The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-05
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
EMILY FAITHFUL,

EMILY FAITHFUL,
in speaking of poisonous calicoes,
says: awe had better give wide
berth to violet ground and white fig
iires, or brownish-yellow pattern"
SALLY LUNN.
-Four cups sugar, one cup butter, one
of cream, five eggs, and one spoonful OF
yeast. Add as much -four as will make
it as stiff as thick fritter batter. When
light bake in large tin.
brtHfHERtA.
DIR. Revillout states that lemon juice,
used as a gargle, is an efficacious speci-
fic against diphtheria and similar throat
troubles. He has successfully thus
employed it for eighteen years.
STEAMED APPLES.
Pare and haive good, sour apples,
remove the cores, and place them in
steamer over a kettle of boiling water;
when tender, serve with sugar and
cream, and imagine they are peaches.
foP-ovERs.
, Four eggs, four clips Of fine Graham
-four, four cups of milk, or simply
good milk and the best white flour made
into d rather soft batter. These may
be baked in gem-tins OF gem-irons, or
small cups, which should be previously
heated. Bake in a hot oven and eat
with fruit-sauce.
wHITEwAsH.
= Mix some fresh-slacked lime with
water till it it is of the consistency of
cream, dissolve small lump of cope
ras in warm water; when cold, mix
with the 1ihfe watef. Lay it ON the
walls with large brush, taking care
to stir ub the mixture every time the
british is dipped into il.
BREAKFAST MUFFINs.
This recipe will be valued by house
keepers as dainty substitute for bread
at breakfast or tea: Two eggs well
6eateii, With d Gupful of, sugar and a
lump of butter the size Of ali egg; to
this add one pint of milk, with tea
spoonful of soda, one quart of flour,
and two tablespoonful of cream tartar;
bake in muffin-rings on top of the range,
or in gem-pans i'll a quick oven.
LEMON PIE.
Three eggs lsave the whites of two),
juice and peel of one lemon, one cup
Of boiling water, one tablespoonful of
CORR -four, one cup of sugar. Crate
the lemon and pour the boiling water
over the juice and peel; beat the eggs
with the corn -four and add 'tocthe
boiling water let it cool before adding
the sugar. Beat the whites. of the
eggs with one tablespoonful of sugar,
and spread OIL the top of the pic.
OATMEAL PUDDING.
! + Mix two ounces of fine Scotch oat-
meal in a quarter of pint-of milk !;
add to it a pint Of boiling milk !;
sweeten to taste, and stir over the fire
for ten minutes; then put in two ounces
of sifted bread crumbs; stir until the
MIXTURE is stiff; then add one ounce of
shred suet and one Or two well-beaten
eggs; add little lemon favoring or
grated nutmeg. Put the pudding into
buttered dish, and bake slowly for an
hour.
| TO PREVENT GLUE FROM CRACKING.
T. Glue frequently cracks because of
the dryness of the air lin rooms heated
by stoves. An Austrian contemporary
recommends the addition of a little
chloride of calcium to prevent this
dissgreeable property Of cracking.
Chloride of calcium is such a deliques-
cent salt that it attracts enough mois,
'ture to prevent the glue from crack
ing. Glue thus prepared will adhere
to glass, metal, ETC., and can be used
for putting on labels without danger of
their dropping off.
=AGUE CURE.
The Prairie Farmer gives the fol
lowing recipe as an infallible cure for
chills and fever, obtained from a
Frenchman who had practiced medi-
cine with the Indians, viz: Get an
ounce of camphor, all in one piece, if
possible, sewing it up in small bag,
hanging it around the neck with a
piece of tape, SO it would come at the
bottom of the sternum, or breast-bone,
and securing it there with another
tape around the body, to keep it in
place. This, he said, would evaporate
in week or ten days, when he must
get another and use it in the same
way. Twa.punces thus used, costing
twenty cents, would cure, he declared,
the worst case of ague so that it would
never come back.
APPLE PUDDING.
Fill a well-buttered pudding-dish
with alternate layers of bread-crumbs
from stale loaf, and tart, juicy apples.
Sprinkle the apples thickly with sugar,
to which add favoring of nutmeg.
Over each layer of bread-crumbs throw
small pieces of fresh butter The
under layer should be bread-crumbs,
the top layer apples. Bake half to
three-quarters of an hour. just be-
fore it is done, whisk the whites of the
three eggs to froth, with two table
spoonsfuls of powdered sugar and a
bit of lemon. Spread it lightly over
the whole, and return to the oven to