The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-03
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
QUEENS CAKE.-Two cups sugar, 1
cup butter, pound -four, eggs, fruit
and spice. .-E.-.
Te RENEW RIBBONS. Wash them in
cool suds made of soap and iron when
damp. Cover with clean cloth and
iron over.
VEkDIaRIs. = To remove verdigris
from a copper boiler scour it with sand
and then wash it with strong solution
of salt and vinegar.
To CLEANSE THE HAIR AND SCALP
Borax, one ounce; camphor, one half
ounce; boiling water, one quart. When
cold, filter for use.
CLABBER CAKE. One cup butter,
three cups sugar, four cups -four. one of
clabbered milk, four eggs, teaspoonful
soda, one and one-half pounds raisins,
citron and spice.
GINGER BKEAD.--Two cups molasses,
one-half cup butter. one tablespoonful
saleratus dissolved in one cup cold
water, tablespoonful ginger, flour to the
consistency of stiff pcund-cake.
Glove CAKE.-One pound -four. 1
pound sugar, pound butter, pound
raisins, 4 eggs, i cup milk, cup cream,
l nutmeg, teaspoon saleratus, 1 table
spoon cloves, cinnamon, and other spices
if agreeable.
Cur CAKE.-One cup sour milk, 8
cups sugar, cups butter, 8 cups -four,
4 eggs, teaspoonful saleratus, nut.
meg. For jambles take 5 eggs, 6 cups
sugar, add drop on buttered tins and
bake in quick oven.
FRUIT stains and stains of red wine
can be nicely removed by applying the
following mixture Equal parts of
Stacked lime, potash and soft soap.
Rab on and expose the garment to the
sun for an hour. Ink stains and iron
mold are removed by salts of lemon or
oxide of potash.
SCoTCH CAKE.-Stir to cream 1
pound sugar, pound butter, add the
juice and grated rind of lemon, and 1
wine-glass of fruit sirup; beat sepa-
rately the yelks and whites of 9 eggs to
O stiff froth, stir them into cake, then
add l pound -four and pound seeded
raisins. r
CUsTARD MERINGE.-One quart milk,
yelks of four eggs, sweeten to your taste;
two tablespoons corn starch, flavor with
lemon and vanilla, ard when well cooked
turned into the dish in which it is to be
served, and cover the top with the we'll
beaten whites and littl5 sugar.
POUND CAKE.-One pound sugar, IA
OF. butter, IL OF. flour, or less, as judg-
ment may dictate, eggs, and l nutmeg.
The butter should be stirred to a cream,
then add the sugar and the yelks of the
eggs, then the whites whipped, and lastly
the -four.
1T is worth knowing that if one vol
ume of castor oil be dissolved in two or
three volumes of spirits of wine it will
render paper transparent, and, the spir-
its rapidly evaporating, the paper in a
few minutes becomes fit for use. A
drawing in pencil or India ink can thus
be made, and if the paper is placed in
spirits of wine the oil is dissolved out,
restoring the paper to its original con-
dition.
TAKE the head from key, fill it with
the handsomest ripe peaches, put in all
the whisky it will hold. then head it up
again. In winter they will be found
beautifully preserved, with the bloom
all on, and with slight soaking and
scaIding in strip, they are delicious
acc impairment to ice cream, far supe-
rior to any branded peaches. The
peach-whisky which remains will be
found excellent for mince-pies and pud-
ding sauce.
BAY RUM is a useful, agreeable and
inexpensive application to the scalp.
Every body should use it, so we will
give formula for making it as good as
can be purchased anywhere, and at
small cost Take oil of bay, ten fluid
drachms oil of pimento, one fluid
drachm acetic ether, two fluid ounces;
alcohol, three gallons water, two and
a half gallons. Mix, and in two weeks
filter it carefully, then you will have a
superior article of bay rum, better than
can be purchased at an extravagant
price, already prepared.
The following is commended by those
who have tried it for scrubbing and
cleansing painted floors, washing dishes,
and other household purposes Take
two pounds of white olive soap and shave
it in thin slices add two ounces of bo-
rax and two quarts of cold water stir
all together in a stone or earthen jar,
and let it stand upon the back of the
stove until the mass is dissolved. A
very little heat is required, as the liquid
need not simmer. When thoroughly
mixed and cooled it becomes of the con-
sistence of thick jelly, and a piece the
size of cubic inch will make lather
for gallon of water.
To REFAsTEN LAMPS. the fountain,
or the glass globe that holds the oil, has
come loose from the standard, it is very
easily remedied by the use of plaster
of Paris. Mix small quantity with
water, making it as thick as cream, and
fill it in between the glass of the foun-
tain ard the hollow in the top of the
standard as quickly as possible. AS it
hardens Immediately, every thing must
be done with promptness. If the foun-
tain is broken in pieces, and there is a
whole bronze or brass standard remain
ing, it will pay to purchase new foun-
tain and set it upon the old standard as
described above. The brass top can be
fastened on in the same way.
The Classification of Sheep.