The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

cold; drink it just before going to sleep.
l-Eggless Cookies. cups sugar,
one cup sweet milk. one cup butter,
one-haf teaspoonful soda Flour
enough to roll. Use vanilla, lemon or
nutmeg for seasoning. They are very
nice. @
Sour Milk Cake.-Beat together
one cup sugar, half cup butter and one
egg. Add one cup OF sour milk with
one even teaspoon of soda stirred into
it Then add two cups of sifted flour,
half cup of chopped raisins and spice
to taste. -
BY omitting all shortening-that
| is, both butter and lard-from any
good fried cake recipe, and using in
place of it cup of sweet milk, the
cakes will be light and almost entirely
free from grease. Take care to have
the lard in which they are fried very
hot.
In propagating honeysuckles cut
tings of wood when nearly ripe will
strike if inserted in a shady border in
the autumn and duly watered. Perhaps
the most successful mode of propagat-
ing is by Layers pegged in moist soil in
the autumn, when the leaves COM
mence falling.
| Pound Seed Cake.-One pound
butter beaten to a cream, one pound
sifted lump sugar, one pound flour,
well dried, eight eggs, yelks and whites
beaten separately, and caraway seeds
to taste. Mix the ingredients and beat
all well together for an hour. Put the
batter into a tin shape, lined with paper
and buttered. Bake in a moderate
| oven.
The much abused dragon-fiies, says
a recent writer. are perfectly harmless
to human beings. They neither bite
nor sting, but destroy vast numbers of
mosquitoes, flies and other insects Ii
brought into the house, they will catch
6ies and mosquitoes as long as they are
not molested. In fact, they ought to be
made household pets, instead of being
ruthlessly driven out as though their
presence was dangerous
| kerosene the nests and roosts Of
the poultry houses. Whitewash every
| thing in them-ceilings, roosts, nests
and all Sprinkle little flour of sui
| phur in the nests First, however,
change the hay or straw. II confined
in runs, give them daily quantity of
| grass and clover. Provide lime. A
| little bone flour mixed with their food
is excellent, and helps provide material
for shell-making. Keep the houses
clean.
| The disease known as blackleg is
| not contagious; it is blood disorder,
| which is brought on by indigestion or
1 inefficient assimilation of the food.
/ Overlooking and plethora, with disor-
dered liver, will produce this disease,
in which the blood becomes thick and
black and the tissues gangrenous. The
disease prevails chiefly in the fall, when
the feed becomes hard and indigesti-
BILE, and in the spring, when the new
grass is too full of sap and is imma-
ture. 1t is very difficult to treat, be-
cause the animals are too far gone be-
fore they are known to be diseased and
cure is impossible. But it may be
prevented by giving salt regularly from
early in the fab until the spring, and a
dose of half an ounce of sulphur. twice
repeated, once month during the same
season.-M Y Times.
i Bacon and Greens.-Don't. Don't
cook the greens with the bacon. ham,
pork. or what not 1t makes no differ
ence what kind of greens one has
whether spinach from the garden, or
.cowslips,h or dandelions from the
streams or fields. don't cook either with
fat meat The fact that vegetable food
tends to correct evils from the long
continued use of salted meat has given
rise to the notion that greens should
be cooked with the meat. Cook the
greens in a separate vessel, with only,
If need be, little salt. Thus treated,
every variety of greens will not only
be more acceptable to the taste, but
vastly more digestible. Most kinds OF
green's, after they are boilod quite
tender. should be thoroughly drained
upon q colander; then turn them into q
wooden bowl and chop very fine.
Salt Rising Bread. earlier in
the morning it is set the better. A
most convenient hour is six o'clock.
Take one pint of water, one-half tea
spoonful of salt and one teaspoonful oi
, sugar; stir to the thickness of pancake
, batter. The water used should be as
warm as the hand can bear. Place the
vessel containing this batter into water
, of the temperature of that first used
, And let it stand for three hours. Ir
that time water will arise to the sur
, face; then thicken with flour until the
, batter is as thick as it was in the com
! mencement. Let it stand three hour.
! longer. when it will again rise, maxim,
! total standing of six hours. Then ge
what flour you need for your baking
. scald about one pint of it, and after i
is cool mix the rising together will
, warm water and mix to q stiffness I,
knead on a warm board. A great dea
!, of kneading is required. Place tn
doughin your baking pan. set aside unit
|. it rises to twice its original size an,
: then bake in a quick oven. If you ar
successful, and careful following o
these directions will make you so, yo
have the most delicious bread that ha
, ever entered mortars mouth. If yo
: have a large baking the ingredients ar
= to be proportionately increased.