The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Goldfish and potatoes for balls should
be mixed while both are hot
Lady Cake.-One-half cupful butter
one and one-half cupfuls sugar, two
thirds of cupful milk, two cupful,
flour, three eggs, one teaspoonful cream
tartar, One-half teaspoonful soda; flavor
to suit.
The ivory keys of piano which
have become yellow may be made white
again by washing them with sponge
dipped in sulphuric acid, or a solution
of bi-sulphate Of soda, and exposing tc
the sun.
Vinegar Pie.-One cupful sugar
onehalf cupful vinegar, boil together a
few minutes, cool, and add one table
spoonful flour, one tablespoonful con,
densed egg, one rolled milk cracker
one teaspoonful butter. Bake in two
crusts.
Bread Pancakes.-Cut bread dough
which is ready for baking into strips OF
fancy designs, and drop into hot lard
When they are q fine brown, drain them
well, and send to the breakfast table
very hot. To be eaten with strip.
-Scalloped Mushrooms.-First boil
them slightly and then fry in very little
butter, adding parsley, very little -four
and a dash of soup stock, but never los
ing any juice. Putting this mixture
into shells, add little egg and lemon
juice and bake with butter-crackeI
crumbs atop.
Sponge Cake. Six eggs, two cup
fuls sugar, two cupfuls -four, one tea
spoonful cream tartar in the -four, a half
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in little
warm water and added the last thing;
beat the yelks and the sugar together,
and the whites, well beaten, then the
flour, and lastly the soda.
Meat Balls.-Chop very fine cold
quantity of bread-crumbs mix them to-
gether with an onion chopped very fine,
if the flavor of onion is liked; season
with salt and pepper, a little nutmeg
and allspice; mold together with one
egg; form into balls, and fry in boiling
fat.
Beef Tea.-Cut half pound of
steak very fine, put into glass can, we'll
corked; set this into kettle of water,
let the water come to boil, leave the
can of beef in till the juice is all ex-
tracted. Pour off; season with salt.
This gives the pure juice of the meat.
The color of the beef indicates when it
is done.
No man should keep on his premises
any class of dumb animals which he is
not disposed to provide for appropriate
ly or that he does not find il convenient
and useful to see to himself or by deputy
And in the case of fowls and chickens,
it should be appreciated that they are
unable to take care of themselves, and
therefore need providers and protectors.
Orange Fritters.- One pound of flour,
one pint of milk, with teaspoonful of
salt in it, and quarter of pound of
melted butter, and three eggs beaten very
light. Prepare four oranges by remov-
ing the yellow rind and every particle of
white pith, divide into small pieces with
out breaking the skin. In each spoon
full of butter put piece of orange, and
fry golden brown; sift powdered sugar
over as soon as taken from the pan.
"A change of food will be great
help in quickening the appetite of STALL
fed cattle. A pint of molasses, mixed
with a feed of oat straw and meal, will
be taken very readily. This may be
given once day, and one or two ounces
of salt with an alternate feed. Roots
sliced and sprinkled with either cotton
or llnseed-cake meal will be very health
full. A few apples will be useful be-
tween meals. A pound of meal stirred
in the drinking water will help. By
varying the food in this way one can
hardly ever feed fattening stock SO as to
pail the appetite.
Chocolate Cream Drops.-Mix one
half a cup of cream with two of white
sugar; boil and stir full five minutes; set
the dish into another of cold water. and
stir until it becomes hard; then make in
to small balls, about the size of marbles,
and with fork roll each one separately
in the chocolate, which has in the mean.
time been put in bowl over the boiling
tea-kettle and melted. Put on brown
paper to cool. Flavor with vanilla, if
desired. This amount makes about fifty
drops. G. tf
When fruit does harm it is because il
is eaten at improper times, in improper
quantities, or before it is ripened and fit
for the human stomach. A distinguished
physician has said that if his patients
would make a practice of eating couple
of good oranges before breakfast, from
February to June, his practice would be
gone. The principal evil is that we dc
not eat enough fruit; that we injure its
finer qualities with sugar; that we
drown them in cream We need the
medical action OF the pure fruit acids in
our system, and their cooling, corrective
influence.
H. L. G.. II - ~