St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-12-26
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

/ >u8S0 N0Kc: Make tobec -0ycfs
sponge cake, chop one cup each .oa
raisins and hickorynnt meats, and mix
with the beaten white Of an cgR ia
which has been added two tablespoon.
fuls sugar. Put between layers of cake
and frost the etop.-Orange Judd Farmer.
To cure chapped hands, apply th.,
following ointment: Melt one fourth Of
a pound Of mutton -tallow, add 0ne-hxlf
ounce each of gum camphor and g!y-
cerine, let it boil two minutes, stirring
constantly. then put away to cool. Be-
fore going 20 bed, wash the hands thor.
Oughly in hot water. rub ON the 0irt,
mcnt and draw ON q pair of old lid
gloves.
Stuffed Eggplant: Having washed
the eggplant. put It into boiling water
and cook halt an hour. Then cut IL in
two and scoop out the soft part, leaving
the skin unbroken. Mash the eggplaot
smooth, seasoning with butter. salt aud
pepper. Put this back into the skin.
place 1t in . pan. sprinkle with grated
bread-crumbs and bits of butter and
place in the Oven.-N. Y. World.
"A solution for rcplating silver knives
forks and spoons with silver may oN
made by dissolving q quarter dollar in
three ounces nitric acid. then adding
three ounces quicksilver, and when the
latter is quite dissolved. adding . qusrt
OF rain water. Dip the silver article 70
be replated in the solution and let it re-
main there short time. Then rub
with sponge wet in the solution aud
polish with . chamois skin.
Cream Toast: Toast half dozen
slices of bread q nice brown. Put too
and half cupfuls of sweet milk On
stove to heat; mix three even teaspoon
fuls Of -four with cold milk to q paste
and stir into the milk when boiling; add
two spoonfuls of butter and half
cupfnl of cream; let il cool, few min
utes and pour over the toast in q deep
dish. Serve Immediately. Bread dried
in the warming oven awhile before
toasting digests casicr.-Ilousekeepe
To have good burnt almonds. take
two pounds Of fine sugar and bol up
til. on gently dipping the tip of your
forefinger into the sirup and applying
it to your thumb, the sugar forms q fine
thread on being pulled apart. Take one
pound Of Jordan or Valencia almonds,
blanched and dried. and put into the
pan with the sugar. Stir. take from
the fire, and make the almonds imbibc
as much sugar as possible. The swcetsr
You desire the nuts. the longer continue
the process. Flavor with ora ;.-aioTer
Home Journal
Beef Rissoles: Take some s,1,es Of
rather lean cold roast beef and mince
it very fine: season it highly with pco-
per and salt, and add . few savoy
herbs chopped fine and tho peel Of half
a lemon, with a little more than half
tho weight of the beef in brcaa crumbs:
mix all well together and bind it with
two eggs well beaten into thick paste;
form this into balls: sprinkle them with
egg and bread crumbs, and fry them a
nice brown and serve with good brown
gravy poured around them. .JIsoston
Herald. rr rr~
Why is il no one ever seems to have
a ''rule" for lemonade? II is first i.t-
tie more water-then.a another half-lepu-
on. then another teaspoon full of sugar,
then possibly more lemon. or more wa.
fer-more tasting, more experimenting
until one hardly knows what the con-
coction does need. OF course lemons
vary in size and amount of Juice: but q
good formula for lemonade in general
IS one averagc-quali:y lemon to . glass
of ice water. and five teaspoonfuls of |
sugar. For an invalid'a |
irink. use four teaspoonfuls Of sugar
instead Of fve.-N. Y. Tribune.