The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-08-25
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

| Harmless Cosmetic for the Com
plexion.-Take half cup of water and
add to it a tablespoonful of glycerine.
Add to this tablespoonful of alcohol
and teaspoonful of cologne. Apply
with sponge or a soft cloth.
Recipe for Hog Cholera. Take one
teacupful of pulverized copperas and
mix with one gallon of salt, and salt the
hogs twice week regularly. This is
said to be sure preventive, and has
been known to cure in many instances
after the disease has commenced.
Weeds need constantly to be looked
after and taken by the foretop. Remem-
Der that'every weed that is allowed to 90
to seed this year, will be replaced by
hundreds and thousands next year.
Zone years seeding" of weeds is said to
produce = fifteen years of wedding, and
it is not far from the truth,
-Pudding.-Boil quart of milk; stir
into this two cupfuls of rice-meal (you
can grind the rice yourself if you prefer;
take one-fourth of pound of almonds;
cut these up fine and put with the boil
ing milk and rice. Sweeten to taste and
boil until quite thick, then put it in cups
to cool same az corn starch pudding.
To cook beets, boil with skins on:
when done, peel and slice thin; heat an
ounce of butter very hot, then sprinkle
in tablespoonful of flour; keep stirring
and add hot water, little at time,
until the consistency of cream; shake in
salt and pepper; the last thing add a
little lemon juice; then put in the beets
and let cook until thoroughly seasoned.
-Currant Catsup.-To five pounds of
currants crushed fine add three pounds
of sugar, one pint of vinegar, one table
spoonful each of ground cloves, CHINA.
mon, allspice and black pepper, one half
spoon salt. Boil one hour, or until thick
enough to keep well. By substituting
chopped gooseberries for the currants an
excellent catsup is made.
TO pack grapes so they will be
fresh in the winter, cut the clusters from
the vines, being careful not to bruise the
grapes. Pick off all that are bruised,
dip the end Of the stem in sealing-wax,
then wrap each cluster in paper, pack
them in boxes with papers between each
layer, then close the box so no air can
penetrate, and keep in cool, dry room
A correspondents of the Pacifc Rural
Press says: The only effectual remedy
for wire worm, thatI know of, is thorough
cultivation of the soil Those who are
troubled with them will find by examin-
ing their soil that it is cold, and by stir
ring it thoroughly it will get warmer.
By so doing they will kill the wire worm,
as it cannot live in warm ground"
Eggs Cooked in Italian Style
Moisten two spoonfuls of flour with
four ounces of butter in saucepan,
stirring constantly. When of the con-
sistency of thick butter, thin with lit
tie boiling milk and season with pepper
and salt. Add three ounces more of
butter and little chopped parsley,
worked well together. Have ready eight
hard boiled eggs, sliced, and add them to
the sauce and serve hot.
To Keep Currants Fresh for Two or
Three Months.-ln many places in Ger
many currant bushes are trimmed up
with only one stalk into regular tree
shape. As soon as the currants are ripe
NOT dead ripe-they take nice straw
and make little straw stacks over the
bushes they wish to preserve, tying the
straw at the top in a pointed shape to
shed water, and not having the stack so
thick as to exclude the air. If you can
not get the straw, take old clothes and
tie over the bushes, drawing in close
around the bottom.
TO make cabinet pudding, take one
fourth of a pound of butter and one and
half pounds graduated sugar beaten
to a cream; add the well-bcaten yelks of
five eggs; one-half cupful of milk, then
half pound of flour, with the whites of
five eggs; lastly, half pound of seeded
and chopped raisins, with a quarter of a
pound Of well-washed and dried currants;
the fruit must be Toured before mixing;
use q buttered mold or Toured bag; boil
three hours; then plunge quickly into
cold water; turn it out at once, to prevent
sticking; serve hot with sweet sauce