Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-18
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.

A LITTLE powdered charcoal will
cleanse and sWeeten bottles if it is well
shaken about in them.
ARRoW-ROOT is excellent to thicken the
gravy to be poured over toast. 1t has a
good flavor and is very nOurishmg.
THE pretty cotton edging so much used
for trimming children's undertaking
may be sewed on with the sewing machine
if you haste it to the under side o. the
garment. Sew directly over the basting
thread.
FISH, almost more than anything else,
is improved by slow cooking: especially
is this true when the fish is boiled. If
cooked rapidly it will fall apart and will
neither taste nor look so well. The great
point insisted upon by scientific cooks of
the present day is this of taking abundant
time to prepare food, and the fact that
nothing is gained by rapid boiling.
A GOOD recipe for a loaf cake is to take
four cupfuls of sifted flour, three cupfuls
of powdered sugar, four eggs, one cupful
of sweet milk, one glassful of colorless
wine, one grated nutmeg, teaspoonful
of soda dissolved in little hot water;
stir it briskly, so that the ingredients will
be thoroughly mixed before putting into
the tin. Put buttered paper in the tin.
PRETTY BLOCKS for a crazy quilt have
different shapes and styles of fans on them.
These blocks, and in fact all those used in
the quilt, gain in effect by having frame
work of black velvet ribbon. This can be
frightened as much as you please by the
use of embroidery silks. Brocade silk
can be made more effective, if of one color,
by having the figures outlined with gay
silks.
REALLY handsome mats are made of
felt, with borders of daises and of golden
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with crewels. If you purchase the pat
terms so much used now, by which you
can stamp your pattern yourself, the eX-
pense is trifling. A very pretty mat is of
blue felt with scrOll-like border, worked
with yellow. Scarlet and canary color,
olive and Old-gOld are all very tastefullY
used'tOgether.
A BEAUTIFUL tidy for the back of a
large chair is made of a square piece of
cloth about ten inches each way; on this
is sewed patchwork of plush and velvet
in the form of widespread fan. The
corners of the block are of black velvet.
and on the top, dropping over the fan, is
spray from a mOss-rOse bush in ribbon
embroidery. The edge is finished with
lace. This design is pretty for a block in
a quilt or sofa pillow.
CUsTARD, to be served in cups with
cake, made by adding three tablespoOnfuls
of cOrnstarch to one quart of milk. Rub
the cOrnstarch smooth in little cold milk,
and when the quart of milk is boiling stir
1t in: when it thickens and bubbles re-
move it from the fire and add the yelks of
four eggs, well beaten, a lump of butter
the size of butternut, some nutmeg and
lemon. Put it into the cup, then make a
meringue Of the whites of the eggs with
sugar and put on the top OF the custard.
THE ideal and almost unattainable ice
cream is made by following this recipe:
Two quarts of cream (nOt milk one
pound of pulveriZed sugar, two eggs.
Beat the eggs; then beat the sugar with
them; then the cream. Let this just come
to a boil; then remove from the fire, flavor
with vanilla, strain it through a very fine
sieve, or, if you have none, a clean new
piece of cheese cloth will answer in place
of one. When cool put it in the freezer
and freeze, stirring until it is too hard to
turn any longer.
PROCURE a vial Of oil of vitriol sui
phuric acid which will cost about . cents.
Use a glass rod and put one drop on the
article to be tested. Pure fresh yellow
butter will turn almost white, while tai
low changes to a deep crimson red. Lard
gives diversified cOiOrs. showing all the
cd is to melt very small quantity in a
shallow dish, which should only be large
enough to hold the quantity and put a
piece of wick in the fluid; now light the
prOtruded end of the wick above the sur
face of the liquid, and after it burns a
few minutes eXtinguish the flame. BY
inhaling the ascending smoke from the
wick the OdOr of fried butter Will desig-
nate pure butter, but if the OdOr is similar
to that of a smoking candlestick you may
rest assured it is oleOmargarine.-Ph ild-
deiDhia Grocer.