South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-18
Farmer ana Rouse-K Keeper.

! Poor Mans Soup. Take ID. Of
nice sweet salt pork cut in slices and
fry done in the bottom of ia iron ket-
tie. Add 3 pts. of boiling waterss}
cup rice, some black pepper. 2 or 3
cloves, and an onion cut fine. When
done place some small pieces Of toas-
ted bread in a dish. pour over and
serve hot. Potatoes sliced can be
added, improving it.
Quinine biscuit is the latest novelty
to the medical pastry line. Each bis
cult contains onc.fourth Of grain of
quinine, and the taste ia so concealed
that hearty individual can put them
down until the hair on the head be-
gins to curl, without knowing what
be 10 taking Next we shall. have Gus.
tor oil sponge cake and squill dough.
nuts.
Tomato..Soup.-Pare enough ripe
tomatoes to fill n quart bowl stew in
water enough to cover when done
add pit. OF milk, ifyou have it, if not,
use water, butter size of an egg, salt
and pepper, and thicken lightly with
flour or bread crumbs.
Potato Sculpture large potatoes
or their equivalent and boil. When
done, take up and mash fine, return
to the water in which they were boil
ed, add enough boiling water to make
it the. consistency of Cruel Add salt
and pepper to taste; try some bread
brown in butter, or clear drippings
place in the bottom of dish aud turn
the soup. over.
Dutch Apple Pudding One pint
OF Hour, one teaspoonful of cream of
tartar, half teaspoonful of soda, half
teaspoonfuI of salt, an egg, nearly
a cupiul OF milk, two tablespoonsful
of butter, four large apples. Mix the
salt, soda, and cream of tartar with
the -four, and rub through sieve.
Beat the eggs light and add the milk
to it. Pour the milk and.egg on this,
and mix quickly and thoroughly.
Spread the dough about half an inch
deep on buttered baking-pan. Havo
the apples pared, cored and cut iuto
Fights. Stick the pieces into the
dough. Sprinkle with two table
spoonsful of sugar, and bake ia II
quick oven for about twenty-five min
uics, This pudding is TO be eaten
with sugar and milk, or lemon sauce.
Mrs. Cases Spanish Cream, Set
pint of milk and n fourth of box OF
gelatine in dish, into kettle of hot
water. Stir it frequently until tho
gelatine dissolves. Beat the yolks of
three eggs and q cupful of sugar to-
gether, and when the milk is hot and
the water boils stir in the mixture and
set If all on the fire again, and stir
until the water boiis. Set your dish
on the table, and stir in the whites OF
the eggs beaten to stiff troth; then
pour 1t at once into your inouId to-
cool Serve cold Is dessert for din
ner, or at your tes.-tablo.
Dressing Tor Cold Meat. -YoIks Of
two eggs. three tablespooneful of
French mustard, one tablespoonful of
black pepper, one-half teaspoonfuI
cayenne pepper, one teaspoonful of
salt one teaspoonful white sugar, one
half tcacupful cider vinegar. Beat
the eggs till light, add the vinegar,
and stir over the fire till about the
consistency of rich cream. Add the
other ingredients. stirring all the time
till smooth and stiff. Let IL cool and
serve cold with slices of cold meat.
1t is also nice dressing for raw cab
bage or salad.
FarmlM measures. To aid farmers
in arriving ut accuracy ia estimating
the amount OF land IN different fields
under cultivation, the following table
is given: Five yards vide by 960
long contains one acre ten yards
wide by 484 long contains one acre
twenty yards wide by 242 long con.
tains one acre eighty yards wide by
sixty and half long contains one
acre seventy yards wide by sixty.
nine and half long contains one acre;
sixty feet wide by go long contains
one acre 800 feet wide by 800 long
contains one acre; go feet wide by
1913 long contains one acre 80 feet
wide by 1914 long contains one acre;
40 feet wide by % feet long con-
talns one acre.
Cure for Hydrophobia.-Take tho
root Of common upland asb, generally
called black ash, peel Oft the bark,
and boil il to a strong decoction.
Take one gill three times a day for
eight or ten days IL bitten bya mad
dog, the wound should be cut out az
soon as possible, thoroughly washed
with aqua-ammOnia, or, for want Of
that, in a solution OF potash or COM
mon salt The bite Of the rattlesnake
and most common bites and stings
may be cured in this way.
A new rope il ore Of tho most un-