The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-06
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

If a door does not shut without 6
slam put q drop of sweet oil on the
catch if it creaks put oil on the hinges.
Soap will do, but not so well.
DRoP-CAKE.-Put six we'll beaten
eggs into a pint of thick cream, add
IiftIe salt. and make into a thick batter.
Bake in small cups fifteen or twenty
minutes.
ICE.wATER should not be used fol
dissolying seidlitz powders, as the cold
condenses the escaping gas (carbonlc
acid as it forms, and prevents etfer'
vescence.
SODA CAKE.-Two cupfuls of sugar,
one-half cupful of sweet milk, with one
teaspoonful of soda dissolved into it
four cupfuls of flour, and two teaspoon
fuIs of cream tartar.
RHUBARB leaves freshly gathered
from the garden and placed near the
creyices where cockroaches are found
are said to be invaluable for exterminat
ing these troublesome insects.
COTTAGE PUDD1NG.-One- half cup oil
sugar, one egg, one cupful of cream,
one pint of flour, one heaping teaspoon
full of Taylor's cream yeast. Bake in g
cake-pan. To be eaten with a hot,
sw eet sauce, or with cold cream.
BAKED CUsTARDs. - One pint OF
cream, four eggs, cinnamon, almond
flavor and three ounces of sugar. Boil
the cream with a piece of cinnamon
pour it into basin, and when cold add
the eggs, well-beaten and strained, the
sugar powdered, and a few drops oil
almond flavor. Bake in small cups in
a cool oven.
Soil FOR FRUITS. = The Gardeners
Monthly gives briefly the following
rules for selecting the best soils fol-
the different fruits ga light, drylsl
soil for the peaches strong, loamy
soil for the pear nearly the same fol
the plum heavy loan for the apple
if on limestone, all the better and fol
the cherry soil similar to that of the
peach"
RIPE TOMATO PICKLES. Ore peci
ripe tomatoes, one teacup of salt, one
teacup of mustard, one teacup of cloves
twelve red peppers, horse-radish, one
peck of onions. Cover with weak cider
vinegar. Put several thicknesses o.
cotton Goth over it. Let remain for sil
weeks. They are then fit for use. The
tomatoes must be perfect or they will
not keep.
To CLEAN LAMP CHIMNEYs. Put the
chimneys in strong soda and water lei
it be OILY moderately hot. The Longer
they lie in it the better. Rinse in colo
water, drain and polish by rubbing will
a soft cloth. In trimming kerosene
lamps, it is necessary only to remove
the cinders. The wick should be nearly
square, as a curved wick, though burn
ing clearly, will not give so much light
WASHINGTON CAKE.-Two cupfuls Of
cupful of sweet milk, four eggs. Beat
the whites and yelks separately, ado
three cupfuls of -four, half q teaspoonfu
of soda and teaspoOnful of cream o.
tartar. Bake in round, fiat tin pans
Peel and CRATE two large apples and the
rind of lemon, add also the strained
juice of the latter, one heaping cupful
of white sugar and one egg, and let il
boil up in stew-pan. Pour it out, and
when quite cool pour over the cakes
which must be placed one over the
other in layers, just as in making Jelly.
cake.
PEACHES should be picked into shall.
low baskets, SO as not to bruise from
their own weight, and carried-not
hauled-tO the place where they are
packed snugly i'll boxes for shipping.
The packing must be done in the
orchards. The peaches must not be
emptied out of the baskets, but be
taken out by hand, and placed in the
shipping boxes at once. It requires
good taste and judgment to pack
nicely-neither to press too much nor
too little. 1t will not answer to haul
peaches to town and then again handle
them by putting in shipping boxes.
The peaches will all spoil if thus hand
led, if sent to distant market.
Coal On LAMPS INJURIOUS TO MILK
One of our dairymen, whose butter
has high reputation in this market,
informs US there had latterly been
some complaints about it, the causes of
which he for time was unable to dis
cover, but finally traced it to the fumes
OF coal-Oil lamp used in lighting the
milk-roOm. 1t shows Cif such a word is
proper the extreme constituencies of
milk to the least impurity in the at
mosphere, and its rapid power of alb
sOrptiOn. The difficulty was entirely
removed by putting in tin ventilating
tube, leading from the top of the chin
ney to the out side of the roof. The
bntter was not afterward complained
of.
In Denmark, the country of butter,
and which supplies China and Japan.
as well as England, with this commo-
dity, the mode of its preparation has
completely changed within the last six
teen years. The milk, while warm
from the COW, is placed in vases capa-
bic of holding fifty or eighty litres,
and immersed in reservoirs of water
a natural low temperature of
forty-two degrees the churning also
takes place ut a low temperature, ana
takes generally forty-fiYe minutes. The
butter thus obtained is found to be of
superior quality. The Danes act on
the theory that, to make good butter,
it must never be touched with the
hands. The butter is worked by means
of conical rollers, acting on a plane,
with sloping sides to run off the ex-
pressed milk. One merchant packs for
twenty five hundred weight
of butter per day.