The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-02-19
DOMESTIC.

How TO UTILIZE BITS OF MEAT.-Mr.
Delmonico, talking about entrees, bays
that Americans ought, to copy the
French method Of utilizing small bits
of raw meats and fowls ,and of re-cook-
Ing all kinds OF cold joints and pieces
Of cooked meat which remain day by
day from every dinner In almost every
family. Tho success of such dishes
depends mainly upon the sauce, which
is best made from broth. The follow
Ing Is his reclpt for Il favorit sauce !:
"Iake an ounce of ham or bacon, cut
It up In small pieces, and fry it in hot
fat. Add an onion or carrot, out up,
thicken with flour, then add a pint or
quart Of broth, according to quantity
desired; season with pepper and salt,
or any spice or horb that Is rellshed
(better, though, without the spice,)
and let simmer for an hour, skim care
fully and strain. a wineglass OF any
wine may be added If liked" Cold
roast or broiled beef or mutton may be
cut into small squares, fried brown in
butter, and then gently steweI In the
sauce above described.
APPLE MEMNGUE PIB.-Stew and
:weoten juicy apples when you have
pared and sliced them mash smooth
and season with nutmeg or stew some
lemon peel with them and remove
when cold; fill your pans and bake till
done; spread over the apples a thick
mcringue, made by whipping to a stiff
froth Tho whites Oi three eggs for each
pie, sweetening with q tablespoonful
OF powdered sugar for each egg; flavor
this with rose or vanilla; beat until 1t
a 81 To
three-quarterS of an inch thick. Set
back in the oven until the meringue is
well set. Should it color too darkly
slft powdcred sugar over 1t when cool !;
eat cold. Peaches are even more dc
licious vixen used in the same manner.
Use OF WooLEN CLorH1Na.-Profes
sor Jaeger OF Stuttgart recommends
the use OF WOODEN clothing both in sum-
mer and winter, and has invented a
sort Of normal dress by which he
claims the accumulation of fat and
water IN the system can be prevented.
Ihls normal clothing has TWO essential
prOrcrties: l. 1t consists exclusively
OF wool. avoiding all materials woven
from plant fibre Cotton or linen). 2.
IL makes strong point OF keeping
warm the middle line OF the front OF
the body. But the principal pecul-
arlty of this clothing is the exclusive
use Of sleeps wool, even avoiding
pocket and other Innings OF cotton.
FRENCH PICKLE.-One hundred green
cucum hers, ! peek green tomatoes, !
mead cabbage, dozen green peppers,
ID peck onions. Chop all very line |:
aud pint of salt, and let it stand in a
wooden bowl until morning. Then
drain of the juice and put into a Dor
celain kettle; cover with good vine gar,
ana add pounds brown sugar, u
pound mustard seed, 2 ounces celery
seed, cloves, mace, alIsplce, cinnamon.
tablespoonful each; salt to taste.
BOIL until tender, but not longer; put
In air.tight jars.
10 MAKE PAINT FOR ONE CENT 4
PouND.-To one gallon of soft hot wa
ter add four pounds OF sui pha,e czlno
(crude). Let it dissolve perfectly and
sediment will settle at the bottom.
Turn the clear solution into another
vessel. 10 one gallon of paint dead
and OLD mix one gallon OF the COM
pound. Stir it into the paint slowly
Tor ten or fifteen minutes, and the
compound and paint will perfectly
combine. If too thick, thin with tur-
pentine. This recipe has been sold to
painters az high as 800 for the privi-
lcge to use the same in their business.
BLAcKINa.-Any one may make his
own Oil paste blacking by the follow
ing trust worthy recipe: Molasses, /
pound; ivory black, One-halt pounds {;
sweet oil, two ounces. RIb together
IN mortar I'LL all the ingredients form
Il perfectly smooth mixture; then add
the juice OF one lemon or about wine
Slass OF strong vinegar, and thorough
~ Incorporate with just enough water
added slowly to gain a required con-
sstency.
a POUND and quarter IF oatmeal
Will supply as much nitrogen and al
most as much fat to the body as one
pound OF uncookcd meat Of ordinary
quality. A man gets three times as
much nourishment at the same cost IN
oatmeal as hc does in meats. One
pound and half of Indian meal is
equal 10 one pound Of uncookcd meat
III nitrogen, and surpasscs it in fat.
DEEr drinkers escape gout, not be-
cause they deserve it, but because the
feeblcd by,ovel stimulation they have
consequently no appetite, they cat but
little, and tail to accumulate that cx-.
cess OF effete and ill-assimilated nitro
genous matter In the circulation,
which in those who eat more largely,
as we'll as drink freely, Is ono of the
principal causes of the malady.
SwEETBREAD FRITTERS.-Cu some
previously par-boiled sweetbreads into
slices half an inch thick. Scatter over
these slices little lemon Juice, chop
ped parsley. pepper, salt and nutmeg.
Dip them into batter ana fry in hot
lard. Drain, arrange them on nap.