South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-20

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PLAIN FRrir CAKE.-Onc cupful Of
butter. ono cupfal OF brown sugar. half
pint OF molasses. two eggs, ono cupsul
OF sour milk, one tcaspoouSul or soda
one pound OF currants, one ant, ,one.half
pounds Of ratsins and one pound OF hour.
Flavor with vanilla and orange peel cut
mp very fine.
!. TAKE lalfof a small. firm head Of cab.
bagc, strip off tlH outside leaves, put
into cliopping dish and hash vcrv fiac:
add small. even tcaspoonful OF salt. A
sitting OF pepper. one tablespoonful OF
sugar. and two.thirds or tcacupsul OF
good cider vinegar. Stir altogether. let
it stand for halt an hour. aud il Is ready
Tor the table.
PRESIDENTS CAKE. = One pound now
dered sugar, ono.half III. butter. thrcc
eggs. one-half ounce hartshorn, e.half
pint sweet milk. two pounds -four, lemon
TO taste. Work sugar and butter topc-
ther, then the eggs. roll the hartshorn
line and dissolve in milk add the -four.
Take out handful ard put it on a lonv
roll the thickness or hen egg. Cut
of places, press down little. mn. I'm
pans. and place raisin in tho centre of
each cake.
FAvoRIrE MEAT PIE.-Take cold roast
beef, or cold meat OF any kind, slice It
thin. cut it rather small and lay IL, wet
with gravy and sufficiently pcppered and
sailed. in meat pie dish. 1f liked. n
small onion may DO chopped fine and
sprinkied oyer It. Upon this pour a
cupfui of canned tomatoes. a little more
pepper and thick layer or mashed DO.
tatoes. bake slowly in a moderate O.
ven till the top is a light brown. It is
very good. and. . great favorite with
those who do not usually like meat pies.
CocoaNUT CAKE.,-Italf cup of but.
ter, two cups OF sugar, three cups OF
Hour, half a cup or sweet milk. four eggs.
two teaspoonsful OF baking powder. one
and onehalf cups Of grated cocoanut. or
the same amount OF prepared cocoanut.
Hickory nut cake after this rccipe. using
two cups Of nuts Is very fine.
FoH Sick HoRsEs. oil is not
only valuable restorative for sick hor
SEES, but is exceedingly useful in cases
OF Inflammation or the membrafies bocu.
liar to the organs Of respiration and iii.
gestion; 1t shields and ,luhricates the
Same, tranquilifes tile irritable state OF
the parts and favors healthy action
KIT q couple Of handouts or see into a
bucket and pour gallon and a half OF
boiling water upon II cover Il up for a
short time. then add couple OF quarts
OF cold water. when it will be ready for
use. In case OF an irritating cough, add
some honey. But better still is to raise
plenty, OF sunfowers and save the seed
TO feed TO your horses.; half a pint of
naxsed or o pint OF sunfower seed in a
horses feed three or four times a week.
in the fall and spring, does very much
TO keep them in good health.
Mr.. w. II. MERRILL. remarkino that
tlle indlsbensable, quality Of crispness
In celery is not :, secured without CONT.
uuous growth, finds q few, applications
OF liquid manure good quickener,"
also occasional raking.in of unleached
ashes on the surfdcc. among the plants.
lie gets the best results from BANKING
the dwarf varieties three times. bolding
the stalks firmly togcth er with the hand.
so that no dirt can get to the centre of
Tue branch. The same authority savs
that the prudent gardener sets A new
strawberry bed every year, and thus al
ways has plants in their prime, instead
OF losing the best OF two seasons--tbe
failing of the old and the beginning OF
the new one.
MEAT that is 10 be hasbed. or use,i
on second day in any way. would al
ways be much better IL the slices were
cut from the joint or large piece MS soon
as u leaves tue table and soaked in tho
gravy Of tile dish until the next day.
CoRNED mutton Is extensively used
in foreign countries There is no good
reason Why IL is not in general use here.
For cooking with vegetables there IL no
meat superior to II.
TAKE a boittskai OF .soft ra,s, AMI
put into il as muct alum as tie watcr
will dissolve, and wash tie warts ON n
cows teats twice day after milking
they will soon disappear under the treat.
! ment.
IrE line Japanese cement Is made by
mixing rice -four with sufficient auan.
tity OF cold water, then boiling GENTLY
With constant stirring.
LAMP WIcKs.-Lamp wicks soaked
TOT quarter OF an hour in vinegar, and
then dried before being put into lamp
will not smoke.
OSE OF The very best known disinfec-
tants is old fashioned 'copperas,, or suI-
phatc Of iron, which can be had very
cheap. A barrel OF copperas would weigI,
probably 200 pounds, can be purchased
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