How we cook in Tennessee ..

Green Tomato Sauce. — Slice green tomatoes and half as many onions. Put a layer of each in kettle and sprinkle one tablespoonful each of salt, ground mustard and brown sugar, one teaspoon black pepper, and spices to taste, then add another of tomatoes, onions and spices. Cover with strong vinegar; boil twenty minutes. — Mrs. D. W. Hughes. Cantaloupe Pickle. — Slice and peel fine, ripe cantaloupe, pour weak vinegar over it, and let remain over night ; lay them in a colander and measure this vinegar; take the same quantity of strong vinegar, and to every quart allow two pounds brown sugar; let boil one hour and twenty minutes. Before taking from the fire put in white mustard seed, cinnamon, mace. — Mrs. H. R. Lancaster. Sweet Pickle Peaches. — Take seven pounds of fruit, three pounds of sugar, and one pint of vinegar. When boiling, put in the fruit ; add a few cloves, spice and some cinnamon ; put these in a muslin bag. Boil twenty minutes. * * * FOR THE SICK. Beef Tea. — One pound of nice lean beef, cut up fine ; put in a large mouth bottle, or jar; set in vessel of cold water and let come to a boil. Boil three hours. Lay a top on the jar, but do not screw it up tight, Turn at once into a sieve, or the beef will soak up the juice. — Mrs. H. R. Lancaster. Beef Extract. — Take a porterhouse steak about one inch thick; remove all fat; boil quickly over a brisk fire. Have ready a teacup, warmed in hot water; place beef in a lemon squeezer, extracting all juice into the cup. Season with salt, Serve at once. Invaluable where solid food cannot be taken. Albumen Water. — To half glass crushed ice add whites of two eggs; beat it then with a fork until it froths nicely; add juice of half a lemon, one teaspoon of sugar, and one teaspoon of whiskey. To be given in cases of fever. MISCELLANY. POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. Acids — Sulphuric. Nitric, Muriatic, Oxalic. — Give alkali — soap and soda usually at hand. Provoke vomiting. Give bland drinks and milk. Secure rest. Relieve pain with opium, and stimulate if necessary. Carbolic Acid. — Give Epsom salts, dilute sulphuric acid, glycerine, and oil. Produce vomiting. Stimulate if necessary, Prussic. — Give dilute ammonia water, chlorine water, solution of a salt of iron. Produce vomiting, and stimulate if necessary. Arsenic, Paris Green, Fowler's Solution. — Provoke vomiting. Give hydrated oxide of iron. Magnesia in large quantities. Give milk, butter, and a dose of castor oil. Avoid giving acids. Stimulate if necessary. Nitrate of Silver (lunar caustic). — Give strong solution of common solt and repeat often. This decomposes the poison. Produce vomiting. Mercury, White and Red Precipitate, Corrosive Sublimate, Vermillion. — Albumen, whites of eggs, milk and wheat flour in water. Provoke vomiting. Give some infusion containing tannic acid. Antimony, Tartar Emetic, Oxide of Antimony. — Give large drafts of warm water. Provoke vomiting. Give infusion of oak bark. Give raw eggs and milk and a dose of castor oil. Stimulate if necessary. Phosphorus, Matches, etc. — Give emetics, magnesia and water and mucilaginous drinks freely. Acetate and Sulphate of Zine (white vitrol). — Vomiting will be relieved by large draughts of warm water. Carbonate of Use P. & S. Safe Headache Cure rewsj It is Guaranteed.