Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Hen-ehold nInt..

of butter and three eggs, three pints of
mnlasses, and three teaspoonfuls of pearl
ash dissolved in half teacupful of sour
cream or buttermilk. Unlike biscuit,
gingerbread requires good deal of soda
to make it rise, and therefore pearl
ash is used, as being stronger. If soda
/ preferred, one dessertspoonful will
not be found too much to allow to a
quart of flour. This cake is better when
the batter is poured in shallow pans than
when made into dough, rolled out, and
cut IN shapes. Your success must, after
all, depend very much upon the kind of
molasses used, for the commoner sorts
will not make cake any more than will
syrup. Flavor with ginger, and add
other spices to your taste.
SHORTENED BIsCUTT.-To Judge by
the frequency of their appearance at
most tables, no bread is more popular,
yet none more easily or commonly spoiled
by the carelessness of cooks, than bis
cult. The rule for soda is to put only
one teaspoonful to a gallon of -four;
hence, the small pinch required for the
quart needed in small family may be
easily calculated. Soda should always
be combined with some acid, so that if
you have no sour milk with which to
make up your dough, use a little tartaric
acid, or even vinegar, to produce the de
sired fermentation. To one quart of
flour small tablespoonful of lard and a
lump of butter the size of hens egg
are sufficient shortening to allow. If
you make up your soda biscuit with but
termilk instead of water, even a smaller
quantity will suffice. Biscuit to be good
should be baked in quick, well-regu-
lated oven, and be nicely Drowned. A
teaspoonful Of salt allow to quart of
-four.
Medical Department.
CHOLERA MIXTURE. a safe and
speedy relief for cholera, dysentery,
diarrhea, collie, summer complaint, etc.,
take equal parts of tincture of rhubarb,
spirits of camphor, tincture of cayenne
pepper, laudanum and essence of pepper.
mint, and mix well. Dose, ten to thirty
drops every half hour till relieved.
FLY Po1soN.-Take four ounces OF
quassia wood chips, boil for half an hour
In one pint of water when cold, strain,
and add water to make one pint; also
alcohol, two fluid ounces. Place this
decoction in shallow dishes, where the
insects are troublesome, adding to. eacl
dish one teaspoonful of molasses. This
Is a sure death to flies and perfectly
harmless to persons, quassia, as al
know, being an old-iashioned tonic.
SoA1Ds AND BURNs.-On the instant
of the accident, plunge the part under
cold water. This relieves the pain in
second, and allows all hands to become
composed. If the part cannot be KEEP
under water, cover over with dry -four
an inch deep or more. In many instances
nothing more is needed after the -four
simply let it remain until it falls off
when new skin will be found under
In severer cases, while the part injured
is under water, simmer leek or two il
an earthen vessel, with half their bull
of hogs lard, until the leeks are soft
then strain through muslin rag. Thi
makes a greenish colored ointmen
which, when cool, spread thickly on
linen cloth and apply it to the injuret
part. If there are bGsters, let out tn
water. When the part becomes feverisl
and uncomfortable, renew the ointment
and rapid, painless cure will be th
result, if the patient, in the meantime
lives exclusively on fruits, coarse bread
and other light, loosening diet.
Why they Require Suit.
We know why the animal Graves salt
says DIR. Johnson, and why it ultimatel
falls into disease, if salt is for tim
withheld. Upward of half the salin
matter of the blood (ffty-seven pc
cent? consists Of common salt; and 6
this is partly discharged every da,
through the skin and kidneys, the n,
cessity of continued supplies of it to til
body becomes sufficiently obvious. TIL
bile also contains soda as special an
indispensable constituent, and so do a
the cartilages of the body. Therefor,
If the supply of salt be stinted, neithc
will the bile be able properly to ASST
the digestion, nor the cartilages h
built up again as they natural
waste.
And when we consider it to be ia
that without salt man would miserab
perish, as among horrible punishment
entailing certain death that of feedir
culprits on saltless food is said to ha,
prevailed in barbarous times, we ms
become partially convinced, at least,
the necessity of feeding salt to our stoc
that it is one of the necessaries as we
as one of the Injuries of life for ms
and beast; and it should be profuse
provided at short intervals, in prop
places, if it cannot be kept by the
continually, so that each and every a,
NAL may satisfy the demands of his n
ture. Then it shall not be said of us th
while our pudding is we'll seasoned al
sailed, our stock are allowed to suffer (
want of the same ingredient, which is
truly necessary for their food as
ours.