South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-07-12

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toes canned or four large raw ones cut
fine. add one quart boiling water and
let them boil. Then add one teaspoon
Of soda, when It will foam; Immediate
" add one pint OF sweet milk. with salt.
pepper and plenty OF butter. When this
hollis add eight small crackers rolled
fine, aud serve. Equal To oyster soup.
Picked CiiERRiEs.-Pick over your
cherries. and remove all tho speckled
ones. Put them into jar, and pour
over them as much hot vinegar and SUI
gar as will cover them; 10 each gallon
OF vinegar allow four pounds of sugar.
Boil and skim it, and pour il hot over
the fruit. Let it stand week, then
/ pour off the vinegar and boil il rs be-
fore ponr il hot over the cherries tue
second time. As soon rs they are cold
tic them closely.
To Cook ONIoNs.-Thc strong. dis
agreeable tasto and smell from onions
may be in large degree removed by
leaving them to soak in cold salt aud
water an hour after tho outside skin has
been removed then boil them in milk
and water till thor oughlv tender lay
into deep dish. season with pepper aud
salt and pour over drawn butter.
EV'For raspberry jelly use berries
gathered early in the season, "a they
make jelly more readily Take a pound
OF sugar to n pint Of juice, strained
through a flannel bag boil twenty min
utes in = tin pan or shallow vessel
Make small quantity ut q time.
took the quantity that two pounds Of
sugar would make. This will make
very stiff jelly, whercas if madc ia tlio
ordinary way il Is not stiff.
~ Here's q receipt for pie. II is
said To be delicious. Boat TO q cream
three.fourths Of cup OF butter and one
cup of sugar; add the well-beasen yolks
of five eggs flavor with vanilla. Line
two tins with puff paste; pour in the
mixture aud bake at once. Beat tho
five whites TO a stiff iroth; sweeten with
powdered sugar; flavor with vanilla and
spread over the pies when done. Brown
delicately and cut the pies while hot tn
prevent the eggs from falling.
CHEAP FRUlr CAKE Seven. cen Gun.
ces Of brown sugar five eggs one pound
OF raisins; one pound of currants one
fourth pound of citron; one heaping
tesspoonful OF soda; one.half cupful OF
moiasses; one tumblerful OF sweetened
vinegar use that from picked peach
es or pears one tablespoonful cloves
one tablespoonful of cinnamon one
nutmeg; one pound OF -four. This will
keep one year.
CRULLERs.-Three eggs; one cup Of
sugar; butter the size OF an egg lit =.
|, tie salt; a very little soda; knead stiff.
roll, cut into any fancy shape and fry
in hot lard. These are very nice.
! Lemon MERTNGUE PIE.-Beat tho
, yolks of four eggs, ten tablespoonruls OF
sugar. three OF melted butter, and the
= juice OF one lemon and a half; add three
tablespoonfuls of milk or water; bake
:, in an undercrust, then beat the whites
,, pour over the top, and put back in the
. oven TO brown.
+. WATERMELON CAKE WhUe Part -
= Two-thirds cup butter, two cups pulver-
! lied sugar, two-thirds cup -four, whites
y Of five eggs, one tablespoon baking
. powder. Rel Pdrt--One cup red sugar
one-th!rd cup butter, one-third cup sweet
= milk, two cups -four, one tablespoon ba.
" king powder, whites Of five eggs. one
:. half pound raisins. Put tue raisins in
:, the red part and place in the centre of
? pan with white around it.
. KAT5tSO IONAToEs.-A correspOn lent
r writing on the subject Of tomatoes says /:
! a
), twelve feet, on the east side Of board
: fence eight feet high, planted therein
seven tomato plants. and trained them
. against the fence until they reached the
top and fell down three TO four feet on
J., the other side. The first week In Au-
:, gust we began TO Ither fruit from them.
. and continued 90 do 80 nearly every
day until Nov. 2 when the last ripe
ones were picked. As they we're gath
/, cred in small quantities. il is impossible
q TO he perfectly exact but, from the
r best estimate and measurement posi-.
i BILE, We gathered over four bushels Of
. ripe tomatoes, and about Que busLel OF
: green ones for pickles. at the end. We
supplied our family Of FIVE some Of IA
4 very fond Of them) and gave away %
: others about peck.
f o Tho Scientific An1>yicaH gives tho
: following which our readers. who raise
Q pouhtys will do we'll 90 heed 'sPut a
{ teaspoonful Of sulphur in the nest az
4 soon as the hens or turkeys are set. The
n heat Of the fowls causes the fumes OF
Q the sulphur 20 penetrate every part Of
their bodies, every louise is killed. and
/ as all nits are Matched within Ton days.
. when the mother leaves the nest Will,
!. her brood. she IS perfectly fec from
/, nits OF lice"
u Fly.time has como. and unless
some precautions are taken % rid the
horses Of their tormentors. thoY cannot