The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Cookies.-1 cup Of butter, 1 cup OF
sugar, eggs. teaspoonful of soda
bake in a hot oven, they are very nice.
Ginger S,aps-2 cups molasses,
cup of meat fryings; stir tablespoon
fui of soda and ginger in the molasses.
Neapolitan Cake.-i pound of flour, 6
ounces butter, ounces loaf-sugar,
ounces sweet almonds, finely pounded.
Rub all well together, and mix it with
l egg. Put 1t In cool place to harden !
then roll it out to thin paste, ard cut
it with an oval quart mold; then bake
the pieces in an oven. Whilst warm,
place layers of different sorts of jam be-
tween layers of the paste. Ice it over
with white of egg and sugar, and orna-
ment to your taste.
Bread-dnd butter Pudding. - Butter
your pie-dish well, and strew the bottom
with currants and candied peel; then
place alternate layers of bread and but
ter in rather thin slices, add the peel
and currants, until the dish is nearly
full, observing to have currants at the
topi then pour over slowly and equally,
a custard of sweetened milk and or 8
eggs, favored to taste, and bake in a
moderate oven for about 20 minutes.
Broom Charlotte Pudding. Butter a
pudding-mold thickly, sprinkle brown
sugar over the butter, and line the mold
with slices of bread, thickly buttered;
cut some baking-apples into slices,
place them in the mold in layers, grated
lemon-peel, candied citron, and orange
peel to taste, and little sugar between
each layer of apples; fill up the mold,
cover it with slice of bread, soaked in
little warm water, bake three hours in
moderate oven, turn it out of the
mold, and serve it hot.
Irish Stew of MuttOn-Cut loin of
mutton into chops; put them in water
and let stew for ] an hour. Stir a cup
of rich milk or cream in u Irish pota-
toes that have been boiled, peeled ard
mashed while hot; put half the pota-
toes in deep dish, and then put in the
chops, and then the rest of the potatoes.
Put them in the oven, and bake them a
light brown. When ready to serve, pour
over them gravy made of the water in
which the chops were stewed. Season
it with pepper and salt, and an onion
let it stew for 20 minutes, and then
thicken with l tablespoonful of butter
rolled in tablespoon of flour.
Luncheon Buns pound of -four,
ounces of butter, / pound of sugar, 1
egg, pint of milk, l dessert-spoonful
of baking powder, 5 drops of lemon
Warm the butter without oiling it; beat
it with a wooden spoon; stir the flour
in gradually with the sugar, and mix
these ingredients well together. Make
the milk lukewarm, beat up with it the
yelk of the egg and the essence of lem
on, and stir these to the flour, etc. ADD
the aking-powder, beat the dough
well for about 10 minutes, divide it into
"a pieces, put them into buttered tins
or cups, and bake in brisk oven from
20 to 80 minutes.
Vegetable Soup Without Meat.-Cut up
3 carrots, 2 turnips, cabbage to make
coffee cupful, large tomatoes, po-
tatoes, heads of celery, green beans
Il pint, parsley, thyme, and q Ia
blespoOnful of rice; cover with water
and boil slowly for hour. Put into
saucepan teacupful nice drippings
Tor clarified suet); add onions, ami
fry until red, then stir in 2 tablespoon
fuls of -four; when smooth and brown
ed little stir in a pint of milk, broth,
or water; pepper and salt (do not add |
these before, as they would cause the !
flour to scorch), then add the vegeta-
bles and the little water remaining about |
them, with more water if necessary; |
simmer slowly until time to serve Cor .
about ! an hour); when pour through |
a colander, MASKING the vegetables; /
bring to a boil and pour over sippets of |
toast in tureen.
RemOrt1ag Spots from ClOthiBg.-The |
following recipes are well recommend
ed: Grease-On white goods, soap, wa
ter or alkalies; on colored goods, hot |
soap water; on colored wooden goods,
soap water or ammonia; on silk, ben
zine, ether, ammonia, magnesia, chalk
or whites of eggs; lay the goods on
clean bibulous paper and rub on the de-
tergent with clean sponge. Wine and
fruit stains, red NIXON white goods,
moisten the spot and expose it to the
fumes of burning sulphur, hot weak So
luton of cloride of lime or bleaching
powder; on colored goods of cotton and
wool, warm water or ammonia; same
for silk; rub carefully. Vinegar, fruits,
acids, mold-On white goods, weak
hot solution of bleaching powder; on
colored goods of cotton and wool and
silk, ammonia. Rust, black nixon
white goods, solution of oxalic acid, or
weak muriatic acid; on colored goods,
either cotton or wool, wash repeatedly
with lemon juice; no remedy for silk.
Tar, wagon grease-Soap, turpentine,
jet of water, alternately; use benzine
for silk instead of turpentine.