The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-12
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRESIDE.
"A piece of zinc placed on the live
Goals in hot stove will, it is said, eff
1ectually clean out stove pipe, the va
pors produced carrying of SCOT by chem
ical decomposition.
Ink stains on mahogany or black
walnut furniture may be removed by
touching the stains with feather wet
in solution of inter and water-eight
drops to spoonful of water. AS soon
as the spots disappear rub the place at
once with cloth wet in cold water.
If the ink stains then remain, repeat,
making the solution stronger.
Ham Cake.-A capital way of dis
posing of the remains of a ham and
making an excellent dish for breakfast
is: Take a pound and half of ham,
fat and lean together; put it into NOR
tar and pound it, or pass it through a
sausage machine; boil a large slice of
bread in half pint of milk, and beat it
and the ham well together; add an egg
beaten up. Put the whole into mold,
and bake rich brown.
Cream of Fish. For each quart Of
soup mix together over the fire one ia
blespoonful each of flour and butter I'M
til quite free from Jumps; then grad
ually add one quart of hot milk, STIR
ring constantly, until the soup is quite
smooth; then season it palatably with
salt and pepper, dust in a very little
grated nutmeg, and stir in with an egg
whip cupful of cold boiled fish PURGE
rubbed through a sieve with a potato
masher.
Egg Loaf.-One pound of dough,
two ounces of butter, two ounces of
pounded sugar, two eggs. Beat all
well together, in basin, in the same
manner as eggs are beaten, only using
the hand instead of the whisk; set in a
plain mold to rise for three-quarters of
an hour, then bake in quick oven.
When cut, it should have the appear
ance of honeycomb. This is a very
nice breakfast-cake, and will make de-
licious toast when stale.
Steamed Fruit Pudding.-Two cups
OF suet, chopped fine, two cups of boil
ing hot coffee, two cups of sugar, half
pound OF raisins, half pound of currants,
quarter pound of citron, five cups of
flour, teaspoonful of salt, three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Mix these
ingredients well together, cutting the
raisins, currants and citron fine; put all
in bag and steam three hours; do not
lift the cover till the pudding is done;
serve with a nice sauce.
The practice of whitewashing trees
is useful and beneficial, and one can af-
ford to be laughed at for doing it, for
''those who win may laugh" with the
best reason. The whitewash reflects
the heat of the sun, and prevents sun
scald of the bark in warm, bright win
ter days; it kills eggs of insects and re-
pels the borer, and the lime, washing
from the stems, reaches the roots and
fertilizes the trees. All this will over
balance any ridicule that may be cast
on the practice by over-wise and hyper
critical persons who know nothing
about the business.
For the sake of variety and to please
children, who seem sometimes to be fas-
cinated by pie, make once year meat
and potato pie. Make a crust as for
chicken pie, and fill it with pieces of
beef stake, either partly cooked or raw;
season it well. and make a gravy of
melted butter and water thickened with
flour; pour over the meat and then put
in a layer of mashed potato, and the
crust on the top of that. If it is too
much trouble to mash the potato, put in
small cooked ones whole; be sure and
have enough gravy SO the pie will not
be dry. Do not make the crust so rich
as to be unwholesome.
-ldleness begets vice just as well in
the horse as it does in man, and among
the various vices thus begotten in the
horse is the mischievous one of kicking.
There are several methods of prevention
resorted to, with more or less success.
One is to let the horse go loose in a
roomy box stall or shed, instead of
tying him up. Another method is to
buckle strap around the leg above the
pastern, to which strap is attached q
chain about foot long, to the end of
which is fixed log of hard wood,
weighing about two pounds. Every
time the horse kicks he will hurt him
self, and after some ineffective trials of
Kidding himself of the attachment he
finally gives IN, and will gradually
abandon the practice of kicking; but it
may be necessary to keep the device
applied to his leg for a long time, espec-
tally if he is an inveterate kicker.
Sometimes a horse only kicks to one
side, or only with one leg, and it will
then only be necessary to apply the
chain to that leg. But if he kicks to
both sides it will be necessary to apply
one on each leg.