The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-06-03
LADIES COLUMN.
The Domestic Department. {"

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some space to household receipts
Under the head of "Our Domesti,
Department" or some other sugges
tive title, directions are given fol
connecting pies, buildings, pre-
serves, pancakes, and so forth-es
pecially the latter. These recipe!
are clipped out of the paper by th,
prudent and economical housewife
and carefully pasted in a scrap
book-a bulky agricultural report
being invariably utilized for this
purpose
And they are never consulted 6
SECOND time.
A woman may have preserved in
this manner recipes for preparing
all the dishes known to the culinary
art but her bills of fare, from the
alpha to the omega of each year,
comprise not over dozen different
examples of the cuisine, and are
identical with those taught her by
her mother while the daughter was
yet in her teens.
Puck prides itself upon beng a
"frst-class family journap'-a claim
that is recognized by preachers,
statesmen, poets, pedestrians, rail
road kings and other persons emil
nent for either their learning or
lucre. And because We do not adj
vertise lotteries, church fairs and
other palpable and glaring swim
dies, it must not be inferred that
this paper is not also religious
weekly.
At the earnest solicitation of sew
eral thousands of our lady readers,
we have finally concluded to start a
domestic department; and in doing
so, introduce a bold innovation.
The domestic column in our es
teemed contemporaries are always
or nearly always-"conducted by q
lady" Ours ia conducted by a gen
tleman, who, on washdays, never
troubles his wife to prepare a din
ner. He resorts to a restaurant.
The continuance of this depart
ment will depend upon the recep
ton accorded the initial install
ment. If our efforts are encored,
the feature may become permanent.
Not too permanent, but just perma-
nent enough. About as permanent
as the Philadelphia permanent exhi-
bitlon, for instance.
With these few iutroductions. we
in the recipe business.
Indian pudding.-Wash a little
Indian; stuff with meat, butter and
,ggs. Add a little wine-though
he Indian generally prefers rum.
Bake over a slow fire.
Ginger snaps.-Take some gin
ger. Stir in piece of borrowed
'utter, and the same quantity of
nolasses and sugar. Mix with
our. Bake until it snaps.
To sweeten pickles.-Sprinkle su-
ar over a couple of old maids.
Sauce for Pudding.-Make your
uddIng so that it will not be fit to
1T. Your husband will furnish the I
luce. Don't let it become too pep
cry. C
Boston bread.-Take some beans, S
quantity OF flour, some more
ANS, some salt, few beans. Bake
a stove or an oven. 'If puns
ere permissible in this depart O. O.
ent we might throw a shadow of +
oom over the reader by remark az
3 that the people who take most g
ndly to beans are Boston bred. W
Onion SOup.-Take a few onions, q
70 few soup. Put the onions in
soup, or the soup in the onions;
is immaterial which. Cook them.
too thick, make il thinner; if too m
N, make it thicker. bC
Slap jacks.-Tease your Jack un- ca
he slaps your face; then slap in in
ck's. n,
oAnny cake.-Take a quart of IN
tier and a half pound of milk; er
X. Place in the oven. When u
ked give seven of them to John ~
. These will be sufficient to te
Ike one SUNNY cake. la
Float.-,A bowl of water anG a G
rk are all the ingredients neces-
~. Place the cork in the water. ~
boiling necessary. ".
Peach ngoes.-Procure a peck ia
choice peaches; set them on the ba
table. When Charley 70
5urns home from the office, watch al
W readily the mangoes for them. 81 81
Squash Pie.-These pies are often or or
lde at picnics by young men on
airing light trousers. When FL
lckberry pie is sat down upon, si'
e squash pie is made.
Hash.-This is an entirely new
IN In this country, and is excel 70
Il for boarders-in arrears. The in su
are potato parings, scraps ~
meat lett on the boarders' plates,
d other table leavings which 4
steful people throw into the \
swill barrel. Chop them fine, y
d stew in a pan. Flavor with \
ssicated bootleg or Arctic over