Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-23
HOUSEHOLD BREvLrlES.

Delicious Pound Cake.-0ne cupful
of butter, one and one-half cupfuls OF
sugar, five eggs two seant cupfuls of
flour, nutmeg or mace. Good House
keeping.
Honey Candy Take n pint of
sugar, two tab.espoolsfuls of water,
half a pint of strained honey. Boil
until brittle. Pull when cooL-Farm
and Fireside,
TO clean bottles, cut a raw potato
into small pieces and put them into a
bottle with a tablespoonful Of salt and
two tablespoonfuls of water. Shake
well together until every mark is re-
moved.
1t was not long ago the fancy of a
young mother to mark each piece of
the dainty wardrobe made FOR her FIRST
child with white %violets. This pr,tty
idea so delighted many mothers who
heard of it that now hundreds Of babies
are born under the shadow of some
flower, and women who are not skillful
with their needles are delegating tho
delightful work to needlewomen.
Stuffed Egg Plant-Cut egg plans
in half le~ngthwise and parboil them in
sailed water. Scoop out most of the
inside and pound this to a paste in a
mortar with a little fat bacon and
some mushrooms previously chopped
up, and a little onion, also chopped,
pepper and salt TO taste and u little
bread crumb soaked in g1ol stock.
Fill each half with this mixture, lay
them in a we'll buttered tin and bake
for about n quarter of an hour.-De.
troit Free Press.
Apple Fritters. Beat up the yolks
Of two eggs with a little warm milk,
add one-half pound of -four, a dessert
spoonful of butter, a pinch of salt and
enough warm milk to make the batter
of such consistency that it will drop
from the spo n. Stir it quite smooth,
and lastly beat into the mixture the
well-whisked whites of two eggs.
Peel some apples and cut them into
thick slices, stamping out the core
from the middle of each slice. Dip
them into the batter, thoroughly GOV.
ering them, and fry on both sides in
boiling lard. Lay them on blotting
paper in front of the fire for a few min
utes and serve very hot with any nice
sirup. -Housekeeper.
Rabbit With Onion Sauce. An or.
binary stewed rabbit is nice served as
follows: Unto a frying-pan slice from
four to six good sized onions, put a very
little water on them and let cook till
tender. The rabbit should also cook till
tender. If properly cooked there viii be
no water to drain off. To the onions add
a large tablespoonful of butter mixed
with the same quantity of flour. The
juice of a lemo, may be added together
with a pint of the rabbit broth. Put
the rabbits int, a covered tureen. Pour
over them the onion sauce, cover closely
and let stand for five or ten minutes
in a warn place before serving Home.
White Layer Cake. B, lat to a
cream one-half cupful. of butter and
two cupfuls of pulverized sugar, add
one-half cupful of sweet milk, two
and one-half oupfuls of flour sifted with
two and one-half teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder, the whites of two eggs;
bake in layers and put together with
thin icing; boil n half tea-cupful OF
water and three %tea-cupfuls of sugar
till thick, pour this over the we'll beaten
whites of three eggs, and beat all to-
gether till cool, and beat thorough Y
before putting on each layer; sprinkle
each layer thickly with grated cocoa
nut.-Old Homestead.