The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-06
RECIPES, ETC.

NEVER leave out your clothes-line
over night; and see that your clothes
pins are all gathered into basket.
To GLAZE LINEN.-Linen may be
glazed by adding a teaspoonful of salt
and one of finely-scraped soap to pint
of starch.
To REMOVE grease spots from a
carpet and restore the colors, take
handful of crushed soap bark Quill
lays) to pail of water. Scrub the
spots and sponge the carpet all over.
In winter set the handle of your pump
as high as possible before you go to
bed. Except in very cold weather, this
keeps the handle from freezing. When
it is extremity cold throw a rag or
blanket over the pump.
BREAKFAST CAKE.-Two eggs, two
cups sugar, two odessertspoonfuls of but
ter; beat well; add one cup sweet milk,
two teaspoonfuls soda, mixed with five
cups of flour, and salt.
CUP CAKE.-One cup of white sugar,
one-half cup of butter, two eggs, two
cups of flour, one teaspoonful cream
of milk. Beat the butter and sugar to-
gether, and the eggs separately.
DoUGHNUTs.-Take one cup of pow
dered sugar, four eggs, one cup of
sweet milk, one-fourth cup of butter,
one nutmeg, four cups of prepared
flour; mix as soft as tea biscuit; make
them half the size you wish when fried;
| fry in lard; about five minutes will cook
them. This recipe will make four dozen.
MEAT DIET.-It is great mistake to
suppose that much meat is necessary in
, order to give us strength and nourish-
ment. 1t is very well In proportion,
but rice eaters, buckwheat eaters,
cracked wheat and oatmeal eaters are
the strongest people living and the
healthiest also. A fair proportion of
milk supplies every needed ingredient
not furnished by the grain.
ICING FOR CAKE.-While your cake
is baking get ready the following: The
whites of four eggs; beat half an hour;
then add one and one-half pounds pull
verized white sugar; beat half an hour;
then put in one teaspoonful of corn
starch and any flavor to please the
taste; again beat half an hour; lay on
cake while hot from the oven; let it
dry, not zoo quickly; cover again with
] frosting; when dry do your trimming.
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add little more corn-starch. You can
not beat too much; you must not beat
too little.
THE white grubs which infest mead
ows and other lands is the larva of the
May beetle, and, as it lives in the
ground until the third season before it
transforms, it often does great damage
to crops. The grass roots are fire.
quently eaten off from one to two inches
under the surface by these pests. Hogs
are fond of insects, and are well-known
destroyers of the white grubs, as also
of field mice. 1t has been thought by
some German farmers that the late
plague of mice in Germany may be at
tributed to the practice now prevalent
there OF keeping swine entirely penned
up instead of allowing them, as hereto
fore, their liberty in the fields. Ger
tain it is, that not only in the fields,
great helps in the destruction of not
only vermin, but many noxious in
sects.
THE Massachusetts, Ploughman very
sensibly says: ".No smoking ought to be
posted in every barn. There is not much
difference in having horse-thief around
a stable and man cleaning off horses
with pipe or cigar in his mouth; and
there is no hired man much meaner
than the one who, when his employer
comes around, slips his pipe into his
pocket or puts his hand ever it. All such
fellows should be paid off and started
off. As for the proprietor himself 60
ing into his barn with his pipe in his
mouth, no complaint can be made; no
body should cry unless it be his wife OF
children. Lightning, incendiaries and
spontaneous combustion combined do
not cause as many barns to be burned
as the pipe, and. generally, at least one
good horse goes too.