The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-01
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

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three ounces of black pepper, half an
ounce of sage, and tablespoonful of
red pepper.
SILKS and woolens may be dyed
blue, as follows: Take water one gallon,
sulphuric acid wineglassful, I'M
perial blue one tablespoonful, or more
according to shade desired. Put in the
goods and boil ten minutes; then wash
in a weak solution of soap lather.
ITALIAN CREAM-One pint ofcream,
one-half pint of milk, one cup of
sugar; one cup of wine, to be whipped
one-half hour; one-half box gelatine,
dissolved in one-half pint of water;
mix with other ingredients. Use milk
in place of cream if it can not be OBJ
tanned.
Corn BREAD.-Four eggs, two cups
sour milk, two cups sweet milk, three
tablespoonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful
soda, lard size of hens egg, which
must be melted before mixing, one
teaspoonful salt, corn-meal to make
batter thin enough to pour Bake in
hot, quick oven.
SUGARED PorCoRN.-One cup OF
| white sugar, half cup of water, boil
till it taffies, and sprinkle in the pop
corn as much rs the pan will hold.
If nicely popped this will sugar two
quarts of corn. Stir well, so that 1T
does not stick together. The grains
ought to he separated.
DRIED BEEF FRIzzLED IN CREAM
Chip the beef as thin as paper with a
very sharp knife. Melt i'll frying
pan butter the size of an egg, stir the
beef about in it for two or three mini
utes, dust in little flour, add half a
tcaspoonful of rich cream, give boil
UP, and serve in covered dish.
How TO Cook SALT PoRK.-Many
people do not relish salt pork fried,
but it is quite good to soak it in milk
two or three hours; then roll it i'll In
dian meal and fry to a light brown.
This makes good dish with mashed
turnips, or raw onions cut in vinegar !;
another way is to soak it overnight in
skinned milk and bake like fresh pork;
it is almost as good as fresh roastpork.
SMALL, round tables of plain wood
may be made very handsome by cover
ing them with black cloth, velvet, vel
veteen, or satin, fall of yak lace, four
or five inches deep, being an exceed
ingly rich finish. A strip of the mate
rial used for covering the top of the
table ought to be put around the edge
as lining to the lace, being careful
not to stretch too tightly. If gilt
nails are not easily procured, the lace
may be simply stitched on.
APPLE PUDDING.-Fill wel[but-
tered pudding dish with alternate lay
ers of bread crumbs from stale-loaf
and tart, juicy apples. Sprinkle the
apple thickly with sugar, to which add
flavoring 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 Before it
is done whisk the whites of three eggs
to froth, with two tablespoonful of
powdered sugar and bit of lemon.
Spread it lightly over the whole, and
return to the oven to set.
HOME MADE CREAM CANDY.-To
coffee-cupful of white sugar add two
tablespoonful of water to dissolve it,
and boil, without stirring, in bright
tin-pan until it will crisp in water like
molasses candy. Just before it is done
put in a teaspoonful of extract of va
nilla, or lemon or peppermint essence,
and a quarter of a teaspoonful of
cream tartar. When done pour into a
buttered pan, and when cool enough to
handle, work it as you would molasses
candy until it is perfectly white, then
stretch and lay on marble slab or
molding-board; with chopping-knife
cut into mouthfuls and lay it on butter
paper ON a plate. When children
want candy, by all means let them
have that made at home, and they will
not eat plaster of paris-chalk, starch,
and poisonous compounds, which de-
range their stomachs and ruin their
teeth.
PRETTY wall-pockets, or paper-cases,
may be made as follows Take stiff
pasteboard and cut two pieces for back
and front the back should be consid-
erably the highest: cut long, narrow,
triangular pieces for the sides. Now
cover all the pieces with rep, velvetecn,
| merino, or any nice material; green or
crimson will be most likely to harmo-
nize best with walls, furniture, &c.
Green paper will do, which must be
pasted smoothly on, with the edges all
folded over If the other materials
are used they must be nicely fastened
with needles and thread. For a Dor
der around all the edges, smooth leath-
er cut in strips and pinked or scallop-
ed. There will be a variety of ways to
suggest themselves of celebrating upon
the description here given, and really
elegant articles NAV be formed. These
paper cases may either be suspended by
cords or hung upon ANAL driven in the
wall
To MAKE STRAW PICTURE-FRAMEs.-
Pick out from bundle of straws those
without flaws. 1t takes five for each
part of the frame. Arrange them thus:
Put one long straw in the center, a
chOi OiiC Oh CttCu d
again on each side of these; sew them
together Mt the back with some
strong cotton. When you have the
top, bottom and sides ready, fasten
them together at the corners in the
form of an Oxford frame, placing
the top and bottom ones in front Of
the sides. Then make four small pieces
of three straws in each, the center
one the longest, and fasten them cross
wise to each corner by means of a
piece of ribbon tied round the ribbon
is to hide where the parts of the frame
are joined together. The picture is
fastened in with narrow ribbon, crossed
over at the back and brought
through between the straws on each
side ofthe frame, then passed over the
center straw through to the back and
| firmly sewed. This ribbon has a very