Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Use clam she'll to scrape pots and
trylng-pans with.
"A good rulo is to use pastry -four
whenever baking-powder is used and
bread flour with yeast.
Use flannel to wash the children with
in winter, and they will be good-natured
while bathing.
-Frizzled Beef. Shave dried beef
very fine, put into a frying-pan; when
hot shake and stir, season with pepper
and butter.
-Buckwheat Cakes. ingredients
Two quarts buckwheat -four, one pint
corn meal, one teaspoonful of yeast;
stir with water into thin batter. Let
rise over night Detroit Free Press
Drowned Sweet Potatoes. Remove
the skins from sweet potatoes previous
ly boiled, cut into thick slices, roll in
-four and salt; fry in butter until deli
cate brown; place on q fiat dish, and gar
nish with parsley. Boston Herald.
"A somewhat uncommon dish is made
OF oysters and onions. Cut four small
white onions into dice, and fry in hot
butter until Of a clean yellow color. Now
drop the oysters with their juice into
the pan, add more butter, salt and pep
per, and when exactly done, pour into q
hot dish, and serve with dry toast.
"A young housekeeper asks for some
thing that will remove indelible ink
stains. Cyanide of potassium, which is
a deadly poison, and must be handled
carefully, will remove some stains of So
called 'indelible' ink. Got directions
for its use from the apothecary where
you purchase the preparation. Boston
Budget.
Hard Soap. Dissolve one can OF
potash in quart Of cold water, then
stir slowly into it six pounds Of melted
grease; the cleaner the grease the whittier
the soap Stir few minutes until it Is
very thick; pour into square pan. II
you want to cut it in pieces, you mus
do it as soon as cold, or it will harden sc
it can not be cut easily. Mixing oat
meal in this soap makes good toilet
article; it is very good for the hands,
Household.
Curry Of Mutton.-Chop one pint O.
cold, cooked mutton. Put one table
spoonful of butter in frying-pan; wheI
melted, add tablespoonful Of -four an(
stir until smooth; add half-pint o
boiling water, stir until it boils; add tn,
meat, tablespoonful of curry-powder, ant
Tablespoonful of salt; stir unit
thoroughly heated. Then heap in tn,
center Of a meat dish, and put around
border of nicely boiled rice.-Goot
Housekeeping.
Oyster Toast.-Wash one pint oys
tiers, drain, season with salt and pepper
Dip in melted butter, then in fine crack
er crumbs. Broil over clear fire unit
the juice flows. Place on toast, pour
white sauce over and sprinkle wit
chopped celery. Get as large oyster
as possible for broiling, as they shrive
up in broiling good deal. Season tn
cracker crumbs, rolled fine, with sal
and pepper. Grease the broiler, brush
ing over with melted butter or rubin
with bit of salt pork Boston Globe
How many clever ideas come int
ones head while lying i'll in bed" wa
said to me by relative who was i'll tn
greater part of last summer. She the
went on to tell me how she carried ou
one Of her own. She called it an invalid
: table-cloth. A napkin was never larg
enough to protect the bedclothes frol
the tray and dishes, so she had take
pieces of heavy linen, making them a
long as the bed was wide and abor
twenty inches in width. These she ha
stitched and embroidered The resu.
has been something useful and prett,
as we'll as novel She sent the first on
she had made to fair and had bee
much pleased to receive several order
N. Y. World.