The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-07-21
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Hominy CrOquettes. To every cup
full of cold, boiled, fine hominy add a
/ tablespoonful Of melted butter; mix well
together; add slowly little milk; then
! beat all to a paste; at the last one tea
! spoonful of white sugar and one beaten
| egg; flour hands and roll the hominy
into balls; dip into beaten egg, then fine
cracker crumbs; fry in hot butter, and
| serve with currant Jelly.
To Clean Silver-Table silver should
be cleaned at least once or twice a week,
and can easily be kept in good order and
polished brightly in this way: Have your
dish pan half-full of boiling water; place
the silver in, so that it may become warm;
then with a soft cloth dipped into the
hot water, soaped and sprinkled with
powdered boraX, scour the silver well;
then rinse in hot water; dry with clean,
dry cloth.
Fruit Omelet-A Hasty Dessert
-Four eggs, one cup of cream, flour, or,
better still, corn starch enough to make
a thin batter. Add little fine sugar and
nutmeg. Butter griddle, turn on the bat
ter till it spreads as large as a dinner
plate. When thoroughly set, lay on some
nice preserves or fine ripe fruit sliced
roll up with a pancake slice, ard serve
from flat dish, very hot, and sprinkled
with sugar
-Mayonaise Subjective eggs, wine
glassful best olive oil, tablespoonful
best cider vinegar, half teaspoonful salt,
half teaspoonful pepper, half teaspoon.
full mustard take the yelks of the eggs
only; stir them slowly with silver
fork, adding the oil drop by drop; then
add the mustard, next the vinegar and
pepper, and stir we'll; last Of all add the
salt, when the sauce will thicken and
be found to be the most palatable Of
condiments for salads.
Jenny Lind Cake. Two and half
cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup milk,
four cups flour, four eggs, two teaspoons
baking powder; bake in three sheets,
two plain; after taking out the two plain,
leaving less than a third, add one cup
raisins, one cup currants, one-half cup
sliced citron, two teaspoons molasses,
one teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon CHINA
mon, one grated nutmeg; spread with
Jelly and FROST putting the fruit-cake be-
tween the two plain. If the fruit cake
seems little thin, add little more flour.
The Importance of means of saving
liquid manure is apparent from the fact
that in every 100 pounds of cows urine
there are siXty-tive pounds of water, five
pounds of urea, five pounds of phosphate
of lime, twelve pounds of salammoniac
and muriate of potash, and ten pounds
of carbonate of potash and ammonia.
While the solid eXcrements from one
COW, during the year, will manure half
an acre, the liquid matter, properly APP
piled, would fertilize three times that
amount.
Substitutes for Ice-The following
are recommended by Southern newspa-
per as freezing powders, which may
prove useful in hot weather where ice is
not attainable: l. Four pounds sui
phate of soda, two and half pounds
each of muriate of ammonia and nitrate
of potash; when about to use, add double
the weight of the ingredients in water.
2. Equal parts of nitrate of potash and
muriate Of ammonia; when required for
use add more than double the weight of
water. 3. Nitrate of ammonia and water
in equal proportions. Carbonate of soda
and nitrate of ammonia, equal parts, add
one equivalent of water.
When our gardens look dry and
parched we are SO strongly tempted to
use the watering-pot that we frequently
yield, and so injure the plants that we are
striving to benefit If we attempt to
water our flower beds at all we must do
it thoroughly. Wait until after sunset,
and then pour on water until it seems
ready to run off. Let this soak into the
ground and then water again. Finally
spread freshly-cut grass over the beds;
this covering will tend to keep the
ground soft and moist. The usual meth
cd of sprinkling the fower-b beds slightly
only tends to make the surface of the
ground hard and dry, thus excluding air
and MOISTURE Globe Democrat.