Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1873-12-25
Farm, Garden and Household.
Housekeeping Department.


need to be stirred occasionally while
cooking.
LEMON JELLY.-Take paper of gela
tine, and let it soak in pint of warm
water an hour, then add quart of boil
ing water and the juice of two lemons
and pint and a half of sugar.
PLAIN DoUGHNUTs. pint of rich
butter and milk, one heaping teaspoon
full Of soda, half that quantity Of salt
three tablespoonfuls of melted lard
flour to knead we'll.
BAKED EGGs.-A matron says: Beat
up six eggs, one tablespoonful of -four
six of sweet milk; melt your butter il
the frying pan; when hot, turn the
whole in, well beaten, and bake in a hot
oven.
BAKED DToMAroEs.-Take them wher
fully ripe, cut off slice from the stem
side, scoop out the pulp of the tomato
and salt. Fill the empty she'll with the
mixture, replace the slices, put them in
q shallow pan, and bake an hour.
COLD SAUCE. -Four tablespoonfuls oi
sugar, two of butter. When these have
been rubbed until very white snd
smooth, add the beaten white of an egg.
Flavor it and mold it into some pretty
shape.
ITALIAN PASTE SoUP.-The process,
seasonings, etc., are exactly the same
for italian paste-soup as for vermicelli-
soup, with the exception that some may
require twelve or fifteen minutes to
cook, instead of ten minutes, according
to size.
EGG CAKE.-Two cups of sugar, one
egg, piece of butter the size of an egg,
one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful
of soda, little salt and nutmeg, one
teaspoonful of lemon, three cups OF
-four; beat the white of an egg separ-
ately, the sugar and yolk and butter to-
gether; bake in a thoroughly heated
oven,
BATTER CAKEs.-The season is at
hand for batter-cakes. The natural man
bankers after them these cool morn
ings, just as in early spring he must
eat something green or perish There
is mystery in the way they are put to-
gether so as to be light and good.
There is positive fascination in watch
ing the cook turn them on the griddle.
1t looks so easy-and is not, as we tried
once, and found out. King Alfred the
Great, too, is inextricably associated in
our mind with griddle-cakes there was
q picture to that effect in the Child's
History of England, and that much his
tory we have always felt sure of, nearly
all the rest being more or less uncer-
tain, especially dates. Batter cakes,
after that, mean something too wonder
full for words.
Hay Fever.
Mr.. E. Decaisne communicates to
the French Academy of Science the fol-
lowing observations on what is called
hay fever. This affection, says he, at
tacks not only those who are engaged
in haying, but also those who have
nothing to do with such work not only
those who are exposed to the
emanations springing from forage
plants, but also those who are pre-
served from such influences. In short,
while the author does not go so far as
to entirely discredit in all cases the be-
lief that this malady is aggravated by
these emanations, still he holds
that they act a very secondary part.
All the symptoms of hay fever occur,
according to him, at every season of
the year, and are the result of exposure
to the sun and then to cold while the
body is moist with perspiration, per
sons of emphysematous (bloated) habit
being specially liable to attack, whether
exposed or not to the action of the
irritant emanations. The annual peri
odicity of the complaint, which is
usually regarded as one of its charac-
teristics, DIR. Decaisne holds to be not
proven, most of the patients he OBJ
served having passed several years
without any of the symptoms.
AS for the dyspnGa difficulty oi
breathing) which is usually regarded as
one of the surest signs of the malady,
the author considers it to be more OF
less pronounced extension of the lrrita
ton of the nasal and pharyngeal mu'
cous membrane, as in the case Of
epidemic catarrh (grippc.) He would
therefore erase from the catalogue oi
diseases the title ebay fever" which is
nothing but q catarrhal fever Influenced
and modified in its causes and in its
course, according to the patients habit
by the atmospheric conditions which
produce acute bronchial affections.
Cattle i'm Winter.
Speaking of mems duty to make warn
barns, your paper reminded me of my
"travail Of spirit" over the miserable
shelter too commonly afforded, even il
New England, where they pride them
selves on housing their cattle. l have
heard farmer say, "My cattle are al
ways kept warm. l couldn't sleep my
self if thought they were not com
Portable" when 1 knew that his barr
was full of cracks that let in all the
winds, and when | had seen the pool
things shaking from head to foot will
the cold. Men, even good, and, in the
main, kind-hearted men, do not know
what comfortable" means, an applied
" tutIE IOIStS anu CuttIS Ii tHtD NSlt
shut in stalls in barn whistling with
wind, thermometer below zero, and moi
even blanket over them, they would
not call it comfortable. e.-Ouc DUnt
iniEtalS.
Popcorn ut Dessert.
l think 1 need not tell how to POI
corn, need /? 1t is the best way tC
have a corn pepper; then you can watcl