The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-01
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


When cooking onions set cup
(tin) of vinegar by on the stove and let
it boil, and you will smell no disagreed
BILE odor.
Sugar Cookies.-One cup of sugar,
one cup of sour cream, little saleratus
and salt, flour enough to roll; when
done sprinkle sugar on top and let them
cool.
Bachelors Cake.-Three eggs, one
pint sugar, one-third pint butter, one
tablespoon baking powder, flour to
make thick batter. Pour into baking
pan and bake in quick oven.
-Potatoes,-For a change in the
manner of cooking, try the following:
Pare, boil and drain; add small piece
of butter and little salt; cover with
sweet milk and thicken with a little
flour made smooth with milk.
Indian Meal Puffs.--In one quart
of boiling milk stir eight tablespoonful
of meal four spoonfuls of sugar; boil
five minutes, stirring all the time; when
cool add six beaten eggs; pour in but
tered cups; bake half an hour.
The only way to prevent our dairy
markets from becoming glutted is to
make an article so good that it will be
rapidly consumed, because so well
relished. In this way consumption can
be greatly increased.-Americdn Dairy
man.
Lemon Cake Delicious) Beat one
and half cups of butter, three of sugar
and the yelks of five eggs together
thoroughly. Add one cup of sweet
milk, four of flour, sifted, and one tea
spoonful of soda. Crate the yellow
peel from one lemon in separate dish
and squeeze out all the juice, no matter
if some of the pulp does 90 in; add to
the mass, lastly, the well-beaten whites
of five eggs.-LadieS' Floral Cabinet.
Farmers Cake.-One egg and the
yelk of another, one cup of sugar, a
lump of butter as large as a hens egg,
half nutmeg, one cup of thin sour
cream, two-thirds of teaspoonful of
saleratus, one cup heaping full of flour;
beat the eggs, sugar and butter to-
gether, then add cream and saleratus,
nutmeg and flour last. If you wish it
extra nice, put in the whites of two
eggs and use white pulverized sugar
and one teaspoonful of the essence of
lemon; leave out the nutmeg. - Western
Farm Journal
The best time to secure Hungarian
grass is when it is in blossom, and be-
fore the seeds have formed. The boards
at this time have not reached that de-
gree of stiffness which the writer thinks
causes injury to the stomach of the
horse, while the embryotic seeds are
perfectly harmless. One large farmer
in the State has, to our personal knowl-
edge, been using it for feed for his
horses, and at one time keeping eight
on t,without injury; but then he always
aims to cut at the right time.--iSt Paul
Press.
There are very few apple orchards,
either in poor soils at the East, or on
the rich lands of the West, that are not
benefited by cultivation or by manure,
and in some soils both are necessary
In young orchards it is better and
cheaper to rely chiefly on cultivation;
in old-bearing orchards top dressing
with manure has given satisfactory re-
suits, the manure apparently promot-
ing the growth of fruit, and increasing
productivenesst to greater degree than
mere stirring of the soil. This has
been found out by farmers who make
the most money from their old orchards
Canned Strawberries.-Tak equal
parts of the fruit and sugar; put the
former into a deep dish and sprinkle
half of the sugar over it; give the dish
shake that the sugar may touch the
under side of the berries; do this in the
evening. Next morning drain off the
juice, add the rest of the sugar, and put
in the preserving kettle. Boil and
skim until no scum arises; drop in the
berries few at time and boil short
time, say two or three minutes; skim
out into jars; boil the sirup until suffi-
GENTLY thick; pour over the berries and
seal while hot.-DetrOG Free Press.