Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-09-18
HOME HINTS AND HELPS,

-Coitee cake should be wrapped in O
napkin while warm and there remain
till cut.
Many women go upstairs with the
pody bent forward and the chest con-
tracted-a practice very injurious to
the heart and lungs.
Fruit Vinegars: Fruit vinegars are
very pleasant drinks, and may be easily
made by adding vinegar to any of the
iruit sirups that can be got of any
grocer-raspberry, strawberry, currant,
etc'-Good Housekeeping.
-smothered Beef: Have chopped
me one pound of lean beef, put table,
spoonful OF butter in your chatting dish,
wnen hot Put in the beef, and stir con-
stantly for about two minutes, dust
with salt aud pepper and serve at once.
This if prepared nicely and served
very hot is both delicious and whole
some. Boston Budget
Lemon Pudding: Crate two lemons.
beat the yelks of six eggs with two cup
luis OF graduated sugar and half a
cupful OF butter and one teaspoonful OF
sweet cream; line a pudding dish with
stale cake; pour in the mixture and
bake about twenty minutes; cover the
top with a meringue, and place in the
oven to brown delicately. Boston Her.
aid.
Potato and Onion Soup: Take three
medlum-sized potatoes, three small
onions, one-half cupful of rice. Slice
potatoes and onions and put with the
rice into three pints of water; cook thor.
oughly, pour through colander, add
salt and pepper let scald and lift into
tureen containing small lump Of butter
and few crackers broken in two
Housekeeper.
-Old-Fashioned Gingerbread: One
cupful of molasses, three tablespoonful
of melted butter, one teaspoonful Of
soda, dissolved in five tablespoonfuls Of
hot water, ginger, salt and half tea
spoonful of powdered alum; two and. a
half cupfuls of sifted -four; pour into
well-buttered iron pans about half an
inch thick, and bake in a quick oven. -
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Apple Bread: Pare and stow one
pound of sour, juicy apples, wash, pass
through sieve, and sweeten to taste
Mix with this a quart of sifted flour,
half a cake of compressed yeast, and
water sufficient to make a smooth
dough; let it rise in warm place over
night, then mold into long narrow
loaf; let it rise again, then bake in {
quick oven.-Old Homestead.
Picked Cucumbers, or Gherkins
Take small cucumbers mot young)
steep for week in very strong brine; i
is then poured off heated to the boiling
point, and again poured on the cucum
bers. The next day drain them on {
sieve, wipe dry, put into bottles or jar
with some spice. One small red o.
green pepper, and six whole pepper
corns for each two quart jar, and GOV
cred with strong picking vinegar
Yankee Blade.
For moths salt is the best extermi
nator. The nuns in one of the hos
pital converts have tried every thing
else without success, and their ex
perience is valuable, as they have 81
much clothing of the sick who g,
there, and strangers when dying Otter
leave there quantities of clothing, etc
they had room full of feathers
which we're sent there for pillow max
ing, and they were in despair, as the.
could not exterminate the moths unit
they were advised to try common salt
They sprinkled it around, and in weel
or ten days they were altogether rid o
the moths They are never troubled
now.