The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-20
HOME INTERESTS.

GINGER BREAD pint molasses, 4
cup butter, cup sour milk, teaspoon
fuls ginger, of soda, 2 eggs, cups
-four.
RYE AND INDIAN MUsH.-Use two
parts rather coarse corn meal and one
part rye meal, stirring in the corn meal
first and cooking awhile if desired, then
adding the rye meal, stirring very care
fully; cover close and cook slowly
hour or more.
CRANBERRY RoLL.-Stew 8 quart of
cranberries in sufficient water to keep
them from burning. Make it very
sweet, strain and cool. Make paste,
and when the cranberry is cold, spread
it on the paste about an inch thick, roll
it, tie it close in flannel cloth, boil 2
hours, and serve with sweet sauce.
CHEAP CURTAINs.-One of the most
agreeable materials for curtaining win
dows is coarse unbleached cotton. The
irregularity of the thread and the rough
ness of the surface gives its soft folds
much the charm of Russia crash, and
its hue warns the light of cool, north
windows almost to the glow of sun
shine.
To Cook OATMEAL, ETC.-In cook
ing oatmeal, hominy, wheaton grits,
cracked wheat, or any of those nice
breakfast dishes, cook it in a covered
tin dish set in kettle OF boiling water;
in this manner there is no danger of
scorching. Corn-starch pudding, sea-
moss, farina, and all other articles mix
ed with milk, can be cooked in the same
way.
MEAT AND RUSK PUDDINGs.-ChO
any kind of cold meat with salt pork or
ham, season it well with butter, pepper
and salt, and add 2 or 3 beaten eggs.
Then make alternate layers of wet rusk
ny or rice, and bake half or three quar-
tiers of an hour. Let the upper layer be
crumbs, and cover with a plate while
baking, and when nearly done take it off
to brown the the top.
FRUIT CANs.-Those who have emp
tied their fruit cans of their first contents,
and are fortunate enough to have green
apples, may now fill them with apple
sauce for future use. Favored with
lemon or black raspberries, and put up
hot, like other fruit, this sauce is pre-
ferable to good dried apples. Some
chop cabbage fine and pack tightly in
glass cans, covering it with cold cider
vinegar, seal them up, and find them
an excellent resource when the warmer
season comes on. 1t keeps well in this
way.
FRIED CHICKEN.-Cuta cold chicken
into small joints and put them in
deep dish, covering them with some
chopped parsley, onion, salt, pepper,
and a little salad oil; and squeeze over
all the juice of lemon; let the chick
en- remain in this three or four hours,
turning the pieces every now and then;
then take them out, dredge each piece
with -four and fry them. Pile high on
dish, and pour a good gravy sauce,
seasoned, and favored with sweet herbs,
around it.
To Cook BEANs.-When beans are
kept over year or more they become
rather difficult TO cook tender One
way to accomplish it is to soak them
over night in soft water, and in the
morning put them to boil, putting a
quarter of a teaspoonful of soda in the
water. The water must be turned off
as soon as it boils, and changed two or
three times. Have teakettle of boil
ing water ready 10 cover them when the
other is poured off, as cold water hard
= 4k1r- -,
crack open they should be put in the
oven, with piece of pork previously
freshened, and water enough to keep
them from burning, and bake a couple
of hours. Beans are a healthful and
convenient dish and should often appear
on farmers table, being as good or
better when cold than they are when
just cooked.