South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-09-09
Farmer and House Keeper.


make stiff batter, two teaspoons soda;
bake twenty minutes in hot oven.
Cheap Sponge Cake.--Three eggs,
two tablespoonsfnl OF water and u
teaeupful OF sugar mixed together; a
teacupful and u half OF flour, two
teaspconsful of baking powder, and u
pinch OF salt stirred quickly IN; sea-
son with q teaspoonful of essence of
vanilla, or half n lemon: bake i'm
quick oven. 1t eau be baked in Jelly.
cake pans, and have pastry.cooks
cream, lemon, icing. or chocolate be.
tween.
Bread Pudding. quart of
milk. three cups of fine dry bread
crumbs, three eggs, Il tcacupful of SUI
gar, two tablespoons Of butter, lemon
peel or extract. Soak the crumbs i'm
the milk, stir in the beaten yolks, but
ter and sugar. Add the lemon last.
Cover and bake half an hour. then
beat the whites stiff, add a little sugar,
spread over the pudding and return
to the oven until II delicate brown.
Rice Fruit Pudding.-One large
teacup of rice, little water TO cook
it partially dry; line an earthen ba.
SIN with the rice; ii up with quarter
CO apple. or any fruit YOU choose.
Cover with rice. Tie n cloth over
the top, and steam one hour. To be
eaten with sweet sauce. Do not but.
ter the dish
Meat Pic.-Take mashed potatoes
seasoned with salt, butter and milk
and line II baking-dish. Lay upon it
slices OF cold meat of any kind add
salt, pepper, catsup and butter, or any
cold gravy, pnt i'm a layer OF pota-
toes, and another layer of meat
III the same way till the dish is full.
have layer of potatoes on the top.
Bake it until it is thoroughly heated
through.
Sweet Apples Make Delicious Pick
les.-Peel and quarter tho apples.
boil them until tender in vinegar, and
water; to one quart of vinegar add
two pounds ofsugar; heat the vinegar
and dissolve the sugar in it; add cloves
and cinnamon, and pour over the APP
pies while hot
In boiling dumplings of any kind
put them in the water one ut time.
If they are put in together they will
mix with each other.
For hoarseness take the whites OF
2 eggs, beat them with 2 teaspoons
ful OF white sugar, CRATE in little
nutmeg, then add pint of lnkcwarm
water stir well, drink often, and il
will cure the most obstinate case OF
hoarseness in n short time.
If ink has been spilled on rosewood
or mahogany furniture, half tea
spoonful Of oil of vitriol in a table,
spoonful Of water, applied with fea-
thcr, will quickly remove it.
Easy Method of Washing.-Tbe
recipe for an easy washing liqnid, viz:
-Four ounces of soap. one teaspoonfuI
of turpentinc, and two Of aminonia,
mixed in ten gallons of water, is not
in any way injurious 10 the person u.s.
ing 1.-THE effect is to more easily
dissolve the dirt in the clothes and TO
render the washing much easier.
There is nothing in it to injurc the
clothes.
One gallon Of ncat's.foot oil mixed
with four ounces of lampblack makes
a good harness oil.
A simple insecticide can be made
as follows: Place q quantity Of wa.
ter sufficient for use IN akettle TO boil.
put in the amount Of alum it will dis
solve when boiling hot, with brush
apply the solution TO all cracks, closets.
bedsteads and other places where in
sects arc found. Ants, bedbugs.
cockroaches and creeping things are
killed by it, while there is ne danger
Of poisoning the family or injuring
the property.
When washing fine laccs do not use
starch at all the last water IN which
they are rinscd put in little fine white
sugar, dissolve it thoroughly and the
result will be pleasing.
Mix little carbonate Of soda with
the water ia which flowers arc imcrscd.
and it will preserve them for fort
night. Common salipetcr il also
very good prersevatiye.
To Cleanse Blankets Put two
large tablespoonfuls Of borax and
pint bowl OF soft soap into tub OF
cold water. When dissolved, put in
q pair ofblankets aud let them remain
over night Next day rub them out
and rinse thoroughly in two waters
and hang them up TO dry. Don't
wiring them.
Red ants may be banished from -
pantry or a store room by strcwiug the
shelves with a small quantity Of cloves,
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