Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-03
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Helpful Hints for Che Housewife.

Helpful Hints for the Housewife.
CREAM CUP CAKE.
Four cup sfour; twoOf sugar; three OF
sweet cream; four eggs; mix hard; bake IN
a quick oven; bake in square tins, and
when cold cut in squares about two
inches wide.
DoUGHNUTS OR FRIED CAKES.
Two cups of sugar; three of milk; one
large teaspoon O. soda; and the same
of salt; three tablespoons of melted
lard; mix stiff; roll about quarter OF
an inch thick; cut in small cakes; cut
in the inside another smaller, and you
can fry both in hot lard.
WASHING BLACK CALICO.
After washing in warm suds. rinse in
cold water, with a handful of salt
thrown in the rinse, or perhaps in the
starch-have not tried the latter. A
little bran in the first suds viii make 1t
wash easier. On no account soak the
goods, as that fades them badly.
SCENT POWDERS.
A good recipe for scent powder, to
be used for wardrobes, boxes, etc, far
finer than any mixture sold at the
shops, is the following: Coriander,
oITis root, rose leaves and aromatic cal
anus, each one ounce; lavender flowers,
two ounces; rhOtium wood, one-fOurth
of drachm; musk, FIVE grains. These;
are to be mixed and reduced to a coarse
powder. This scent on clothes is as If
all the fragrant flowers had been press
ed in their folds.
PORK CAKE.
Pork cakecanhe made without butter,
eggs, or milk Take fat salt pork, en-
tirely free of lean or rind, chopped 50
fine as to be almost ike lard, one
pound. Pour half a pint of boiling
water over it. Raisins seeded and
chopped, one pound; citron shaved into
shreds, one-quarier of a pound; sugar
two cups; molasses, one cup; saleratus,
one teaspoonful rubbed fine and put IN
to the molasses. Mix all these togeth-
er, and stn in sifted -four enough to
make of the consistency of common
cake mixture. Then stir in nutmegs
and cloves ground fine, one ounce each
cinnamon ground fine, two ounces. Be
governed about the time of baking by
putting a silver piece in it; when moth
ing adheres to it it is done. 1t should
be baked slowly. Other fruit can be
substituted, if desired, in place Of rais-
ms, using as much or as little fruit as
is desired, or nome at all, and still have
a nice cake. This cake six months af-
ter made will be as nice and fresh as at
the time it left the oven.
TO CLEAN LAST YEARS SILKS.
For the remaking of last years black
silks, may be recommended an excel
lent mode Of cleaning. Rub each
breadth carefully with a wooden cloth
to get the dust from the surface, then
sponge it all off with water in which
one or two black kid gloves have been
boiled, a quart of water for a pair of
gloves; iron while wet, with extremely
hot irons, on the wrong side. For col
ored silks the same colOred gloves to
be boiled. For this purpose it is well
to save old kid gloves of all colors. An
OJher mode tried with great success Is
the same process of rubbing off the
dirt with a woclen rag, then mix an
equal quantity of strong tea and vine
gar, with which the silk Is washed by
rubbing it with a piece of flannel. 1t
must be made very wet. Smooth the
silk carefully, folding it, and in about
fifteen minutes IRON it ON the wrong
side with very hat irons. This applies
only to black silk, black ribbons, era
watts, etc, but might be injurious to
colors.
GENUINE SCOTCH HOTCH-POTCH.
An English paper gives the recipe of
IN indispensable hotch-potch,' OBJ
tanned from a cook in Oban, Scotland.
1t is rs follows:
T:lke the best part of neck of NUT
ton, cut it small bones and all, and boil
it until thoroughly well done, or until
the meat separates from the bones.
Then remove the bones and put III
quantity of green peas and broad beans
at discretion, not to make the hotch-
potch too thick; add n flavor of onions
and parsley, together with a fair pro-
portion of carrots, tuInips, and kali or
ether cabbage, taking care to make the
combination Thick enough, but no so
thick as to deprive it of the character
of a soup and convert into a pOttage,
and boil the whole for eight OF nine
hours. IL you DOH II 1Of Twelve, or
even twenty hours, it viii be none the
worse, but all the better. If there be
any left, boil it up again the next day,
and it viii be better than ON the first.
The writer adds that there is a winter
as well as a summer hotch-pOtch, the
absence of peas and beans and the sub
stitution of such other vegetables, po-
tatoes alone excepted, as may be got,
forming the difference between the two.