Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-09-26
Farm, Garden and Household.
To Make an OmeIet.


salt, says Pierre Blot, are what is want
ed for an omelet.
Process Salt the eggs, and beat
them well with fork. Have a brisk
fire; put the butter into the pan, and
set it over the fire. Shake and move
the pan in every way so as to melt the
butter as fast as possible, and without
allowing any of it to turn brown. When
melted, turn the eggs in, and by means
OF fork stir SO as to heap up the part
cooked, allowing the other part, that is
liquid, to come in contact with the pan,
and so on until the whole is solidifed.
Then it is doubled up; that is, one
half is turned over the other with
fork, commencing on the side of the
pan to which the handle is attached.
Then have warm dish, which you
place on your left hand take hold of
the handle OF the pan with your right,
the fingers underneath, and the thumb
on the top raise the left side of your
lefthand so as to have the right side of
the dish inclined, and then turn the
pan upside down right over the dish,
the side of the pan opposite that of the
handle touching the edge of the dish,
aud the right hand moving from right
to left, SO that the upper side or the
omielet when in the pan will be the
under side when on the dish, and YOU
have soft, juicy, and tasty omelet, as
smooth as the dish on which II ia
placed.
An omelet can not be made too quick
~. Many cooks fail in making omelets
because, by their process, it is made
TOO slowly, and it is either dry or
burned and tasteless.
BY carefully following the above d.
rectlons, and after one or two expert
ments, any one with an ordinary amount
OF natural capacity can make an omelet
properly. Some have the habit of ad-
ding water or milk to the eggs, but it
Is not necessary to make the omelet
soft; for, when properly made, an
omeiet is always soft enough without
any liquid being mixed with the eggs.
Medical Hints
10 CONCEAL BAD TASTES. bitter
taste of quinia, colocynth, aloes, quas-
STA, and other bitter medicines. is said
to be instantly removed by chewing a
piece of licorice.
10 DISGUISE CASTOR O1.-Rub two
drops oil of cinnamon with an ounce of
glycerine, and add an ounce of castor
OIL. Children will take it and ask for
more.
REMEDY FOR FEVER AND AaUE.-
Peruvian bark, two ounces wild cherry
tree bark, one ounce; cinnamon, one
drachm, all pulverized capsicum, one
teaspoonful sulphur, one ounce; port
vine, two quarts. Let stand a day or
two. Always buy the Peruvian bark
and pulverize it, as most ready pulver-
lied articles are adulterated. This is
the reason why more cures are not per-
formed by it. Dose, wine-glassful
every two or three hours day until
all is used. This mixture will be found
excellent for intermittent fever and
fever and ague.
RHEUMATISM AND GoUT.-A medical
correspondent of an English journal,
says that the advantages of asparagus
are not sufficiently appreciated by those
who suffer with rheumatism and govt
Slight cases of rheumatism are cured
In few days, by feeding on this diet
VERY TENDER. The tender, poetic
ideal language of young people who
are fondly attached to each other, is al
ways interesting to outsiders. We ar,
even pleased to hear of the ancient
bridegroom out West, who was heard il
railway train to say to his bride, alt
sixty odd years old, "Who's little pse
lambie ?" and who received the swee
reply, "Bof of u.s."
How to Treat the "Hay Fever"
A writer in the Hartford Post says
:" AS this is the season when .thos
subject to it are suffering from thei
annual attack of 'hay fever, I hav
written few lines in the hope of bein
able to benefit some of your readers
1t is conceded that this complaint i
caused by the invisible pollen of til
AmbroSiG I5ipida,' which floats i
the air, and settling upon the men
brane of the nostrils and throat, cause
the irritation which constitutes 'ha
fever
"The plant flowers about the 18th @
August, and remains in bloom abo1
three weeks, during which some of il
victims suffer intensely.
Slobbers in horses is caused
the same way, the theory being that I'll
morning dews precipitate it, as it wer
from the atmosphere UPON the gras
whence it is carried with their food I'M
their mouths,
There is no known antidote exec
to leave the country for some plat
where the plant does not grow.
:" A sure preventive to the sneezin,
which IS prominent symptom, is
pour little spirits of camphor upc
the hand and inhale it vigorously I'M
the nostrils and lungs, keeping IL
liquid away from the eyes.
6 "A good wash for the eyes and no
trlls is made of equal parts of swe
spirits of nitre and st. Croix rum.
free use of these simple remedies W.
be found very beneficial"
Successive Crops of Barley.
Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert, of R
thamsted, England, give as the resi-
OF experiments on the growth of bari
on the same land for twenty years
succession, the following facts
When the same crop is grown &C
secutively on the same ground for
series of years, mineral manures alo
fail to enable the plant to obtain su
Gent nitrogen and carbon to yield ev
a fair crop; that heterogeneous manu-
alone increase it very considerabl
but that the largest crops are obtain
when heterogeneous and mineral manu-