Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-12-07
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FARM AND PRESIDE.

FARM AND PRESIDE.
| WATER PROOF BooTs.-A correspon.
dent of the "Indiana Farmer says: II
stood in mud and water two or three inch.
es deep for ten hours day for week
without feeling any dampness or having
any difficulty in getting my boots on OF Off
If you would be equally successful, before
wearing the boots, give the bottoms coat
| ing of tallow and coal tar and dry it in;
| then oil the uppers with castor oil, about
one ia tablespoonful to each boot, then oil
| them twice week with castor oil, when
one teaspoonful will be sufficient. If the
weather should be rainy, or you are COM
PEELED to work in water during the day,
wash your boots clean at night, hold them
| by the fire until quite warm, and oil them
while wet, and you will have no trouble
about your boots getting hard and shrink
! ing up so that you cannot get them on. If
the leather should become red, give coat
of ordinary shoe backing before oiling.
The effect of castor oil is to soften the lea
Their. while it fills the pores and prevents
the water from entering.
To BROIL BEEFSTEAK.-To broil beef
steak 80 that it shall retain all the blood
have your rods hot rub them with little
piece of cut from the steak. Be sure the
| drafts Of your stove are open and the fire
burning clear and bright; then put on the
steak and turn every three seconds. Do
| not leave it, but keep turning for twenty
minutes. Broiling it in this way will take
five minutes longer than to stand and
cook, but you will be more than repaid for
the trouble by the truly delicious meat you
will have. Let the platter be warm on
which you intend placing it, and put a
piece of butter on the dish; put the salt
and pepper on it and rub all together.
When the steak is cooked, place it in this
butter and turn it over once OF twice.
Send to the table at once.
OFFENSIVE BREATH.-Take from six to
ten drops of the concentrated solution of
chloride Of soda in wine-g lassful of pure
spring water. Taken Immediately after
the additions Of morning are completed,
will sweeten the breath by disinfecting the
stomach, which, far from hoi' injured,
will be benefited by the u.,dicine. In
some cases the order from carious teeth is
combined with that Of the stomach. If
the mouth is well rinsed with teaspoon
full of the solution of alum in tumbler of
water, the bad odor of the teeth will be
removed,
SPoNGR PUDD1Na.-This is new, and
furnished by French cook, and is. both
delicate and delicious. One-quarter of a
pound of flour one-quarter pound of sugar,
boiled in one quart of milk to thick bat
ter, then add a quarter of pound Of butter.
Divide twelve eggs and add the beaten
yolks to the batter, then mix in the whites
beaten to stiff froth. Put in . batter
pudding dish and set into large dish of
water, and bake in the oven about forty
minutes, with brisk fire.
BAKED GREEN APPLES.-Take one dOz-
en- of apples, peel and core them, set them
in deep dish all around; then fill up the
vacant places with some quarters: put a
piece of butter in each where the core came
out; pour over the apples a full cup Of SUI
gar heaped up, some nutmeg grated over
it; take cup of tapioca, let it soak in a
quart of warm water, let it soak until it
is perfectly soft, like a jelly: pour the
whole over it; have water enough to fill
up the dish. Set it in the oven to bake,
SLOWLY for two hourS
QUAKINa FRUIT PUDD1Na.-This is
simple, easily made, and delicious. Any
kind of bottled or fresh fruit can be used.
Butter deep dish and lay in thin slices of
bread and butter dipped in milk, and then
alayer of rhubarb or any fruit, sweetened,
and spiced with little nutmeg and Gin
namon; then another layer of bread and
butter also dipped in milk and placed with
the butter side down. Cover with plate
and bake slowly two hours, then with the
plate removed half an hour.
CHEESE STRAWs.-Sift one eupful of
flour upon pastry board, make a we'll in
the centre and put into this two table
spoonsful of cream, three ounces Of grated
cheese. two tablespoonsful Of butter, the
yolks of two eggs, half teaspoonful of
salt, dust Of pepper and little nutmeg;
if the paste is too stiff use little milk un-
til you can work it without breaking; rol
out thin, cut it in narrow strips, lay them
on a. buttered tin and bake to pale yell
low; serve as a relish, hot or cold.
SP1CED SUGAR.-This is made by mix
ing and sitting together. one tablespoonful
finely powdered mixed spices, with three
Of pulverized sugar, one-half cinnamon,
the balance equal quantities of nutmeg.
allspice and cloves are the proportions
which we use, but this can be varied to
suit Individual taste.
REMEDY FOR CATARRHAL remedy
for catarrh, effective in some cases, con-
sists Of equal parts of finely pulverized bo-
rax and white sugar used as snuff. An
other simpler emedy is snuf1ng up warm
salt water-a tablespoonful of salt to pint
Of water,
OYSTER SrEw.-Set over the fire quart
of oysters in their juice; bring quickly to
a boil skim thoroughly /; add white pep
per, little salt, an ounce of butter and
half pint of boiling thin cream ; send to
table at once with crackers and pickles.