The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-14

fine, after cutting open and clearing Of
seeds ard stems ; about a peck OF large,
smooth, green tomatoes, sliced about
half an inch thick /; one-fourth pound
each OF ground cloves and cinnamon
half q pint of whole mustard seed, anda
small teacupful OF salt. The cabbage,
peppers, salt and spices mix intimately
and then put in jars or a tub-first a
thin layer of cabbage, ETC., and then one
of tomatoes, and thus alternately, top
ping off with the cabbage and peppers.
Over the whole pour boiling hot cider
vinegar sufficient to thoroughly saturate
the same and let it stand oven with the
tor of the pickle. Cover tight and leave
to stand till cool, then set away. 1t Is
fit to eat in two days.
A BATCH OF RECIPES.
Potato Satad.- Gut u dozen cold
boiled potatoes in thin slices and mix
them thoroughly with q little onion
chopped very fine, o teaspoonful OF
salad oil or melted butter, a chopped
apple, a bit of parsley and half o !glil
Of vinegar. This makes a nice relish
for tea or lunch.
Kerosene oil for Furniture. -kero.
sene oil is the best furniture oil 1t
cleanses, adds a polish and preserves
from tho ravages OF insects.
Candy Two cupfuls of sugar, two
large tablespoonful of vinegar and half
a cupful of water. Boil together and
add vanilla or lemon for flavor. 1t
must be worked before it is very cold.
Chocolate for the sich.-When an in
valid uses chocolate, it should be made
in the ordinary way and then suffered
to stand until cold. The oily parts
collected on the surface should be taken
off. Then boil the liquid again, and
add sugar and milk, as usual.
To Make Hair Curl.-The method
employed by professional workers in
hair is as follows. Wet the hair to be
curled, wrap it smoothly around cylin.
drical stick or tube of proper size, tie
it in place, thon put it in water and boil
it two or three hours, remove it from the
boiler, wrap it carefully in a newspaper
and bake it in a moderate oven for an
hour. Thus treated, it will stay in curl
permanently.
Baltimore Corn Bread.-One quart
OF milk, one pint Indian meal, three
eggs, one quarter pound butter. Boil
the milk, and with it scald the Indian
meal stir in gradually the meal and
butter when cold add tho eggs. Bake
in square tins, and half an inch thick OF
butter when put in pans. An excellent
recipe.
Rice Poncakes.-Bo half n pound
of rice to q jelly. When cold, mix it in
u pint of cream, four eggs, a little salt
and nutmeg. Stir in eight ounces OF
butter, just warmed, and add as much
flour AZ will make the batter thick
enough. Fry in as little lard as
possible.
Castor Oil for Corns. The Southern
Medical Record says that castor oil ap-
piled to the corn, after pairing closely,
each night before going to bed, soitens
the corn and it becomes as tho other
flesh.
Boran Soap for Bleaching Ciothes.-
One ounce borax, eight quarts water,
three pounds of soap. Put the borax
in tie water and let it boil. After it
boils add the soap in small slices.
Apple Cu8tard.- Stew three pints OF
apples, mash, and add four eggs, well
beaten, one.quarter of a pound OF but
ter, sugar to taste, and nutmeg bake
on u crust.
Co6ce.-Never boil coffee. The req
son is that not only the better part (the
exhila.ating) escapes, bnt that the ez-
t~rac:ive properties, which, il largely
uaed, are unhealthy, are alone present.
Bring mp to the boiling point, but do
not boil it. You thus get sufficient OF
the eztrsc!ive matter to give body, re
tanning oil the volatile, healthy and
relishing properties.
To Mend Chinaware. Take a very
thick solution of gum.Arabic, and stir
il into plaster OF Paris until the mixture
is of a proper consistency. Apply it
with q brush to the fractured edgea OF
the chiuaware and stick them together,
In a few days it will be impossible to
break the article in the same place. The
Wilderness of the cement renders it
doubly valuable.