The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-29
TIE HOUSEHOLD.

Potato PUDDING. Quarter Of a
pound of currants, ditto suet, ditto
flour, ditto boiled potatoes, mashed,
ditto raw grated carrots, one table
spoonful and a half of mOlRsses, and a
little aIlspice and salt. Bake a short
crust one hour little sugar with the
molagses is an Improvement.
CUsTARD.-SWeeten one pint of milk
with little pounded sugar, boil it with
a piece of cinnamon, and the thin rind
of a lemon, strain, and when little
cooled mix gradually the well-beaten
yelks Of four eggs, stir it over slow
fire until it thickens, keep stirring
every now and then till cold.
SATURDAY EVENING BIsCUrrs.-One
pound of fine sugar, half a pound of
almonds and few bitter or es pounded
fine, quarter of q pound of flour, six
eggs, yelks and whites beaten sepa-
rately, the grated rind of two lemons,
some finely-sliced citron peel mix we'll
together, and bake In small tin shapes.
CHEAP VINEGAR.-Take a quantity of
| common Irish potatoes, wash them
until they are thoroughly clean, place
them In large vessel and boil them
until done. Drain off carefully the
water they were cooked in, straining It
| particle of the potato. Then put this
| potato water In q jug or keg, which set
near the stove or IN some place where
| 1t Will be kept warm, add one pound
/ OF sugar to about two and one-half gal
Ions Of water, some hop yeast, or a
| little whisky. Let it stand three or
| four weeks, and you will have excellent
vinegar, at cost of six or seven cents
| per gallon.
TOMATO SoUP.-Take eight middling-
! sized tomatoes, cut them in two, and
removing the pips and watery substance,
| p1t them in a saucepan with bundle
| of sweet herbs, a Glove of garlic, an
onion stuck with three or four cloves,
some allspice, and whole pepper and
salt to taste. Place the saucepan on a
gentle fire, stirring the contents coca
sionally. When the tomatoes are thor
ougAly dene, turn them out on a hair
| sieve, remove the onion, the garlic and
the bundle of sweet herbs; remove also
the moisture that will drip from the
tomatoes; then work them through the
sieve until nothing remains on the top
but the skins. Have a quart of plain
stock boiling hot, stir the tOnato-pulp
into it, and removing the saucepan from
the fire, stir in the yelks of two eggs
! beaten up with a little cold water and
strained. Serve over small dice of
bread fried in butter.
The HEAD OF THE HoUSEHOLD.-Wo-
men sometimes do not value tier bus
bands as they ought. They not unfre-
quently learn the value of q good hus.
band for the first time by the loss OF
him. Yet the husband is the very roof
tree of the house, the corner stone of
the edifice, the keystone of the arch
called home. He is the bread-winner
of the family, its defense and its glory
the beginning and ending of the
golden chain of life which surrounds II
its consider, its lawgiver and its king.
And yet we see how frail is that life on
which SO much depends. When he is
taken away who shall fill his place
When he is Ill, what gloomy clouds
hover over the house When he Is
dead, what darkness, what weeping,
what agony! Then poverty, like the
murderOus assassin, breaks in at the
windows; starvation, like a furnishing
wolf, howls at the door. Widowhood
is too often an associate of sackcloth
and ashes. Orphanhood, too, means
desolation ard woe.
How TO MAKE CHICKEN SALAD, Take
eight large pullets, or two turkeys, anC
boil till well done; pick out all the
bones, SKIN ana lat cut up the bal
anee into small pieces and set it aside
Boil one dozen eggs hard, let them cool
then separate the whites and yelks
Mash the yelks very fine, and choppine
the whites very fine, set them also aside
Get very large fiat dish, put in the
middle of it the yelks Cf the eggs, and
four large tablespoonfuls of mixed mus
tard. Have by you one pint of strong
vinegar, (from your spiced pickle-pot is
BEST and large bottle of pure olive
oil. Pour little oil in the mustard
and with a silver fork rub it in till
smooth then little vinegar, in which
has been melted two good tablespoon
fuls of salt; then oil, etc., alternat-
ing oil with vinegar, and each time rub,
bling it till well mixed. When you
have mixed the whole bottle of oil aud
pint of vinegar, and it is smooth like
butter, then id heaping teaspoonful
of Cayenne pepper, one ounce OF black
pepper and three ounces of celery seed,
rubbed fine In q mortar. Have ready
as much celery as you have fowl, cut
up in pieces One-qUarter of an inch in
length; mix carefully together aud
pour the dressing over all. Serve in
glass or china bowls. The above guam
tity is enough to provide for a party of
eighty or one hundred persons,