The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-20
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Jumbles. -Onec cup butter, two sugar,
three eggs, four cups flour; mix soft;
bake in round cakes
1t is said that petroleum or common
coal oil, rubbed thoroughly upon the
scalp, will cure both badness and gray
-Crab-apple Jelly.-Cut i'll halves and
boil in water till soft; two quarts water
to half-peck apples; strain and add one
pound of sugar to one pint juice; boil
twenty-five minutes.
-Elderberry Butter.-Take one gallon
of eldcrberries, two quarts of sugar, and
one pint of vinegar; boil for five hours,
stirring often; for pies, take four table
spoonfuls, for each pie of the butter, and
reduce.
Sponge Cake.-Take three eggs, beat
three minutes, then add one and one.half
cups of sugar, two of flour, two of milk,
beat the sugar and butter to d cream,
beat the eggs we'll, and mix with the
milk, then stir in the flour, and flavor
with whatever you like. If with lemon,
CRATE the rind and use some essence.
This is for one pie. -.
"A foreign agricultural newspaper
contains an article entitled "How to
Milk" and accompanied by an illustra-
ton of milkmaid. The object of the
article and the illustration is to show that
from the days of Noah to the present
hour men and women have been milk
ing COWS on the wrong side.
A.
peeled, quartered and cored; quarter
pound green ginger, scraped. Cut up in
small pieces, put these on the fire with
boiling water to cover them, let them
boil till tender, take them out with a
perforated skinner. Put three pounds
of white sugar into the water in which
they were boiled, letit boil up once, then
put in the pears; let them boil without
being covered for half an hour, and put
them into jars with the skinner. When
the strip boils for Is minutes without
being covered pour hot over the pears.
When cold tie them up closely. laI
Oyster Pie.-Make a rich puff paste,
line baking dish with it, and fill with
bread crumbs; butter the edges of the
dish, put on the top cover, and edge
with leaves cut of the paste, and bake in
a moderate oven; wash the oysters in
water, strain the liquor, put it in a sauce
pan over the fire and let come to boil
put in your oysters, which should be large
and fresh, season with salt, Cayenne pep
per, mace and nutmeg; thicken with
yelk hard-boiled egg, grated, and fine
bread crumbs, add butter; when the oys
tiers are plump, and the paste baked,
take off the top lid very carefully, turn
out the bread, and fill with the prepared
oysters hot as possible; put on the cover
and send to the table.
Potatoes as cattle food will probably
come into common use this season, in
those districts where heavy crops glut
the local markets and heavy freights
preclude distant ones. In this connec-
ton the results of a series of expert
ments by DR.. Wolff, German chemist,
may be protitably instructive to some of
our readers. He experimental in raw
and cooked potatoes to two cows, to
gether with hay and rape-seed cake.
When fed on cooked potatoes the ami
mails did not give as large quantity of
milk as when led upon raw; but the milk
made nearly third more butter, forty
two pounds of milk having been required
to make pound of butter in one case
and only twenty seven pounds in the
other.-RurdI Neao Yorker.
Peach Meringue. Put on to boil
scant quart of milk, emitting half
cup, with which to moisten two spoon
fuls of corn starch. Stir constantly till
thick, then remove from the fire; add one
spoonful flour and allow the mixture to
cool; then beat in the yelks of three eggs
till the mixture seems light and creamy;
add half cup powdered sugar. Cover
the bottom of well-buttered baking
dish with two or three thick layer of rich,
juicy peaches, pared, halved and stoned;
sprinkle with three spoonfuls powdered
sugar, pour over the custard carefully
and bake twenty minutes; then spread
with the light beaten whites, well
sweetened, and return to the oven till a
light brown. To be eaten warm with
rich sauce, or cold with sweetened cream