Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-10-24
HOUSEHOLD eREWTIss

To remove grass stains from Chi.
dren's clothing, wash tout while fresh
with aloohcL-Detroit Free PresS
|, For S good stove polish in the form.
! Of s powder, use good quality plumba'
20 applied with 4 stiff br ISL. -Scien'
tifc American
The ugly spinning wheels which
were so hard to obtain a few years aga
have become continual joys as trellises
on which I train vineS-N. Y. Trib-
une
-ToRemove Mildew from Cloth-Put
a teaspoonful of chloride of lime into q
quart of water, strainit twice and then
dip the widowed places in this weak
solution; lay in the sun. II the mildcw
has no, disappeared when dry repeat
-Lemen Jelly Filling.-one-half pint
of sweet milk, one egg or yolks OF two,
one te~aspoonful of corn-starch, one Ia
blespoonful of flour, two tablespoonfuls
of sugar, the juice and grated rind OF
one lemon Cook like boiled custari
boston Budget
Nice Dressing. Cut bread into
slices, then into small dice.shaped
pieces, put in butter, salt and pepper, a
tiny bit of sage, the merest flavor OF
onion, mix, put in three eggs. For nice
turkey gravy, make as usual, and just
before taking up put in one quart Of
oysters. Detroit Free Press.
Pie With Two Crusts Pare, quar-
ter and core tart apples and lay them
closely together in a deep pie plate
lined with paste. Season with sugar,
a piece Of butter as large as a hickory
nut, whatever spice or extract one pre-
fers, and a little water. After adding
the upper crust sift pulvcrized sugar
over the top and bake forty minutes
Globe.
Thin muslin or lawn dresses will
be stiffened and cleansed by washing
them in bran-water. Boil two quarts
Of wheat bran in gallon and half of
for half an hour. Strain this
through a towel and add to the water
washing. Avoid the use of soap or
if possible. A little Of the bran
may be stirred in the rinsing wa
ter or the goods rinsed lightly in pure
Y. World.
An experienced housekeeper once
well said: 81 never throw away a SIM
gle potato which is left over; there is
some use for it. If even one or
two only are left, | CRATE them and use
to thicken soup. II more, they
can be sau.eed the next morning for
breakfast, or cut into dice and heated
up with hot milk into which some salt
and a piece OF butter has been added.
BY putting them into a hot oven ana
allowing the milk to be partly absorbed
by the potatoes, this makes a very good
plain dish"
Chocolate Layer Cake. Make a
sponge with two eggs, one cnp
sugar, one-half cup sweet cream, one
cup flour, n heaping ~teaspoonful
baking powder and one-half teaspoon.
full salt Bake. Beat whites of two
eggs (but NOT as for frosting), adding
two tablespoonfuls sugar for each egg.
Crate in chocolate sufficient for taste
and color, add a few drops vanilla and
between layers and on top.
When making this / often take three
eggs, using two yelks and one whole
egg for the cake, reserving the whites
for frosting. Orange Judd Farmer.
"A Fruit Pudding. This is Mrs. Lin
coins way OF making an apricot pud-
ling, but any kind OF fruit can be used
well: Boil n cupful Of rice fifteen
minutes, or steam till tender. Wiring
small pudding cloths, two.thirds of a
yard square, out of hot water, and Law
them over a small half-pint bowl.
the rice one-third Of an inch
thick ove the cloth. Put an apricot in
center, filing the cavity in each
lalf apricot with rice. Draw the cloth
around till the apricot is covered
smoothly with rice. Tie tightly and
steam ten minutes. Remove the cloth
carefully and turn the balls out on a
and serve with sauce,f for which
take one cup apricot juice, one half-cup
sugar, one teaspoonful corn starch or
-four. Boil all together for five minutes
and strain. Use any kind of fruit Juice
DR. strip in this same way for sauce. -
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