The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-02
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


-boneset tea is good hair tonic.
"A correspondent says the secret of
guarding squashes from insects consists
in planting as late as the 10Th or goth
OF June, so as TO bring the plants up after
squash maggots have settled for the
season somewhere else.
Snow Sponge Cake.-One cupful
flour, little heated, one and one-half
cupfuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls cream
tartar, mixed with flour (no soda),
whites of ten eggs. This makes very
white, beautiful cake.
New England Brown Bread. -Four
cupfuls rye meal, three of yellow In
dian meal, one small cupful molasses,
one teaspoonful soda, one-half teaspoon
full cream tartar; mix very soft with
sour milk or buttermilk; little salt;
steam four hours and bake two.
Good Mock Mince Pies. Eleven
ground crackers, one coffee-cup chopped
ralslns, one cup brown sugar, cup mo-
lasses, two cups boiling water, half cup
melted butter, half cup vinegar, two
tablespoons cinnamon, teaspoon cloves,
teaspoon nutmeg; roll the crackers fine
and throw boiling water on them.
-Hickory-Nut Cake-Two cupfuls
sugar, two-thirds cupful butter, three
and one-half cupfuls flour, whites of
four eggs well beaten, three teaspoon
fuls baking powder mixed with flour,
one cupful sweet milk, one and enc
half pints sliced mot chopped) hickory
nuts. This makes two rather small
loaves.
-Suet Pudding. One cup of suet,
one of raisins, chopped fine, one of mo-
lasses, one of sweet milk, one teaspoon
full soda dissolved in the milk, three
cups of -four, nutmeg, cinnamon and
cloves, one or all as desired. Boil or
stew steadily for three hours. Liquid
or hard sauce as preferred.-LadieS'
Floral Cabinet '..i.
Potato Pe.-One pound of mashed
potato, rubbed through colander; one
half pound of butter rubbed to cream
with two cupflls of white sugar; six
eggs, the whites and yelks beaten sepa-
rately; the juice of one lemon squeezed
into the potato while hot one teaspoon
full of nutmeg, the same of mace. Bake
in shells of paste, or in dishes lined
with good paste, without covers. To
be eaten cold. .u....
The farmers in Switzerland con-
slider liquid manure as the most ef1ica-
cious of any, and hence after the ma
nure is fermented they dilute it in water
and the liquid alone is carried to the
field and scattered over it. The earth
Immediately imbibes the liquid, which
soon reaches the roots of the plants and
causes rapid vegetation The straw
that remains after the manure has been
washed is applied as manure for pota-
toes.
To Sugar or Crystalline Popcorn.
Put into an iron kettle one table
spoonful of butter, three tablespoonful
of water, and one teacupful of white
sugar; boil until ready to candy, then
throw in three quarts of corn, nicely
popped stir briskly until the candy is
evenly distributed over the corn; sci
the kettle from the fire, and stir until il
is cooled Il little and you have each
grain separate and crystallized with the
sugar; care should be taken not to have
wv hOI d ilC lCSU lOu SCOICn Vic COIL
when crystallizing. Nuts of any kline
prepared in this way are delicious.
Where farmers keep hired men
and stormy days abound, they are fire.
quently at loss to know how to pu
them to work profitably. 1t is gooC
plan to have a slate at the tool house OF
barn or workshop, and to note dowr
during pleasant weather what work car
be done in rainy weather. There are
scores of little jobs which suggest them
selves which ought to be done, and car
be done as well in rainy weather as il
fair weather Such a slate would have
upon it something like the following
"Clean out the cellar; oil the harness
mend harness; grease all the wagons
repair the horse stalls; file the saws
grind the tools; sort the apples; make
kindling wood; repair the implements
she'll corn" A hundred other like job,
could be suggested. Have it understood
that when rainy day comes, whether
you are at home or not, the slate is to bt
referred to and the work done as there
suggested.