The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-23
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Crullers. and one-half pounds
OF Hour, three eggs, sne-half ounce am
MONA (be sure to get it fresh and have
it powdered), one-half pound of sugar,
one-half pint milk, mix and fry as usual
In cases of smallpox, scarlet fever,
or other fever, onions sliced and kept
IN the room will absorb the bad air; the
fever will soon disappear; they must be
changed very often.
Cheap Molasses Cake.-Two cup
1uls molasses, one cupful hot boiling
water, two large tablespoonfuls butter,
batter like griddle cakes, with one tea
spoonful soda, spice, and bake full hour.
Mountain Cake.-Whites of four
eggs, two cups white sugar, two-thirds
cup butter, one cup sweet milk, one
half teaspoon soda, one of cream tartar,
three cups flour. This makes a good
sized cake.
Fried Cakes, One egg, one and
half cups sugar, one cup sour cream,
one cup buttermilk, one even teaspoon
soda, one even teaspoon salt, nutmeg
seasoning. Mix soft and fry. light
brown in hot lard.
Lemon Conserve. the rind of
your lemons very thin. Put double
their weight in loaf sugar. Beat them
together in marble mortar until re-
duced to a sort of paste. Pack in tum-
blers and cover with part of the sugar
finely powdered.
An additional virtue is now attrib-
uted to clover-that of destroying
weeds. A thick stand of it, such as will
grow from twenty pounds of seed to an
acre, on good land, will produce such
a degree of shade as to smother all the
annual weeds, and free the ground to
large extent from them.
The JoIrn0l of Health gives the fol-
lowing: There is scarcely any ache to
which children are subject so hard to
bear and difficult to cure as the ear
ache. But there is remedy, never
known to fail Take a bit of cotton
batting, put upon it a pinch of black
pepper. gather it up and tie it, dip in
sweet oil, and Insert in the ear. Put
a flannel bandage over the head to keep
it warm. 1t will give immediate relief.
-Mutfins-To one quart of flour
(best quality made up at night with
cold water add one white of egg beaten
to froth, a lump of butter the size of
hens egg, and a tablespoonful of
yeast. Beat the batter until it will not
stick to the spoon. Let it rise until
morning, if made up at night, and
either drop from spoon upon creased
griddle to bake, or put in muffin rings.
The former way is preferred.
Almond Pudding.-Pu on the fire
one pint and a half of milk, with six
ounces of sweet almonds, pounded fine,
and let it come to boil. In the mean
time mix well three ounces melted but
ter with three ounces of flour and stir in
and let it cook in the boiling milk till
stiff batter, and readily cleaves from the
edge of the saucepan. Let all cool a
little, then add three ounces fine sugar,
the yelks of eight eggs, and the whites
beaten TO a stiff froth. Bake half an
hour; turn it out and sift sugar on the
top. 1t should be baked in a deep dish,
as it rises very much, and it should be
served as soon as it comes from the oven.
a correspondent Oh Ine HUtHG
Farmer, who does not believe in keep
ing cows that do not yield an income of
more than fifty dollars year, tells how
he would increase it to 800. He says:
In the first place, would dispose of
all my skim-milk cows. Then would
purchase some CT the butter cows that
could find in the market. If l had
but seventy-tive dollars l would rather
pay it all for one good COW than for two
poor ones. Then, after getting my
cows, l would by Singing, battening
or plastering, or some other way, make
warm stable to keep them in during
cold weather; and would keep them
there, too, except when they were
drinking, if they had to go out for that.
If for this they could not express their
gratitude in language, be sure they
would do so by the additional mess of
milk. After this the next thing is to
feed them literally twelve months in
the year. and treat them as kindly as
you would your children, and not yell
at nor kick them about, because they
do not perform just at the word of COM
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