The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-24
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Household Hints and Recipes.


Anything mixed with water requires
q hotter oven than anything mixed with
milk.
Beef for roasting should not be salted,
as it extracts the juices. Simply sprinkle
with flour.
Old tea leaves may be utilized by
sleeping, straining and washing var
nished paint with the water. ---
Wall paper may be cleaned by cover.
ing the top of broom with a cloth and
gently sweeping over the paper.
Knives and forks with ivory, bone, or
wooden handles should not be put into
hot water. But we suggest that when
our readers buy knives for the table
they get those with silver plated handles
and blades. They need no bath brick
to keep them bright, but only an oc.
casional rub with whiting, and save
"lots of trouble"
Cream mullins are delicious. Per-
haps only those who keep COWS will feel
inclined to be extravagant enough to
indulge in them. Beat six eggs. a pint
of cream and pint of milk we'll to.
gether; add an ounce of lard and an
ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of salt
and quart of -four stirred in lightly.
Half fill the rings, and bake in sound
oven.
If you wish to have potatoes mealy do
not let them stop boiling for an instant; ;
and when they are done, pour the water
off and let them steam for ten or twelve
minutes over the fire. In the spring Of
tho year it is better to boil the potatoes
in two waters, pouring off the first as
soon as it comes to the boil, and then
cover the potatoes second time with
cold water, adding little salt.
To make grape jelly, strip from the
stalk some fine, ripe, black grapes, stir
them with wooden spoon over gentle
fire until all have burst and the juice
flows freely from them; strain off, being
on your guard that no pressure is applied
to the bag g; pass it through and through
the bag until quite clear; simmer gently
for twenty minutes, when draw it from
the fire and stir in until well dissolved
fourteen ounces of well-rc6ned sugar
(roughly powdered>; boil the jelly quick
ly for fifteen minutes longer, taking care
constantly to stir and skim.
Apples with rice form an appetizing
dish. Boil rice very soft, and line with
it q welI-buttered pudding dish. Lay
over it layer of sliced apple, using an
easily cooked variety, alternate layers OF
rice and apples until the dish is full.
Add little water to keep the rice from
becoming dry on top, and bake until the
apples are done. Another way is to pare
some apples and remove the cores, and
fill and cover them with boiled rice,
allowing q cupful of uncooked rice for
each half-dozen apples; cook in steam
or. Eat with cream and sugar.
After tea has been stepped in boiling
water for three minutes, over five.sixths
OF the valuable constituents are ex-
tracted. At the end of ten minutes the
leaves are almost entirely exhausted.
Prolonged infusion gives no additional
strength to the liquid, but it does cause
the loss by volatilazation, of the flavor
ing principles. Hard waters are to be
preferred to soft waters in the teapot, as
the hard waters dissolve less of the tan
min cut of the leaves. The bearing of
these laboratory results on the art Of
making q rood Gun of ten is obvious.