The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-08
Domestic ECONOMY.


QUICK PUDDING few crack
ers, lay the surface over with raisins
and place the halves together again, ti'
them closely in a cloth and boil Il
minutes In milk and water. With ricf
sauce it is excellent.
TAPIoCA JELLY.-Wash 8 teacupfu
of tapioca-soak it for 8 hours in cold
water-turn off the water and pour ovel
it quart of boiling water. Add
grated peel of l lemon sweeten &c
taste, and boil for hour.
TEA CAKE. 1 pint flour, piece Of
butter half as large as htn's egg,
cup sugar, egg, cup sweet milk,
teaspoonful cream-tartar; fist rub in
the butter in -four, then the agg and
sugar, then milk and saleratus.
PREPARING SMALL FIsH.-Any kind
of small fish may be prepared in the
following manner: After being well
washed and wiped it is put in a pan
with little butter, and sprinkled over
with pepper, salt, and crumbs of bread
scraped from a crusty loaf, with an
onion chopped small, and fried in the
oven 20 minutes to hour.
Boston BREAKFAST CAKE.-1 quart
of four, 2 teaspoons of cream-tartar
rubbed into the flour, tablespoon of
butter rubbed into the flour, 2 table,
spoons of brown sugar rubbed dry in
the -four, little salt, teaspoon of soda
dissolved in as much sweet milk as will
make the ingredients about the con-
sistence of pound-cake dough. Grease
a pan with lard, place the muffin-rings
in the pan, having them also well
creased; fill them half full and bake in
a quick oven.
WHEAT AND RICE GRIDDLE-CAKEs.
Take equal parts of boiled rice and
wheatmeal, adding water enough to
make them as thin as you like or can
afford to bake them. Then bake on a
soapstone griddle, or, if you have none,
on a common griddle barely polished
with olive oil. Pile up on plate and
keep covered until you have enough
baked for the occasion. They are bet
ter to stand 10 minutes or so before
eating, but should not be allowed to
grow cold. Eat with fruit sauce, soup,
or oatmeal porridge.
How TO CLEAN FLOoRs.-When
floors are washed regularly, it is best
to scour them with sand and cold water
only, laid on with plenty of elbow
grease, as it is called, as soap and soda
have a tendency to darken the boards.
If they are only washed occasionally,
some fuller s-earth should be dried,
and made into paste with little boil
ing water, then mixed with rather less
than half the quantity of silver sand.
This mixture should be sprinkled on
the boards, and they should be well
scrubbed in the direction of the grain
of the wood, and afterward washed
with cold water. II the floor be spot
ted with grease, mix i ID. of pearl
ash with l pinto hot water, and scrub
the floor with this and little fine sand.
LIGHT GINGERBREAD. To quarts
of flour put l pound of butter and 3
eggs, pints of molasses, and 8 tea
spoonfuls of pearl-ash dissolved in ! a
teacupful of sour cream or buttermilk.
Unlike biscuit, gingerbread requires
good deal of soda to make it rise, and
therefore pearlash is used, as being
stronger. If soda is preferred, des-
sert spoonful will not be too much to
allow to quart of -four. This cake is
better when the batter is poured in
shallow pans than when made into
dough. rollei out, and cut in shapes.
Your success must, after all, depend
very much upon the kind of molasses
used, for the commoner sorts will not
make cake any more than will strip.
Flavor with ginger, and add other
spices to your taste.