Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
HOME AND FARM.

Ham Omelet.- Cold boiled ham, one |
half pound; eggs, four; pepper, one
quarter teaspoon; salt, one-haf tea
spoon.
- Iced Buttermilk. = There is no
healthier drink than buttermilk, but 1t
must be creamy, rich buttermilk to be
good. It should stand on the ice to
cool, though if very rich and thick lit
tie ice in it is an improvement.
"A simple and excellent remedy, says
Waldo, in the Ohio Farmer, in case of
swelling and Inflammation, is sal am
moniac dissolved in vinegar. He has
never seen any liniment that would so
quickly and certainly reduce a swelling
in the first stages.
Black silk is restored to its deep
black color by sponging it with decoc-
ton of common cheap black tea, which
contains all the ingredients of black
dive, viz, tannin and iron, with usually
some logwood to add to the flavor. The
silk is then ironed with moderately
hot iron on the wrong side or placed be-
Tween two sheets.
Madeline Cakes for Dessert.
eggs, half pound butter, half pound
sugar, half pound flour. Mix the butter,
sugar and the yelks of the eggs thor
oughly; then add the flour and mix
again, then the whites of the eggs beaten
to stiff froth. Crate in a little lemon
rind. Put in little dishes, each about
one-third full. and bake till done.
Lemon Pudding. = One lemon
grated. rind and pulp, one cup sugar,
one of water or sweet milk, four eggs,
three tablespoons of melted butter, two
tablespoons flour. Line a deep dish
with pastry crusts, pour the custard in,
bake thirty minutes. Beat the whites Of
three or four eggs to stiff froth. sweet
en-, spread over the top of the pudding,
let brown slightly.
Cottage Cheese.-Put a pan OF
clabbered sour milk over the fire and
let it become well scalded. Then pour
it into a clean cloth; let it drip until
cold enough to squeeze between the
hands. Press all the water out so that
the clabber will be dry. Put this into a
bowl and work it until it is fine and free
from Jumps, and moisten by adding
sweet cream. Put in pepper and salt
and small piece of butter. Mold into
little balls or not, as you please.
The Fruit GroWer suggests that
farmers boys and girls be permitted to
raise strawberries, raspberries, grapes,
etc., on their own account for the mar
ket that is waiting or can be easily built
up in almost every neighborhood. There
are several advantages of the plan thai
will suggest themselves at once to any
thoughtful person, among them the ex
ercise, the promotion of knowledge, the
cultivation of rural tastes, bushes:
habits and self dependence, and last
but not least, the edification and en-
largement of the mind that comes O
contact with the soil and attention t.
the wonderful ways of vegetation.
Yes, our houses are very pretty
they are painted the whitest of thu
white and the blinds the geenest of thu
green; but why are the door-steps ant
the piazza in such neglected state? Ap
parently you don't paint them as Otter
, as you do your clapboards, while the.
,, need it oftener; neither do you Away
mend them when board gives way, bu
.. swayed and ragged let them stay,
: condemning evidence against your tidi
ness and thrift. They remind US o
! ladies gayly dressed with plumes ant
> blossoms on their heads, with robes un
; furnished and bedecked with tasteful
trimmings, but whose shoes may lack
!, button, have heels oblique, or have no
yet been polished since they left tn
q store.-Rural NeaO Yorker.