Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-06-20
FARM AND PRESIDE.

OATMEAL IN THE HoUsEHoLD.-In
Great Britain children of all ranks are
raised on oatmeal diet alone, because it
causes them to grow strong and healthful,
and no better food can possibly be found
for them. 1t is also quite as desirable for
the student as the laborer, and for the del
icate lady as for the hard working sister,
indeed all classes would be greatly bene-
fitted by its use. and dyspepsia, with all
It's manifold annoyances, can be kept at a
safe distance. Oatmeal is most substan-
tial food; it is equal to beef or mutton,
giving as much or more mental vigor,
while its great desideratum consists of
ones not becoming weary of it, for it is as
welcome for breakfast or tea as wheat or
Graham bread. It can be eaten with syrup
and butter or hasty pudding, or with cream
and sugar, like rice. 1t is especially good
for young mothers upon whose nervous
forces too great demand has been made
when they lose their equilibrium Of the
system and are depressed and dispirited.
Oatmeal requires to be cooked slowly,
! and the water should be boiling hot when
| it is stirred in.
How TO GUARD TREES AND PLANTS
FROM INsECTs.-''Le Cultivateur,'' a
French journal, says that if chloride of
lime be spread on the soil or near plants,
and adds:
'By it's means plants will easily be pro-
tected from insect plaques by simply brush
ing off their stems with solution of it. It
has often been noticed that patch of land
which has been treated in this way remains
religiously respected by grubs. while the
unprotected beds around are literally de-
vastated. Fruit trees may be guarded from
the attacks of the grubs by attaching to
their trunks pieces Of tow, smeared with a
mixture of chloride of lime and hogs lard,
aud ants and grubs already in possession
will rapidly vacate their position. Butter
flies, again, will avoid all plants whose lea
yes have been sprinkled over with lime
water"
A SUPERB LEMON PUDDING.-Half} a
pound OF sugar, five eggs, half a pound Of
best butter. one glass Of rose-water, one
lemon, one glass orange-hower water. Beat
the rose water and butter to a froth; pre-
pare the sugar and eggs as orpound cake;
CRATE the yellow part of the lemon rind in
(but not particle of white); have nice
puff-paste ready in your dish, and, after
incorporating the pudding we'll together,
pour it into your paste. Bake in mode
rate oven. Orange pudding is made in the
same way, using pounded orange instead
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OUNCE JELLY.-Peel and core your
ounces; cover with water, and boil until
tender. Pick out the pieces carefully and
place them aside for canning. Take
pint of the water in which they were boil
ed to pound of suguar, and boil perhaps
twenty minutes. The water must be
strained first, of course. You can .tella5by
trying when it will thicken sufficiently.asI
never use seeds or skins. After finishing
the jelly, make good syrup; put in your
ounces, and then can or preserve. og9tS
SKINS FROM PEACHEs.-Placez the
peaches in large wire basket and, plunge
them first into kettle of boiling I've,
strong enough to bear up an egg, and then
into tub of cold water, and there
will be little trouble in removing theskins.
Experience will enable you to determine
how long they should remain in the I've TO
eat off the outside skin. Plenty Or water
should be used in rinsing. Rub of tie
skins in the first water and throw the
peaches into pail of clean water. ssS'17@
PRINCE ALBERT's PUDDING. Beat to
a cream one half pound of fresh. butter,
and mix with an equal weight Of fire
white sugar Add to these, first, :the yo1ks
and then whites of five eggs, which have
been thoroughly beaten apart; then throw
in lightly one half pound fine four. and
one half pound stoned raisins. Put these
well mixed, into buttered
mould or Toured cloth, and boil for three
hours. Serve with sweet sauce 80 -,
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CHESS CAKE.-Mix the yollss of four-
teen eggs, half a pound of melted butter
latter the salt has been washed out), and
one pound of pulverized loaf sugar. Flavor
with nutmeg. vanilla or lemon.