The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
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MUCILAGE OR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
TO X. Bother. the formula affords mucil-
age which will keepin the hottest weather:
Gum-arabic, Il troy ounces; glycerine,
fluid ounces; water, l6 fluid ounces.
A SIMPLE indelible ink may be made by
taking equal parts of cOpperas and vermil-
ion, pOwdering and sitting them, and after
ward grinding the powder in linseed oil.
The whole is finally pressed through linen.
The paste obtained can be used either for
writing or printing on wool or calico. 1t
resists bleaching.
ALUM IN STARCH.-To keep colors bright
for long time, dissolve piece of alum
the size of q shellbark and stir it into pint
of starch. For starching muslins, ging-
hams, and calicos, which must be often
washed, it is very desirable, will keep the
colors nice and bright much longer, and
the cost and trouble is but trifle.
A FAvoRITE SAUCE FOR PUDDINGs OR
RoLLs.-Cream 6 ounces of butter until
light and white as possible; then stir in
gradually the same weight of finely pull
verified white sugar. 1t looks verv inyit-
ing made up into the shape of little pyr-
amid, thickly strewn with grated nutmeg.
In addition you may use at pleasure vanilla
or any other seasoning you prefer.
CARD RECEIvER.-Form the cardboard
in any fanciful shape and with brush
spread a thick paste of gum-arabic-over the
receiver, and sprinkle rice thickly over it
and leave it to dry. In the meantime put
parcel of red sealing-waX in alcohol, TO
dissolve which will take twenty-four hours,
then put this solution over the receiver
and the rice on it, and it will be good i'm
itation of coral.
PLAIN PASTRY FOR FAMILY UsE.-Plain
pastry, quite palatable Indeed, preferred
by some to the richer sort, is made very
much as you do soda biscuits, viz, to
quarts of flour allow pound of butter and
lard, made up into moderately stiff dough
with pint of sour cream or buttermilk,
in which has been dissolved teaspoonful
of carbonate of soda; knead only enough
to mix well, roll out. and with it line your
pie plates.
ECONOMICAL FRUIT CAKE.--1 pound of
flour, > eggs, pound of butter, 1 OF
pound of sugar. a teaspOonful OF cream of
tartar, with teaspoonful of soda, must be
dissolved together in cup of cream, and
poured in the cake Just before it is put in
the mold. pound OF currants, pound
of raisins, and J pound of citron, teaspoon
full of mace, and lemon. This cake,
made with one of the fruits mentioned, or
nice pudding.
APPLE-DUNIPLINGS are so universally
popular. and vet so often i'll made, that
word must be said with reference to them,
if it is superfluous to give a regular recipe.
BY all means use separate little cloths for
tying them up. Pastry dense enough to
hold together in hot water must be tough
and inedible. Many persons now prefer
to make one large dumping or roll, from
which a whole family may be served.
Their excellence must of course depend
greatly upon the kind of apples used. Pip
pins are decidedly the finest favored of all
apples for cooking purposes, and should
be used whenever Obtainable in all recipes
that call for that fruit as one of their in
gradients.
To DESTROY INSECTS.-HOt alum water
is recent suggestion as an insecticide. 1t
destroys red and black ants, cOckrOaches,
spiders, chintZ-bugs and all the crawling
pests that infest our houses. Take two
pounds of alum and dissolve it in three or
four quarts of boiling water; lett stand on
the fire until the alum disappears; then
apply it with brush, while nearly boiling
hot, to every Joint and crevice in your
closets, bedsteads. pantry shelves, and the
like. Brush the crevices in the floor Ofthe
skirting or mOp-bOards, if you suspect that
they haTbor vermin. If, in whitewash-
ing ceiling, plenty of alum is added to
the lime, it will also serve to keep insects
at a distance. Cockroaches will flee the
paint which has been washed in cool alum
water. Sugar barrels and boxes can be
freed from ants by drawing a wide chalk
mark just round the edge of the top of
them. The mark must be unbroken or
they will creep over it, but continuous
chalk line half an inch in width will set
their depredatiOns at naught. Powdered
alum or borax will keep the chintz bug at
respectable distance, and travellers should
always carry package of it in their hand
bags, to scatter over and under their pill
lows, in places where they have re2son TO
suspect the presence of such bedfellOWs.