Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-09-27
HOUSEHOLD sREvlTlEs.

To funirats a room, heat an iron
shovel and drop vinegar on it. Have
the doors and windows open.
Among the new settlers in Oklahoma
are a man and his wife, who are respec-
lively seven feet seven inches and six
feet in height
Date Pie.-0ne-halt pound dates.
Let them simmer in n pint Of milk
until soft. Strain, add two eggs and a
little salt Bake with under crust only.
boston Globe.
One OF the most simple and effective
a~ntidotes for bee sting is to moisten a
piece of washing soda and rub the stung
part with it If this is done at once 1t
will remove the pain and prevent swell
ing.
-Devilled Oysters. = Drain large
oysters from the liquor; cover them with
vinegar, melted butter and a little cay.
enne and ground cloves; let them re-
main in this about half an hour; turn
them occasionally; dip them into beaten
egg and fine cracker crumbs, sailed, and
fry in deep, hot fat-Boston Herald.
Picked Onions Take little onions,
put into weak brine twenty-four hours,
then drain. Take vinegar enough to
cover them and pour owe scalding hot,
and leave twenty-four hours. Drain
vinegar off and scald again. Season
| with a little sugar, a few whole cloves
and black peppers. Detroit Free Press,
Angels ood.-Dissolve one-hali
box Of gelatine in one quart Of milk;
beat together the yelks of three eggs,
one cup of sugar and the juice of one
lemon; stir into the gelatine and milk,
and let it Just come to a boil; flavor
with vanilla. When nearly cold, whip
the whites Of the eggs to a stiff froth,
and stir through the custard. HOUSE
hold.
Summer Pudding Butter a plain
charlotte mold and line it with neat
slices of bread; then fill it up with any
kind of stewed fruit (currants and rasp-
berries, plums and apples, or apples and
blackberries, etc. Lay a piece OF
crumb of bread on the top, cutting it to
fit exactly (all crust must be removed
from the bread used for this pudding),
and stand the mold in a cool place till
next day; then turn it out, and serve
with custard or cream poured over it.
Choose Juicy, well-colored fruit, SO as to
completely saturate and color the bread.
Tomato Pan Dowdy. Eight large
tomatoes, four crackers, Scald ripe to-
matoes by dipping them in boiling
water so that the skin will come of
readily, put a layer of the tomatoes,
sliced, into a pudding dish, sprinkle
with salt and pepper and put some bits
of butter among them, then a layer of
powdered cracker, then tomato, and so
on till the dish is full. Let the last
layer be crackers and put some bits of
butter on top Bake in moderate oven
until nicely Drowned. In winter canned
tomatoes may be used.-Yankee Blade.
Have you noticed that the peren.
NAL joke about the alleged deadly eff
fects of the green cucumber isn't cir
culating as much this season as former
ly? This is not because the green Gu
cumber has reformed, for it is still do
ing business at the old stand, but be-
cause even the funny men are finding
out the truth about the cucumber.
There may be potential possibilities of
death in it, as there are ever in mush
and milk, but, when eaten in the
proper way, and at the proper time, it
is a royal dish, and, instead of being
deleterious, is one of the most health.
full vegetables known.-N. Y. Tribune.