The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-15
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

To Keep Lemons Fresh.-Place
them in jar with water enough to cover
them. They will keep fresh in this way
several days without changing the water.
-Dairying on the average farm is
safer than grain growing, since grass
will grow at lower temperature than
any grain, and again will stand a
drought better.
Feather Cake.-One cup of sugar,
one-half cup Of milk, one and one-half
cups OF flour, one tablespoonful of but
ter, one. half teaspoonful soda, one table
spoonful of cream of tartar; flavor with
lemon.
-Bird's-Nest Pudding.--Put into
three pints of boiling milk six crackers.
pounded fine, and one cup raisins, when
cool add four eggs well beaten, a little
sugar and four good-sized apples, pared
and cored. To be baked and eaten with
warm sauce.
TO Cure Bunions. Bind fine linen
band tightly around the foot and over
the bunion, sew it on if necessary, and
wear it day and night battle the feet fire.
quently in strong borax water, using a
teaspoonful of pulverized borax to a
basin of water.
Picked Apples.-Three pounds of
sugar. seven pounds of apples quartered
and cored, one pint of vinegar; steam
the apples till a fork will go through
them readily; then make sirup of the
sugar and vinegar and pour over them
while hot, and stick Glove or two into
each quarter
Cattle will thrive on from two to
eight pounds of molasses per head daily.
In Central Europe large numbers of cat
tie are fattened upon the residue of the
beet root used in the sugar refnerles;
also on beet molasses. In cases of cpl
denies cattle fed with molasses are sell
dom attacked,
To Prevent Decay in Meats
Sprinkle on plenty of pulverized borax;
rub it well into the meat and let it re-
main five or ten minutes on ice, or long
er, if desired. Just before cooking wash
it well in strong solution of borax
water, and do not rinse again. If it is
to be boiled or parboiled add little
borax to the water in which it is boiled
a quarter of teaspoonful will answer.
To prevent the odor of turnips and
other vegeta oles from being communi-
Gated to butter, make a strong solution
of saltpeter-say pint of boiling water
upon an ounce of saltpeter-and when
thoroughly dissolved put it in a bottle
and stand in cool place. Before milk
ing, put into the milk-pail spoonful of
this solution, or more, according to the
quantity of milk expected, and all turnip
flavor will be entirely destroyed. The
same substance will also, in great de-
greece, destroy the bad flavor given to
butter by the yellow crowsfoot or butter
cup. Another plan, equally if not more
efficient, is to scald the cream after the
saltpeter has been inserted Western
Farm Journal.
Bottled Chow Chow.-Take a peck
of onions, small; one peck of small Gu
cumbers, half peck of string beans,
three heads caulifower, three punches
of celery, a half dozen sweet peppers;
soak the whole in strong salt and water
over night; in the morning drain off the
brine and scald them all in weak salt
water. But before scalding cut them
into shape so that they will 60 easily into
glass jars. Add three -fourths of pound
of mustard, two packages of curry pow
der, two bottles of salad oil, and six
quarts of good vinegar; put mustard and
curry powder into the vinegar and let it
come to boil; put the pickles into the
jars and pour the liquid over them while
hot. Add the oil, and do not cover until
cold.