The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-08-28
THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.

"A California lady sends 10 the Pacific
R,srai he.s the following recipes for ma
king cakes without eggs. She says they
have all been thoroughly tried by her and
always with good success
Feather Cake cup Of sugar, cup
OF milk, II cups flour. tablespoonful but
ter. tessp0onful soda, ! teaspooniul
cream tartar; flavor.
Spice Cake cup sugar, I cup short
ening, cup sour milk, | cup molasses, p
cups Hour, rounding teaspoonful soda (;
all kinds OF spice.
Cup Cake cup af sugar. piece of
butter the size of an egg, | cup OF sweet
milk. 2 cups Of Hour, , teaspoonfIIls cream
tartar. tcaspooniul soda; lemon.
Yankee Cake.-Rub ? tablespoonfuls
OF butter with cup Of sugar add ] cup
of sour milk. y cups sitted flour. J Lea
spoonful soda. fiayor can be baked In a
loaf or in layers for Jelly cake, or YOU can
have cream cake by baking in two round
tins when cold. split them and I'LL with
the following mixture:
Cream for the Cakes.-The yelk of an
egg, ! cup of milk, sweeten, heaping tea
spoonful corn starch, Of lemon set it in
boiling water and stir until boiled; let il
Of the egg will frost II nicely.
Election Cake cup OF light sponge,
taken out when You are making bread If
il stands until a little sour IL Is all the bet
ter; I cup of sugar, tea>poonful soda. ,
rounding tablespoOnfuls shortening; If
liked, YOU can add cup stoned rsii>ins. or
currents, and teaspoonful each OF nut
meg, cloves and cinnamon; dissolve the
eofla Ia "A litfl.a xNaf..r and stir IN in last. In
makes all cakes lighter; il should stand
about half AN hour 10 rise before gong
into the oven il does not get very light
before IL is baked.
The following recipe for destroying
bugs on squash and cucumber vines has
been successfully tried for years. Ii is
certainly worth trial Dissolve a tea
spoonful of saltpeter in a pailful of water.
Put one pint OF this around each hill, shap-
ing the earth so that IL will not spread
much. and the thing j. done. Use more
saltpeter, il you can afford IT, Ii j. good
for vegetables. but death To animal life.
The bugs burrow i'm the earth at night,
and fail 10 rise in the morning. Ii is also
good TO kill the grub i'm peach-trees only,
use twice a. much-say quart or two TO
each tree. There was not a yellow or
blistered leaf on twelve or fifteen trees 10
which II was applied last season. No dan
ger of killing vegetables with il. A con-
centrated solution. applied TO young beans,
makes them grow wonderfully.
-Ts Take the Odor Out of Milk.-One
Of the difficulties the milkman and the
cheese factory have TO contend with is the
"cowy" odor in freshly drawn milk. Ii is
worse even than the animal heat. or rather
more troublesome 10 get rid of. Ii Is much
more perreptible in hot weather than il is
in cold. and varies i'm intensity with the
health and condition of the COW. To
remedy this an inventor has contrived the
following: IL j. tin pail. the bottom of
which is perforated with one or two rows
of holes. The milk is turned through a
strainer fastened over the top, and il comes
out through the holes. Ii starts i'm streams,
but before il gets down foot or Is inches
il is separated into drops and all aerated.
All know what a deodorizer pure air is.
Almost any farmer can get up simple ar
rangement which will serve the purpose
very well, or If he can't do II himself he
can go to the tin-man and get him TO punch
holes la the bottom of a pail and hang il
over a can or other vessel. so that in drop
ping down through the air ii will be thor
oughly serated. But IL must be in pure
air. The air Of filthy cow-houses will not
do IL.
Monsieur Ed. Prillieux has recently
discovered simple and effectual remedy
for restoring TO their natural state fruit
trees threatened with decay by the pro-
duction 81 gum. which, as is well known,
Is supplied at the expense Of all the matters
which contribute TO the growth and trans
formation of fruit-trees. it's demonstrated
by M. Prillieux that fruit-trees even
dangerously afflicted by the gum-produc-
ing disease, may be restored TO healthy
state by simply scarifying the bark, and in
making longitudinal missions on the
branches, affected by the gum. Those in
cisions. acting upon the tree more vigor-
ously than the cause producing the gum,
neccssitat.s the production of fresh tissues.
Under this action. both rapid and vigor-
Gus. the matters held in reserve are en-
ployed in the formation of new cells. and
are no long absorbed I'm producing gum.
Active vitality then rapidly resumes Its
regular course. An interesting feature of
this new method j. that il is direct appli-
cation of the theory of counter-irritants to
healing diseased vegetation.