Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-09-07
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WINDSOR TOILET SoAP.-Cut some
nice white bar-soap into thin slices, mott
it over a slow fire, scent it with OH Oh
lavender; when all dissolved pour II ~
TO a mold and let it remain a week,
then cut it into the required size.
Spleen PEAoHEs,-1 peck irult' .
pounds Of sugar, l pint Of cider vinegar
Tie in thin muslin / ounce each OF en-
namop and cloves, whole spice. Make
n sirup of sugar and vinegar, add trult
and spice, boil 4 hour and seal Whlle not
SWEET OMELEr.-Beat 4 eggs very
lightly, add q little salt and spoonful
brown sugar; pour ! linto q hot butter,
! ed fry-pan. when well set lay in :
! spoonfuls raspberry jam, cook l minute,
roll up and dish it, sprinklng well WIN
powdered sugar. This is a very delicate
and rich dessert.
Potato PUppING.-l pound potatoes,
boiled and well mashed, sailed; ! pound
butter. stirred in while warm; Z ounces
SUGAR; rind of 4 lemon, chopped tne,
with Juice; . teaeuptuls OF mllE, i eggs
butter the tin, put in mixture, bake IN
moderate oven J hour.
SPONGE CAKE. II cuptul prepared
flour, I cupful sugar, 5eggs, teaspoon,
ful extract lemon; beat the eggs until
they are very light; add the sugar and
beat briskly 10 minutes longer, next the
flour and lastly the lemon; bake IN a
square butterod tin from 20 to 80 Mn
utesin . hot oven.
GINGER SNAPS tablespoonfuls
boiling water, 3 Of hot shortening, !
heaping of ginger, teaspoon saleratus
put all lin cup and fill up with molasses
!, repeat this rs often rs desired to make
sufficient quantity; when all mixed, put
in extra spoonful of shortening and 9
cup brown sugar. mix rather sunny
; with flour; bake quickly.
BrsoUlr.-To / quart Of flour, take
2 ~teaspoonful of soda, II te~aspooniuls Of
4 cream-tartar, l heaping tablespoon
full of lard, q little salt, and sweet milk
sufficient to make soft dough. Put the
& cream-tartar into the flour and silt then
- add the lard, rubbingit in well then the
f salt and the milk, having the soda dls-
4 solved in q little bit Of the milk and add.
ed to the other Ingredients roll, cut
II and bake.
BEEF CARGs.-Take some cold roast
e beef, that which il unperdone IS best
1t and mince it very fine; mix with 1t graf
g cd bread-crumbs and a little chopped
If onion and parsley; season 1t with pep
per and salt, and mOisten it with SOM
l. beef dripping and walnut sauce some
scraped cold tongue or grated ham viii
be found an improvement form 1t int
broad, flat cakes, and spread q layer o
mashed potato thinly on the top ant
M bottom of each; lay a small bit of but
ter on the top Of every cake; place then
ct on a dish, and set them in IN oven *
rs brown.
r.. STUFFED CAgBAGE.-Take a large
fresh cabbage and cut out the heart
fill the space with Il stuling made O
m cooked turkey, chicken, or any meat ey
cept mutton or lamb; chop very fin
and highly season; mix with II mash
Of ed potato, and the yelk Of egg and
o. s~poonfuls Of the gravy stock roll !
ed balls, and roll the balls in flour; stu.
IL the cabbage and place the loose leave
IN which YOU have removed over the hol
p at top and bottom with them, and ii
OF the cabbage firmly together and boil /
ar Il covered kettle for two hours. Th
w water should be sailed. Itmakes q yer
Mt delicious dish, and is useful in using u
.e- small pieces of cold meat.
u Two EGGs PER DW.-I hay
he read of the hen that laid s
ut many eggs per day, down in Maryland
In but never gave it credit and do not now
y, But my experience lately with a pen {
Xt Houdans, shows mo that it may be
20 point worth striving forto see if we ca
get q breed of fowls that are not Unite
A. to one egg a day. Last March l pickle
ut out my breeding stock Of Houdans, an
NJ separated them from any other fowl
ld giving 10 each cock eight hens. The
lle have laid well all the spring, Occasion
ed ally / got more eggs than had hen
On and did not know how to account forit
.p- SO | ~improvised q trap-door TO the mes
49, box, to shut up each hen when she wei
'c- on to the nest, | find that two hens
the eight have laid two eggs each in
)rt single day, on Il number of occasion
but they fail to lay the next day the
they lay two the next, On no oCCasiC
err have they laid on the succeeding ID
after doing double duty. Could wenc
TSt by forcing to the utmost, get by bree
lre ing for Il number Of generations, q breC
In of perpetual layersp-COr, C0Hntry Ge