Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-07-24
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Ice Cream with Fruit: Make
cream after your own favorite method,
and when it is frozen about the consist
ency of mush, stir in the berries in
about the proportions of one pint to
two quarts of cream.-Country Gentle
man.
Dropped Fish Cakes: One cup OF
salt cod picked very fine, half-cup milk,
one tablespoonful butter two teaspoon
fuls flour, one egg, pepper to taste.
Make white sauce OF the -four, butter
and milk, stir the fish into this, add the
egg beaten light, season and drop by
the spoonful into boiling lard, as is
done with fritters. Rural New Yorker.
-Tapioca Ice: Soak one cup of pearl
tapioca over night; in the morning boil
in water till it is clear, adding one cup
OF sugar and little salt Have a
ripe pineapple chopped-not very fine
and turn the tapioca and sugar over it
while boiling hot; stir and turn into a
mold to cool. When cool eat with SUI
gar and cream. Old Homestead
-Omelet with Corn: Prepare as you
do baked omelet; but at the last, be-
fore putting into the pan, add a cupful
OF green corn cut from the cob Pour
the omelet into a frying-pan contain
ing two tablespoonfuls of butter, and
cook, loosening it constantly from tn e
bottom with knife TO prevent it's
scorching. When done, double over
and serve. -Harpers Bazaar.
Drowned Mutton: Sew up leg OF
mutton in piece of cheese cloth; lay
it in water to cover it we'll; add a
tablespoonful of salt and boil we'll, al
lowing twelve minutes for each pound;
then remove it from the water and the
cloth; sprinkle with pepper and fine
cracker crumbs; place in the oven until
the crumbs become brown; serve with
drawn butter, with chopped pickles
added. Boston Herald.
-Hair-Pin Holder: Cut two pieces OF
cardboard in the shape of a tiny boat
six inches for the length of the lower
line and three for the height make a
good proportion. Cover both sides with
plush, satin or any pretty material and
sew the pieces together at the ends and
shorter sides. Fasten tiny balls at each
end and outline design of crossed oars
upon one side.-The Home.
When putting away clothes for the
season, If they are carefully wrapped
up, one often has the trouble afterwards
of opening number of parcels before
finding the needed article. Such par
cells should not be laid away without q
list of their contents being written or
| the wrapper. In the case of cottor
dresses, which are always folded III
paper when laid away, | pin bit o
the stuff of which the dress is com
posed to the outside; then single
glance tells the contents, and one
avoids the necessity of long search
Rural New Yorker.
-Rhubarb Pudding: Butter gener
ously some thin slices of light stal,
bread. Place layer of rhubarb in al
earthen baking dish, sprinkle light,
with suger, cover with bread slices
another layer of fruit, sugar and breaC
until the dish is full, with bread on top
Pour over it one cupful of water ant
cover tigE fly with plate, and bake il
the oven for an hour or more. Serv,
hot or cold with sugar and cream. Tht
steam should not escape while baking
lest the fruit be not thoroughly cooked
Crumbs or stale bread, mixed thorough
ly with finely-cut rhubarb and sugar
butter and water, and baked as abov
will answer the same purpose, -Th
Housekeeper.