Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-19
A Talk with Young House keepers.
BY MRS. NJ. d. RYON.
/ CoDvrj0hisd. 1851


While every one must admit that nous g.
keeping--successfu hOusekeeping--is
purely matter of personal experience
and evolution. yet must we confess also
the value OF comparisons and exchange
OF ideas. A party of housewives will be
like group Of old tars-each one think
ing ''your yarn is wonderful, but my eX-
perience is more so, KNOW" There must
come time when the woman of many
years' experience will have legion of
facts to communicate, ana the callow sis
| terhood, aye, even the veterans like her.
self, should draw around her and profit
thereby. Let each one ask What do L
know OestY and then tell it. AS for me J.,
let me instruct some well-nigh disheart-
ened young housewife thus: Sister, 1t
doesn't do to ''render up' lard in tin
vessel. / tried it and came near burning
down the dear little cottage in which the
doctor and 1 began life twenty years
ago." 1t doesn't answer to cook peach
cobbler less than an hour il there is a
middle layer OF pastry, that one | at
| tempted twenty years ago tor distin-
| guished guest was so raw when 1t came
to the table. IL doesn't do to cover up
your butter too closely, a light cloth tied
over the crock is enough: never make it
| air-tight. | should not know this so well
but for the loss OF several fine rolls of best
| this mOrtifying list of things not to be
done be multiplied. Rather now let me
| look within and see what l can offer to
counterbalance it.
Southern women as general thing get
very little praise for their bread making.
Think, then, how l must treasure up the
verdict that sit is the very best ever
tested" which almost surely follows the
first trial of my salt-rising. How Is it
made? Thus: At night take teacup of
boiling sweet milk Cor, as second choice.
boiling water drop into 1t small pinch
OF salt, set it off tn stove moment be-
fore stirring into it enough cOrnmeal to
make a soft mush. Wrap the cup in a
thick clean wooden cloth and set in q
warm place all night. First thing next
morning take pint of warm water in
your yeast pitcher, stir into it a small
tablespoonful of sugar, then the meal
mush, then enough flour to form moder-
ately stiff batter, set in pot of warm
water and within two hours you will have
yeast running over. Take five pints of
-four, work into it large iron spoonful of
sweet lard, small handful of salt, mix
with the yeast, adding warm water as
required; mold into four loaves, put In
baking pans, let it rise to top, then bake
one hour and quarter. There is no claim
for entire originality in this, but it has
acted so well gone at exactly in this way
for so long a time in my hands that
venture to give 1t here. AS to our hot
biscuit and breakfast butter cakes, Tor
the former to pint of -four teaspoOnful
of baking powder, salt, lard the size of an
egg, stirred well; mix rapidly with cold
sweet milk, cut, do not let stand, bake in
the bottom of the hottest oven you can
manage. No more heavy biscuits, if
made so. be assured. For the batter-bread
use that class or grade of -four called
'shorts." (Our miller saves it for US on
Order.) A pint OF shorts, half pint of
cornmeal, salt, soda, buttermilk, guam
tum sufiicit tor a thin batter, into which
stir two well-whipped eggs; bake on very
hot griddles, send in each griddleful as
baked-not a great pile, half of which will
get cold and f1abby and be thrown away.
Good bread, sweet butter, fragrant coffeel
How wish all the sisterhood of house
keepers everywhere might unite in a
search for a new Ponce de Leon fountain,
the waters OF which, once tasted, should
insure perfect knowledge and power to
each of US over this grand trinity OF our
common everyday fare!
Still introspecting for the things which
a serene self-confdence applauds. l light
upon an old receipt used for twenty years,
never failing to produce fine blackberry
wine, which has been fiatteringly COM
pared to the best of old port. 1t may be
that getting the berries the very day they
were gathered has been an advantage.
Measure, put into large stone jars, pour
over them boiling water in the proportion
OF quart to every gallon of berries.
Cover lightly for twenty-four hours.
Strain through a coarse crash towel.
Measure tie juice and to every gallon
add three pounds of white sugar; put it
again in the jars and into each jar drop
little bag OF spices, made up of tea
spoonful each of cloves, cinnamon and
nutmeg. Tie over tne tops OF the jars
thin muslin cloth. Go and listen every
day to hear Ii the wine is ''sInging." The
day you find 1t has stopped singing strain
it into new jugs, cork tight, set away in
cool place till you want it for use. II is
palatable in very little while but i'm
proves with age.
Remembering how timely just now will
be hints about working with blackberries,
let me remind the young housekeeper that
in making blackberry jam, and indeed
almost any preserve, little more spa
tent continuance" in boiling down and
stirring will turn the juice to a fine solid
jelly around the fruits which insures their
keeping any length OF time you may de-
sire.
An infallible icing for cake has been
evolved from numerous and varying ex-
periences. Two cups of granulated sugar
wet thoroughly with hot water; boil till
ropes like spun glass float from the tip Of
the spoon. Have in a cold dish the whites
OF two eggs frothed stiff; pour the boiled
sugar into it in a fine, small sire am, beat
ing hard till cold. We tind all the old
time-honored hour-and. half-or-two. hour
cake baking surpassed by a dainty deli
cate cake baked for thirty or forty MN
utes in a square sheet iron baking pan
covered with this icing in three colors-
white, pink, chocolate-and cut INFO tiny
squares.
Wife aud Babe Found Hanged.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1S.-W hen Joseph hosa,