The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-21
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


Baked Custard.-Beat four egg
and two tablespoonful sugar thorough
ly, and stirinto one quart boiling milk
pour into cups, crate nutmeg over thu
top, and bake ten or twelve minutes in {
hot oven. To be eaten cold.
Pudding Sauce.-One cupful sugar
one egg, teaspoonful extract vanilla
saltspoonful of salt beaten to a froth
stir in one wineglassful boiling water
then set over boiling water five to ten
minutes, stirring often.
Whoever heard of colt over-reach
| ing? No one. 1t is after we have shod
our young horses that they will develop
this bad action, and therefore we know
that it must in some way be owing to the
iron shoes. A good sheer understands
the fact.-Americdn CaltieatOr.
French Cream.-One quart of boiled
milk; mix one cupful sugar with the
yelks of four eggs; STIR into the milk with
one tablespoonful corn starch flavor to
taste; beat the whites to a stiff froth with
pulverized sugar, and brown slightly
in the oven. pr
Mashed Potatoes a pEspagnole.--
Peel, boil and mash some potatoes with
a piece of butter in the ordinary way;
add a tablespoonful of chopped and
slightly-fried onions and chopped parsley;
dilute with broth instead of milk, and
serve.
Runaway Cake.-One cup milk, one
half cup sugar, two eggs, one spoonful
butter, one teaspoOnful soda and two of
cream tartar, flour to make a stiff batter
This is a good tea-cake, plain or with
berries stirred in for the summer season,
or currants for winter. Being plain, it
is only good when freshly baked.
-Dumplings.-Take quarter of a
pound of butter; beat it little; add
two whole eggs beaten until light, and a
quarter of a pound of flour, and nutmeg
to taste, and dip with teaspoon in boil
ing beef broth; let the dumplings boil
from ten to fifteen minutes. Care must
be taken not to let them boil too long, as
they will get heavy. 3D.
If hens have the detestable habit
for it is that and nothing more-of feath-
creating, you have only to catch them,
and with knife sCrape the sharp edge
of the inside of their bills, so as to leave
them blunt, and you will enjoy the fun
of seeing the fowl grab at feather and
have it slip out of its mouth without pull
ing it from the victim.-GoLden Rule.
Potato Cakes.-Boil some white
potatoes, mash them very fine, adding
salt, butter and milk, as if used as
vegetable; then mold in them sufficient
sifted flour to make them into soft
dough; roll them out on the paste-board,
about an inch thick; cut in small, square
cakes; fry on "a griddle, creased with
equal parts of lard and butter; cook
slowly, turning but once. Nice for
breakfast or an ordinary lunch.
The best way to boil eggs is not to
boil 'em at all. Put them in a tin dish
and pour on boiling water; cover the
dish tight and set back where the water
will merely keep hot; let 1t stand from
ten to fifteen minutes, according to the
size of the eggs, or the preference of the
eaters for hard" or soft" The effect
is quite different from that produced by
boiling; both the flavor and texture of
the egg being so superior to any other
way Of cooking by means of hot water
that those who have tried it will hardly
be likely to return to the old way.
Cleansing a Brussels Carpet. First
have the carpet well shaken, then tack ii
down in the room where it is to remain
sweep it as thoroughly as possible; take
a pail of hot water, put in two table
spoonfuls of pulverized boraX; wash the
carpet all over the surface, using fan
mel cloth. For grease spots or very dirty
places use a scrubbing brush freely, and
very little soap, taking care to rinse the
soap off well after sCrubbing; change the
water quite often; rub the carpet well
with dry cloth after washing, and open
doors and windows SO as to dry the car
pet as quickly as possible.
1t is said that the color of the inside
of the cows ear affords an infallible
guide to the selection of good butter
COW. If the skin on the inside of the cal
is of rich yellow or orange color and
the lining of the ear is covered with an
oily secretion, the COW will be sure tc
give good quality of milk, rich in but
ter. Cows that produce high-colored
butter have large amount of the secre
ton, the inside of the ear being of an
orange tint. On the other hand, light
color butter-makers present a scanty
! thin and pale yellow secretion, in some
cases found only at the bottom of the ear
while the inside lining is of corresponds
ingly pale, underlined color. Every fe
male of the bovine family has the power
of secreting certain amount of this oily
matter. If the quantity be abnormally
large, secretion will take place freely in
the mammary glands, the ear and the
skin. AS the test is simple and costs
nothing, it cannot fail to prove useful
auxiliary to the dairyman and farmer in
their selection of rich mixers.