The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-20
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Every family should cultivate small
fruits. A convenient plot should be set
apart for their growth.
We should raise what we most
need, thereby lessening our purchases
and increasing our sales.
Apple Shortcake. Season apple
sauce with butter, sugar and nutmeg;
make nice shortcake; open, butter
and spread, with apple sauce. Serve
with sweetened cream.
Horses which eat too rapidly for
good digestion should have their grain
ground, and the hay or straw should be
steamed or wet with hot water, and
meal sprinkled over it for few hours
before feeding it.
To Put Up Horseradish.-G the
root after having thoroughly cleaned it,
and put in wide-mouthed half-pint
bottles. When full, add two table
spoonfuls of good, sharp vinegar, cork,
and seal air-tight with wax.
Cooked Icing.-One cup of coffee
sugar, enough water to melt the sugar;
put on the stove and let it boil; beat the
white of one egg to a stiff froth and stir
in the boiling sirup; continue beating it
until nearly cold, add tlavoring and you
have it ready for cake.
The bones from farmers kitchens
would amount to a large item of fertil-
izing matter if properly reduced. When
a bone-grindingm mill is not within reach,
the bones may be broken up into small
pieces; soak them in water, then add
fifty pounds sulphuric acid to every 100
pounds of bones.
Soft Gingerbread. Dip up, shake
Off lightly, six even cups of flour; put
in pan and add one tablespoonful
saleratus, two of ginger, one cup but
ter, two cups molasses, and two of good
buttermilk; let the butter be soft
enough to mix easily with the other in
gradients, but not melted; stir all to-
gether enough to mix, and bake imme-
diately in two tins about eight by twelve
inches square. If the oven is right
twenty minutes will bake them.
-Buns.-One potato boiled very soft;
mash and add the water in which it was
boiled Zone pint); let it cool; make a
batter of this with wheat flour and
tablespoonful Indian meal; also two
cent compressed yeast cake; let it rise
in a warm place for two hours; then
add one cupful light brown sugar, two
eggs and two tablespoonfuls butter, all
beaten together; knead very soft; form
into buns; let them rise again and bake
about fifteen minutes in moderate
oven.-D0neStic Monthly.
Imperial Cake.-One pound sugar,
one pound flour, one pound butter. one
pound eggs (ten), one pound raisins,
one POUND currants, one pound peel
| (one-half citron, one-fourth lemon, one
fourth orange), one pound figs chopped
fine, one pound almond pits, blanched
and split, three teaspoons baking pow
der-in the fiour-no spices, no flavor
ing; the butter and sugar rubbed to-
gether, then the eggs, well beaten; add
flour with the baking powder; put the
fruit in, one kind at a time; stir well;
no flour put on the fruit; bake in
| square-cornered tins.
Some horses have naturally weak
feet, thin heels and brittle walls, with
tendency in them to split up into lay
ers where the nails are driven. These
will be greatly relieved if the feet are
occasionally put into good wet bran
poultice over night, taken out in the
morning, carefully washed, and as soon
as they become thoroughly dry, COW
cred with mixture something like the
following: Take equal parts of castor
oil, mutton suet and Barbados tar;
melt them together over aslow fire, and
when cold apply over the whole hoof
three or four times week.
Some time since | purchased a
three-months-o pig that had become
covered with a thick, black scurf.