The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-11
THE HOUSEHOLD.
LErTnCE bREssING.

LETTUCE DRESSING.
Five eggs beaten together, level tea
spoonful of salt, same of pepper. table
spoonful each of butter, cream and mixed
mustard, and half a teacupful of weak
vinegar. Put all into tin bucket and
place it in a vessel Of boiling water, stir
ring all the time until it thickens. When
cold, add four tablespoonful of salad oil.
This dressing is also very nice used with
sweetbreads-say three or four pairs, after
they have been cleaned, boiled in salt
and water, and chopped up. Mix the
sweetbreads thoroughly with the dress
| ing; place a tablespoonful of this in the
middle of each leaf, with smaller leaves
around it Serve for lunch, dinner or
tea.
APPLE MANIOCA.
One quart of water, three large table
spoOnfuls of manioca boil in a farina
| boiler until clear as Jelly, from twenty
to thirty minutes; then add small piece
of butter and cupful of white sugar.
Pare and quarter apples enough to cover
the bottom of a baking dish; sprinkle
with white sugar and water; bake for
| fifteen minutes. Crate nutmeg over the
| apples; pour on the manioca, and bake
until the apples are tender and clear. To
| be eaten cold, with sugar and cream.
DANPNESS.
| For damp closets and cupboards which
| generate mildew, a trayful of quick-lime
will be found to absorb moisture and rem
der the air pure, but of course it is nee
essary to renew the lime from time to
time, as it becomes fully Stacked. The
last remedy will be found useful in safes
and strong rooms, the damp air of which
acts frequently most iniuriOusly on the
valuable deeds and documents which
they contain.
PEACH TAPIOCA.
Soak halfa pint of tapiOca in half pint
of cold water for several hours. Fill
baking dish about half full of canned
peaches, without the sirup, sprinkle the
peaches with sugar, and bake for half an
hour. Add half a pint of peach strip to
the tapioca, some boiling water and sugar,
boil until it is perfectly clear, pour it
over the peaches, and bake for another
half hour. Serve with sugar and cream,
when cold.
WATERPROOF CLOTHS.
A good process for water-prOofngc cloths
is to dip them in a solution of sulphate
of alumnia or alum cake, and afterward
in a warm solution of white CASTLE or
curd soap. Ordinary soap may answer
for dark cloths, but white soap is essen
tial in the case of white or light-colored
goods. The cloths are then to be rinsed
in clear cold water and allowed to dry.
APPLE CHARLOTTE.
| Pare and chop some apples fine; butter
an earthenwaTe baking-dish; put layer
of stale bread crumbs in the bottom
then a layer of apples, then another layer
of crumbs; sprinkle very thickly with
brown sugar, nutmeg, and pieces of but
ter; keep on so until the dish is filled,
ending with crumbs; sprinkle over the
top half a cupful of water; bake, and
eat with rich cream.
ENGLISH MUFFINs.
! Make a sponge over night as for bread,
using nothing but yeast, flour, little
salt, and tepid water In the morning
heat it up well and pour into muffin
rings upon the griddle. The batter
should be just stiff enough to drop (nOt
run) from spoon.
To MAKE GOOD MoLAssEs.
One pint white coffee sugar, one pint
molasses, one tablespoonful vinegar, one
tablespoonful of butter cook slowly a
long time unfit it "strings" from the
spoon when dipped up; pour upon 3
CREASED tin pan; then pull it till 1T be-
comes white.
COFFEE CAKE
One cup brown sugar, one cup mo-
Iasses, one-half cup each butter and lard
one cup cold coffee, two eggs, one table
spoonful cinnamon, one of cloves, one o.
grated nutmeg, one tablespoonful soda
one pound each currants and raisins.
JELLY ROLLS.
Three eggs, one cup of sugar, one tea
spoonful of cream tartar, one-half tea
spoonful of soda, one cup of -four; pour
it thin into baking pan; bake slowly
spread jelly over it, and roll it up. WTaT
in a cloth.
JUMBLES WITHOUT EGGS.
One cup of lard or butter, two cups OF
sugar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one
teaspoonfUl cream tartar, one cup milk
flour enough to roll; flavor to taste; roll
and bake in tins in hot oven.
EGG KISSES.
Beat the whites of four eggs, then put
in gradually pound of pulverized sugar
season with a spoonful of extract Of lemon
Drop small quantities in letter paper, and
bake in quick oven.
POURING TEA.
The Housekeeper says: There is more
to be learned about pouring tea and cOE
fee than most ladies are willing to be-
lieve. If those decoctiOns are made at
the table, which is by far the best way,
they require experience, judgment and
exactness; if they are brought on the
table ready made, it still requires judg.
ment so to apportion them that they
shall prove sufficient in quantity for the
family party, and that the elder mem
bers shall have the stronger cups. Often
persons pour out tea who, not being at
all aware that the first cup is the weak
est, and that the tea grows stronger as
you proceed, bestOw the poorest cup upon
the greatest stranger and give the strong
est TO a very young member of the fam
lily who would have been better without
any. Where several cups of equal
strength are wanted you should pour q
little into each, and then go back, in
verting the order as you fill them up
and the strength will be appOrtioned
properly. This is so we'll understood in
England that an experienced pourer Of
tea waits till all the cups of the company
are returned to her before she fills any 8
second time, that all may share alike.
|
THE ADVANCING PLAGUE.-The Lon
don Times, the Lancet and other English
Journals appear to be getting really
alarmed about the continued approach
of the plague. The disease has beer
absent from England and the continent
more than one hundred and fifty years
and from its once favorite haunts il
Egypt, Syria and Mesapotamia for about
forty years. During the last two yea
the disease has appeared now and agai
in villages on the lower Euphrates, and
it has now broken out at Hillah, and
several severe cases have occurred al
Bagdad. The recent outbreaks have
shown no diminution of the old virulence
) and. i'm the Onininn of the Times there