The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-09-10
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
MRS. s. \. NETTLES.

NICE DARK PUpDING.-One cup or
molasses, one-fourth cup butter, the
same OF sugar, the same of sweet
milk, one ana one-half cups of flour,
three eggs, one half teaspoonful each
of ground cloves, cinnamon, and soda,
and pinch of salt. Steam one hour
in buttercd pan, and avoid raising
the lid of the steamer during the
cooking process: else the pudding
will be apt to fall and be heavy. Serve
with sauce made of one cup OF sugar,
one-half cup of butter, and one tea
spoonful of corn starch; stir the corn
starch well with the sugar, then pour
on one-halt pint of boiling water,
stirring until cooked. Flavor with
one teaspoonful of lemon extract. 1t
is always better not to boil butter with
sauce of this kind, as continued cook
ing renders it oily; the butter should
be added just before removing the
sauce from the fire.
A GREAT many women are annoyed
by the rapidity with which braid
wears off their dress-skirts The best
qualities of skirt-braid are finer, and
often do not wear as long as the
cheaper, coarse ones. The very best
material for binding dress-skirt is a
bias band of good velvet put on as a
roll. 1t will outlast three pieces of
worsted braid, and, moreover, will
save more than its cost in saving fine
walking. shoes from the wear on the
instep caused by the friction of braid.
This often causes the shoe to be shah
by here before any other part of 1t is
perceptibly worn.
SHORTENING for pies should be cold
and firm. Have the water also cold,
and stand in cool place while mixing
and rolling out pastry.
ANGEL CAKE-One-half cupful of
-four, and the same of corn-starch,
sifted together four times. adding, al
ter twice sitting, one teaspoonful of
best cream tartar. (By the way, it is
we'll to purchase this ingredient al
ways Of a good druggist, unless you
have grocer you can trust.) Beat
the whites of eleven eggs to stiff
froth, add, little by little, one and one
half cupfuls of sifted white sugar, stir
in the flour gradually, favor to taste
with almond and 1ose-water, pour in-
to an ungreased baking-tin with q
tube in the centre, and bake forty to
fifty minutes in moderate oven. Be
very careful about opening and shut
ting the door of the oven, do not open
at all until after the cake has been in
at least one fourth hour. Turn out
when done, and ice when cold.
CHEAP M1ScE PIE.- -Four crackers
rolled fine, one and one-half cups of
sugar, one cup molasses, one each Of
vinegar and water, two thirds cup of
butter, one cup of raisins, stoned and
chopped, and two eggs. Spice iher-
ally to taste. Bake in two crusts.
This quantity makes three pies. If
the vinegar is very strong one-half to
two-thirds will be sufficient.
THE FAMILY HAr-Dox-If you want
a splendid hat-box which need not be
slowed away in the box room, but
will be an ornament to your bedroom
in the shape OF a comfortable ottoman,
then buy large cheese-box, the size
you wish, and ornament it in this way.
Get q pot of white enamel and paint
the inside of the box and that space
all around the top of the box which
fits into the lid. The rest OF the box
and lid you must cover with any of
the thousand and one pretty materi-
ais now sold for such purposes.
Measure the depth of the unpainted
space on the box, and make a box
plating of a piece Of material that
wide. and three times the circumfer-
ence OF the box in length. Now tack
this plating round the box with short
tin-tacks. Make a circular cushion of
calico filled with flock, or old letters
cut up, to fit the top of the lid. Then
cut one circular piece of material to
cover the top of the cushion. Edge
this with narrow box-plait, and
when the cushion is firmly tackled on
the lid your pretty ottomanbox is
Observation-Disclosures Hootc lNaga2iue.