The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-20
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

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full of pearlash in little new milk,
aud set it by in a warm place. Then
cream one pound of butter, and add
to it two pounds flour, nine eggs well
beaten), and one pint of molasses.
Beat the whole well together, andthen
add wineglassful of brandy and
teacupful of sweet cream.
Meat boiled for table use should be
plunged at once into boiling water, as
the heat contracts the outer surfaces
and coagulates the albumen, thus pre-
venting the escape of the jucies. Pre-
pared for stock or broth, it should be
placed on the fire in cold water, as the
umconfined juices are free to pass into
the liquor surrounding it.
PICKLED ONIoNs.-Peel some small
onions, and lay them in salt and wa
ter for one shifting them once
during that time. Dry them in a
cloth. According to the quantity of
your onions, take sufficient white wine
vinegar, cloves, mace, and a little pep
per; boil this pickle, and then pour it
over the onions. When cold, cover
them closely.
Before washing almost any colored
fabrics, soak them in water, to each
gallon of which a spoonful of ox-ggall
has been added. A tea-cupful of I've
in pail of water is said to improve
the color of black goods. A strong tea
of common hay will improve the color
of French linens. Vinegar in the
rinsing water, for pink and green, will
brighten those colors, and soda answers
the same end for both blue and purple.
HEAT is perfect antidote to faint
in milk in all its phases. Passing milk
through charcoal will remove faint
from warm milk, and give it a most
delicious flavor. Cold will silence the
activity of the yeast, but will not kill
it, and activity will assert its sway upon
the first favorable opportunity. In the
treatment of milk, airing is a more
efficient antidote.
For damp closets and cupboards
which generate mildew trayful OF
auick-lime will be found to absorb the
moisture and render the air pure, but
of course it is necessary to renew the
lime from time to time as it becomes
fully slaked. The last remedy will be
] found useful in safes and Synonymous,
the damp air of which acts frequently
most injuriously on the valuable deeds
and documents which they contain.
PoACHED EGGS WITH FRIED HAM
Fry the ham, take a clean frying Oh
omelet-pan, nearly fill it with boiling
water, set it over a gentle fire, break
the eggs singly into a cup and slip each
into boiling water, cover the pan fol
four or five minutes done, take
them up with skinner on dish,
sprinkle little pepper and salt over,
add bit of butter, and serve in dish
Grover the ham.
A CHILD's bed should slope a little
from the head to the foot, so that the
head may be a little higher than the
feet; but never bend the neck to get
the head on the pillow. This makes
the child round-shouldered, cramps the
veins and arteries, and interferes with
the free circulation of the blood.
Even when child is several years old
the pillow should be thin and made of
hair, not feathers.
1t is said that water lilies may be
| raised about ones house by the follow
ing method: Sink in the ground the
half of an oak cask, and cover the bot
tom with Icat and swamp mud and
then fill with water. Dig the lily
roots early in the spring, and place
them in the earth at the bottom of the
tub. A gentleman who has tried the
experiment has number of lilies in
| bloom.
DoUGHNuTs. -One-and-a-hal pints
of rich milk, half a pint of melted
butter and lard, half a teacupful of
sugar, some salt, half of a small sized
tablespoonful of ground cinnamon,
and four eggs, well beaten. Let your
dough rise in your crock, and then
make it up into loaf not very stiff.
Afterward work it up again, cut out
your cakes, and let them rise before
yoI, bake them