The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1877-05-05
FARM, GARDEN AyD HOUsENOLD.


Household Notes.
SpoxeE CAKE.-Four eggs, beaten fol
half M hour; one cupful sugar, ont
cupful flour,
LADY CAKR.-one cupful butter, two
cupfuls sugar, four cupfuls flour, one
acupful milk, three eggs, oue-half tea
spoonful soda, flavor to taste.
FLANNEL CAKEs.-To one pint of floul
add one-half pint of corn meal, foui
eggs, one tablespoonful yeast, with mill
enough to make n stiff batter set Ia
rise over night. Thin with WARM milk
and wnter before baking nc1t morning.
JualBLEs.-Take fonr eggs, three cup.
fuls sugar, very little nutmeg, one
teaspoonful baking soda, one cupful
butter stir in the flour until it will
roll cut in rounds with n hole in the
center, Will keep good two or three
weeks.
To MAKE MILK SouR-If persons
wishing to make milk sour will takc m
ordinary bean pot aud put III warm
place near the stove, and from time ia
time add little milk, keeping covered
MI tho time, they will always have good
sour milk when the pot is empty wash
it well.
OYSTER CATsUr.-Chop one quart Of
oysters and boil in their own liquor
with tcacupful vinegar skim scum rs il
rises ; boil three minutes, md strain
through hair cloth; return the liquor
to fire, and add one teaspoonful cayenne
pepper, one tablespoonful mace, one
tablespoonful salt boil fifteen minutes,
and when cold, bottle.
CRAZY BIscu1T.-Threc pints OF milk,
five teaspoonfuls Of yeast, one teaspoon.
full of salt boil the milk, aud then cool,
stir in -four, making it little thicker
than pancake batter add the salt, and
when lukelarm put in the yeast. In
the morning, add one egg, hHlf cupful
sugar, one teaspoonful saleratus, mix,
md let stand to rise when light, make
into biscuits; let raise again, and bike
in medium oven.
To PRESERVE Eaes.-When the eggt
aro taken from the nest, il they art
brushed entirely over with solution OIL
gum arabic and laid in n cool place they
will keep perfect two years, md chick
ems have been Matched from eggs &c
treated at the end OF that time. Ii farm
ers rs soon ms they gather the egg
would cover each one with fresh melted
mutton suet-iust enough to cover the
pores,of the .shell-they would confer q
boon upon thousands.
PRESSED Cons BEEF Choose plate
piece, fat and lean put in n pot little
larger than itself, and cover with COLI
water pepper well let it boil moder,
atcly till the bones will come ont turr
it several times while boiling; wher
cooked place in good shape in towel
aud fold up firmly let ii be thick IN,
short in shape place plate over, ant
three or four irons or bricks to press it
let it stand till perfectly cold, or four Of
five hours cut thin for the table, ant
garnish with sprigs of parsley.
Foes to the Farmer.
AS the spring advances aud the iilscc
foes Of the farmer, gardener and orchar !.
list begin to emerge from their wintel
hiding places, few general observation,
in reference to preventive and remetlia
measures may not he amiss.
The horticulturist should carefully ex
anime his trees, in order 10 ascertain hov
many, and which, are infested with bari
lice, so Us to be really to attack them n
soon rs the young are Matched ant
emerge from beneath the mother scales
as then is the only real vulnerable pc
riod OF their existence. AS the yoan,
are very minute, it would be well 70
him to carry with him n small poke
magnifier, so Tint, when passing through
his orchard or nursery, lie can always b
prepared to ascertain whether the egg
are Matched or not. II no young mr.
seen, few scales eau be raised with til
point Of knife blade aud the condition
OF the eggs observed. As soon as tn
young appear then let him attack then
ut once with his brush and acrid solu
ton Of lime, soap, or diluted kerosene
If the punches Of eggs, cocoons mn
particles Of crumplcd leaves, 70 oftel
seen glued to the twigs, have not bee
removed during the winter, this ought +
DO attended to ut once. They should b
removed and burned, or carefully dc
stroyed by crushing, or otherwise. EacI
egg, nest or cocoon destroyed now, vii
be equivalent to the destruction Of hun
dreds Of caterpillers during the summer
The collar Of tho trunk Just below tn
surface Of the mulch or soil, should b
carefully examined, and il there are m,
signs OF the woolly aphis it should b
treated with strong soapsuds, and utter
ward some leaehcd asles should b
placed around it. II on the contrary
nothing or only black ground beetles q
lady bags arc found, leave it undis
turbed, these friends will look after il
II the cankerworm Inns made lolgiu
III the orchard, the tin bands ought t
be ut once fastened on the trees; eve
now it is probably too late in some orch
ards. Remember-frst tack piece q
rope around, and on this the tin strip
three or four inches wide, leaving wild
projection below and also projection
above. II the inner side of the rop
which is to 60 next the tree is first tarret
so much the better; the rope should b
OF sufficient thickness TO cause the rop
to stand out well from the trunk.