Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-12-11
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.


Graham -four must be kept bug
tight, or, before you are aware, it will
be full of webs and worms. A butter
tub is very safe and convenient to store
it in. Have tight fitting cover, hoops
tackled on and outside painted.
Guinea fowls will keep all bugs
and insects of every description off gar
den vines. They will not scratch like
other fowls or harm the most delicate
plant. Their eggs are valuable, and
they lay oftener than the common hen.
Lunch Cake.-Sift two tablespoon
fuls of cinnamon and teaspoonful of
sea foam into one pound of flour; stir
to cream half pound of butter and
rub with the flour. Beat three eggs
and three-quarters of a pound of sugar
together, and mix lightly with the other
ingredients. Do not stir much. Drop
by the spoonful on buttered tins and
bake.
Chicken Pie.-Cut the chicken up,
put it in pan and cover it over with
water; let it stew as usual, and when
done make a thickening of cream and
flour, adding piece of butter and pep
per and salt. Have made and bake a
pair of shortcakes, made as pie crust,
but roll thin and cut in small squares.
This is much better than chicken pie
and more simple to make. The crusts
should be laid on dish and the chicken
gravy poured over while both are hot.
-Scalloped Oysters. Crush and roll
several handfuls of Boston or other nice
crackers; put layer in the bottom of
a buttered pudding dish; wet this with
a mixture of the oyster liquor and milk,
slightly warmed; next put layer of
oysters; sprinkle with salt and pepper
and put bits of butter upon them; then
another layer of mOistened crumbs, and
repeat until the dish is full; let the top
layer be Of crumbs thicker than the
rest, and beat an egg into little milk
and pour over them; put bits of butter
thickly over it and bake half an hour.
Reports from apiarians of various
parts of the country appear to be in
favor of wintering bees in cellars, in
stead of the old method of leaving them
upon the stands where they are kept |
during the summer. The bees, when
protected from severe cold, eat less and
come out much stronger in spring.
But it is quite important that the cellar
IA which the bees are stored should be
perfectly dry and well ventilated, for
Unless these conditions are secured the
combs become moldy and the bees
perish.
-Linseed oil is not only valuable
restorative for sick horses, but is ex-
useful in cases of indamma-
ion of the membranes, peculiar to the
organs of respiration and digestion; it
jhields and lubricates the same, tran
Iuilizes the irritable state of the parts,
Ind favors healthy action. Put a couple
# handfuls of seed into a bucket and
)our gallon and half OF boiling wa
er upon it; cover it up a short time,
hen add q couple of quarts of cold
water, when it will be fit for use. In
,ase of an irritating cough add some
honey. 81
Pennsylvania iaSponge Cake. Seven
,ggs, one pound of white sugar, three
quarters pound of -four, one gill of
warm water; put the sugar in a vessel
ind pour the water over it; stand it
where it will get warm, not hot; break
he eggs in a tin bucket and pour the
heated sugar on it, beating with the
,gg-beater as you pour it; keep the
,ucket containing the sugar and eggs
,ver vessel of hot water all the time
,ou beat. Continue this for half an
lour, then stir in very lightly the
lavoring and -four, and bake immedi-
4tely. This makes a large cake and
cry nice for a dessert. with either GUS
ard or sauce.