The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-02
Farm AxD PRESIDE.

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cloth; keep in a cool place and you have
a cheap shortening for teyefy-daJ =
pastry "a. IS va sb6d. ,u3nl
"A teaspoonful of ammonia to one
quart OF water sprihkled every other
day over plants viii cause lice to dIsari-
pear and not injure the plants. ns1as
.---Powder for Baby.-A small tin
box such as ground spices come in with
small holes in the top is better for corn
starch than a muslin bag; if corn starch
does not prove efficient add one-third
finely powdered tea. - 49,
q -ADipper gourds make excellentthings
to keep salt in for kitchen use. Cut
hole in. the side large enough to admit
the hand and to remove the seed; also
cut a small hole in the handle to hang
up by. 1900 d; ...r %ar
Ham and Egg Pudding.-Six eggs
beaten very light, a light pint OF -four,
a pint of milk. a small piece of butter,
salt and pepper to the taste. Sprinkle
some slices of boiled ham (both fat and
lean) with pepper and lay them across
deep dish That has been creased.
Then pour the pudding batter over the
bacon and bake quickly.
Picnic Buns-Eight ounces butter,
fourteen ounces flour, six ounces sifted
sugar, two eggs, half a nutmeg, tea
spoonful of sifted ginger, large spoon
full of caraway seeds. Beat the butter
to cream; add the eggs, well beaten;
mix the other ingredients together and
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tablespoonful of flavoring essence Bake
in tin patty-pans, in a moderately hot,
oven.
To Stew Tomatoes. Take ten large
tomatoes, put them into apan and pour
scalding water over them to remove the
skins easily; peel them and cut out all
the hard or unripe portion; then cut
through and take out the seeds. Boil
an onion and mash it fine; add it to the
tomatoes, with pepper and salt to your
taste. and piece of butter as large as
hens egg. Put them on to stew in
an earthen pipkin, and let them simmer
two hours. A quarter of an hour before
dinner is ready add four or five table
spoonfuls of grated bread and let it stew
till ready to serve.
"A delightful way of using up mashed
potato left over is,this: As soon as it
comes off the table. and before it gets
cold, pack it tightly into an oval dish
which has been previously dipped in
cold water. Next morning cut it in
regular slices about quarter of an inch
thick and brown them quickly in fresh
butter, previously made very hot in a
shallow pan. Serve Immediately. Po-
tato thus prepared is specially nice with
chops. Be sure that you get your slices
on your hot dish without their break
ing; their fair, large proportions must
be preserved. "
Steamed Lemon Pudding. -Crumb
stale bread, add one or two spoonfuls
of fine flower, put to livery fine chopped
beef suet, brown sugar, the juice Oft two
or three lemons, well strained, and the
finely chopped peel of one or two, also
a few pounded sweet almonds if desired.
Beat up the yelks of three or four eggs
well, and the whites of tYoawith white
sugar; when the dry substances, have
been well mixed add the eggs and lit
tie warm milk Mix we'll and place in
buttered shape for steaming. If there
is no steamer, place it on triYet in
a saucepan. When done pour over it
sweet white sauce with vanilla flavor
ing.
Steak Pudding.-This is a diges-
tible, nourishing dish for work-people.
Make crust of fine-chopped suet, flour
and warm water; place round basin fcut
pieces Of steak, with some liver or kid
ney, in strips and put IN some tine-chop-
ped onion, pepper, salt and little
mace; moisten with some warm water
and close up with crust. If you have
no steamer, place a trivet in the bot
tom of the saucepan and put basin on
it, so that the steam from the boiling
water below cooks the pudding When
we'll done, which you viii know by the
knife coming clear from the crust, take
out, place ON a dish, broadside down
and open top little. Put in small
piece Of butter and q couple of spoon
fuls of catohupa and q beautiful gravy will
run out round the dish.
How much better it would be for
country and people did farmers gener-
ally entertain and act upon such views
as are thus noted in an exchange: "Mr.
Milo ID. Spery, Connecticut farmer,
lately deceased, had some notable views
of what constitutes agricultural success;
he felt that it is not wholly measured
by annual savings; that there are other
duties than crop culture and pig-feedIi
ing and other places for investment
than the local bank. So he took pains
to keep the roadside along his prem
Uses attractive, instead of making it
receptacle for stoneheaps, rotten rails,
weeds and other rubbish; he built rustic
fences, arbors and a summer-house; and
by these means added to the market
value of his real estate, besides making
rural life more enjoyable