The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


Hard Sauce for Puddings.-Stir to
cream one cup butter with three cups
powdered sugar; when light, beat in
juice of lemon, two teaspoons nut
meg.
-Pop-Overs. -One pint milk, one
pint flour, butter size of a walnut, three
eggs beaten light, pinch of salt; add
eggs last. Bake in cups, filling them
half full.
Rye Minute Pudding. Heat milk
to the boiling point, salt to taste, and
stir in gradually rye-four to make a
thick mush. Cook about fifteen min
utes and eat with sugar and cream.
-Pemican for Toast. - One-half
pound of meat, boil three hours; add
one tablespoonful of butter, six pota-
toes, two onions; season well; boil half
an hour longer, then serve on toast in
deep dish like English hash.
Coffee Cakes.-Two and one-half
cups flour, one-half cup made coffee,
one-half cup sugar, one-quarter cup
molasses, one-half cup butter, one tea
spoonful cinnamon, one teaspOOnful
cloves, one teaspoOnful allspice, one
teacupful of raisins. This make one
cake; bake in loaf one hour.
Tomato Sauce. Take full-grown
tomatoes while yet green, cut out the
stems and stew until tender; press
through sieve; season highly with
pepper, salt, ground cloves, allspice
and nutmeg; boil the pulp until thick.
Worcestershire sauce may be added if
liked. Nice with cold meats.
Picked Chicken. Boil three chickens
until the meat will fall from the bones;
remove the meat as whole as possible
and put into stone jar; add to pint
of the water in which they were boiled
enough vinegar to cover the meat; sea-
son with cloves, allspice, pepper and
salt and pour hot over the chicken.
Apple Custard Take half dozen
tart, mellow apples, pare and quarter
them, and take out the cores; put them
in pan, with half a teacup of water;
set them on few Goals; when they be-
gin to grow soft, turn them into a pud-
ding dish, and sprinkle sugar on them;
beat eight eggs with rolled brown
sugar; mix them with three pints of
milk; CRATE in half nutmeg, and turn
the whole over the apples; bake the
custard between twenty and thirty min
utes.
"A correspondent states that he
kept plum tree from eurculios by
sprinkling the ground under the tree
with corn meal. This induced the
chickens to scratch and search. The
meal was strewn every morning from
the time the trees blossomed until the
fruit was large enough to be out of
danger. The consequence was that
the fowls picked up the curculios with
the meal, and the tree, being saved
from the presence of the insect, was
wonderfully fruitful.
Soft Gingerbread one once
of butter, add it to half pint of mo-
lasses, with one level teaspoonful each
of ground cloves, cinnamon and GIN
ger; dissolve one level teaspoonful of
soda in half a pint of boiling water,
mix this with the molasses, and lightly
stir in half a pound of sifted flour; line
a cake-pan with buttered paper, pour
in the batter, which will be very thin,
and bake it about half an hour, or I'M
til you can run broom splint into it
and withdraw it clean.
Mr.. Foote. in Massachusetts, has
traced the tap-root of a common red
clover plant downward to the perpen-
dicular depth of nearly five feet. The
Hon. j. Stanton Gould followed out the
roots of Indian corn to the depth of
seven feet, and states that onions some
times extend their roots downward to
the depth of three feet; lucerne, fifteen
feet. The Hon. George Geddes sent to
the museum of the New York State So
ciety a clover plant that had root four
feet two inches in length. Louis Walk
hoff traced the roots of a beet plant
downward four feet, where they en-
tered drain pipe. Prof, Schubart
found the roots of rye, beans and gar
den peas to extend about four feet
downward; of winter wheat, seven feet
in light subsoil, and forty-seven days
after planting. The roots of clover one
year old were three and half feet long;
those of two-year-old plants four inches