The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-11-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Molasses Cake "A cupful of mo-
lasses, three eggs, two heaping table,
spoonfuls cold butter and two teaspoon
fuls OF soda in half a cupful of boiling
water. Add half teaspoonful each Of
salt and spice, stir very thin and bake
quickly.
Beef Rolls. Take the remains ot
cold roast or boiled beef. Mince toler-
ably fine with a small amount of its fat
add seasoning of pepper, salt and
chopped herbs; put the whole in roll
of puff-paste and bake for half an hour,
or rather longer should the roll be very
large. Be-. .u ....
Lemon Pie.-For each pie, take the
yelks of three eggs, cupful of sugar,
tablespoonful of butter, CRATE the rind
and press out the Juice of a lemon,
half a cupful of cold water, two spoon
fuls of flour, and a pinch of salt; re-
serve the whites of the eggs for the top;
mix two spoonfuls of white sugar with
them.
The only way to thoroughly clean
a poultry-house is to tear out the in-
side completely, take out everything
that lice can hide behind, and leave
only the bare walls and earth floor.
Then drench the whole with hot lime
wash with plenty of carbolic acid in it
and keep the house free from all GIN
cracks of rests, rooSts, etc, and use
only plain poles and loose boxes for
these.
| The farmer who would be success
full must keep a sharp eve upon his land
! that is down to grass. If it yields him
a good crop of hay, or furnishes him n
| rich pasture for his animals, he nav be
/ quite sure he is on the road to success.
! On the other hand, if the meadow is
light. and the pasture furnishes only a
scanty picking, there is little hope that
the year will be profitable one. Look
well to the grass land
Boiled Apples with Sirup. Wash
six quarts of juicy, sweet apples; turn
over them three pints of water and add
two pounds of brown SUGAR. Boil until
the apples are soft; remove them from
water; simmer this until it attains the
! consistency of thick strip, turn little
over the apples and save the rest to eat
with warm griddle cakes. Many per-
sons choose sirup made of brown sugar
rather than any they can buy. This
strip from sweet apples is no more eX-
pensive than the other, and possesses
delicate and rich flavor impossible to
get otherwise
Apple Roly-Poly. Peel, quarter
and core sour apples, make rich soda
biscuit dough, or raised bis nit dough
rolled thin roll the dough half an inch
thick or less, slice the apples thin and
Law them on the dough, roll up, tuck in
the ends, prick deeply with fork, put
in pudding bag or in a steamer over
boiling water, and cook an hour and
three quarters. Serve with swectencd
cream or butter and sugar. Blackberry
lam or any other fruit may be used IN
stead of apples. If the rolv-poly is
cook ed in a bagput an inverted saucer
or plate in the bottom of the kettle, and
have boiling water ready TO renew thai
which wastes.
1T is stated by an English writer
that he finds it important to thicker
gas-tar by boiling before Applying it tC
the bark of trees to exclude rabbits. sc
that when cold it will barely soak
through the clothes used in applying it
If too thin, it goes into the bark of the
trees; if thick, it remains outside, anC
!, does no harm. 1t is applied by using ;
cloth in the hand, and 400 or 500 tree
are treated by man in day. 1t SHOULD
be remarked that there is much les
danger of injury to old, hard -barkeC
trees than to young trees that have
soft green bark, and there is less DANCE
in a cool, moist climate than under
bot and burning sun.
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