The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-11-21
Household Recipes.

To CLEANSE A QUILTING FRAME.
Wash it well with hot water, made
soft with borax.
HONEY CAKE.-One cupful honey,
one and one half cupfuls sugar, one
of butter, FIVE of flour, three of eggs,
one teaspoonful soda.
To CURE WAKEFULNEss. Take a
sponge bath just before retiring
have plenty of pulverized borax in
the water; rub with coarse towel
to get up a circulation.
To MAKE YEAST CAKEs.-Drain
all liquid from yeast; press through
cloth, and spread out on cloth to
dry in sun or in heated room; cut
in pieces convenient 10 turn to facili.
tate drying.
To WASH WHITE SILK STOCKINGS.
One tablespoonful of lemon juice
to a quart of tepid water; wash
thoroughly, using no soap, dry quick
ly in the shade; the flesh tint will
be preserved.
To KILL MoTHs.-Pour plenty of
odorless naphtha over your furni-
ture out doors some bright windy
day and the naphtha will soon evapo-
rate. Spring and Fall are good times
to try it.
POUND CAKE WITHOUT SODA
One pound powdered sugar, half
pound butter, eight eggs. whites and
yolks beat separately; ten ounces
-four, one nutmeg; bake one hour
or longer. Never fails, and will
keep one week.
CORN STARCH CAKE.-Two cup
fuls powdered sugar, four cupfuls
corn-starch, one-quarter cupful but
ter, three eggs, a teaspoonful of
cream of tartar mixed with the corn.
starch. one-half teaspoonful soda
dissolved in one-third cupfuI of
milk.
To PRESERVE LEAvEs.-Autumn
leaves can be perfectly preserved by
rubbing wax on medium hot iron
and ironing the leaves on both sides.
Autumn leaves that retain their COL
or best are those which are gather
ed when frost comes early in Sep
TENDER. Frost is rather late this
year for handsome leaves.
For CoUaH AND CoNsUMPTIoN.-
Melt some resin at night on going to
bed and let the smoke from it fill
the room. InhaIing the smoke heals
the Inflammation, and sleep is often
produced when one could not sleep
before for much coughing Perse-
we're until a cure is effected. A
change for the better sould be felt
within a week.
To MAKE SHELL FRAMES.
part of the frame that is to be orna-
mented with shells must be covered
thickly with fresh putty; press the
shell down into the putty nearly or
quite to the top edge of the she'll;
form flowers or any fancy design;
then carefully cut away any of the
superduous putty that remains, US
ing a sharp pen-knife; if any should
unavoidably show, it can be colored
pink or white let the frame remain
in a fat position until the putty
hardens.
SPONGE CAKE PUDDING.-Cupful
flour and one Of powdered sugar
mixed together. with one teaspoon
ful cream tartar and half teaspoonful
soda, three eggs. bake in three pie
tins and spread with current jelly.
Make a custard, and pour over it,
of three eggs, cupful white sugar
pint of milk, and teaspoonful of
vanilla. Stir the beaten eggs and
sugar into the scalding milk. and
take from the fire as soon as it be-
gins to thicken. Flavor when cool.
To be eaten quite cold.
To MAKE AND KEEP SOUP Stock.
Take leg or shin of beef, put it
to boil in q gallon of water-if very
large in gallon and half; boil it
steadily. but not fast, until all the
strength is boiled from the meat;
then strain it and put it to cool,
when the fat must be skinned off
and the jelly can be taken out in
small portions when soup is needed.
and the vegetables added or what
ever is liked for variety, but if the
vegetables arc boiled with the stock
it is apt to become sour by keeping.
Should the stock be wanted brown
it is we'll 10 fry some of the meat
before boiling.
CHICKEN SALAD.-A pair OF boiled
chickens. seven or eight pounds in
weight mot old fowls), cut in small