The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-13
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Sponge Cake Take one cup sugar,
one egg, one teacup sweet milk, and
butter about the size of an egg; two
teaspoonfuls baking-powder, two tea
cups flour, and season to suit the taste.
To Make Boots Waterproof. -Four
parts mutton tallow to one part resin
mutton tallow alone is eXcellent-put
on the tallow after the boots are black
ened with common backing.
Mullins for Tea. One quart -four
and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
well mixed; add three eggs well beaten.
two tablespoonful of melted butter and
one pint of milk. Bake in rings in a
quick oven.
Ginger Nuts.-Two and half cups
of molasses, one cup butter or lard, one
tablespoonful of ginger, one teaspoon
full of alum dissolved in one-third of a
cup OF boiling water, two teaspoonfuls
of soda dissolved in hot water.
Feed your land before it gets poor.
Give 1t the manure you can make and
haul, and it will enrich you. Starve it
by taking off crops continually and re-
turning nothing, and it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land literally and it will
feed and clothe you.
Lemon Pie.-One good-sized lemon,
CRATE the rind and squeeze the juice;
one and a half cups of cold water,
three soda biscuits, yelks of three eggs,
and one cup of sugar; mix all together,
pour on the crust, and bake; when done
add the whites of eggs well beaten with
little sugar, and brown.
Yeast Cake.-Boil handful of
hops; pour on Indian meal sufficient to
make stiff dough; when cool enough
not to scald yeast put in cupful; mix
well. If the weather is warm make
into cakes Immediately; put meal on
molding board, set in shade in airy
place to dry; turn every day until dry.
Potato Salad.-Take fresh-boiled
potatoes, pare and slice fine, take one
fourth as much fine shaved cabbage as
potato, onion to taste; over this pour a
dressing of vinegar, ham drippings or
other fat, pepper and salt; this must be
heated; pour over all and mix well; or
use well-freshened bits of herring and
few slices of apple instead of cabbage.
Stuffed Potatoes Put four large
potatoes into the oven for about fifteen
minutes, or until they become little
soft; take them out, cut thin slice off
one side and scoop out the inside with
a spoon, leaving about one-quarter
inch next to the skin; chop the potato
very fine; add u pinch of pepper, q
pinch of thyme, a level teaspoon of
salt, and one-third teaspoon of sausage
meat; stir this into the chopped potato,
and then put into the potato-skins;
cover with the slice that was cut off
Bake fifteen minutes. Miss CorS0n.
-Four years ago my barn was regu-
larly infested with rats; they were so
numerous that had great fears of my
whole grain being destroyed by them,
after it was housed; but having two
acres of wild peppermint that grew in
field of wheat, after the wheat was
harvested, the mint was cut and placed
around, and it drove the rats from
my premises. l have not been troubled
with one since, nor am | at present,
while my neighbors have any quantity
of them. l feel confident that any per-
son who is troubled with these pests
could easily get rid of them by gather
ing a good supply of mint and placing
it around the walls or base of their
barns. -C0ndGIG Farmer.