Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-28

SUOp aI NASHVILLE, Wnlcn is no small
vantage. TRAVELLER.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Helpful Hints for the Housewife.
TO MAKE CRACKERS.
Seven cups of sifted -four, three-quar.
tiers of a cup of fresh lard or butter,
one teaspoonfulof salt, two teaspoonfuls
of cream of tartar, half the quantity
of saleratus, n pint of sweet milk.
Rub butter into the -four; dissolve the
soda in the milk; add cream of tartar
to the -four; mix both; roll very thin:
pound for fifteen minutes with a heavy
roller. Roll thin, cut In round cakes
and prick with a heavy fork. Bake
quickly, and put IN a warm place for
two or three hours to cure, i. e., become
brittle. Excellent 20 eat with coffee,
tea or milk.
CURE FOR EARACHE.
Children are often afflicted with a r
ache to an alarming extent, and there
is sometimes a difficulty in obtaining
an effectual remedy for the disorder. A
writer In the Household says that she
takes a piece of salt pork, say an inch
or more long, and half an inch square;
cut down one end to fit the ear, and in
sert it, taking car to have thepiece too
large to slip In. Tie a handkerchief to
keep it in place, if the child viii allow
It. She also uses pork for sore throat,
Group and lung colds. Cut slices half
an inch thick, dip In warm water, sprin-
kle on a little pepper, and sew on a
flannel. She has usedpork for earache
especially, and always found it TO give
instant relief.
CREAM PIES.
Make the crust as usual and spread
ON the tins. For each pie, take one
half cup pulverized sugar and nearly
as much of sifted -four; rub together
dry and spread over the crust. 1t is
quite essential that the -four and sugar
should be well mixed before uniting
with the cream as it prevents all posi-
bility of lumps). Pour over it one cup
Of sour cream and a few spoonfuls of
Soul or loppered milk; stir gently into
the -four and sugar. Crate over a lit
tie nutmeg and bake IN quick oven. 1t
is better to place an iron CRATE In the
oven under the pies as they are liable
to run over" f too hot on the bottom.
These pies + always In good demand
here. If sweet cream is used, no milk
should be added. They should always
be eaten fresh, but are good cold or
warm.
SNOW FLAKE CAKE.
Take half a cup Of butter, two cups
Of white sugar, four cups of -four, one
cup Of sweet milk, three eggs, one tea
spoonful Of cream of tartar, and one
half that quantity of s~aleratus. Stir
butter and sugar together, add the
beaten yolk of eggs, and half the -four,
with the cream of tartar In it; turn in
nearly all the milk, dissolve the sale
ratus In what is left and add it. Beat
the whites of the eggs and mix in; stir
In the remainder of the -four. Bake in
Jelly cake tins. Crate the meat of two
fresh %cocoanuts; after pairing off the
outer skin, add to them one cup of
sugar and the beaten whites of two
eggs. Spread between the cakes,
which should have been baked in three
pans. Heap the cocoanut very high on
the top of the uppermost cake, and
scatter sugared almonds among it.
CORN MUsH OR PUDDING.
Of course everybody knows how to
make it! But unless they leave it oyer
the fire half an hour or more, stirring it
the while, (which is no easy task it is
very apt to taste raw and unpalatable.
But there is an easier way and the
mush is better too. Have the water
boiling and keep it boiling while the
meal, which should be of white corn,
not ground too fine, is being stirred in.
Stir it about five minutes; then cover
closely and set it on the top of the
stove where it will keep hot but not
scorch, and let it remain for twenty or
thirty minutes, when it Will be as light
as bread sponge and thoroughly cooked.
Graham mush is also much better by
being made in this way and is very nice
for dessert, served with cream and
sugar or pudding sauce, with nutmeg
or other fiavoring. If one can add
plum, strawberry or Their preserves it is
all the better.
GRAFTON BISCUIT.
Boil and mash fine two large white
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spoonful of sugar; pour boiling hot
water " the potatoes until they are
about the consistency of Cruel. When
cool enough, add to it one small teacup
of yeast, and let it rise for three hours;
then heat apintofmilk warm enough to
melt two dessert spoonfuls of lard or
butter; add a little salt; turn it to the
potato yeast, and stir enough flour into
it to make a stiff sponge. When this
is risen very light, mold it over for
twenty minutes; then put it back into
the pan and let it rise again. Now roll
out (molding well first into a thin
sheet, and cut the cakes out with a
tumbler. Rub a little melted butter
over the surface, and turn one-half over
the other, making a half moon. Let
them stand until quite light; prick In
half a dozen places, and bake it for
twenty minutes In a hot oven. They
are the best biscuit you ever ate.