The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-04-27
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

ArPLY soapsuds to n suspected leaky
joint in the gas pipe, The formation of
bubbles will show any escape. This Is
safer than trying the joint with a lighted
match.
FoR BURNS AND ScALDs take the
white Of an egg. and apply Immediately
as n plaster, and the pain will cease al
most instantly. This recipe is nearly al
ways on hand in most families, and moth
ing can be found better.
For AMMONIA CAKES, take n and
a half pounds -four, four eggs, beaten
separately, thrce.quarters pound butter,
one pound sugar, one-half ounce ammo
mia, dissolved in a little cold water, make
into soit dough, roll out, and cut thin.
Bake quickly.
HOUSEKEEPING is in its widest sense
homcmaking. AS there are little details
about cooking and table arrangement
that add 50 much to the excellence of
food in one case and 20 much to the en-
joyment of the family in the other, 50
there are details of arrangement and or
namcntation that brighten and bcautify
the home.
HARD COOKED Eggs are regarded as
indigcstiblc but if they are cooked
slowly for an hour, they are said to be-
conn really excellent, and easily digcsti-
bic, Milk and eggs beat up together
and baked for an hour, slowly, makes a
rich, palatablc, wholesome dish, So
with meats, cook them rare, or cook
them well.
For CALVES OR PICS FEET BLANC
NANCE, boil one set Of rect in four or
five quarts Of water, withoutsnlt. When
reduced to one quart, strain add one
quart Of milk, using any flavor that is
agreeable. Then boil the whole fifteen
minutes, and swcetcn, strain and pour
into mouIds. 1t may be colored, if de-
sirabIe, by extract of cochincal, either
the whole mass or in part. Put into a
mold in alternate layers.
To MAKE CRUSHED BARLEY MUsH,
add one part crushed barley to three
parts boiling water, and boil in double
boiler half or thrce-fOurths Of an hour.
Serve in sauccrs, and while warm sprinkle
over tia little sugar; or eat with milk or
with stewed fruits, especially whortle.
berries. The doublc-boiler may be a
covered tin.paiI or an old fruit'c can, with
the top melted off, set into n boiler of
water. Any one who has tried this way
of cooking the grains will be almost sure
to continue its use.
TO MAKE SCRAP PUDDING, put the
scraps of bread, crust and crumb into a
bowl, with sufficient milk to cover them,
Cover with saucepan-lid, or a plate, and
put into the oven to soak for about half
an hour, Take out and mash the bread
with a fork till it is a pulp; then add a
handful Of ~raisins, and as many Currants,
a teacupful Of brown sugar, half a cupof
milk, some candied lemon peel and one
egg. Stir up well, grease n pudding
dish, and pour the pudding in. Crate
over a little nutmeg, put into n moder-
ate oven, and let it bake for an hour and
Il half.
THERE is a vast difference in the flavor
of eggs. Hens fed on clean, sound grain
and kept on a clean grass run give much
finer favored eggs than hens that have
access to stable and manure heaps and eat
all kinds of filthy food. Hens feeding
on fish and onions flavor their eggs ac-
cordingly, the same as COWS eating onions
or cabbage, or drinking offensive water,
impart a bad taste to the milk and but
ter The richer the food the higher the
color Of the eggs, Wheat and orr give
eggs the best color, while feeding on
buckwheat makes them colorlcss, render.
ing them unfit for some confectionery
purposes.
To MAKE CHARLOTTE Russo, first
line your molds with sponge lady-iin-
gers; you can buy them at any bakery,
and, if fresh, are very nice and save
much trouble. Pack them around the
sides Of the mold, which should be
about AS deep as the fingers are long, so
that they will keep in place firmly.
pour a teacup of boiling water
over one-half box gelatine and dissolve
it thoroughly and leave in a warm place
until ready for it, but don't keep it boil
ing, only warm. Then take one pint of
thick cream from the ice, stir it until it
.thickens, then pour in briskly the gela-
tine, two teaspoonfuls Of vanilla, the
Of seven eggs beaten to a froth,
and II tcacup of powdered sugar; fill
the molds to the top Of the lady-fingcrs
and put in a cool place. This will fill
two good-sizcd molds, and is delicious.
SOME ONE, not long ago, started the
idea that sulphuric acid would totally
stumps. An augur hole was to
be bored in the top, filled with sulphuric
acid, and plugged. In a day or two the
would be eaten up, ever to the
very roots. The experiment was tried
and failed, only a portion of the stump,
at the top, being affected. The following
method is recommended by the Scientific
American: In the autumn bore a hole
one to two inces in diameter, according
the girth of the stump, vertically in
thc center of the latter, and about
eighteen inches deep. Put into it from
me to two ounces saltpctcr; fill the
whole with water and plug up close. In
he ensuing spring take out the plug
md pour in about one-half gill of kcro-
ene oil and ignite it. The stump will
'm0ulder away without blazing to the
very extremity of the roots, leaving
but ashes. Rmrdi Mem Yorker.
CHRONIC DISEASES CURED.-In COM
remote from larger towns there seems
o be but two alternatives for the sick either
o e%mploythc family physician or to patronize