The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
SILVER CAKE.-Whites of 8 eggs, 9
cups sugar, cup butter, ! cup milk, 8
cups -four, 2 spoons baking powder.
CURE FOR FEIoE.-One pint soft
soap. mixed with air-slaked lime put
In leather stall, and change every twenty
minutes.
SPONGE CAKE.-Two and one-half
cups sugar, five eggs, three and one
half cups -four, one cup boiling water,
two teaspOonfuls baking powder.
CHOCOLATE CANDx.-One cup chooo-
late, cup molasses, / cup milk, cup
sugar boil 20 minutes when nearly
done, add piece of butter the size Of
an egg.
BAyARIAN CREAM.-One quart milk.
box gelatine, 2 eggs soak the gela-
tine IN milk before cooking 2 table
spoons white sugar, lemon to favor !;
boil In mold.
Cur CAKE.-One cofEe.cup butter.
two do. sugar, three do. -four, one do.
sweet milk, three teaspoons baking
powder, six eggs, leaving out two yelks;
favor to suit.
FAvoRITE TAPIooA PUDDING.
cup tapioca, soaked over night, 1 cup
sliced apple, 1 lemon peeled and sliced;
bake until the apples are done; serve
with cream.
CHOCOLATE CUsrARD.-Four table,
spoons grated chocolate, pint water !;
let 1t boil 10 minutes pour into pints
Of custard made in the usual way
very nice desert.
Corn NEAL PUDDNa.-One pint boil
ing milk, with one pint meal stirred in.
one pint cold milk, two eggs, one-half
cup sugar, salt and spice bake two and
half hours.
LEMON PIE.-One lemon, three eggs.
hYe tablespoons sugar CRATE the lemon
rlnd into the yelks, and mix the lemon
juice with the sugar; beat the whites.
and mix all together.
VINEGAR PE.-One tea.cup moIasses.
one-half cup vinegar, one egg. small
piece butter boil the molasses, vinegar
and butter, then stir in the egg, add
hour to thIcken. put in the crust and
bake.
SPICED CHERRIES. pounds of
sour cherries, one pint vinegar. CHINA
mon, cloves and mace; boil the strip
on six succeeding mornings the lest
time put In cherries and let come to a
boil.
ONE EGG CAKE.-One and one-haIf
cups sugar, one or two eggs, butter the
size OF an egg; beat smoothly together;
one cup sweet milk, two to two and
one-half cups flour, two teaspoonfuls
baking powder.
SUET PUDDNG.-One cup suet, half. |
cup molasses, one and one-half cups
sweet milk. three cups -four, two spoons
bakIng-powder, one cup raisins. one
cup currants ; butter the pan and steam
two and one-half hours.
BAKERS GINGERBREAD.- cup mo-
lasses, two and one-half CUBS flour.
three tablespoons butter or lard, one
teaspoon soda dissolved in five table
spoons warm water, one tablespoon
ginger, salt, half teaspoon or less of
alum.
CHOCOLATE CAKE.-Whites of two
eggs, chocolate sufficient to thicken,
generally use three small cakes Ger
man prepared ehocolate), sweeten to |
taste. Spread in layers between cakes. !
same as IN jelly cake. Cocoanut cake |
may be made in the same way, using |
grated cocOanut, instead of chocolate. |
QUEEN OF PUDDNes. 1 pint of |
bread crumbs, add 1 pint milk, / cup |
sugar, the yelks of four eggs, well |
beaten, the rind of a fresh lemon.
grated fine, piece of butter the size of |
an egg then bake till well done: now
beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff |
broth, adding teacupful of powdered |
sugar, IN which has been stirred the |
Juice of lemon spread over the pud-
ding a layer of jelly, then pour the
whites OF the eggs over, and place in |
oven till Drowned. Serve with cold |
cream.
THE best time to eat fruit is half an
hour before breakfast.
A FULL bath should not be taken less |
than three hours after a meal. Never |
drink cold water before bathing. Do |
not take cold bath when tired.
LIVING and sleeping in a room which |
the sun never enters is q slow form of |
suicide. A sun bath is the most refresh
ing and life-giving bath that can posi- |
bly, be taken.
WHEN the voice is lost, as is some |
times the case, from the effects of cold, |
a simple, pleasant remedy is furnished |
by beating up the white of one egg,
adding TO it the juice of one lemon, and |
sweetening with white sugar to the |
taste. Take a teaspoonful from time |
to time. It has been known effect |
ually to cure hoarseness.
THE object of brushing the teeth is to
remove the destructive particles of food |
which, by their decomposition, generate |
decay. To neutralize the acid result |
ing from the chemical change is the /
object Of dentifrice. A stiff brush /
should be used after every meal, and a
threak of slid floss or India rubber
passed through between the teeth to
remOva T1artiaiaS of fOOd Rinsinor tho
mouth IN lime water neutralizes the