Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-12-28
PANTRY AND PARLoR.

Never wash bronzed lamps,
liers, etc, but dust them with a feather
brush or a soft wooden cloth.
If we wish our children to revere
high things-things simple and pure
and lovely, and of good report-we must
set them the example.
-Poorly-deoorated china is an eye
sore, and, to attempt cheap decorative
needlework on napery, is in bad taste;
while the coarsest linen If clean ana
white, looks well.
Milk should never set in cold wealth
or whore it will chill. 1t Injuries the
milk as much to chill it as to keep II at
too high a temperature in warm weather.
Plymouth Pudding: One cup each
of chopped suet, molasses and sweet
milk, one te~aspoonful each OF al
aratus, salt. and different spices, one
cup of seeded ~raisins, and three cups OF
flour: steam three hours; to be eaten
with uce.-Househotd.
HEARTH Brush; A decorative hearth
brush to be hung by the fireplace Is
made by braiding ropes for a handle
leaving the ends nearly halfa yard long
These ends should be raveled, n the
handle should be adorned with a hand
some bow Of ribbon.
Pea Soup: To two quarts OF good
broth, veal or beef, add M quart o
shelled peas, and boil for twenty min
utes. Add one %teaspoonful of sugar, a
bunch of mint. tablespoonful OF sweet
butter. and salt to taste. Strain il
serve. Bread may be toasted and cut
into small squares or fancy shapes ana
put on top of the soup if desired
Raised Pork Pie: Make a raised
crust as for ch~tcken-pie; take the ppSSs
from a loin of pork, chop fine season
with pepper. salt and powdered sage
and fiji your pie crust put on
the top crust, fasten the edges
well and rub the top over with the
beaten yelk of an egg; bakeit two hours
with a paper over it to keep 1T from
burning.-Detroit Free Press
Quick Biscuit: Chop a teaspoonill
of butter or lard in two heaping cups Of
flour in which you have siftcd a tea
spoonful of baking-powder and half n
of salt, wet with milk or water enough
to make a soft dough that you can just
roll out. Roll it out half an inch thick
and cut with a cutter into round cakes
Christian Union.
A Brown Mince: Cold roast mutton,
trimmed of all fat and skin, makes a
very nice mince. Chop it moderately
fine and season with salt and pepper
chop as fine as possible half an nlo
for a quart of meat, and mix with nan
the quantity of fine bread crumbs MOIST
on with mint sauce fresh bruised mint
in good vinegar and a little rich gravy
Place in a pudding dish, dot the top
with bits of butter, CRATE a sitting OF
bread crumbs over all and bake a rich
brown.
Baked C~hicken-Pie: Take six chick
ems and Joint as for a fricassee, Put
them over the fire with thin slices OF
salt pork, half a pound in all, and barely
cover with cold water. Bring quickly
to a boil, and draw to the side of the
fire, where they will just simmer, When
tender roll out your crust about a quar-
ter of an inch thick, and line a large tin
or earthen dish; lay in the chicken with
butter and seasoning between each layer;
put on the top crust, but add no juice
until the pie is done. Then through the
hole in the top, using a funnel, pour the
lice, properly thickened and seasoned,
ntil the pie is full. This pie is dell
Gus hot or cold.