The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-09-12
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PoP-ovERs: One pint -four, one
pint milk, two eggs. Eggs beaten to a
froth, mix quickly, and bake in hot but
tered cups. Serve with hot sauce.
BUTTERM1LK pies: One cup sugar,
two cups buttermilk, two eggs, two
tablespoonfuls -four, two tablespoon
fuls butter; flavor with lemon. This
makes two pies.
SAvoRY rice: Take some plain boiled
rice, put into a saucepan with a lump of
butter, add as much tomato sauce as the
rice will take up, and plenty of grated
Parmesan cheese, mix well, and keep
stirring on the fire till hot. Serve piled
on the dish.
HEN roosts and pigeon-boxes may be
cleaned of vermin by a preparation of
sulphur and carbon, technically known
as sulphuret of carbon. A bottle con-
tanning the solution will last several
days, and the cost is small. Put two
ounces of the sulphuret of carbon in a
bottle open at the mouth and hang it by
a string in the hen-house. At the end
of eight days the bottle should be re-
filled.
LARGER yields may be got from hoed
crops planted in drills than when
planted in hills. This is true of corn,
potatoes, beans, or any other crop of the
kind. But it is not a good way on
weedy land, or for a slovenly farmer.
The row should be as straight as a line,
and at accurately even distances. Guilt
walton must be frequent and thorough.
Proper implements should be used by
skillful hands. These things promised,
the drill system gives satisfaction.
A simple process for detecting arti-
fetal butter. or oleomargarine, consists
in melting the butter at a gentle heat,
allowing it to become quite clear by
standing, and saturating a cotton wick
with the limpid fat. The wick is then
ignited, and extinguished after about
two minutes. If the butter is genuine
the odor will be that of strongly fried
butter, while the presence of oleomarga-
rine is betrayed by the well-known un-
pleasant odor left by a tallow candle
which has been lately extinguished.
A CORRESPONDENT recently asked us
for a simple and effectual remedy fol-
fungus and mold in cellars. A German
agricultural journal gives the following
Put some roll birthstone into a pan and
set fire to it; close the doors, making
the cellar as nearly alright as possible
for two or three hours, when the fungi
will be destroyed and the mold dried
up. Repeat this simple and inexpensive
operation every two or three months
and you will have your cellar free from
all parasitical growth.
The well-known fragrant garden
favorite, the sweet scented lemon yer
bena, seems to have other qualities Il
recommend it than those of the fra
GRANGE for which it is usually cultivated
In Spain it is regarded as a fine stom
achic and cordial. 1t is used either il
the form of a cold decoctiOn sweetened
, or five or six leaves are put into a teacul
and hot tea poured over them. 1t i
said that the flavor of the tea thus pre-
pared is delicious, and hat any one WHIT
+ has ever used it in this way, will never
again drink his tea without a sprig o
lemon verbena. And it is further STATED
that if the herb is used as has been de
scribed, one need "never be made ner
t vous or old maidish, never have cholera
disrrhes or loss Of appetite"
IF the farmer improves his farm, b,