Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-05
Dopkinsuille Aentufklan.
FRIDAY, DEcEMBER5, 1850
USEFUL. AND SUGGESTIVE.

-~Some very careful and successful
housekoeper insists that frying-pan
should never be washed. Their mothod
is to scour 1t. thoroughly with salt the
moment 1t has boon used and set 1t away
for tho next service.
An old French recipe for removing
grease spots In silk is as follows: Two
ounces of spirits OF wine, add one ounce
OF French chalk and ono ounce of pipe
clay, both iinoly powdered. Mako tho
paste into balls and let it dry. Apply 1t
by rubbing II, slightly molstened, on the
spot OF grease. When it is dry, brush 1t
of, and II the grease is not entirely gone
repeat the process.
Indian Sponge-Pudding Crumblc
cold corn-muflins to mako two teacup-
fuls. Soak In n quart of sweet milk
three or four hours. Then add three
well-beaten eggs, three level table
spoonfuls of sugar and pinch OF salt
Beat well. bake one hour in moderate
oven, and serve hot with rich cream aud
sugar, or with a sauce made by beating
into cream, heaping tablespoonful OF
butter, u teacupful OF granulated sugar,
one egg, with a very little vanilla for
fayoring. 1t is delicious served with
ice-cream. Home journal.
In washing clothes, grass stain is
particularly obstinate to romove 1t
will sometimes disappear by dipping tho
spot with molassos, and lettingft lie few
moments. Rinse tho molasscs out in
clear water, and the stain will disappear
with IL A moro oirectual method, how
ever. Is to dip the spot in solution oil
tin chloride, and immediately wash 1t
out in an abundance OF clear water.
Many stains which are too firmly set to
yield to the treatment with boiling
water will come out by dipping the spot
in warm chlorine water - Boston
budget
/ -Pickled Tomatoes-Select tomatoes
hardly ripe enough for table use. Wipe
them and drop into a two gallon crock.
4 Cover with cold cider vinegar to which
has been added tablespoonful of mix
cd spices, tied In cheese cloth sack.
| II you have not enough tomatoes to I'LL
the jar, they may be added from time to
timo keeping them well under the vine
gar. A little sugar may DO added, or
better, fresh vinegar after they have
stood some time. When wanted. take
from the vinegar, slip of tho skin,
cover with powdered sugar and serve in
sauce dishes. Almost equal to fresh
fruit Rural.
-Giblet Pie. Select largo giblets and
wash carefully. and put them on to stew
in very little water, add salt and
small onion with two cloves stuck in it,
half a saltspoonful OF sage, salt and pep
per- cover closely and cook until tender;
cut chicken in pieces, remove the skin
and wash 1t, parboil it, seasoning with
chopped onions, salt and pepper; In
about half an hour remove the chicken
to deep dish. remove the onion and
whole cloves from the giblet gravy pour
all the rest over the chicken-the glib
lets must be cut In small piecos-add
one teaspoonful OF mushroom catsup,
with flour, cover the dish with good
paste and bake one hour.-Boston Her
aid.
p Black Wedding Cake. One pound
each Of flour, butter and sugar, twelve
SkEot AOui pOhhao VI oecAN0 at@s't
three pounds Of currants, one pound and
a half of citroD, three-quartcrs OF
pound OF blanched and pounded al
monds, four ounces of cinnamon, six
nutmegs, one ounce of mace, one OF
cloves, and three gills Of molasscs
Dredge the currants and raisins with
one cupful of flour. Mix the spice with
the remainder OF the flour. Beat the
butter to cream. Gradually beat in
the sugar, and add the molasses a little
az q time, beating until the mass is
smooth and creamy. Add the almonds,
and boat well. Now add the well-beat-
on yellss of the oggs, then the whites.
Stir the flour in lightly, then the rails
ins and currants. Spread tho cake-mix-
ture in layers in the pans, and spread
thin slices OF the citron on each layer.
Bake for four hours in a moderate oven.
-Demorest's Monthly.