The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-07
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
If a door does not shut without a
slam put drop of sweet oil on the
catch if it creaks put oil on the hinges.
Soap will do, but not SO we'll.
DRoP-CAKE.-Put six we'll beaten
eggs into a pint of thick cream, add a
little salt, and make into thick batter.
Bak, in small cups fifteen or twenty
minutes.
ICE WATER should not be used for
dissolving seidlltz powders, as the cold
condenses the escaping gas (carbonic
acid) as it forms, and prevents effer-
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
fuls of cream tartar.
RHUBARB leaves freshly gathered
from the garden and placed near the
crevices where cockroaches are found
are said to be invaluable for exterminat-
ing these troublesome insects.
COTTAGE PUT DINa.-One-h half cup OF
sugar, one egg, one cupful OF cream,
one pint of flour, one heaping teaspoon
full of Taylor's cream yeast. Bake In a
III.
sw Get 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 !;
Che eggs, we'll beaten and strained, the
sugar powdered, and few drops of
almond flavor. Bake in small cups in
q cool oven.
SOIL FOR FRUITS. The Gardeners
rules for selecting the best soils for
the different fruits: GA light, dryish
soil for the peaches; strong, 1oamy
the plum heavy loan for the apple
! Il + On limestone, all the better and for
the cherry q soil similar to that OF the
peach"
RIPE TOMATO PIcK1Es.-One peck
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 of
cotton Goth over it. Let remain for six
weeks. They are then fit for use. The
tomatoes must be perfect or they will
not keep.
To CLEAN P-CHIMNEYs.-Put the
chimneys in strong soda and water let
it be Only moderately hot. The longer
they lie in it the better. Rinse in cold
water, drain and polish by rubbing with
. soft cloth. In trimming kerosene
lamps, it is necessary only to remove
the cinders. The wick shcu be nearly
square, as O curved wick, though burn
ing clearly, will not give SO much light.
WASHINGTON CikE.@Two cupfuls of
white sugar, one cupful of butter, one
cupful of sweet milk, four eggs. Beat
the whites and yelks separately, add
three cupfuls of dour, half a teaspoonful
of soda and q teaspoonful of cream OF
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 it
boil up in q 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 in 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-neitber to press too much nor
too little. It 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 a 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. It shows (if such a word is
proper) the extreme sensitiveness of
milk to the least impurity in the ut.
mosphere, and its rapid power of alb.
sorption. The difficulty was entirely
removed by putting in tin ventilGting
tube, leading from the top OF the chin
ney to the out side of the roof. The
butter 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-
BILE OF holding fifty or eighty litres,
and immersed in reservoirs Of water
possessing natural low temperature of
forty-two degrees the churning also
takes place at low temperature, aud
takes generally forty five 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 slopipg sides to run off the ex-
pressed milk. One merchant packs for
expectation twenty five hundred weight