The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-16
HONE AND FARM.


THE best way to move old straw
berry plants is to wait till after heavy
rain when the ground is 'ssoaking" wet,
and take up clumps of them with the
ground attached and carry them where
you want them.
MILITARY PUDDINGs. - Chop very
finely one-half pound of suet, mix with it
one-half pound of bread crumbs, and
the same quantity of moist sugar
mince the rind of a lemon, and strain
the juice; mix these ingredients well,
and put the mixture into small buttered
cups, and bake for rather more than
half an hour; turn them out on dish,
and serve with lemon sauce. The above
ingredients may be made into small
balls, and boiled for about half an hour.
They should be served with the same
sauce as when baked.
BAKED HAM.-Make thick paste OF
-four and water (not boiled), and cover
the entire ham with it, bone and all |;
put in pan, on spider, or two muffin
rings, or any thing that will keep it an
inch from the bottom, and bake in hot
oven; if small ham, fifteen minutes for
each pound; if large, twenty minutes !;
the oven should be hot when put in.
The paste forms hard crust around the
ham, and the skin comes off with it.
Try this, and you will never cook ham
in any other way.
In one quarter of minute a dahha
that is all purple can be changed, so
that every petal shall be tipped yellow.
This is simply done by burning some
birthstone. and holding the flowers a
few seconds in the fumes. The change
is instantaneous and where there was
no fancy tipped dahlia, it astonished
every body who did not know it and saw
the metamorphosis. Other flowers are
subject to change by the fumes of brim-
stone, which discharges the color wher-
ever it reaches. The experiment is
easily tried by lighting a few lucifel
Matches naeTtcan CWlttUGtor.
FINE GERMAN PUDDING.-Pour half
half a pint of boiling milk upon one
pound bread crumbs; beat up one
quarter pound fresh butter to cream;
add to it the yelks of ten eggs, well
beaten; drain the milk from the bread,
and add the bread, with one-quarter
pound pounded sugar and the grated
peel of lemon; whip the whites of the
ten eggs into solid froth, and add them
the last thing; butter cloth, and put
the pudding in, tying it loose, as it will
swell out a good deal; plunge it into
boiling water; boil one hour. Some
persons add one-quarter pound jar raj
sins, slit and stoned.
CORN loses one-fifth by drying and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that 1t is more profta-
BILE for farmers to sell unshelled corn in
the fall at IS cents bushel than at 81
bushel in the following summer, and
the wheat at S1.25 in December is equal
to $3.50 in the succeeding June. In the
case of potatoes-taking those that rot
and are otherwise lost, together with the
shrinkage, there is but little doubt that
between October and June the loss to
the owner who holds them is not less
than SO per cent.
A PRACTICAL Vermonter tells the
american Catlt5Uator how to "burn
chimney out" He chose a rainy day.
There had so much SCOT accumulated
that it made very hot fire, but by Civ
ing only little draught the burning was
safely performed. Although the day
was still the fire roared like an engine,
and red-hot cinders fell kissing upon
the wet roof, showing the terrible result
that would have followed had the chin.
ney taken fire on dry and windy day.