Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-02-28
Farmer and Housekeeper.

Farmer and HOusekeeper.
CAKE WITHOUT EGGs.-O. g
and one half cups sugar, one aud
one-half cups sour milk, one-balf
cup butter, two cups CHOPPED raj
sins. one teaspoonful soda; spice
TO taste; -four enough to make
thick batter.
SCoTCH SHORT BREAD. One
pound -four, half pound butter,
one fourth pound sugar, cream the
butter and sugar together and add
the -four. Roll 1t half an inch
thick and bake slowly. If the
cake is preferred very sweet use
six ounces sugar.
CHEESE PUDDING. Crate three
ounces of cheese, five ounces Of
bread, warm one ounce Of butte r
in a quarter Of pint Of milk. nj
mix with the above. then add two
we'll beaten eggs, a little salt, pep
per and mustard; mix ~ well to-
gelher, and bake in a pc lisn for
half an hour.
CREAM PUFFs. To one quart
boiling water add three quarters
Of pound -four and tiiree-quar-
ters of a pound butter when near
ly cold add ten eggs, well beaten,
and one-half teaspoonful Of soda ;
drop on buttered tin pans, several
inches apart, and bake in thick
oven. Custard for the putf5, One
quart Of milk. four eggs, two cups
sugar, one cup flour, cook until
well done ; flavor to taste; when
cold split puffs and fill with cream.
Smaller quantities may be used in
either receipt than here given.
FRENCH CAkE.-I pound sugar,
pound butter, pound currants
washed clean and dredged with
flour. 8 cups -four, A eggs, nutmeg
and cinnamon to taste, teaspoon
full soda dissolved in three table
spoonful milk.
To MEND CHINA.-Take a thick
solution of gum arabic in warm
water, and stir into it plaster of
Paris till the mixture is of the
proper consistency. Apply with
brush TO the fractured edges of
the china, AMI stick them togeth-
er. In three days the article can
not be broken in the same place.
The wilderness OF the cement in
creases its value,
REMEDY FOR CHRONIC DIAR-
RH9A.-About the year 1852 DIR
Weisse, director Of the hospital
for forndlings at ST. Petersburg,
Russia, called the attention OF
the medical world to the use OF
raw meat in the treatment OF
chronic diarrh9a. His method,
TO which was applied the title of
'Muscovite Method was adopted
10 England. Germany, Italy, and
France. In the last-named coun-
try Drs. Trousseau and Bouchut
were the first TO test it, and report
ed it to have had good results in
cases of children severely afflicted
A little DIR. Labadie, of Boreaux
communicated to the profession
some facts in regard to three chill
dren afflicted with tubercles, whom
he treated and cured according to
the Russian method. We give be-
low DR.. Trousseau's formula pre-
pairing the meat. Take 100 gram
mes of fillet of beef, from which
the gristle and fat should be care
fully removed mince it fine and
bray it in a wooden mortar; add
20 grammes Of powdered sugar, II
gramme of choloride Of sodium, J
gramme of chloride of potassium,
& l-5 gramme of powdered black
pepper. Take by the tablespoon
full during the day.
SOFT BEDS. There are differ
ences of opinion in regard to the
best beds for refreshing sleep, some
persons advocating soft and some
har6s beds. The difference be-
tween them is that the weight of
the body on soft bed presses on a
larger surface than a hard bed.
and consequently more comfort is
enjoyed. Hard beds should never
be gwen to little children, and
parents who suppose that such
beads contribute to health, by
hardening and developing the
constitution, are surely in error,
Eminent physicians-ho.h here
and in England-concur in this
opinion, and state that hard beds
have often proved injurious TO the
shape of infants. Birds and ami
mails cover their offspring with the
softest materials they can obtain.
and also make soft beds for them !;
and the softness of bed Is not ev-
idence of its being unwholesome
But if it is not kept sweet and
clean by daily airings and frequent
beatings-whether it Is hard or soft
lit Is surely Injurious to health.