Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-05
HOUSEHOLD MOTIFS.

WHEN there is a crack in the stove it
can be mended by mixing ashes and salt
with water.
IT Is poor economy for the farmers fam
lily to stint themselves IN health-giVing
milk and eggs.
To clean willow furniture use salt and
water, and apply with coarse brush, and
dry thoroughly.
COLD sliced potatoes fry and taste better
by sprInklng a Tablespoonful of flour over
them while frying.
A GREAT deal of sickness may be pre-
vented by the free use of dsintectants in
and about dwelling houses.
NEW tins should be set over the fire with
boiling water in them for several hours
before food is put into them.
GLAZED POTATOES Peel, then boil
whole; dry off at the back of the range;
lay IN dripping pan, salt, butter liberal
ly and brown in a quick oven, beating
with butter from time to time.
EVEN pressed glass tumblers should
never be set one inside the other. What
goes in will not always come out. despite
the proverb to the contrary Or, to speak
| more accurately, if it does come out, 1t
may be in unpleasantly small fragments.
CANNED PEAs.-Get the best French
peas. Empty the can two hours before
the liquid, and lay the peas in ice-cOld
water, slightly sailed. When you are
ready to cook them. put them over the
fire in boiling. sailed water, and boil for
- minutes. Drain well, butter and sea-
son.
In washing forks, spoons or cups which
have been employed in eating eggs it is
best to make an application of cold water
with a mon before plunging them into the
boiling suds. Hot water cooks the eggs
and thus renders it more difficult to re-
move. Common table salt is said to be
excellent for removing egg tarnish from
/ silver.
JELLY SAUCE.-Dilute half cup cur
/ rant jelly with a cup of boiling water
/ stir in , tablespoonful OF butter and dou-
| bic the quantity of powdered sugar. Set
/ over the fire, and when it boils add the
| juice of a lemon, little nutmeg and an
| even teaspoOnful Of corn starch wet with
/ cold water. Boil up again and SCI in hot
| water until needed.
SUET PUDDING.-Three cups of -four.
half a cup OF powdered suet, cups of
sour milk, l rounded teaspOOnful of soda
silted twice with the -four, l OF salt, half
cup Of raisins seeded and chopped. Put
the -four, slfted with salt and soda, into a
bowl; make a mole in the middle and pour
in the milk gradually. Lastly, add suet
and raisins. Boil or steam in a buttered
mold for three hours. Eat with jelly
sauce.
CANNED PEAS SOUP.-Open a can of
/ American peas, drain and lay them in
cold salt water for half an hour. Boil
them soft in 3 pints OF hot sailed water,
with a slice OF onion and stalk Of eel
cry. A sprig Of green mint improves the
flavor. When broken TO pieces rub them
with the water in which they were
cooked, through cOlander; nut over the
fire and bring to a boil. Add heaping
tablespOonfuls of butter rolled in 3 Of
flour, half a cupful Of hot milk, a small
teaspOOnful OF sugar; salt and pepper to
your taste (which may not be milne or
your neighbOr's). Simmer and stir for 3
minutes and turn into "A tureen in which
is handful Of fried bread dice.
BAKED OMELET, WITH HERBs.-Beat
the yelks OF 8 eggs light, stir in with them
3 tAblespOOnfuls OF milk, in which has
been rubbed smooth quarter teaspOonful
OF arrOwrOot. Have an assistant prepare
meanwhile pudding or pie dish by melt
ing in it a tablespoonful Of butter beaten
to cream, with a tablespoonful Of
minced parsley, tender celery tops, and
slice of onion. All must be finely
chopped. Pepper and salt them lightly
Froth your whites, set your bake dish in
the oven until the butter Kisses, mix
veIks and whites with a swift whirl OF the
Dora" pour the Omelet into the dIsh,
and shut up promptly in a brisk oven As
soon as 1t is high aud the middle ssset''
pass a knife around the edge and turn
out on a hot-water dish. Serve and eat at
once