South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-05-06
Farmer and House Keeper.

ratuSA abu Hcuso-heeper.
Cottage Pudding.-Onc cup sugar,
one tablespoonful butter. two eggs,
one cup sweet milk, three cups flour,
two teaspoousful Royal baking-pow.
der, one tablespoonful salt. Rub the
butter aud sugar together, beat in the
eggs, milk, salt and -four. Bake in
n buttcred mold, turn out, cut in sill
ces and eat with liquid sauce.
Sauce.-Rub smooth tablespoons
ful of -four through one.half bowl OF
white sugar; fill up the bowl with
cold water, lump of butter size of
walnut. Put on to boil; add flavor
ing TO taste.
Snow Cakos.-TIalf cupful of but
ter, three eggs, two cupsful Of sugar.
four Of -four, one Of milk, two tea
spoonsful OF baking powder. Stir
butter and sugar together, and the
beaten yolks and bali the flour, with
the baking powder an it pour in the
milk, beat the whites thoroughly and
mix in; then stir in tho rest of the
flour. Bake III small, fancy shaped
pans, and ice when cold.
Egg Dumpliugs.-Make batter
of pint of milk, two we'll beaten
eggs, n teaspoonful OF salt and flour
enough to make batter as thick IA
for pouudcake. Have q clean sauce-
pan of boiling water, let the water
boil fast, drop in tho batter by the
tablespoonful -four or five minutes
Will boil them) take them with skim
mer on n dish, put bit Of butter and
grated nutmeg, with syrup or sugar
over.
Orange Pudding -0ne dozen or,
anges. Make n thin cornsiarch pud.
ding with one quart Of milk, two eggs,
three teaspoonsful cornstarch, leaving
ont the whites OF the eggs. When
the cornstarch gets cold, pour it over
the oranges already sugared. Beat
the whites of eggs and sugar togeth-
er aud put on the top of the pudding,
then SET in a pan of cold water, so
that the oranges will not heat while
the meriugue is browning.
How to make good Whitewash. -
Take OF good unslacked lime half
bushel, Stake with warm water (rain
water il conveniently in forty-gallon
barrel. Keep covered while shaking.
Use just water enough to Stake dry.
Let the lime stand four or five hours
to INSURE lis being well slaked 1T
is desirable to have good smooth
wash, the slaked lime should be
sifted through q moderately fine
seive; If TO be used on barns, cut
buildings and fences. it is not materi.
al about sitting. To the lime thus
prepared, add enough water To half
fill the barrel, thea add two gallons
of -four starch, hot; one quart OF
grease to make il ruu smoothly; four
pounds OF melted rosin, hot, TO make
it stick. The flour starch will also
have the same effect. Some use salt
in making whitewash We would
not, as salt in damp weather causes
the wash TO crack and scale of. AE-
ter preparing the whitewash as above,
FIJI your barrel with water, cold or
hot, and you will have wash that
will stand quite we'll for fyc years.
To color dark, or slate, use lamp
black for yallow, use yellow ochre
for blue, use indigo; for different
shades CT color, vary TO suit. If the
wash gets too thick, make thin with
water. The older the above white
wash becomes, the better it will be, If
it is kept covered with water, and not
allowed to become hard.
A WATER FfLTER-Serious sick
ness would often be averled from tue
household II, among other sanitary
Negotiations, nole bat filtered water
was drank by IFS members. Water
may look and taste Ike the purcst.
and sill contain disease-gerras that
We wOaId retreat from in horror If
they bat presented themselves duly
labeled. Wells, cisierus and springs
that occupy gfouud lover than that
of drains, vaults or baruyards, within
"a hundred feet or more, should be
regarded With suspicion, no matter
how splendid tbe water may appear.
a good and efficient filter can be
made in this way: Take q cask, re.
move one end and set it upright, tho
open end at the top. At ono-tiird
OF the distance from the bottom place
q round partition, pierced with small
holes. Or this arrange q layer of
clean, small pebbles, and over them
"a layer Of charcoal and another OF
sand, topping i with more pebbles.
/ Over this put another with holes in it.
or @ layer of good s.zcd stones, to IRE.