The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-03
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Citron Cake.-Five eggs, three cups
of sugar, four cups of flour, one cup of
butter, one cup of milk, one teaspoon
full of cream tartar, one. half teaspoon
full of soda, one-half pound of citron.
-Waffies.-Mix one quart of sweet
milk, one heaping quart of sifted -four,
five tablespoons of yeast, little salt; set
it over night. In the morning add two
well'beaten eggs and tablespoonful of
melted butter; bake in watfle-irons.
When the mealy bug is troublesome
on plants, make strong soapsuds, put
in as much kerosene oil as will be alb
sorbed soithout floating, and sprinkle
thoroughly. If there are but few, they
can be touched with fine brush dipped
in alcohol
Sweet Sauce.-Boil two full cups of
sugar with three spoonfuls of water un
til 1t thickens; then remove from the
fire and stir in piece of butter the size
OF an egg, and the juice of lemon, or
flavor with the sirup from fruit pre-
serves.
TO judge COW for butter her hide
should be thin, soft and mellow, and I'M
der the hair of deep yellow color; her
udder should be soft and yellow skinned,
well-covered with zigzag viens, large
and broad her tail at the end rich vel
low; the inside of her ears and around
the eyelids yellow.-AmericGn Dairy
man.
Sponge Cake.-Two cupfuls of
sifted -four, two of powdered sugar; four
well-beaten fresh eggs, whites and yelks
beaten separately; one-half teacupful
cold water; one teaspoonful cream of
tartar sifted in the -four; one-half tea
spoonful soda dissolved in a very little
hot water; flavor with the juice and
grated rind Of half lemon; bake twenty
minutes in shallow tins.
To Pickle Caulifiowers.-Cut the
cauliflowers into small branches of equal
size and throw them into boiling sailed
water. When just about to boil remove
and drain them; put into jars, then take
vinegar enough to cover them; season
with nutmeg, mustard seed and mace,
one ounce to every gallon of vinegar;
pour this hot over the caulifiower, add
ing sweet oil the last thing to protect the
top. Cover closely while hot.
The following pickle for beef is
recommended by the New York Cooking
SCHOOL, Boil four gallons water with one
and one-half pounds brown sugar or mo-
lasses, two ounces saltpeter and nine
pounds salt, until all are dissolved; skim
as fast as the scum rises; cool the brine
or pickle thus made. Pack the meat
closely in barrel, pour on the pickle,
and keep the meat under it by means of
a weight. This quantity is sufficient for
an ordinary barrel of meat, 200 pounds,
closely packed.
Apple Fritters.-Pare, core and cut
some good apples in thin slices, sprinkle
them with sugar and a little nutmeg
Beat four eggs separately, then mix
them, add eight tablespoonfuls of sifted
flour, a pinch of salt, and sweet milk
enough to make thick batter; beat for
fifteen minutes, then set away for a
couple OF hours to rise. Dip each slice
of apple separately into the batter and
fry brown in boiling hot lard in the same
manner that you would doughnuts; sift
PO"NNASN sugar 4lSully ONCl IHtu anu
send to table on folded napkin.
-Decaying vegetable matter about
the houses, around the walls and in the
cellars, are prolific causes of diseases in
the farm house. III treatment of cows,
getting them excited and then feeding
the milk to children, is a practice liable
to be attended with fatal results. Bad ven
tilation, attended with impure air, causes
catarrhal and skin diseases of our ami
mails, especially when Obliged to breathe
the impurities of decaying manure
Better ventilation of sleeping rooms is
urged, and mere outdoor exercise for
the farmers wife, Prairie Farmer.
In mixing mustard plaster use no
water, but mix the mustard with the
white of an egg. The result will be a
plaster which will "draw" plenty, but
not blister on the skin of an infant, no
matter how long it is allowed to remain
on the part. The usual way is to
mix the mustard with water, temperng
with little -four, but such a one is
simply abominable. Before it has half
done its work it begins to blister and
leaves the patient with painful, fiayed
spot, after having produced far less effect
in beneficial way than was intended.