The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-09
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

lUhAL AND DUMEoIICs
Hop Up Pudding.-Three eggs;
one pint sweet milk; seven tablespoons
of flour; pinch of salt; bake and eat
with sauce.
Any country that has farms with
groves of forest trees, with orchards,
with vegetable and flower gardens, is
beautiful and valuable. Without these
no country, however rich in soil and
location, is attractive. Every dollar
spent in trees and flowers will add ten
dollars to the value of the home.
Many mechanics have been sorely
tried when pouring lead around damp
or wet joint, to find it explode, blow
out or scatter, from the effects of steam
generated by the heat of the lead. The
whole trouble may be stopped by put
ting piece of resin the size of the end
of mans thumb, into the ladle and
allowing it to melt before pouring.
Regular feeding, if not generous,
is better than food given in excess for
a few days, and then stinted, or food
given plentifully, but at irregular
periods. Animals do not thrive unless
perfectly contented, and never per-
mitted to get hungry. The same hours
for feeding should be kept regularly
throughout the whole season.
Pumpkin Pie.-One quart of stewed
pumpkin, pressed through seive; nine
eggs, whites and yelks beaten separ-
ately; two quarts milk, one teaspoonful
each of mace, cinnamon and nutmeg;
one and one-half cups sugar; beat all
well together; bake with one crust.
squash pie is made precisely like pump
kin, except that it requires one more
egg for each pie, the squash not being
SO rich.
Sponge is an expensive article in
the stable, for when constantly in use
it soon decays. To employ it to the
best advantage a double supply should
be always on hand, one piece being in
use for week, and then put by to dry
for a similar period. In this way
soft, flabby and nearly WORKOUT sponge
RECEIVERS its texture, while sponge
treated on this plan will last fully three
times as long as if it is constantly wet
from first to last.
Puff Pudding. One cup sour
cream, soda and salt as for biscuit stir
in flour till stiff as you can stir; then
spread in two quart pudding pan, set
in the oven and let it brown; take three
nice tart apples, 'stewed smooth; add
one tablespoonful of butter, one-half
cup sugar, yelk of one egg; put the
mixture in the pudding pan and return
to the oven; when done, beat the white
of an egg in two tablespoons of sugar;
season to taste, then return to oven and
let top brown again. To be eaten with
cream or sauce.
Beef Tea.-Take one pound of
nice, fresh, round steak, free of fat; cut
it into small pieces, and put into q
suitable sized bottle and cork it tight,
setting the bottle into kettle of cold
water to be placed on the stove. The
amount of water putin must not be suf-
ticient to float the bottle, but keep adding
boiling water to make up for what
boils away. Continue to boil until the
strength of the meat has been extracted;
drain and season with salt and pepper.
If bottles persist in breaking, tin can
or small tin pail can be used instead.
Cure for Galls.-A writer sends to
the Elmira Farmers Club the following
cure for gals on the shoulders of
draught animals, which he says is the
best he ever used: Dissolve six drains
of iodine in half pint of alcohol, and
apply it on the sore with a feather as
soon as the collar is removed, and when
at rest twice day, morning and even
ing. The article should be in the stable
of every farmer, as it is an elegant APP
plication on horses where the skin is
broken by kicks or other accidents, and
is a sure cure for splints if used in a
proper manner.