The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-01-27
DOMEsTIC.

SNOWFALL CAKES. Stir to cream
oupful of butter, two cupiuls Of sugar
and half teaspoopful of good soda,
from trustworthy chemists shop,
Slit into tho whole enough flour (adding
a teaspoonful of good cream OF tartar) to
make the cake as stiff as pound cake,
Just before putting it in the pans add
the whites of six eggs, beaten to stiff
froth. Stir the whole thoroughly and
rapidly, pour into small patty-pans, and
bake IN moderately quick oven, Be
careful that the cakes do not bake too
long, as they grow hard on top. Put q
drop or two OF pure extract Of vanilla on
the bottom of each cake as you take 1t
from the oven. Set the cakes on chi
na or earthenware platter, aud the
steam OF the fiavoring passes through
them and havors them more delioately
than when 1t is cooked in the cake: half
Its aroma and freshness evaporates in
the heat Of the oven. AS soon as the
cakes are little cooled, but before they
are cold, ice them thickly on top and at
the sides.
SouPs.-Io make nutritious and pal
atable soup, with havors we'll mingled
requires study, practice and good taste.
The best basis for soup ia lean uncooked
meat, pound of meat to quart of
water, to which may be added turkey,
chicken, beef or mutton bones we'll bro
ken up; a mixture of beef, mutton, and
veal, with bit of ham bone, all out fine,
makes higher favored soup than any
single meat; the legs of all meats are
r1ch III gelatine, an important constitu-
ent OF soup. Tho best herbs are thyme,
sage, sweet marjoram, tarragon, mint,
sweet basil, parsely, bay-leaves. cloves,
mace, celery seed and onions. The best
seasoning is that wlich is made up of
the smallest quantity from each of many
spices. The good soup maker must be
II skillful faster.
A VERY neat hanging flower pot is
made easily and with no expense from
coooanut shell. There are divisions
in tho shell plainly marked by slight
ridge that divides ltself into three equal
parts;burn hole in each of these about
half all inch from the edge; take some
small wire and fasten, by twisting into
each hole. Have these wires Of equal
length, rs long as you like. Put in
some small bits OF charcoal or broken
orockery; then fill with earth. Set out
oxalis, ivy, or whatever you please for
trailing vine, and hang before win
dow, and you have one Of the neatest
arrangements possible. Ii YOU have
bracket shelves across your windows q
little hook can be inserted in the edge,
and this basket hung OH it.
ECONOMICAL oAP.-The properties Of
soap and Of silicate of soda possess great
analogy. The combinations of weak
acids possess slightly alkaline reaction,
their solution being capable of forming
an emulsion with fatty substances.
These properties in common have led to
the manufacture OF cheap soaps, OOH
tanning large proportion of silicate of
soda or soluble glass. Two processes
may be employed: Q) the addition of
concentrated solution of silicate of soda
to fatty or resinous soap and ca thu
suponificatlOn of fatty or resinous sub
stances by alkaloids in the presence of
silicate OF soda. By either method a
soap is obtained suitable for all the uses
to which ordinary soap has hitherto
boon applied, and at a much lower price,
as sll'cate OF soda Is extremely cheap.
HSiiis is all explicit recipe for O break
fast omolet: Allow one egg for each per-
son at the table; boat the eggs as light
az for the INCEST cake, add q littlo lump
OF saat and one Tablespoonful of milk for
each egg, boat Mt least one minute, thsn
put i'll hot frying pan i'll which you
have melted enough butter to cover the
bottom well. Cover the pan and let tho
omolet cook undisturbed, and slowly,
unit! it !s stiff enough so that you GAN
raise tho edges easily, then put under q
little more butter, and double the ONE
let together and slip it off on IL hot plate.
This should DO made after everything
oise is about ready for the table so that
II may be eaten ut once.
"OX-aAJL is all excellent and delicate
cleansing agent. 1t is liquid soda
soap" 1t is very useful for washing
dolicate colors, and Frightening and
cleaning carpc,s. 1t gives greenish
tint to fabrics with white grounds nMd
should not DE used for them, but color
od chintzes and cRlioos, which would DO
destroyed by the use of soap, may some
times be washed i'll cool water and OK
gall nnd look like new. 10 brighten
the carpet, wipe witt, WOODEN cloth,
wrnng out OF ox-gall water. II II is
very much soiled, add somc good hard
soap to the water aud scrub it with
brush rlnsing with clear ox-gall water.
STRAINED CHICKEE. --Iiub tho chicken
on the Inside with pepper and half
teaspoonfnl of salt, place in a steamer
in kettle that will keep it as near the
water as possible, cover, and steam an
hour and half; when done, keep hot
while dressing ID prepared, then out up.
arrange Oh tho platter and serve with
the dressing oyer them. The dressing
ls made as follows: Boil one pint of ara-
Wy from the kettle without the fat: add
cayenne pepper and half teaspoonful
of salt; stir six tablespoonfuls of -four
into quarter OF pint of cream until
smooth, and add the gravy. Corn
starch may be used instead of the flour,
and some cooks add nutmeg or celery
salt.
CoFFEE JELLY. Halt box OF Coxe's
gelatine soaked half an hour in half
teacup cold water Gas little water as DOS.
slble), ono quart OF strong coffee, made
as if for the table and sweetened to taste:
add the dissolved gelatlne to the hot
coffee, stir we'll, strain in mould
rinsed with cold water just before using.
sot on ice or in very cool place; serve
with whipped cream This jelly is worry