The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-23
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Table.

A nice way to cook carrots is simply
to clean them, tie in bunch and boil in
the soup
-Broil steak without sailing. Salt
draws the juices in cooking; it is desira-
bic to keep these in if possible. Cook
over hot fire, turning frequently, scar
inc on both sides. Place on platter;
salt and pepper to taste.
Gems: Four big spoonfuls corn
meal, two of fine flour, one cup of sugar,
one-half cup of butter, one cup of sour
milk, soda to sweeten it, salt to taste,
two eggs, yelks and whites beaten sepa-
rately. This will make twelve gems.
Sweet Potatoes: Boil the potatoes
until tender, peel, cut lengthwise, put
fiat side down on a creased pan and
place in hot oven. AS the potatoes
begin to crust, haste with little melted
butter. Repeat until nicely Drowned.
Raised Biscuit: Make a sponge with
one quart of water, and one yeast cake,
a little salt; when light, add half a tea
cupful of melted butter, one egg, and
knead well but not too stiff with flour;
let it rise, and then make into biscuit,
and bake on tins.
Corn Bread: Take three teacup-
fuls of corn meal, one of wheat flour,
two tablespoonful of sugar, two tea
spOonfuls of cream-tartar; mix well
while dry. Dissolve one teaspoonful of
soda in warm water; mix to a thin bat
ter, and bake in a quick oven three
fourths of an hour.
Boiled Potatoes: Wash the pota-
toes, leave the skins on and throw into
boiling, sailed water. When fork will
easily pierce them, throw in a small dip
perful of cold water. Let stand two
minutes, throw off the water and stand
on the back of the stove, with the pot
lid halfremoved, until the steam is evap-
Grated. Take up, peel and send to the
table in an open dish.
Baked Egg Plant Cut it into
slices threefourths of an inch thick and
lay in salt water for ali hour or more.
Wipe the pieces dry and dip into beaten
egg, then into bread-crumbs or cracker
dust; have the fat hot in your pan, just
enough to prevent sticking-and put
them into the oven until done. This
will be found better way than frying,
and they are very light and delicious.
Season to taste before cooking.
Bride Cake: Ten eggs beaten sepa-
rately, one pound of butter, one of white
sugar, two of almonds, blanched and
chopped fine, one of seeded raisins, half
pound citrOn, shaved fine; beat butter
to cream, add sugar gradually; then
the well beaten yelkS; stir all till very
light, and add the chopped almonds;
beat the whites stiff, and add gently
with the flour; take little more flour,
and sprinkle over the raisins and citron,
then put in the cake-pan first layer of
cake-batter, then layer of raisins and
citron, then cake, and so on till all is
used, finishing off with layer of cake.
Bake in a moderate oven two hours.
Saratoga Potatoes: Pare the po-
tatoes and cut into slices so thin that
one can almost see through them. If
for breakfast, prepare them the night
before and let stand in dish of ice-cOld
water. Just before frying drain them
from the water and wipe them dry with
a cloth. Fry only few at time in
boiling lard as you would doughnuts.
Before putting in the potatoes, separate
the slices from each other and do not
attempt to cook more at time than you
can keep separate. Tend with a fork,
tossing them over and over until
Drowned evenly and delicately. Take
up with skinner and place on sieve.
Sprinkle with salt
Miscellaneous.
Save your washing suds for the gar
den; if they are poured over the roots
of the plum trees they will kill the cur
culio; if turned at the roots of gerani-
ums, roses, ETC., they will enhance their
beauty tenfold.
Autumn leaves arranged on white
velvet background and framed are some
thing new in the way of pictures. The
leaves should be glued and stems caught
down with needle and thread.
"A beautiful square for a rug may be
made-Or indeed whole carpet-by
taking several old ingram carpets, cut
ting them into strip three or four inch
es wide and raveling out each edge, then
sewing into balls and weaving after the
manner of rag carpets. The result will
be an imitation of a mixed Brussels car
pet.
-Tea-leaves stepped, not boiled, for
half an hour in tin pan, and strained
through a sieve, will give liquid useful
to wash all varnished paint. 1t removes
spots, and gives fresher, newer APP
pearance than when soap and water are
used. For white paint, take up small
quantity of whiting on a damp piece OF
old white flannel, and rub over the sur
face lightly, and it will leave the paint
remarkably bright and new.
-Kiln-dried fruit taken from the kiln
and put into empty salt-barrels and
headed in, will be perfectly secure from
worms. Fruit dried in the sun should
be covered with cloth every evening
before the sun goes down, to keep the
moth away until the fruit dries, and then
put in empty salt barrels. Any worms
in the fruit will be destroyed and the
moth will not 90 there to deposit its
eggs.
There is but one paint suitable for
floors, French Ochre. First, If the boards
have shrunk, clean out the joints well,
and, with a small brush, give them a
heavy coat of boiled linseed-oil, then
putty up solid. Now paint the whole
floor with a mixture of much oil and lit
tie ochre, for the first coat, then after ii
is well dried, give two more coats OF
much ochre and little oil, finally finish
with coat of first-rate copal varnish.
This is an extremely durable paint for
floors, indoors or out, such as verandas,
porticos and the like. A floor stain is
best mixed with oil, and finally var
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