The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-20
HOME AND FARM.


Ham Omelet.-Cold boiled ham, one
half pound; eggs, four; pepper, one
quarter teaspoon; salt, one-half tea
spoon.
- Iced Buttermilk. = There is no
healthier drink than buttermilk, but'it
must be creamy, rich buttermilk to be
good. 1t 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
dye, 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.-Four
oSSS, uatll pOuHu OuIIOls AbA PouhN
sugar, half pound -four. 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 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 q pan of
clabbered sour milk over the fire and
let it become well scalded. Then pour
it into 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 1t until it is fine and free
from Jumps, and moisten by adding
sweet cream. Put in pepper and salt
and a small piece of butter. Mold into
little balls or not, az you please.
The Fruit Groacer 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 that
will suggest themselves at once to any
thoughtful person, among them the ex-
ercise, the promotion of knowledge, the
cultivation of rural tastes, business
habits and self-dependence, and last,
but not least, the edifcation and en-.
largement of the mind that comes of
contact with the soil and attention to
the wonderful ways of vegetation.
Yes, our houses are very pretty !;
they are painted the whitest of the
white and the blinds the geenest of the
green; but why are the door-steps and
the piazza in such neglected state? Ap-
parently you don't paint them as often
as you do your clapboards, while they
need it oftener; neither do you always
mend them when board gives way, but
swayed and ragged let them stay, a
condemning evidence against your tidi-
ness and thrift. They remind us of
ladies gayly dressed with plumes and
blossoms on their heads, with robes un-
furnished and bedecked with tasteful
trimmings, but whose shoes may lack
button, have heels oblique, or have not
yet been polished since they left the
store.-RtraI Nea0 Yorker.