Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-07-15
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Hints.

Household Hints.
Whiting and water cleans white
paint and window glass nicely.
Spirits of amonia, diluted little,
will cleanse the hair thoroughly.
Earthly mould should never be
washed from potatoes, carrots, or other
roots until Immediately before they are
to be cooked.
Cold boiled potatoes used as soap will
clean the hands and keep the skin soft
and he althy. Those not overlooked are
the best.
Beef having a tendency to he tough
can be made very palatabie by stewing
gently for two hours, with pepper and
salt, taking out about pint of the
LIQUOR when half done, and letting the
rest boil into the meat. Brown the
meat in the pot. After taking up, make
a gravy of pint of liquor saved.
To drive away flies, buy az ounce. of
oil OF lavender and pour halt of it in
pint bottle of cold water, and shake
it up; the mixture is a mechanical one
only; if dissolved in alcohol it is a
perfect solution; but this becomes more
expensive; scatter your oil OF lavender
On a table cloth and the flies will go
away; three or four doses sufficed to
drive away a pest of flies from country
boarding-house table.
Recipes.
Pan PIE Lime deep tin with pie
crust; ill with the best tart apples; cut
thin slices of pork and lay over the top;
sweeten with half brown sugar and the
best molasses; little salt and sprinkle
of allspice; bake three hours in a slow
oven.
CoooANUT CAKE One cupful butter,
two and one-half cupfuls sugar, one
cupful sweet milk, four cupfuls -four,
one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls
cream tartar, five eggs. one grated
cocoanut; bake in fiat tins and put ON
icing; sprinkle half of cocoanut on the
icing and put the other half in the cake.
CITRoN PUDDNG.-A delicious cition
pudding is made of one cup and half
of sugar. small half-cup of butter,
four eggs, as much citron as your taste
demands; the citron should be cut in
very thin slices, or it may BIZ chopped.
make puff paste, and line the bottom
and sides of deep pie plate or of a
shallow pudding dish; fill with the
mixture, and bake. The whites of the
eggs can be reserved for meringue, if
you please.
BREwIs.-Take stale bread and break
or cut into small pieces, put quart of
the pieces into flying-pan; pour over
it one pint OF fresh milk. and cover
light; pat on the stove fer about
ten minutes, when it is not too hot,
then remove the cover and break in one
egg; add piece of butter the size of a
nut, little salt and pepper; stir with a
FORK Tor a minute or two, and serve.
This with scrambled or poached eggs
makes nice dish for breakfast.
RICE SoUP.-Rice soup, with which
the Savoyards habitually regale them
selves, consists of a tolerable quantity
of rice, Well washed with both hands in
several successive cold waters, and then
cooked over gentle fire in as small
quantity Of water as possible, with
cream. Care must be taken not to stir
it while cooking, for fear of breaking
or spelling the form of the grains. A
fresh quantity OF cream, very hot, may
be added, but only in moderation, and
then over the whole squeeze through a
piece of fine muslin a dozen tomatoes
which have been previously dissolved
over SLOW fire. Add pepper and salt,
and eat smoking hot.