The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-12-10
HOME INTERESTS.

Ia
APPLE PUDDING.-S apples grated, about
The same quantity of stale bread, eggs,
II pints of milk, sugar and cinnamon to
taste. Bake in slow oven one hour. 10
be eaten with cream.
LEMON PUDDNG.-1 pound apples
grated, J pound fine sugar, 6 ounces but
ter, 8 eggs, emitting the whites of four !;
rind and juice of three lemons, with or
without pastry; bake ( of an hour. To
be eaten cold.
wheat, tablespoonful of yeast, salt. and
cold water. Put the salt in the yeast.
Pour the yeast on the bnckwheat. Add
enough cold water to make thin batter.
Let it rise over night, and bake on a grid
die in the morning. al '7a61
COLD RICE PUDDrG.--Swell rice in milk
| till soft; well butter a shape, and stick
roand it raisins or French plums stewed
and split open. Pour in the rice, boil
twenty minutes with buttered paper under
the cloth; turn cut. When cold cover
with custard. -.. -ft re-. ,aIr
| For LUNCHEoN.-A nice little dish may
be made of hard-boiled eggs in the follow
ing manner: Cut the eggs in half, teat up
the yelks in mortar with a little anchOvy
paste and butter, pepper and salt; then
refill the whites of the eggs and serve with
a garnish of watercress.
| A RICE PUDDNG.-1 quart rich milk, }
tea cup rice, do sugar, little salt, raisins
to taste. Bake very slowly, stirring often
until you wish the crust to form. Flavor
with nutmeg and cinnamon, or either
alone. This pudding should bake several
hours with an even and very moderate
heat. When properly baked it is delicious.
HAM AND EGGs.-The association OF
eggs with ham is of such honored anti
putty that it would be unwIse to disturb
it. Break eggs, then, one by one into a
pan in which ham has been lightly and
quickly browned-not dried up-and fry
them light brown on the under side by
this time they will have assumed cOnsis-
tency on the top, and must be taken up
carefully with a fish-slice or skinner,
without turning, and placed round the
edge of the dish, the ham occupying the
centre. s.. -,.. -.. ..-.. ... - .
| HOUSEHOLD MEASURES.-As all families
are not provided with scales and weights
referring to ingredients in general use by
every housewife, the following information
may be useful: -
Wheat flour, quart is pound.
Indian meal, quart is l pound and
ounces. -.rrrs.fi i-
Butter, when soft, quart is pound
ounce.
| Loaf-sugar, broken, ! quart is pound
! White sugar, powdered, l quart is
pound l ounce.
Best brown sugar, quart is l pound
ounces.
Eggs, average size. 10 eggs are pound
Sixteen large tablespoontuls area pint
s are gill, 4 are ! gill, &c. ....f.
/ DELAWARE BIsCUIT-Take as much flOu
as will do and use judgment with regart
to the amount Of lard. Some folks like
more some less. They are neither sc
light nor good when too greasy. PHl
salt to the taste and rub it all together
then add cold water slowly and as little
as will possibly answer. Make the dough
so very stiff that you can neither kneao
nor beat it, with any comfort, until it i.
set away awhile-some twenty or thirty
minutes, when it softens little. Tier
heat it until it is very light, make out the
biscuits and bake in quick oven, which
had better be too hot than too cold
Cover up the dough when set by to soften
They bake in fifteen or twenty minutes, i
not too large, and when done they fee
very light. r-r r-..I r.r .f .. .... ...