The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-25

| Tor TEN minutes, ana bnen serve. Inc
grains will be found double the usual
size, and quite distinct from each other.
| SCALnoPPED TOMATOES. Peel half a
dozen large tomatoes, scaldinP them if
necessary; TO the pulp add two table
spoonfuls 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 piece
of soda, dissolve if 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.
CUsTARD FOR CAKE.-One pint Of new
milk, l egg, tablespoonful of flour, 1
of corn starch flavor same as cake,
sweeten to taste, boil until thick in a
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 as
above, substituting the yelks for the
whites of eggs, and changing the flavor
Use a teaspoonfu1 of extract OF lemon,
or the same quantity of powdered mace.
In filling a silver basket, these two vari-
cites of cake supplement each other very
nicely. especially if baked in very small
rounding ctps. 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, so 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 flour, two large table
| spOonfuls of butter, grated rind and
| Juice of lemon, four eggs, two and a
! half cupfuls of milk, very small tea
| spoonful of bicarbonate of soda, three
| teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar. Rub
| the butter in the flour, 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 as soon as possible after
ward. Flavor simply with two small
nUtmegs or one large one, and add one
pound of dried currants.
RYE AND INDIAN LoAF.-ScaId three
pints of very coarse corn meal Gas coarse
as that ground for horse feed) with
three pints boiling water. Add one
gill molasses and three pints of rye
meal frye 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 1ei 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 a
pretty good oven, with declining fire
at night, and have it ready for break
fast the next morning. Serve warm or
cold-better warm.
To WASH LACE, ETC.-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 ana
shaking out again till they are clean.
Rinse them in some more clean hot
water and well soap them again, and
put them into a saucepan with enough
hot water to cover them. Soft water is
best, but if that cannot be procured,
add piece of soda-say q quarter of
IN ounce to half-gallon of water, &C
cOrding to the hardness of the water.
Boil for half an hOur. Then wash them
out again, and rinse in cold blue water,
Hang them out on a clothes horse till
dry, when they can be starched. Lastly,
roll them up in n dry cloth for two
hours, by which time they will be fit to
iron.
APPLE FI0AT.-This dessert is espe-
cially recommended for use in early
spring, when the housekeeper's stock of
sweets is apt to run low. Stew one
quart of dried apples, of fair quality,
until perfectly tender and we'll done, |
making them very sweet (half a pound |
of sugar will probably sufice), add fla
voring to your taste with some mild |
spice or pure extract of lemon. When |
the fruit is sufficiently cooked, spread |
it on a 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 up stiff and dry, mix them |
with the apples. Serve the float in a
glass bowl, and have ready to use with
ii small pitcher of cream or very rich
milk. With the addition of basket of
cake 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 DESTROYER The Journal of
Chemistry publishes a recipe for the
destruction of in. ec.s, which, if it be
One-half as eficaciOus as it is claimed to
be, will prove invaluable. Hot alum
water, it says, will destroy red and black
ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz-bugs,
and all the crawling pests which infest
our houses. Take two pounds of alum,
and dissolve it in three or four quarts
of boiling water. Let it stand on the
fire till the alum disappears; apply it
with a brush, while nearly boiling hot,
to every joint and crevice in the floor of
the skirting of mop-boards if You sus-
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a ceiling, plenty of alum
is added to the lime, it will also serve
to keep insects at distance. Cock
reaches will flee the paint which has
been washed in cool alum water.
Sugar barrels and boxes can be freed
from ants by drawing chalk mark just
around the edge of the top of them.
The mark must be unbroken, or they
will creep over it; but a continuous
chalk mark, half an inch wide, will set
thelr 10r-~4otions at naught. Pow
dered alum and bOInA ~ 30, o!,iptz-
bugs at a respectable dlstahvSI -
travellers should always carry package
in their hand bags to scatter over and
under their pillows In places where
they have reason to suspect the presence
of such bed-fellows.
Our Neighbour.
One of our church societies has long |
baa,, vvraStliuor with the uueStiOD. HWlO |