The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-01-05

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


There is no production of the earth
that pays more literally than the grape
vine. Anyone who has a wheelbarrow
ofsoil in his door-yard can grow grapes.
Coffee Cake.-One cup strong cof-
fee, one cup sugar, one cup molasses,
one teaspoonful soda, two-thirds cup
butter, four cups flour, one pound fruit.
For Whooping Cough.-Twenty
grains salts tartar, ten grains cOchineal,
mixed in gill of water, and sweeten
with honey. For child, one tea
spoonful three times day, or oftener
if the case is very bad.
English Bread Sauce.--Cut some
light bread in small pieces; boil sui1i-
cient milk with a goOd-sized onion in it
to Thoroughly soak it; mix and let stand
awhile, then boil and add butter, pep
per and salt and few black pepper
corns; take out the onion before serving.
Washington Pie.-One cup sugar,
one-half cup butter, two teaspoonfuls
baking powder; stir in flour until as
thick as for jelly-cake; bake in three
layers. For the inside: One cup sweet
milk, three teaspoonfuls corn-starch,
three teaspoonfuls sugar, one egg; beat
the egg and starch together add to the
milk when hot; season with vanilla.
Washing Fluid.-Take two pounds
of sal soda, one pound of good stone
lime, and two and half gallons of soft
water; bring to boil; when settled
pour off the clear fluid into stone Jug
and add one ounce of hartShOrn and
one pint of alcohol. 1t must be kept
tightly corked. After boiling the lime
and soda pour on water the second
time; when it is settled pour off and
save for scrubbing, cleaning, etc,
Indian Pudding .-One-half cup of
meal, one cup good sirup, one table
spoonful ginger, two-thirds of a cup of
milk, a lump of butter the size of an
egg, three or four eggs; stir the meal
in little cold water, stir in a pint of
boiling water well sailed, and boil five
or ten minutes; remove from the fire
and set to cool little (after adding the
butter); beat the eggs till light; add the
other ingredients and bake half an hour.
Few farmers fully realize the i'm
may Judge by the way they neglect to
furnish an abundant supply of it in the
hot, dry weather of summer, but COM
pei them to drink the stagnant water of
swamps. Without an abundance of pure
water, it is impossible for a COW to fur
nish her normal yield of milk, and when
forced to drink impure water we can
not make superior butter or cheese from
her milk.
Goldfish Balls.-Put the fish to soak
over night in lukewarm water, having
first cut it small pieces; the next morn
ing boil it twenty minutes; change the
water FOR boiling hot and boil fifteen
minutes longer; when cold pick to
pieces; remove all bones and skin; then
shred very fine with fork; add as
much cold mashed potato rs fish,
lump of butter, and little sweet milk;
if they are to be extra nice, add beaten
egg; fry them in hot lard or good drip
pings on both sides. .... 800.
Use kerosene oil to cure scaly leg
in fowls. The moment fowl shows
signs of the plague-the scales of the
legs become of a whitish slate color and
curl upward a little-fll an old fruit
can full of oil and immense the legs of
the fowl in it up to the feathers. If
matter has already gathered the oil
will loosen it and it can be scraped off
OF course it is painful operation and
the bird may suffer with sore legs for
day or two. ..t 4.,E s.-ftITi,s,
The matter of windows in stables is
one of vastly more importance than
some farmers think. Animals, no more
than vegetables, can thrive in the dark.
Our long winters are sufficiently trying
to the constitutions of our farm stock,
under the best circumstances, and an
animal upon which the sun scarcely
shines at all for five or six months will
come out in the spring in bad state of
health, even though the feed ana ven
tilation and the temperature have been
all right.