The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-02
HONE INTERESTS.

CREAM BATTER PUDDING.-Take cup
of sour cream (part may be milk and rub
with / cup flour, taking care to get all the
Jumps out. Then pour in cup of sweet
milk. Put in eggs, the yelks and whites
having been beaten separately. Add
little salt and nearly teaspoonful of soda.
Bake in quick oven.
CARROT PUDDING II pound of grated
carrot, ounces of bread crumbs, ounces
of raisins, 8 ounces of currants, 6 ounces
of sugar, ! pound of suet, half a nutmeg,
half the rlnd of lemon, grated. table
spoohfuls of flour, / egg and little salt.
Mix all well together and put into a well
buttered mold. Boil hours.
THE London Lancet tells how to cure a
felon. As soon as the disease is felt, put
directly over the spot a fy-blister about
the size of your thumb-nail, and let it re-
main for six hours, at the expiration of
which time, directly under the surface of
the blister, may be seen the felon, which
can instantly be taken out with the p int
of a needle or lancet.
Mock MNCE PEI cup powdered
crackers, ! cup mOlasses, l cup chopped
raisins, cups sugar, cup warm water,
cup vinegar, cup melted butter, table
SlOOUlul ClONtS. dllSDlct anu
nutmeg. Ifthe vinegar is very strong,
vinegar filled with water. This will make
three round-tin pies. They are delicious.
TIN watering-pots much used in the gar
den often become rusted at the lower cor
ners, and begin to leak. 1t is not necessa-
nv yet TO throw them aside. as the holes
may be effectually stopped without going
to the tihker's, by covering them inside
with small piece of linen dipped in copal
varnish. the tin being previously thorough
ly dried. When the varnish hardens by
drying, they are perfectly water-tight,
A FRENCH medical journal reports the
cure of the most refractory cOrns by the
morning and evening applications, with
brush, of dropOf a solution of the per-
chloride of iron. Itstates that after fort
nights continued application, without
pain, patient who had suffered martyr
dom for nearly forty years from most
painful corn on the inner side of each little
toe was entirely relieved; pressure was no
longer painful, and the cure seemed to be
radical. Other and similar cases are re-
ported as equally successful under the
treatment.
For DIPHTHERIA.-Take chloride of So
dunn common SALT, s scruples; sesqui
carbonate of soda, u scruples; chlorate of
potass, scruples. Mix and divide into
four doses, to be taken dissolved in warm
water, the mere water the better. For
children under ten years of age half of this
dose. In severe cases take one dose when
the medicine is ready; second at the eX
piratiOn of an hour; in two hours more a
third dose; fourth dose in three hours
after. 1t Will be well then to continue to
take a dose every six hours until four
more, or eight in all, have been taken. By
this time the specific Inflammation, COM
mon to diphtheria and scarlet fever, will
be checked. and mere ordinary sore throat
will remain. TO be treated accordingly.
Under no circumstances should alcoholic
stimulants be given in diphtheria.
PIE-PLANT PIEs.-Never stew your pie
plant before making your pies. Peel the
stems of rhubarb and slice them in half
inch lengths, holding several stems in the
hand at one tine. With these fill the pie,
sweetening it generous1y-about the same
as for a lemon pie, a small teacupful OF SUI
gar for a medium-siZed pIe-moisten with
a great spoonful of water, dust over this a
little dry flour, to thicken the juice little,
cover it with the upper crust and bake it
slowly and thoroughly. Such pie is too
rich for some stomachs and there is way
of dispensing with part of the sugar, with
out having the pie too sour. Not BY the
use of soda. No, indeed! But pour boil
ing water over your sliced rhubIrb, letting
it stand ten or fifteen minutes. Pour this
off and make your pies of the rhubarb.
with less sugar. If you stew pie-plant for
sauce, you can pour off a part of the juice
before it is done, using it to make jelly. if
you like, and supply its place with more
water, thus economiZing sugar.
WATER IN THE HOUsE.-Let nobody be
deferred from bringing water in the house
by any fears of failure and perpleXity.
You might just as well stop the circula-
ton of blood in the body because it is sub
ject TO arrangement, as 10 refuse the circu-
latiOn of water in the house because now
and then pipe OverfOws and your freS-
Goes are ruined. Good workmen will pre-
vent any such accident, but if they cannot,
give up your freScOes; do not give up your
life-blOOd. When see the farm-hOuses,
the diaries, the kitchen, whose only source
of supply is the well in the yard or the
hogshead at the back door, how life would
be heightened and sweetened if all this
heavy and hard and slow water-bringing
could be supplanted by turn of a screw.
| wonder that we do not manage to intro |
duce it, somehow, into our marriage con- |
tracts. What an increase of vital force
would ensue; what diminished demand |
for divorce whata Strengthening and up |
building of the family bond, if the girl |
should refuse to marry until there was an |
supply of water, at least in
the kitchen, A house without water-works |
ought to be considered as incomplete as a
house without doors, and as incomplete in
the country as in the city.