The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-17
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Lemon Re.-14 cupfuls sugar, 2 eggs
Tablespoonful flour, 1 teacupful water
| WdffeS.-1 pint sweet milk, eggs,
large cupful cold rice or hominy, little
salt, flour to make a stiff batter, baking
powder in the proportion of 3 teaspoon
fuls to quart of flour.
Crab-apple Street Pickle.-Heat pint
of vinegar and pound of sugar, mace,
and cloves together, and pour over the
crab-apples for mornings. Plums,
cherries, and peaches make delightful
pickles done in that way.
Sponge Cake.-10 eggs, their weight
in sugar, ] the weight in -four, juice of
l lemon, teaspoonful vanilla; beat
yelks well; stir them with sugar to a
cream; beat whites to a stiff froth; add
flour last. Bake in a quick oven.
Buttermilk MuffnS.-1 quart butter
milk, eggs. butter the size of an egg,
flat spoonfuls soda mixed in little
water, or l spoonful salerattis, 2 tea
spoonfuls salt, -four to make a thick
batter. Bake in rings in quick oven.
Graham Gents.-Mix your graham
flour in thick batter with warm water !;
tablespoonful of lard to about a quart
of water; cupful of molasses with
teaspoonful of soda beaten in; stir the
mixture briskly, put it in hot pan, and
bake in very hot oven.
Johnny Cake.-3 cupfuls of sour milk.
2 eggs beaten light, ] cupful of melted
butter or fryings, tablespoonful of
sugar, l teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in the milk, l teaspoonful of salt; mix
altogether with sufficient corn-meal to
make thin batter. Bake on a griddle.
flock Turtle Soup.-1 pint black beans
soaked over night in quarts water, 2
onions, large carrot grated, pound
fresh beef, pound fresh pork; boil all
day; when ready for dinner strain
through colander into tureen; add /
wineglassful port wine, or not, accord
ing to fancy, hard-boiled egg, lemon
sliced.
Hard Custard.-5 eggs well beaten
Preserving whites for meringue), l
quart milk, tablespoonful sugar, 2
teaspoonfuls vanilla, pinch of salt; put
in pudding dish, which place in pan
of water in the oven and bake. When
nearly baked, add meringue made
with the whites and 2 tablespoonfuls
of brown sugar to each white, and any
fiavoring. Bake light brown.
To Stuff Green Peppers-Take one
half cabbage, 2 onions, 2 tablespoon
fuls of white mustard-seed, little
horse-radish, and portion of the seeds
taken from the peppers; salt it well and
chop very fine. Cut out round piece
where the stem of the pepper is and stuff
full of the chopped mixture. Have good
vinegar very hot in which you have
thrown allspice, cloves, and mace, and
pour over the peppers. This must be
done five or six mornings.
Boiled Pancakes. Beat eggs sepa-
rately; stir the yelks into l quart OF
warm milk with tablespoonful of melt
ed butter and teaspoonful of salt; and
sufficient flour to make a thin batter;
then sprinkle in one teaspoonful of yeast
powder, and stir in the whites of the
eggs; put frying pan on the fire
when it is hot, grease with spoonful of
lard; pour in cupful of batter, fry
light brown, and turn carefully, so as
not to break the cake; when brown on
both sides, lift out and spread with
strawberry jam, or any kind of jam or
marmalade you have; roll up nicely,
and lay them on plate; sprinkle with
pulverized sugar; send to the table hot,
and serve with or without cream.