The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-01-21
Farm, Garden and Household.

LEMON JELIY.-Iake paper Vi
gelatine, and let it soak in pint OF
water an hour, then adda quart OF
boiling water and tie juice OF two
lemons, and pint and a half of
sugar.
PLAIN DoucHSUrs.-One. pint of
rich butter and milk, one heaping
teaspoonful of soda, half that guam
tity of salt, three tablespoonful of
melted lard, flour to knead well.
BAKED EGGs.-A matron says ::
Beat up six eggs, one tablespoon
ful of -four, six of sweet milk
melt your butter in the frying pan
when bot, turn the whole in, we'll
beaten, and bake in a hot oven.
BAKED ToMAroEs.-Take them
when fully ripe, cut off slice from
the stem side, scoop out the pulp OF
the tomato and salt. Fill the emp
ty shell with the mixture, replace
the slices, put them in a shallow
pan, and bake all hour.
Cold SAUcE.-Four tablespoon
fels of sugar, two of butter. When
these have been rubbed until very
white and smooth, add the beaten
white of an egg. Flavor it and
mould it into some pretty shape.
ITALIAN PASTE SoAp.-The pro-
cess, seasonings, etc., are exactly
the same for Italian pastc-soap as
for vermicelli-soup, with the excep'
ton 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, a little salt
and nutmeg, one teaspoonful of
lemon, three cups of flour; beat
the white of an egg separately, the
sugar and yoke and butter togeth-
er; bake in a thoroughly heated
oven.
BATTER CAKEs.-The season is
at hand for batter. cakes. The nat
ural man bankers after them these
cool winter mornings, just as in
early spring he must eat something
green or perish! There is a mys-
terry in the way they are put togeth-
cr so as to be light and good. There
is a positive fascination in watching
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 inextrica-
bly, associated in our mind with
griddle-cakes; there was a picture
to that effect in the Child's Histo-
ry OF England, and that much his
tory we have already felt sure of,
nearly all the rest being more or
less uncertain, especially dates.
Batter-cakes, mean something too
wonderful for words.
Critic IN Misunderstanding
of mems duty to make warm barns,
your paper reminded me of my
my "travail of spirit,' over the
miserable shelter too commonly
afforded, even in New England,
where they pride themselves on
housing'their cattle. 1 have heard
farmer say, Z" My cattle are al:
ways kept warm. 1 couldn't sleep
myself if I thought they were
not comfortable" when [ knew
that his barn was full Of cracks
that let in all the winds, and when
1 had seen the poor things shaking
from head to foot with the cold.
Men, even good, and, in the main
kind-hearted men, do not know
what ''comfortable" means, as ap-
piled to their horses and cattle. If
they were shut in stalls in a barn
whistling with wind, thermometer
below zero, and not even a blanket
over them, they would not call it
somfortable.-Om Dumb Animals.
HAY FEvER.-Mr. E. Decaisne
communicates to the French Acad-
envy of Science the following OBJ
servations on what is called hay
fever. This affection, says he, at
tacks not only those who are en-
gagged in haying, but also those who
have nothing to do with such work;
not only those who are exposed to
the emapations springing from for
age plants, but also those who are
preserved from such influences.
In short, while the author does not
60 80 far as to entirely discredit in
all cases the belief that this malady
is aqgrayated by these emanations,
still he holds that they act q very
secondary part. All the symptoms
of hay fever occur, according to
him, at every season of the year,
are the result of exposure to the
sun and then to cold while the body
is moist with perspiration, persons
of emphysematous (bloated) habit
being specially liable to attack,
whether exposed or not to the ac-
ton Of the irritant emanations. The
annual periodicity of the complaint,
which is usually regarded as one of
its characteristics, DR.. Decaisne
holds to he not rroven. most of