South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-02-13
Farmer and House.Keeper

Farmer and House. Keeper.
INDIAN MuFFiNs.-Two capluis or
sweet milk, buSier the sixc of an cxQ.
Two small teaspoonfuls Of cream tartar.
teaspoonful OF coda. a tcaspoo nful Of
sugar. beaten egg, two cupfuls al hour.
anil n half cupful OF Indian meal, aud q
little salt; bake in gem pans, aud serve
hot.
RAIsIN PIE.-Take one pound Of rail-
sins; turn over them one quart OF boil.
ing water. Keep adding. SO there will
be one quart when done. Crate the
rind OF one lemon into cup Of sugar.
then add threc teaspoonfuls OF dour and
one egg mix veil together. Turn tho
raislns over tue mixture. stirring the
while. This makes three pics. Bake
a. other pies.
SWEET OMELEr.--Mix tho yelks OF
two eggs. a teasr oonful OF sugar and
some essence of vanilla inn small bowl.
Add small pinch OF salt to tho whites
Of the eggs and whip ill stiff Then
lightly mix the whites and yclks, and
pour quickly into an omelet pan in which
half an ounce Of butter has been previ-
ously melted. Remove tho egg from
the fire In Que minute. and let IL dry in
the oven live minutes. after which sprin-
klc it with sugar.
CHocoLArE.-Melt four ounces OF
grated chocolate over boiling kettle.
adj gradually three cups OF boiling wa
Ter and one oauoc Of sugar. Set il up,
on the fire. and when scalding hot, pour
IT upon the yelks OF two eggs, well bea-
ten, with one and one.lialf giils OF cold
water add pinch of cinnamon. and re.
turn 1t TO the FIRE for few moments to
cuok the egg. 1t must not boil, but
should he beaten with an egg -bcater, or
millcd all the time. Serve very hot.
Leather betting can be permanently
mended with the following cement:
Melt together In an iron vessel gutta-
percha and pitch in about equal parts.
Dry the parts TO be mended with hot
iron. and while hot apply the cement to
the edges. previously shaved, aud press
the parts firmly together until set.
To WASH RED TABLE LINEN.-IIso
tepid water, with a little powde rcl bo-
rax (borax sets the COLOR; wash tho
linen separately and quickly, using very
little soap; rinse IN tepid water con-
tanning a little boiled starch; hang TO
dry in the shade iron when almost dry,
Turnips are beal,hful for horses
They should he cut in slices, or what ia
hat
little meal and salt. Ru .abagas arc
better than white turrips.
The Scientific American" says con-
pcras is the dread Of rats. In every crc-
vice or in every hole where rat treads
we scatter the grains of copperas, and
the result is stampede of rats and
mice, and not q football of either has
been about the house since. Every
spring coat OF yellow-wash is given
the cellars and as a purifier as we'll M
rat extermina.or. and no typhoid, dys.
EMERY or fever attacks the family.
A PLEASANT REMEDY ron Toorn-
AcnE.-'Our cook, says L. c. Osborn.
M. ID. Greensboro, Ala, presented her.
self TO me with swollen cheek, asking
for something 10 relieve tho loothsche,
from WHICH she had been suffering all
night, and for which she refused to have
the tooth extracted. As there was moth
ing OF the usual kind at hand L was on the
point of telling her TO call later at nv
office, or go TO dentist, when it occur
red 10 my mind that there was in the
house vial Of compound tincture or
benzoin. which | had been using upon "a
young mother as protection against
sole nipples.
| After cleansing the deoayed tooth. I
saturated q plehget OF cotton lint with
tho tincture and packed II veil into the
cavity, hoping THE would suffice for tho
time, and bidding her come back In two
or three hours IL she was not relieved
| vac turning away, when she remarked
that II might not be necessary, perhaps.
as tue pain was already gone. Suppos.
ing her faith bad large share in tho
relief, would not allow myself TO think
tat the medicine had anything TO do
with tue cure any more than 80 mucl,
hot water would have done.
But when | arrived mt my Office there
were two other patients awaiting mo
with the same affiict'on. and determin-
cd by way Of experiment TO use the
! same remedy. To my agreeable sur
| prise both patients declared Themselves
Immediately relieved. and begged vial
OF the tinctgrp Tor further use.
During the winter q number OF SINH.
lar cases applied. aud we're instantly re-
lieved by the same treatment, ali ex.
pressing much satisfaction with the re-
NEEDY.
In December told my druggist Of
tue discovery, and recommended Sim 70
eel u 10 any person applying for tooth.
ache drops This he reports he has