Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-02-12

Farmer and House-Keeper.
APPLE TAPICCA PUDDING
Eight tablespoonful of tapicca,
one and one-half pints of cold wa
ter, one teaspoonful of salt soak
three hours seven apples take
out cores, fill with sugar; pour
the tspicca ever the apples. Bake
an hour. Sauce; three eggs and
one cup of sugar well beaten to-
gether and favored without cook
ing.
PRESSED CHICKEN.-Tak one
or two chickens, boil in small
quantity of water with little
salt, and when thoroughly done
take all the meat from the bones,
keeping the light meat separated
from the dark, chop fine and sea.
son put in q pan layer of dark
and light, add the liquor 1t was
boiled In, which should be about
q teacupful, put on small weight;
when cold cut in slices.
CATsKILL MILK POTATOES. -
Take good, sound potatoes, cut
them in slices (raw,) and put the
milk. according to the quantity
you wish to make, in a pudding
dish, then after you have put the
potatoes in the milk put it in the
oven for about twenty minutes,
then take out and put the potatoes
with the same milk into a sauce
pan to boil until done season be-
fore you put TO boil.
BEEFsTAKE.-Abe efstake chop
ped up fine, and baked with -four
| and yeast in the form ola meat
bread-loaf, is the latest dietetic
sensation. 1t is asserted that meat
thus treated entirely disappears
during the process of baking, the
nutritive principles becoming in
corporated with the bread.
LEMON SYRUP. Take the juice
of twelve lemons, CRATE the rind
of six in ii, let stand over night,
then take six pounds of white SUI
gar and make a thick syrup !;
when it is cool strain the juice into
it and squeeze as much oil from
this grated rind as will suit the
taste. A tablespoonful in a goblet
of water will make delicious
drink on q hot day, far superior to
that prepared from the stuff COM
monty sold as lemon syrup.
A correspondent of the Cham
bersburg, Pa, Valley Spirit, who
| gives some attention to medical
science says he has tried the fol-
lowing remedy for neuralgia In
| the face or other acute suffering
elsewhere with good effect. 1t
would be we'll for readers TO cut
the receipt out as it may prove
useful. Our correspondent says
Cut q thick slice of bread all across
the loaf-fresh bread is best. Soak
one side for minute in boiling
water, and rapidly sprinkle cay
enne pepper over the hot side.-
Apply while still smoking hot to
the painful surface. The bread
retains the heat long enough for
the cayenne pepper to began to act,
| the cayenne does not affect the del
icate skin as mustard does. 1t
acts as rubefatient, but not q
blister.
DRIPPING.-To form a good
substitute for hutter, in making
pastry, the meat must be roasted
with water in the pan to prevent
the fat from burning; when the
the meat is cooked pour the drip
ping in a basin and let it stand till
cold, pouring off the gravy at the
bottom, then placing the dripping
In the oven to melt, and the next
day it will be quito fit for use, and
will make excellent short pastry.
An excellent remedy for conges-
tion from cold is to apply poul-
tice of fiaxseed meal and cayenne
pepper. By keeping a bit of oil
silk on the outside of the poultico
cloth, IL will retain both heat and
moisture at the same time.
1t Is said that If sod land Is
ploughed just before the corn is
planted the worms will feel upoa
the sod aud not injure the corn.