The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
JELLY RoLL.-Take three eggs, one
cup Of sugar, one cup OF flour, one ia
blespoonful OF butter, four teaspoonfuls
of water, two teaspoonfuls OF baking
powder, one teaspoonful of lemon.
VALLEY SPONGE. oAKE.-Take four
teen eggs, Of which use only seven Of
the yelks, one pound Of sugar, half .
pound OF four, one lemon or table,
spoonful OF strong vinegar favored
with extract of lemon. Bake in Quick
oven.
LEMON PIH.-Grated rind and juice of
one lemon, beaten yelks of two eggs.
four tablespoonful of sugar and one of
melted butter. Bake in one crust add
frosting made of the whites of seven
eggs aud two tablespoonfuls of sugar;
bake three minutes.
sugar, half q cupful of milk, one and q
half cupfuls of flour, haf a cupful of
butter, tho whites of four eggs. one
teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half .
teaspoonfnl Of soda. Flavor delicately,
if you choose, with bitter almond or
vanilla. =
To DRESS R1oE.-A lady recommends
the following: Soak the rice in cold
salt and water for seven hours have
ready stew-pan with boiling water
throw in the rice and let it boil briskly
for ten minutes, and then serve. The
grains will be found double the usual
size, and quite distinct from each other
ScAhLoPPKD ToMAroEs.-Peel half a
dozen hrge tomatoes, scalding them if
necessary; TO the pulp add two table,
spoonfnls OF crumbled bread pepper
and salt to the taste add an ounce of
butter put the whole into buttered
scallop-tins and bake for half an hour.
Some like the addition of little sugar.
HAIR BRUSHES. TO wash hair
brushes, never Use Soap. Take q piece
OF soda, dissolve it in warm water, stand
the brush in it, taking care that the
water only covers the bristles. It will
almost instantly become white and
clean. Place it in the air to dry, with
the bristles downward, and it will be as
firm as a new brush.
CUsrARD FOR CAKE.-One pint of new
milk, egg, 1 tablespoonful of -four, /
of corn starch; flavor same as cake,
sweeten to taste, boil until thick in q
tin or earthen vessel, set it in hot water,
when nearly cool spread on all of the
cakes but one, and put together the
same as jelly cake cover the top layer
with soft icing.
GOLDEN CAKE.-Made precisely rs
above, substituting the. yelks for the
whites of eggs, and changing the flavor.
Use teaspoonfnl of extract of lemon,
or the same quantity of powdered mace.
In filling silver basket, these two vaxi-
cites of cake supplement each other very
nicely, especially if baked in very small
rounding cups, and iced, so as to make
snow balls, which may be cut in half, if
you like.
RYE GEMs.-Take ice-cold water, as
for wheat gems, and stir in good rye
meal, entirely unbolted, sitting with
one hand and stirring with the other
until they are OF a consistency much
thicker than that required for wheat
Experiments with few at first, making
some thicker than others, the last about
as thick as you can stir them, 20 as to
be sure to get the right consistency be-
fore making them for the table. Then
bake them little more than you would
wheat, and serve warm or cold, as you
prefer. We like them warm.
CONCERT CAKE.-One and three
quarter pounds of -four, two large table
spoonfuls of butter, grated rind and
juice of lemon, four eggs, two and
half cupfuls of milk, a very small tea
spoonful of bicarbonate of soda, three
of cream of tartar. Rub
the butter in the -four, mix in we'll the
cream of tartar. then the sugar. Beat
the eggs together, dissolve the soda in
the milk; add these two Ingredients
last and bake a. soon - possible alter
ward. Flavor simply with two small
nutmegs or one large one, and add one
pound of dried currants.
RYE AND INDIAN LoAF.-Scald three
pints OF very coarse corn meal LAS coarse
as that ground for horse feed with
three pints boiling water. Add one
gill molasses and three pints Of rye
meal (rye Graham); mix we'll together
very thoroughly, and make into loaves
three or four inches thick. Set on the
stove where it will simmer up and not
burn, and ht it stand until it raises
enough to crack all over the surface.
Then put into q moderate oven and
bake three hours, or bake two hours
and steam two hours, or put into
pretty good oven, with q declining fire
at night, and have it ready for break
fast the next morning. Serve warm or
cold-better warm.
To WASH LACE, Eru-Lace and fine
things should be washed in hot, soft
water. Well soap them, and squeeze
and shake them out, but on no account
rub them. Repeat the squeezing and
shaking out again till they are clean.
Rinse them in some more clean hot
water and well soap them again, and
put them into saucepan with enough
hot water to cover them. Soft water is |
best, but if that cannot be procured,
add piece of soda-say quarter of
IN ounce to half-gallon of water, &C.
,ording to the hardness of the wster.
Boil for half an hour. Then wash them |
put again, and rinse in cold blue water.
Hang them out on q clothes horse till |
Try, when they can be starched. Lastly, |
roll them up in o dry cloth for two |
hours, by which time they will be ht to |
ron.
APPLE FLoAT.-This dessert is espe-
,ially recommended for use in early
,pring, when the housekeeper's stock Of |
sweets il apt to run low. Stew one
quart of dried apples. of fair quality,
until perfectly tender and well done,
making them very sweet (half q pound
IF sugar will probably suffice), add fla
voring to your taste with some mild
,plce or pure extract OF lemon. When
he fruit is sufficiently cooked, spread
t on large fiat dish, and mash thor
oughly with silver fork. Now, while
The fruit cools, beat up as light as pos
sible the whites of eight eggs, and when
they stand mp stiff and dry, mix them
with the apples. Serve the float in q
glass bowl, and have ready to use with
it small PITCHER of cream or very rich
milk. With the addition of basket of
sake this makes a pretty and, to most
persons, acceptable dessert, the greatest
objection made to it being that it disap-
points from resembling ice cream too
closely in appearance. If perfectly pre-
pared, the color of the float is inviting,
being delicate creamy salmon.
INSECT DEsrRoYER-The Journal of
Chemistry publishes a recipe for the
destruction of insects, which, if it be
as efficacious as it is claimed to