The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-02-19
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

FEATHER CARE.--One cup white 81.
gar; one spoonful butter, one egg, two
even cups sifted -four, two-thirds cup OF
sour milk or cream, half teaspoon soda.
One teaspoon cream tartar may be used
instead Of sour milk. Flavor to taste.
VERMIcELLI SoUP.-Make a soup OF
veal, mutton OF fowls add n quarter OF
n pound of vermicelli boil it fifteen
minutes; add a little mace, n cup OF
cream just before taking it up, and q
small piece of butter salt and pepper
to taste.
GINGER COOKIES. Take three cups
OF molasses, one cup sugar, n cup
hot water, one cup butter, n table
spoonful ginger, two %teaspoonfuls sala-
ratus add flour enough, and knead
them 30 that they will roll well, and
they will be found good.
GRAHAM BlsCuIT.-These are quickly
made and very nice for breakfast. Take
a quart of graham or unbolted flour,
and mix it to the consistency of drop
cake, with buttermilk, an even tea
spoonful Of butter, and drop the mix
ture on n shallow pan bake in a quick
oven fifteen or twenty minutes.
Com BREAD. Take four cups Of
sour milk, one Of these partly filled
with cream ono egg, n little salt, two
cvcn %teaspoonfuls pulverized soda; mix
the soda with n very little corn meal,
and stir al together, till it foams then
add corn meal till n thin batter is OBJ
tanned, and pour into hot tins, oiled, an
inch deep, and bake in n quick oven.
Pork PuDDING.-One cup chopped
pork, ono cup of molasses with one tea.
spoon soda stirred into it, one cup OF
raisins three-fourths cup OF sweet milk,
all kinds of spices, flour enough to
make IL stiff batter, steam four hours.
For a sauce, take one cup of white SUI
gar, put into n cup Of boiling water
and pour upon two w~oll-beaten eggs,
flavor with lemon and add n small piece
Of butter.
HoMINY CAKE.-Mix with cold HON
my an equal amount Of white Hour,
until perfectly smooth add n teaspoon
full Of salt, and thin off with butter
milk, into n pan Of which n tcaspoonful
of soda has been dissolved when Of the
consistency of g~riddlc.cakcs, add a
dessert spoonful OF melted butter, and
bake as usual with maple syrup they
are delicious, and the absence OF eggs
will not be missed.
RICE PUDDING.-Tnkc one %teacupful
of soft, boiled rice, one tablespoonful
of butter, mixed in the rice while hot
add one quart of sweet milk, one tea
cup of sugar, the yolks of five eggs,
season with lemon; bake until done.
Beat tho whites of the five eggs to n
stiff froth, ard stir in it five hcaping
tablespoonfuls Of powdered sugar;
spread over the custard return to the
oven, and bake a delicate brown.
SUGAR BIscUT.- Dissolve one tea
cupful Of white sugar in n quart Of new
milk, then stir in n pint of lively yeast,
with sifted flour enough to make a stiff
sponge let it rise until very light, then
work into a sponge thrce-guartcrs of n
pound Of melted butter, with sifted
flour enough to make n stiff dough
work the dough thoroughly, cut into
biscuits, lot them stand on buttered tins
to rise sift sugar upon each, and bake
in a quick oven.
DELICATE PUDDINd.-One quart OF
milk while boiling. stir in one piut of
-four after it il siftcd, ak eggs, six
tablespoonfuIs of white sugar, one tn
bic spoonful of butter, tho grated peel
and Juice of two lemons. All the in.
gradients must be well beaten together
before they are stirred into the milk
stir one way without stopping till it has
boiled for n minute or two ; take it of
aud turn into your pudding dish. 1t is
to be eaten cold, with sugar and cream
if You like.
Sour REcIPE Put four pounds of
fresh beef in six quarts of cold water ;
let it boil slowly for five Or six hours ;
crate or finely slice M large or two
small carrots slice two or three onions,
one turnip and two potatoes salt and
black pepper to taste add %onc.quarter
OF red pepper, ono tablespoonful of sum
mer savory let these Ingredients boil
slowly together for nearly two hours.
Just before taking mp for the table mix
a tablespoonful Of -four in n little
cold water stir into the soup, letting it
boil up twice, and your soup is done.
CHOCOLATE CREAM CUsTARD.-S Set on
to boil a quart of new milk. Mix with
half Il cup of cold milk, two ounces of
grated sweet chocolate, pour some of
the boiling milk TO it, and then pour
back into the pan of boiling milk, stir
ring all the time. When heated though,
and just before coming to tho boiling
point, add the yolks of six eggs, which
have been beaten with n cup of pow
dered white sugar. When these are
blended, add three whites beaten with
n little extract of vanilla, rescrving the
three other whites for frosting. This
is enough for ten cups.
REMEDY FOR DAMP WALLIS Cont
the part Of the wall affected by the
damp, and for some distance around it,
with knotting composition-the same
article as used by the builders for
printing knots in wool. IL should be (
applied upon the bare plaster, and. |
damp this may be, the compo. G
sition, from its rapidly drying prop a
will in a few minutes become a a
very tough coating or skin. Two coats n
should be given, which will prove quite q
impermeable to damp, and upon which o
tho most delicate papers may be- put /
Immediately without fear of injury. n