How We Cook in Tennessee

Ingredients

• half gallon of hot water
• one ich square
• one-quarter cake of bar soap in half gallon of hot water
• cloves

Directions

1. Jackson Produce Go. Buys Old Feather Beds.

2. arabic on stove. While these are heating mix the flour and the alum with the remaining pint of water. When the water is hot, but not boiling, add the alum and flour mixture, and stir constantly till it boils. When well thickened and smooth add the oil of cloves, and put it in jars while hot. The alum keeps the bugs away; roaches, etc., would do much damage because attracted by the flour. The oil of cloves keeps it from spoiling. This rule was obtained from a professional librarian. — Boston Cooking School.

3. How to Wash Cup Towels. — Cut up piece of paraffine about one ich square, and shave about one-quarter cake of bar soap in half gallon of hot water. When it has melted put in tea towels and boil. It cleanses without rubbing, and is very fine. — Marion Harland. Tested by Mrs. J. E. Ryley.

4. To Remove Iron Rust, — Salts of lemon, applied to spot and exposed to the sun, will remove iron rust from linen.