The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-17
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE,

QEEN's cake: One pound of -four,
one pound of sugar, one pound of but
ter, eight eggs. Beat separately; add
essence of lemon.
IT is very desirable to test the value
of old customs by comparative expert
nlents with new developments, rather
than accept the former as correct and
l.established axioms.
AUNT MILLY's cup cake: Four cups
of flour, four eggs, two cups of sugar,
one cup Of butter, one-half cup of sweet
milk, half teaspoonful of soda, a
teaspoonful of cream tartar.
| AGRICULTURAL improvement, stimu-
lating progress by example, employs
labor, diminishes vagrancy and crime,
and improves the moral, social and
physical condition Of the people.
HAPPY the man to whom Heaven has
given a morsel of bread, without laying
him under the obligation of thanking
any other for it than Heaven itself.
Such is the industrious and independent
farmer.
| SPICE cake: One cup of sugar, three
eighths of cup Of shortcomings, one cup
of sour milk, one-quarter of a cup Of
molasses, two and a half cups of -four,
one rounding teaspoonful of soda. Ali
kinds of spice.
4 ALARM, however pushed, will, under
proper cultivation, continue to yield for
ever constant crop. But in mine
there is no reproduction, while the pro-
duce, once pushed to the utmost, will
soon begin to fall and sink towards zero.
HONEY cake: One cup of butter,
two cups of honey, four eggs well beaten,
half cupful of sour milk, one tea
, spoonful Of soda, flour enough to make
. it as stiff as can be we'll stirred bake at
once in quick oven. sz.
WHITE cup cake: Four pounds of
sugar, and one Of butter; beat five eggs
!, with the sugar; put one teaspoonful of
} soda in a cup of sour milk; CRATE one
nutmeg and put in it, with one tea
spoonful of cinnamon then cream the
butter and -four together add the eggs
} and sugar, with the other Ingredients
v stir itWell and bake in tin mold.
No true farmer will be ashamed of his
e vocation. 1t is God-ordained, and out
4 ranks all others in point of antiquity
:, Broadeloth and fine jewelry do not make
nobility, nor do jeans and brogans indi
I cate a plebeian origin. All conditions
! and classes are dependent upon the
farmer for their daily bread. He feed
the world. Why then should he not b.
o proud to be known as a tiller of the soil
The frequent mysterious burning O
= haystacks and farmers buildings ha
q led to the discovery that they are set OF
Il fire by wasps' nests, and that the nest
IS are set on fire by spontaneous combus
/ tion. This is produced by the chemica
g action of the wax in contact with tn
b paper-like substance of which the mes
l. is composed, a comparatively small &C
J, cess of oxygen being sufficient to max
/. it burst forth in blaze.
2, FRIoAssEE of cold beef: Take som
% roast beef that has been underdone, an
q having cut off the fat and skin put il
with the bones broken up, into stew
le pan, with two large onions, sliced, tw
n good-sized potatoes, sliced, and bunc
is of summer savory and a leaf of swee
70 basil, or any other sweet herbs you ma
IL have handy. Add to this the gravy an
er about pint of warm water; cover
closely, and let it simmer for about a
hour; then skim and strain it, CAREFUL
IF removing every particle of fat; !
b. another saucepan melt piece of butte
Of the size of walnut, which thicke
es with a spoonful of -four; stir it fe'
rt minutes, and then add the straine
gravy to it; let it come to boil, an