Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-08-06
HOME AND FARM.

- Iced ButtefmillI. - There Is no
healthier drink than buttermilk, but it
must be creamy, rich buttermiiS 70 be
good. 1t should stand on the ice to
cool, though ii very rich and thick a lit
tie ice in it is an improvement.
"A simple and excellent remedy, says
Waldo, in the Ohio Farmer, in case of
swelling and Inflammation, is sal am
moniac dissolved in vinegar. lie has
never seen any liniment that would so
quickly and certainly reduce swelling
in the first stages.
Egg Sandwiches. Butter the bread
and line the sandwiches with slices of
hard-boiled eggs, slightly sailed and
peppered. Throw the eggs as soon as
boiled into very cold water, and leave
them to cool there. This will prevent
the yelks from turning blue-black.
Black silk is restored to its deep
black color by sponglng it with decoc-
ton of common cheap black tea, which
contains all the ingredients of black
dye, viz, tannin and iron, with usually
some logwood to add to the flavor. The
silk is then ironed with moderately
hot iron on the wrong side or placed be-
tween two sheets.
Madeline Cakes for Dessert -Four
eggs, half pound butter, half pound
sugar, half pound flour. Mix the butter,
sugar and the yelks of the eggs thor
Oughly; then add the flour and mix
again, then the whites of the eggs beaten
TO stiff froth. Crate in a little lemon
rind. Put in little dishes, each about
one-third full, and bake till done.
Lemon Pudding. - One lemon
grated, rind and pulp, one cup sugar,
one of water or sweet milk, four eggs,
three tablespoons of melted butter, two
tablespoons flour. Line a deep dish
with pastry crusts, pour the custard in,
bake thirty minutes Beat the whites of
three or four eggs to a stiff froth, sweet.
en-, spread over the top of the pudding,
let brown slightly.
Cottage Cheesc.-Put pan of
Clabbered sour milk over the fire and
let it become well scalded. Then pour
it into Il clean cloth; let it drip until
cold enough to. squeeze between the
hands. Press all the water out so that
the clabber will be dry. Put this into a
bowl and work it until it is fine and free
from Jumps, and moisten by adding
sweet cream, Put in pepper and salt
and small piece of butter. Mold into
little balls or not, as you please.
To Keep Knives from Rushing
Scour bright, wipe thoroughly, dry
them by the fire, dust fine wood ashes
fresh from the stove plentifully over the
knives on both sides, leaving those
which adhere to the blades, wrap in a
piece of cloth and roll up in paper,
taking care to fold the ends of the pa
per so that the knives are all covered
up. Now you may lay them away for a
year, and when you look at them you
will not find rusty spots on the steel
blades.
The FruU Grocer suggests that
farmers boys and girls be permitted to
raise strawberries, raspberries, grapes,
ETC., on their own account for the mar.
ket that is waiting or can be easily built
up in almost every neighborhood. There
are several advantages of the plan that
will suggest themselves at once to any
thoughtful person, among them the ex.
ercise, the promotion of knowledge, the
cultivation of rural tastes, bushes;
habits and self-dependence, and last
but not least, the edilication and en-
largement of the mind that comes Of
contact with the soil and attention tc
the wonderful ways of vegetation.
Yes, our houses are very pretty
they are painted the whitest of the
white and the blinds the geenest of the
green; but why are the door-steps and
the piazza in such neglected state? Ap
parently you don't paint them as Otter
as you do your clapbOards, while they
need it oftener; neither do you always
mend them when board gives way, bu
swayed and ragged let them stay, {
condemning evidence against your tidi
ness and thrift. They remind us Of
ladies gayly dressed with plumes ant
blossoms ON their heads, with robes un
furnished and bedecked with tasteful
trimmings, but whose shoes may lack {
button, have heels oblique, or have no
|, yet been polished since they left tn,
store.-RUrdL NeW YORKER.
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