The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-03-25
Breadmaking and Bread Keeping.

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Breadmaking and Bread Keeping.
A stone-ware jar, glazed inside,
with lid, makes fine dread rails
err" better than those of tin design
ed for the purpose. 1t retains the
heat longer than tin, and having
straight sides it is easier to gauge
the rising tell when it is doubled
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When bread comes from the oven,
rub the tops over with good sweet
butter, lean one end of each loaf on
the bottom of the inverted pan, the
other end on the bread board, and
cover with fresh towel, then with
a thick breadcloth-old tableclOth
and let them stand until perfectly
cold. If hard crust is preferred,
do not use the butter or covers.
Keep bread in a stone jar with
close fitting lid or in a regular tin
bread box, either of which should
be kept as sweet as a rose by thor
Oughly scalding twice week and
then by summing or by heating on
the stove. A general rule regarding
time for breadmaking is this: In
winter mix bread in the evening; in
spring and fall, late at night or very
early in the morning; in summer, in
the morning.-EllaM Morris Kretsch-
mar in Woman's Home Companion.
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Tempting Dessert.
A loaf of angel food filled with
charlotterusse Is new dessert that
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must be baked in a deep round pan,
and just before it is needed cut a
layer from the top, take out the GEN.
ter of the under part without break
ing the wall, and fill in the space
with the charlOtterusse. Put the
top on the cake, cover with a soft
frosting, and scatter over it powder
ed macaroons or candied violets.
A housewife whose cakes are al
ways success tells me that she al
ways uses granulated sugar for
angel food, and powdered sugar for
such clOse-grained cake as pound
cake. Granulated sugar requires
more vigorous beating than pow
dered.
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Care of the Eyes.
One of the simplest and best rem
edies for Inflammation or strain is to
battle the eyes in warm water. An
other good remedy is solution of
salt and water made by putting a
teaspoOnful of fine table salt into a
half pint of water. Let it boil and
when cold strain it, removing any
particles or sediment. Putting this
on the outside of the lids is simply a
waste of time. The eye should be
opened, the lids drawn back, and
the intiamed portion touched with a
camel's hair-brush dipped in the
salt water. Outside applications do
not reach the seat of the ailment.
A teaspoonful of boracic acid in half
a pint of water prepared in the same
way is excellent. If there are gran
ulations and very serious infamma-
ton, boil a teaspOonful of alum in a
pint of water until it is dissolved,
then strain or filter as described, and
apply with camel's hair-brush
several times day. This is one of
the most efficacious of remedies.
The care of the eyes is perhaps one
of the most imperfectly understood
of any of our daily duties. More ills
arise from their misuse than the
; public generally appreciate. Epi-
!, lepsy is a frequent result of eye
strain, and careful and intelligent
observa ion will convince most
people that more headaches come
from abuse of the eyes than from
any other cause. Probably one sixth
of the adult population of this
country would be benefited by the
use of glasses, at least during their
working hours. They tire quickly,
the head aches, the digestive appa-
ratus is completely upset, there is
, pain in the back, and general feel
ing of dizziness and nausea, and the
true cause is never suspected. The
patient is bilious or nervous has
Indigestion or liver complaint. The
evil is attributed to everything but
the proper cause. Fit the persons TO
good glasses and the difficulty van
ishes almost as if by magic.-New
York Ledger.