The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-28
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

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marks. 1t is deadly poison. Apply
to druggist as to the method OF
using it. w.1 70. -. M
What is badly needed is method
for saving corn fodder. One who Can
devise twill do more good than if he
could make a political speech two hours
long.-N. 7. Sun.
Splendid Cookies.-Two cupfuls
sugar, one cupful butter, one cupful
sweet milk, one teaspoonful soda, two
teaspoonfuls cream tartar, -four to roll;
rub butter and sugar in the dry -four, as
if for pie-crust, and then wet up.
To Make Milk Sour.-If persons
wishing to keep sour milk on hand will
take an ordinary bean-pot and put in a
warm place near the stove, and from time
to time add little milk, keeping COW
cred all the time, they will always have
good sour milk; when the pot is empty,
wash it WE'LL. Ed t
A tablespoonful of black pepper will
prevent gray or buff linens from sporting,
if stirred into the first water in which
they are washed. 1t will also prevent
the colors running, when washing black
or colored cambrics or muslins, and the
water is not injured by it, but just as
soft as before the pepper was put in.
Stuffed Eggs.-Cut in halves, care
fully, six hardboiled eggs. Take out
the yelks, and mash with parsley and
onions chopped finely, one teaspoonful
of butter, yelk of raw egg, salt and
pepper; with this refill the halves, place
them in a baking dish, cover over with
small bits of butter and cracker, and
bake ten minutes, or till delicately
Drowned.
Fried Puff Potatoes. Peel and cut
some potatoes to sixth of an inch thick,
wash, drain well and put to fry in plenty
of pretty hot fat, remove to the side and
cook slowly; drain in a colander and
heat the fat again; when very hot, drop
all the potatoes in at once, stir con-
tinually with the skinner, and fry crisp
and of NICE color; drain on a cloth,
sprinkle little salt over, dish up on a
folded napkin and serve Immediately.
The causes of poor butter are vari-
Gus, the most important of which are
lack of cleanliness, the want of proper
| dairy utensils, the need of good dairy
room or place for setting the milk, neg
lect in manipulating the cream at the
right time, unskillful working, packing,
and storing the butter, and, finally, lack
of knowledge in part or whole of the
process required for making prime
article.
To Prepare Dried Beef.-For ham
of beef take one teacupful of salt, heat
in an iron vessel over very hot fire, and
stir while heating; put meat in a wooden
bowl, sprinkle the hot salt on the meat
and rub it well with the iron spoon you
use for stirring the salt; do this three
mornings, every other day; let it remain
four or five days; then hang in warm
place to dry; this will be as good dried
! beef as can be made.
Cream Pie.-Put about two thirds
of quart of milk to boil in "a water
bath; beat the yelks of two eggs; add
half cup Of sugar; one even spoonful
of butter; mix two spoonfuls of corn
starch in little milk; then mix alto
gether and flavor. Put it in the boiling
milk and stir constantly till it is done,
when it will be smooth, thick cream.
Put it in a rich crust and bake. Beat
the whites of the two eggs until they
are stiff; add two spoons Of sugar; flavor
with lemon. When the pie is done
| spread this on, and leave it in the oven
till slightly brown.
Maryland Biscuit.-One quart of
-four, one tablespoonful of lard, one tea
spoonful Of salt, water enough to make
rather stiff dough-about teacupful.
The dough may be beaten with a pound
ing machine which comes for the pur-
pose, or with rolling-pin, potato
masher or anything of the kind. If
strength and patience are available,
knead with the hands till the dough is
perfectly smooth and white; it cannot be
kneaded too much not less than half an
hour. They can be cut with cutter,
but are better if piece of the dough the
size Of black walnut is made into a
ball and tiattened with the hand. .s
-Heaves in Horses.-In heaves the
great point is to correct any faults in
feeding, watering and working. Keep
the patient in a cool, clean, we'll aired
stable; feed sound oats or ground feed
morning and noon, without any hay or
straw, but at night few pounds of we'll
cured timothy, or, better, straw may be
given after the grain; do not put to work
for at least an hour after any meal, and
let exercise be gentle for the first half
hour; never overdrive; if there be any
tendency to costiveness, give daily two
or three ounces of Glauber salts, more
or less, as may be necessary to keep
them easy. Without such careful man
agement all other measures will prove
unavailing, and this care alone may be
sufficient to check the disease in its first
stages. A run at grass on natural
pasture, destitute of clover, will often
have a similar effect Finally, the fol
lowing powder may be given for month
or even more: Powdered digitalis, three
drains; powdered gentian, four ounces;
arseniate of soda, two drains. Mix, di.
vide into thirty powders, and give one
daily in the food-N. Y Tribune.
ShOddy Shoes. .I.. .
Some interesting secrets of the New
England shoe trade are divulged in re-