sugar. Roll
and cut in small cakes.
BLUEING FOR CLoTHEs.-Take ] ounce
of soft Prussian blue, powder it and put it
in a bottle with quart of clear rain water,
and add ! ounce of oxalic acid. a tea
spoonful is sufficient for a large washing.
GREEN SALvE.-4 of pound of lard, l
ounce of rosin, | ounce beeswaX, | drachm
verdigris; melt and stir well. This is one
of the salves known for old sores, ulcers.
cancers, scrofulOus sores, cuts and
wounds.
To KEEP Ham AND SAUsAGE.-Slice the
ham as for cooking, fry partially, and pack
in stone jar, adding the lard that fries
out until all is covered. Put on weight
until cool. Some sprinkle little sugar
over each layer. Sausage is kept in the
same way.
MAKING PAPER STICK TO WHITEwAsHED
WALLs.-Make a sizing of common glue
and water. of the consistency of linSeed Oil.
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TO the wall, taking care to go over every
part. and especially top and bottom. APP
ply the paper in the ordinary way.
ICED APPLEs.-Pare, core and slice APP
pies of large, tart kind. Bake them till
nearly done. Put them away to get en-
tirely cold; then prepare some sugar icing,
and first pouring off all the juice, lay
the icing thickly on the tops and sides,
as much as you can. Return them TO
the oven to just harden and set. Serve
with cream.
! To REMOVE SMOKE STAINs.-A easy and
sure way to remove smoke stains from
common plain ceilings is to mix wood
ashes with the whitewash just before APP
plying. A pint of ashes to a small pail Of
whitewash is sufficient, but a little more or
less will do no harm. The theory is that
the ashes eat up smoke.
FLOUR PUDDING.-l pint of milk, eggs,
soda, salt, flour; stir to thick batter,
bake, serve, with milk or cream prepared
| in this manner. Put it on the stove In a
pan; put in sugar and spices to taste, and
pour it over the pudding after it is cut up;
! this is very simple and good dish. Cold
boiled rice, toast. baked apples, served with
! this sauce is very good. Dry light bread
in this pudding in place of flour is also
good.
CHOCOLATE CAKES cupfllls of flour, 2
cupfuls of sugar, cupful of butter, | cup
! full of sweet milk teaspOOnful of cream
tartar, teaspoodtul Of blcarbonate OF
soda. Prepare each ingredient separately
and carefully, as is usual IN cake-maklng.
and add the soda, with the cream-tartar
last, being perfectly dissolved in the milk.
Bake in shallow tin plates. This quantity
poured into six plates will make the cakes
of the proper thickness. : ounces OF
chocolate, heaping cupful OF sugar,
cupful of cream. a little vanilla. The
chocolate Il thus prepared: Dissolve it
into a smooth paste with little hot water;
then adding the cream and sugar, stew all
together to a thick marmalade, which
must be spread between the cakes. lfyou
choose it. grated cOcoa-nut sprinkled on
! top of the chocolate is very nice.
A HANDY BOOT-RACK.-The following
very convenient arrangement for farm
er'S kitchen we find i'll the american Aqr5-
cuLtlrist One of the greatest troubles of
the neat housewife in the country results
from the muddy boots of those MEM
bers of the family who have to work IN
| the fields. the stables, and the barnyard.
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orally left under the kite hen stove, where
their presence is very disagreeable. Now,
! to have a neat kitchen. there should be a
| boot rack placed behind the stove. in which
the damp boots may be placed to dry.
! Such cOntrivance has been found great
convenience. 1t has three shelves about
four feet long, ten inches wide, and placed
foot apart. At ore end a bOOt-jack is
fixed by hinges, so that, when not in use.
! it is folded against one end of the rack and
secured by a button. There is also a stand
| for cleaning boots at the front, which also
folds up when not in use, and the backing
brushes are placed on the shelves behind
the stand, and are out of sight, and when
| it is folded they hang down out of the
way. The rack should be made of dressed
pine boards. and painted or stained some
| dark, durable color.