Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-06
Mrs. Gypsy Merrieweather's Household
 Pot Pourrl."
Ivy COTTAGE, January, 197!

Ivy COTTAGE, January, 1879.
 'Wa-al, I've hurd O folks maxim cake with out eggs, and buckwheat without hop yeast, and other queer things in my time, but this is the fust tine 1 ever seed anybody make biscuit without putin in gOod-siZed chunk O hogs lard"
 Nell, Nancy" said I, ''this is new wrin- kle in cooking; ;" Nancy having come>to make good oldfashioned all-day visit with me. You see the Prof and I are both awfully down on grease, and yet dinner is not dinner without hot biscuit in the bill of fare The Prof, al ways on the lookout for new things, came across Prof. Hosford's new baking powder, or making biscuit, rolls, etc., without lard. He sent for some at once. 1 must say 1 had but little faith in the compound, but deter mined to fully test the matter at all events. The first effort was satisfactory, the next more so, as little practice is requisite to get the proper consistency The taste of the biscuit is quite unlike those made in the ordinary way. They more resemble the delicious hammered or pounded biscuit you find on every we'll or dered table in the South, than anything else can think of. But you are too much of a Yan- kee to have ever tasted them, l guess. The biscuits are good, but the Horsford French rolls the Prof and l both pronounced splendid. Birdie said the first time we tried them: ''Mam- ma, 1 know you have had hand in these rolls, they are so good This is the recipe for the rolls, and biscuits, too, only emitting the but ter in the latter:
 HORSFORD FRENCH ROLLS.
 One quart sifted flour, loosely measured little salt, one measure each of acid and soda Cor two heaping teaspoonfulS acid and one 4nod- erately heaping teaspoonful soda) of Horsford's Bread Preparation. Mix thoroughly while dry Then add enough sweet milk, or milk and water, to make slack dough- Roll out thin and cut into circular pieces with teacup or cutter then put small lump of butter in the center of each piece and fold the dough over it, like turnovers. Bake immediately.
 The unpleasant, bitter taste often noticeable in the baking powders when a little too much is used is wholly absent in the Hvrsford prep arations. This alone would recommend them to me. That the constituents of which the | powders are composed are eminently hygienic, and the bread especially healthful 1 have no | doubt"
 Every Farmer Take Notice! Saoe l your well on postal card, to J. H. IVES, Dan ! bury, Conn.,, and see what he will do for you. ] (Oldest established Rubber Bucket Pump ma- | ker 1n the State.) 49-3m. | CLEANLINESS. public are blissfully ig- norant of the flthiness in the preparation of
 
 tories should be thoroughly taught that clean Illness is a valuable essential. This lesson has been we'll learned by Peter Moller in his prep | aration of COD-LIvER OIL. It is a pure and palatable article, suiting the most fastidious and has taken the Medal as such at every | Worlds Fair.
 That Cough and Lung Syrup of Dr. A. J. Flagg's is a preparation by a regular practi- cing physician who has used it for fifteen years. Its great sale is but a just tribute to it
 The success of the Read Carpet Co.'S Car pets is something wonderful, commencing a few years ago making not more than five or six thousand yards per month they have in creased to an enormous production which is all mediately taken up by such leading houses as A. T. Stewart & Co.,, & W. & s. Sloane, N. | Y. They are not only the handsomest designs, many of them rivalling the best Body Brus- sells, but they are superior in quality to any Carpet made, and are sold at prices lower than the same grade of any other make. David M. Read, of Bridgeport, is the sole agent for the United States, he supplies all other merchants with them and cuts them up to his Retail custimers at wholesale prices.
 ENJOY LIFE.-What a truly beautiful world we live in! Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worried out | with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily obtain satisfactory proof that Greens August Flower will make them as free from disease as when bern. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint is the direct cause of seventy-fi per cent of such maladies as Bliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart and other distressing symptoms Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonder ful effect, Sample bottels, 10 cents Try it.. Sold by A. s. Wright & Co.,, Litchfield. Cur THIS OUT-IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE There is no person living but what suffers more or less with Lung Disease Coughs, Colds or Consumption, yet some would die rather than pay 72 cents for bottle of medi- cine that would cure them. Dr. Boschee's German Syrup has lately been introduced in this country from Germany, and it's wonder GUS cures astonishes every one that try it. If you doubt what we say in print cut this out and take it to your Druggist. and get sample bottle for 10 cents and try it, or a regular size for 75 cents Sold by A. s. Wright & Go.
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