The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.
Fruit Cake.-Two eggs, one cup
sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one cup
fruits, half teaspoon soda.
Snowfall Cake.-Whites of three
eggs one cup white sugar, one-half cup
butter, teaspoon soda; stir thick and
bake in small tins.
To renovate black dress goods and
silks, dissolve one-half ounce of pulver-
lied camphOr, and an ounce of borax
in quart of boiling water.
Vinegar. potatoes, drain off
water and strain, one pound sugar, two
and one-half gallons of water, little
hop yeast. 1t is sour in q short time.
Jelly Cake.-Three eggs, one cup
sugar, one cup flour, one teaspoon
cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda,
three tablespoons sweet milk; bake in
iell tins.
Lemon Pie.-One lemons one cup
sugar, one tablespoon corn starch, rub
smooth with little water, one-half cup
boiling water, one egg; butter the size
OF walnut; one crust.
The utmost moisture that should be
found in thoroughly-worked butter is a
very slight dew, and it should be of
such fine consistency as to slice down,
hardly dimming the surface of knife
blade.-M. Y. World.
The poultry keeper who succeeds
the best is he who exercises the most
judicious supervision of his flock, al
lowing natural proclivities to take their
course, and who checks the sitting pro-
pensities of aged fowls by death.
-Repotting.-The best time for re-
potting plants is from the latter part of
July until the middle of September, ac-
cording to the kind of plants; some re-
quire earlier pOtting than others. They
do not need changing oftener than
twice year.
"A contributor to Tick'S Floral 1Iaq-
d!ine has a theory that last year his po-
tatoes were not touched by the bugs be-
cause wild petunias grew near the po-
tato patch; that the bugs will leave the
potatoes for petunias, the sweets of
which are poisonous to them.
Cream Cake.-Three eggs, one cup
sugar, one cup flour, two tablespoons
butter, one teaspoon tartar, one tea
spoon soda; bake in iell tins. Filling
to be put between cakes: one-half cup
sugar, one-halt cup sweet cream, one
egg, one tablespoon corn starch; season
to taste.
Col. r. NJ. Littler, a successful dairy
man, feeds his cows night and morning
the year round, and in each feed puts
about a teaspoonful of salt. He con-
siders this method of sailing COWS
preferable to the usual one of giving
animals salt once or twice a week, and
thinks this method adds largely to The
amount of milk given.
Stove Backing. - Lampblack is
mixed with water-glass Ga solution of
silicate of soda) to the consistency of
sirup, and applied with a brush as
thin and even coating, and then left
twentyfour hours to dry. Afterward
graphite, or black lead mixed with
gum water, is applied, and a polish OBJ
tanned by rubbing in the usual manner
-HOUSeWite.
Love Cake.-To one pound sugar
add six well-beaten eggs, put as much
flour as will stir stiff paste, flavor
with lemon, roll half-inch thick; cut
the size of a wine glass; strew some
sugar and flour over a tin pan, lay the
cakes on it, bake in a quick oven; when
cold, ice the tops, and set them in a
warm place to dry, finish by putting
jell in the center of each, the size of
walnut.
A novel plan for freeing grain from
vermin is recommended in a foreign
journal. 1t advises putting a living
crab into the grain heap SO that it can
not get out. The worms attack the
crab and enter the she'll In twenty
four hours the body may be taken out
and the shell will be found to contain
worms instead of crab-meat The en-
tire crab is thrown into the fire and
fresh ones put in the grain until the
vermin are eradicated.
-MacarOni, Farmers STYLE Boil
half a pound of macaroni, and while
you are draining it from the cold wa
ter, stir together over the fire one ounce
each of butter and flour, and as soon as
they bubble gradually pour into the
sauce they make pint of boiling wa
ter, beating it with n fork or egg-whip
until it is smooth; season it with lev
ell teaspoonful of salt and level salt
spoonful of pepper, and put the mac
aroni in it to heat; then cut an onion
in small shreds, and brown it over the
fire in very little fat; when both are
done dish the macaroni, and pour the
onion out of the frying-pan upon it.