South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-14
Farmer and House Keeper.

one egg. Add one cup of sour milk
with one even tablespoon of soda stir
red into it. Then add two cups of
sifted flour, half cup of chopped
raislns and spice to taste.
Cabbage Cooked in Cream-Take
two quarts of chopped cabbage, boil
until tender aud tho water is nearly
gone; then pour in two thirds of n
cup of cream, with salt aId pepper to
the taste, boil fifteen minutes and
serve; or, instead of the cream use
vinegar, with butter the size of a wal
nut, and you have hot slaw.'
Prune Pudding Wash your
prunes and scale them until the stones
loosen sufficiently to remove; take
them from the water after seeding and
chop in your hash.bowl. Then add
water and sugar to suit your taste,
and stew until done. Make baking
powder dough, roll out as thin as pie
crust, spread on this your prnnes and
then roll up rs you would Jelly roll.
Cut IN slices about three inches thick,
lay them in your lake pan and bake
In quick oven. Serve with cream,
or orange or lemon sauce.
To Dry Pumpkins. ripe
pumpkins, pare, cut into small pieces,
stew soft, mash and strain through a
colander. as if for making pies
Spread this pulp on plates, in layers
some half an inch thick; dry in the
stove oven, which should be kept Mt
SO low temperature as not to scorch
it. In about a day il will become dry
and crisp. The sheets thus made can
be slowed away in dry place, and
are always ready for use, either for
pies or stewing. The quick drying
alter cooking prevents souring which
is almost always the case when the I'M
cooked pieces are dried, while the fla
vor is much better preserved and the
after cooking dispensed with. On
gong TO use, soak portions of the arti.
Gle in little milk over night. when
1t Will return to as delicious PUN as
If made of pumpkin when fresh.
To Remove the Smell of New
Paint. Newly painted rooms arc ve-
ry unpleasant for several days, but if
u handful of hay is strewn on the
tloor upon which is sprinkled little
chloride of lime, after a couple of hours
the offensive smell will have entirely
disappeared.
Lamp wicks soaked in strong vine.
gar or alum water, and dried thorough
~ before using, will prevent smoke or
| unpleasant odor from lamps.
Bathing the face night and morning
In weak salt and water will remove
tan and pimples.
"A raw, mellow apple is digestcd in
an hour and a-balf, while boiled cab.
bage requires five hours. The most
hcalty dessert that can be placed ON n
table is baked apple. If eaten fire.
quently at breakfast with coarse bread
and butter, without meat or flesh of
any kind, il has admirable effect upon
the general system, often removing
constipation, correcting acidities, and
cooling off febrile conditions more
etfectually than the most approved
medicines.
Ants as Fruit Growers Friends -
Many of the leading orchard proprei.
tors I'm Northern Italy and Southern
Germany are cuItivators of the CONS
mon black ant, which insect they hold
in high esteem as the fruit growers
best friend. They establish ant-biIls
In their orchards, and leave the police
service Of their fruit trees entirely 20
the tiny colonists, which pass all their
time IN climbing up the stems of the
fruit trees, cleansing their boughs and
leaves OF maletactors, mature az well
as embryotic aud defending laden
with spoils to the ground, where they
comfortably consume or prudenily
store away their booty. They never
NEEDLE with sound fruit, but only i'm.
wade such apples, pears and plums az
have already been penetrated BIZ the
canker, which they remorselessly pur.
sue to ITS fasiness within the very
heart Of the fruit Nowhere are apple
and pear trees 80 free from blight and
destructive insects as in the immedi-
ate neighbOrhoOd of a large ant.bill
five or six years old.-Prairie Farmer.
Some time since tho use Of sawdust
IN mortar was recommended as supe-
rioi even to bair for the prevention Of
cracking and subsequent peeIing off
OF rough casing under the action OF
storms and frost. Some one By tho
name Of Siehr says that his house
exposed to prolonged storms on the
sea cost, had pieces Of mortar TO be
renewed each spring and after trying
without effect number of substances
TO prevent it, he found sawdust per-
fectly satisfactory. II was first tho
roughly dried and sifted through an
ordinary grain sieve 70 remove the