South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-06


cupfuss Of -four, two cupfuls OF butter.
and ten eggs, Boil the water. melt tho
butter La It, stir in tho four dry while
the water is boiling. When cool, add
teaspoonfoi OF soda, and the eggs we'll
beaten. Drop the mixture on buttcre1
tins with spoon. and bake twenty min
utes. Do not open the oven-ioor moro
thar twice while they are baking.
lssi,le Mirtare.-A cupful Of fiour, two
cipfuls Of sugar, quart OF milk. and
four eggs. Beat them together, and stir
into the boiling milk. When scalded
enough. add lemon or vanilla. When
the cakes are cold. open them on tho
side, and ill with this mixture.
GREEN TOMATO SWEET PICKLEs.-
First, prepare the tomatoes by laying
them in salt water over night, in the NOR
ming stick them quite full OF Cloves
Have on the stove large pan with tho
following ingredients One pint vinegar.
one pint water. one pound sugar let
this come to q boil, then place a laycrof
tomatoes in at y time and cook until we'll
done. repeating this until you have used
about eight pounds Of tomatoes.
APPLE FmTrERs.-Parc, core, and
parboil some JUICY tart apples in very
little water chop fine. Beat seven eggs
very light, and add 10 them slowly three
quarters OF pound of sifted prepared
flour. Beat very light; put in apple
enough TO thicken the batter, and tho
grated yellow rind and juice OF lemon.
Have the very best lard at perfectly
boiling point, and put in it thick slice
Of raw apple: this subducs the strong
odor OF the fat. Put large spoonful of
the batter in ut time. and as many
spoonfuis as the pan will hold. They
take but few moments TO do. and need
not be turned over. They must be made
ut the moment you wish to use them,
and sent to the table at once each pan
full sent in as quickly as baked. Pow
dcred sugar, with cinnamon and nutmeg
in it, is nice for them.
APPLE TRIFLE.-Scald "a many APP
pies as when pulped will cover the dish
you design TO use to the depth of two or
three inches. Before you place them in
the dish add to them the rind OF halfa
lemon. grated fine, and sugar to taste.
Mix half pint OF milk. half pirt OF
cream, and the yelk Of an egg scald it
over the fire, keeping it stirring, but do
not let 1t boil. Add little sugar, and
let it stand till cold then lay it over the
apples, and finish with the rcam-whip.
| ORANGE PUDDING Half q pound or SD.
gar, quarter pound Of butter, two oran.
ges and six eggs. Crate the rind from
the oranges, and squeeze the juice, cream
the butter and by degrees add tue sugar:
beat in the yolks OF the eggs. one by
one. then the rind and the juice of oran.
ges; beat the whites Of the eggs to n
stiff froth, and mix them very gently.
with long slow beat into the other in.
gradients. Bake in paste lined tin pie
plates.
SlfIRRED EoGs.-Shirred eggs are made
by buttering as many common earthen
saucers as are required for each person
to have one break into each two or
three eggs, set the saucers into stove.
pan and put this into n well-heated stove
TO bake; the whites only to be done, tho
yolks half done. Send these TO be sea.
soncd and eaten out of the ssucers.
| To WRITTEN TIE NAILs.-Dilutcd
sulphuric acid, two drachms; tinoture
OF myrrh, one drachm; spring wa.er
four ounces. Mix. First cleanse will,
white soap. and then dip the fingers In.
TO the mixture. A good hand is one of
the chief points OF beauty, and these an.
plications are really affective.
DRESS WAsu.-A very nice thing for
1 a la1u IN kc.fs
dressing table always for little spots on
her garments: One quart of boiling wa.
ter, half an ounce of camphor, ono
ounce or borax; after cooling. half a
pint Of alcohol.
To WASH RED TABLE LrSrN.-JJso
tepid water, with little powdered bo.
rax, which serves 10 set the color wasb
the linen separately and quickly. usino
very little soap rinse in topid water
containing little boiled starch. HANG
up TO dry in the shade aud iron when
almost dry.
WHAT TO Do.-In cases where ner.
sons are paralyzed by lightning stroke
the FIRST remedy is 70 dash ice cold wo-
ter over the face and head of the pafiont
IT may not restore animation, but there
is q chance that IL will Tic theory is
that the sudden shock OF tho cold water
will cause a reaction in the nerves OF
the patient The same effect can be
produced by submitting the patient 10
the shock Of galvanic battery, but this
apparatus is not always available when
required for this purpose.
! To Preserve HAMs.-Take off the
rind slice il. as for the table nartIv
COOK 1t by frying in the spider; put IN
Jars IN layers pour over Il the fat which
iries ont OF the meat when the lar IL
nearly full, cover with lard 10 keep Il
from the air. IL can be kept long time
in this way.
nrs.-g.- L.