South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-25
Farmer and House-Keeper.

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separately, one cup of cold water, one
coffee-cupful OF hickory-nut kernels.
free from shells, and very sweet and
dry; one half pound of raisins, seed
ed, chopped, and dredged with flour ;
one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in
hot water; two teaspoonfuls of cream
OF tartar, sifted in the flour; one tea.
Spoonful OF mixed nutmeg anu CHINA
mon. Rub butter and sugar together
to smooth cream put in the yellls,
then the water, spice, soda, next the
whites and flour. The fruits and
nuts, stirred together, and dredged,
should 60 in last. Mix thoroughly,
and bake in two loaves.
Meat and Potato Pie.-For the
sake OF variety and to please children,
who seem sometimes to be fascinated
by pie, make once a year a meat and
potato pie. Make crust as for chick
en- pie, and fill it with pieces of beef
steak, either partly cooked or raw
season it well, and make a gravy of
melted butter aud water. thickened
with flour; pour over tie meat aud
then put in a lawyer of mashed pota-
to, and the crust on the top of that
Ii it Is too much trouble to mash the
potato, put in small cooked ones
whole; be sure amt nave enough gra-
Wy so the pie will not he dry. Do
not make the crust so rich rs to be
unwholesome.
Christmas Pudding.-One pound
raislns, stoned, one pound OF currants.
cleaned and dried, one pound of
beef suet, chopped fine. one pound of
bread crumbs (stale are the bestl. one
pound OF brown sugar. Then cut in
small pieces two ounces of lemon, or
ange, and citron, candied peel. half n
nutmeg grated, half a teaspoonful of
ground ginger, one teaspoouful of
mixed spice, bali a saltspoonful OF
salt, eight eggs. Mix all we'll togeth-
with your hands, except the eggs,
which must be beaten, yellls and
whites separately, whites to a froth
with the back of n knife, if you have
not any egg beaten. Now mix your
eggs with the other ingredients, it
must be quite thick or it will fall a.
part; if not moist enough add one or
two eggs. Half this quantity is e.
nough for small family. Grease
your mould or bowl, fill with the
mixture, grease plate and put over
the top, wrong side up; dip your
! pudding cloth into boiling water,
dredge it with flour, and tie securely.
Have a large pot of boiling water
ready; plunge your pudding in, NOV
ing 1t about for a minute; always
keep your pudding covered with wa
ter; keep kettle near by to replen.
ish with; never let the pot go off the
boil, or it will spoil your pudding
Boil six hours the first day, and when
you are ready to eat it boil two hours
more; before nntying the cloth,
plunge the pudding into cold water,
then your pudding will not stick. -
Cover it with finely powdered sugar
before sending it to the table.
Washing Babies.-Mothers and
nurses cannot be too careful about
the soap they use on the little ones.
Few but physicians know how many
of the so called skin diseases among
children are caused by the use OF a.
dulter"ted poisonous soap An ana.
| lys is or several cakes of the pretty
and perfumed toilet soaps that arc
sold on the streets showed the press
ence of ground glass, soluble.glass, ST.
lex, pipeclay, rotton stone, borax,
plaster of Paris, tin crystal, magnesia,
pumice stone, oatmeal and other sub
stances, which are added to give the
soap weight, hardness, toughness or
clearness. The common colorings ere
vermillion, Vcnitian red and car
mine, ultramine green, pot pigment
green, copperas, Spanish brown, nj.
tramine blues, yellow and scarlet ana
lines and burnt lumber. Many of the
pertaining ingredients, though harrn-
less in themselves, become chemically
poisonous by admixture. Adding the
dangers from all these to the rancid,
diseased, putrid qualities OF grease
used. and mothers may we'll be ap.
palled at the permanent evils these
neat.looking, delicately-scented blocks
of toilet soap contain, ready to he re,
leased whenever moistened and app
| piled to the baby's body.-New York
! Sun.
Bone FeIon.--A person who has
to suffer with bone felon has to eu-
durc excruciating pain. Upon the
| high authority of the London Lancet
the following (said to bel certain cure
is given CAS- soon as the disease is
felt, put directly over the spot fly
blister about the size Of your thumb
| nail, and let it remain for six hours,
at the expiration Of which time, di.
rectly under the surface of the blister,
may be seen tho felon, which can be
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