Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-01-07

FARM AND FlRESIDE.
ADVERTISING RATES

ABOUT TEAs.-This, from the s'Ameri
can Grocer is useful:
Oolong teas are very highly dried, OF
wiry, brittle leaf, and valued according to
degree of strength and pungency and free
dom from dust.
Souchongs are the strongest black teas.
The leaves are large, thin, and often
broken. The infusion is clear, golden,
and aromatic.
Congou teas have small, short, grayish
black leaves.
| Gunpowder is heavy tea, of dark
I green hue, and the leaves rolled IN hard
balls.
1mperials are in larger grains than gun
powders, and, in color, a silvery green
Hysons have long, straight, fleshy, gray
ish green leaves, rolled lengthwise on
themselves, with sweet, aromatic flavor.
| Twankays are known by the large yell
lowish, badly rolled leaves, and strong
+, odor. The infusion is deep yellow, and
of clear, sharp taste. ss9s
A WHITE, DELICATE CAKE.-Three
cupfuls of sifted flour, cupful and half
| OF sugar, an egg, a teacupful of sweet
| milk, two tablespoonful of butter, two
teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, tea
spoonful Of soda, and teaspoonful of va
nilla, almond, or lemon essence. Beat the
butter and sugar to cream, dissolve the
soda in the milk, and add to it, with the
egg well beaten and the essence. Mix
with this very slowly three cupfuls of
-four, putting the cream of tartar into the
last curful. Bake in a quick oyen It
makes delicious cake for jelly, chocolate,
or cocoanut layers. If the latter be used,
CRATE large cocoanut, removing the brown
skin first; then add to it the beaten white
IF an egg and one coffee-cupful of fine
sugar. Stir it all together, and spread be-
tweeE the layers of cake, icing the upper
layer. This recipe will make three layers
of cake and a plateful of small frosted
cakes.
SPARE Your HoRsE.-Don't compel
him, after working hard for five-and-a-half
days, to pull or bear you to corner gro
Gerry, five or six miles away, or Saturday
afternoon, and you and ,t,u family to
church on Sunday. This SORT of thing
q int right. Horses need a day of rest as
we'll as men. And, tl.en. don't gallop him
hard three or four miles of a cold morning,
and suffer him to stand afterward in a
piercing wind, uncovered by blanket.
Don't let the rain fall IN him unneces-
sarily. In other words, put yourself in his
place in every instance. Something else
is necessary to the longevity and health of
a horse besides good feeding.
CHICKEN TERRAPIN mice FOR TEA. y
Boil until perfectly tender Young chick
en-, pick into small pieces, and put in a
porcelain stew-pan with teacupful of boil
ing water. Cream well together, until
perfectly smooth, a quarter of pound Of
butter and teaspoonful of flour; when
light beat in the yolks Of two eggs. When
the chicken is boiling hot add this, a little
at time to prevent Jumps. Boil minute
or two, stirring constantly. Add salt and
pepper totaste. Take off the fire and stir
in half a gill of Madeira wine.
To CURE HAMS OR BEEF.-For a hun
dred pounds of meat, make a brine as
strong as to dissolve the salt, and add
quarter of a pound of saltpetre to every
hundred pounds of meat; pack your meat
in the barrel, then make your brine scald-
ing hot; skim it till all the sediment rises,
and while boiling hot. cover your meat.
Let it remain twenty-four hours, and your
hams are ready for the smoke-house.
MINCEMEAT FRITTERs.-With half a
pound of mincemeat mix two ounces of
fine bread crumbs (or tablespoonful of
flour) two eggs, well beaten, and strained
juice of half a small lemon. Mix these
well, and drop the fritters with dessert
spoon into plenty of pure lard; fry them
from seven to eight minutes, drain them
in napkin and send them very hot to the
table. They should be quite small.
CoLoRs FOR ARTIFICIAL Flowers
For blue, sulphate of indigo in solution;
for yellow, tincture of tumeric; for red,
carmine dissolved in a solution of the car
Donate of potash; for lilac, solution of
itmus; for violet, the latter mixed with
blue. When the flowers are made of mus
lin or paper, they may be dipped in these
coors; but when made of velvet, they
should be colored by the finger.
RING WoRM.-It is said the disagreeable
affection known as ring-worm may be
easily and speedily cured as follows: Upon
retiring at night apply a poultice of damp
gunpowder to the part affected. Gener-
ally one application is sufficient, but if on
the following night there are no positive
indications of cure having been effected,
apply again, and the eruption will speedily
vanish.
APPLES AND RIcE.-Boil six ounces of
rice until it is thick. Pare ten or twelve
apples, medium size, scoop out the cores,
and fill with jam or jelly Of any kind. Bor-
der deep dish with paste, and put in the
apples, leaving a space between the apples
to fill with rice. Brush the whole over
with the yolk of an egg, sift sugar thickly
over, and bake.
To CLEAN PAINT.-Save the tea leaves
for few days, then steep them in tin
pail or pan for half an hour, strain through
a sieve and use the tea to wash all var
nished paint. Whiting is unequaled for
cleaning white paint. Take small guam
titY on damp flannel, rub lightly over the
surface, and you will be surprised at it's
effects