The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Sugar Cookies Two cups of SUI
gar, one cup of butter, half a cup of
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
two tcaspoonfuls of extract of lemon;
dip the cookies in sugar before baking.
Corn Bread Rusks. Six cupfuls of
corn meal, four OF wheat flour, two Ia.
blespoonfuls molasses, one teaspoouful
salt; mix well together, knead into
dough; make two cakes of it; put into
well buttered tins or iron pans, and
bake an hour.
Black knot is caused by q fungus
which grows in the bark and causes it
to decay. The only remedy is to
strengthen the tree by means of wood
ashes and lime to overcome the disease
and make new growth, and to cut out
and burn the knotted limbs. Cherries
are also affected by it more fire. Iuentlg
than plums.
drop cakes are made in this way.
One cup of molasses, one cup of sugar,
one cup of lard, one teaspoOnful of gin
ger and one each of cloves and of Gin
namon, two teaSpooniulS of soda. dis
solved in a cup of warm water; stir in
flour enough to make IL batter that will
drop readily from a spoon; add little
salt and cup of dried currants, or if
you have not these, well-washed En-
glish currants are nice.
Mr.. w. ID. Philbrck, of Massachu-
sets, does not regard the crow as en-
titled to the least consideration as
destroyer Of insects. He is, Mr.. Phil
brick says, merciess robber of birds
nests, eating Unfortunately eggs and
young birds in the breeding season, and
he thinks it arrant nonsense to defend
the crow as useful to the farmer. The
song birds, frogs and toads he DESTROYS
would, If suffered to live, probably
destroy twice as many insects as the
crow himself.
"A correspondent of the New York
Tribune gives her method of washing
silk handkerchiefs so that they will loo;
almosu as well as new ones. PUT an
iron on to get hot, and, when ready to
use, wash the handkerchiefs through a
very warm soap suds. If they are
much sciled pass them through a Sec
ond suds- DO not rub the soap directly
on the handkerchief. Then pass
through another warm water without
soap, and thoroughly rinse, squeeze
dry and iron Immediately to prevent
the cOlors from running"
The pear blight is now said to be
the effect of microscopic organism
that, when sufficiently numerous.
causes a fermentation in the pores OF
the wood by devouring the starch in
the grain or fiber This disease can be
easily communicated from one tree to
another by transferring even minute
fragment OF the bark from a diseased
to healthy tree, and therefore NAV
probably often be communicated by
accident Cutting down and burning
the affected trees is the only sure cure.
The secret of an omelet is the
knowing how. Bordeaux fashion is to
Tilt the pan. allow the eggs to run to
the lower side and scrape down from
the upper half OF the ran perfectly
clean, pushing all the egg to the lower
half. When set, turn over backward,
brown and serve. Take hold of the
pan with the palm of the hand upper
most, place your dish over the pan and
turn quickly. If you do not put table
spoonful of water to each egg in max
ing an omelet it will be leathery. If
you put milk or flour it is not an omelet.
but pancake
Green Tomato Pickle.-Cut the
tomatoes in slices; sprinkle with salt,
and let stand twelve hours; drain and
put them in a saucepan over the fire
with fresh water, changing it until all
the salt is washed out. When thor
oughly scalded and partially cooked,
drain and put them into boiling hot
strip made with one pint OF vinegar
three pounds of sugar, one. half ounce
nd .
cloves; simmer them in this until ten
der, then carefully lit them out, and
put them in jars; boil down the sirup
some, and pour it~oyer them After a
day or two boil the sirup again, pour it
over them again, and when cold tie
them down carefully.
DR.. Leidy, of Philadelphia, in re-
cent number of the Pennsylvania Month";
w, states that the parasite in pork
known as trichin@ was first discovered
by an English surgeon in 1888, but its
presence in pork was first detected by
DIR. Leidy himself in 1910. He reminds
the public that all food animals are liza
bic to have parasites, and that the tape
worm is sometimes conveyed in rare
beef; that only one hog in about 10000
is infected with trichinp; and that thor
ough cooking will kill all such parasites,
while none of them are poisonous after
a good cooking. He believes that the
Mosaic prohibition of pork was due to
the danger OF trichinOsiS in country
where fuel was scanty, and therefore
their food seldom well cooked. lie also
thinks that millions may have died "f
trichinoss in centuries before the scarce
of the danger was discovered, amt that
many of the deaths which occurred in
the army during our civil war were due
70 the freauent use OF rnM and badly