The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-06
AGRICULTURALAND DOMESTIC.

Mock Mince Pie.-One cup soaked
crackers, one cup butter, one cup sirup,
one-half cup vinegar, one cup chopped
raisins; spice to taste.
To dry clean silk, mix well equal
quantities of baking-powder and pull
verified magnesia, and rub the lace in
it as you would in water.
Steamed Loaf-Two cups Indian
meal, one cup flour, half-cup molasses,
salt, one cup sweet milk, one of sour,
teaspoon soda Steam from three to
four hours.
Cream Pie-Three tumblers milk,
three tablespoons flour, one teacup
sugar, rind of one lemon, a teaspoonful
vanilla, two eggs The custard must
be scalded enough to thicken. Bake
paste separately and put the custard in
between when little cool.
Charlotte Russo. Make into Gus
tard three eggs, half a pound pow
dered sugar, half pint of milk. Dis
solve half box gelatine in half pint
cold water, simmer on the fire and
strain into the custard, and stir until
cold. Whip to froth quart of cream,
stir in the custard lightly, flavor and
set off to CONCEAL.
M. w. Philips, of Oxton, Miss,
says tar and grease applied to trees may
protect them from borers or rabbits, but
| they injure or kill the tree. This is not,
however, the case with linseed oil, a
wash of which preserves pear trees
from blight. Alcohol or petroleum
kills all bark lice, borers or other in
sects, if applied to them with feather
point or small paint brush; but to wash
the bark with petroleum is very injuri-
Gus, if not fatal, to trees.
Cheese Omelet. Butter the sides
of deep dish and cover with thin
slices of rich cheese. Lay over the
cheese thin slices of well -buttered
bread, first covering the cheese with q
little red pepper and mustard; then an
other layer of cheese. Beat the yelk
of an egg in cup of cream-milk will
do--and pour over the dish, and put at
once in the oven. Bake till nicely brown.
Serve hot, or it will be tough, hard and
worthless Christian Union.
-Rusk.-Two pounds of flour, one
half pound white sugar, two eggs well
beaten, one tablespoonful butter, one
cup of sweet milk, one cup of potato
yeast, four white potatoes boiled and
mashed through sieve, teaspoonful
salt; mix all thoroughly over night.
BY nine O'Clock next morning it will be
ready to mold as soon as the rolls have
risen; bake as you would light bread
When done glaze them with the white
of an egg and sprinkle powdered sugar
on the tops.
Chicken Salad.-To one chicken
take two cups of chopped celery. Boil
the chicken and pick it into fine bits
Gt is better than being chopped); four
eggs boiled hard cut the yelks smooth
with knife, add sweet cream until
thin as a batter, two tablespoonful dry
mustard, three teaspoonfuls salt, two
teaspoonfuls black pepper, vinegar
enough to moisten, one teaspoonful SUI
gar, two tablespoonfuls melted butter;
mix and pour over the chicken and Gel
cry.
Save all the bones for homemade
fertilizers. Take tight barrel, box or
hogshead, cover the bottom with four
or five inches of unleached ashes, upon
this place layer of bones as close as
they can be packed together, covering
completely with unleached ashes; then
another layer of bones, and thus alter
nate layers of ashes and bones until the
box or barrel is filled. Pour in couple
of pailfuls of water, or place the vessel
in the yard where it will get sufficient
moisture from occasional showers In
a few months it will be found that the
bones are dissolved.
English dairy farmers attach much
importance to liquid manure, which is
accumulated in tanks built for the pur-
pose, and which is drawn on the land
at intervals. Grass land is greatly i'm
proved by giving the cattle pastured on
it an allowance of oil cake and grain.
The food which they claim is most con-
venient to give in the fields is linseed or
cotton cake. Meal may also be given.
Boxes or troughs are placed at short
distances from each other, and thus the
animals are readily fed. The cost of
artificial food is largely repaid by the
extra quality of the droppings, which
should be frequently scattered.
PulverizatiOn Of the Soil.