South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-28

spoonstui sugar, piece Oh butter stzo
OF an egg, and n little salt, one pint
OF sweet milk. one cup yeast, two
quarts flour. Let it rise all night.
Ii sour in the morning, add little
soda dissolved in milk, and bake ia
muffin rings.
Wheat Mullins One teaspoonful
melted butter, one egg, one aud
half cups flour, one teaspoonful cream
tartar, half teaspoonful soda, half cup
sweet milk. Bake quickly in muffin
pans.
Picked tongue makes a good relish
for picnic dinner. Let the tongue
be in salt and water for three days,
and then boil it in clear water, which
should be changed once or twice.
When cooked so that the outer GOV.
ering will slip Oft easily, drain off thu
water, take Oft the skin, and pour coll
vinegar over the tongue. Add such
spices as suit your taste. 1t Will bj
picked sufficiently after it has been
in the vinegar twenty-four hours. Ii
you are in haste, YOU may cut it in
thin slice before picking.
Simple Dessert Put eight crack.
ers into deep dish, and pour on T.
nough boiling water to cover. Let
them stand till soaked, and then gratu
over them nutmeg and white sugar,
with sweet cream enough TO make u
nice sauce.
Moiasses Cake.--A cupful of mo-
lasses, three eggs. two heapihg table
spoonsiul cold butter, aud two tea
spoonsful Of soda in half cupful ct
boiling water. Add half teaspoon
full each of salt and spice, stir very
thin, and bake quickly.
Jelly Custard-To one cnpful of
any sort of jelly add one egg, and
beat well together with three tea
spoonsfnl of cream or milk. After
mixing thoroughly bake in good
crust.
Lemon Butter for Tarts.
butter ia excellent for tarts. 1t ia
made as follows: One pound puI.
verized white sugar, whites of six
eggs and yolks OF two, three lemons,
including grated rind and juice. Cook
| u,
ring all the while.
Canned grape juice makes re.
treshing drink with water aud little
sugar; stew the grapes aud strain
through colander, not pressing hard
enough TO send through any of the
pulp. Add little sugar, boil az long
as scum rises, skim carefully and pour
hot into glass cans. 1t will keep per-
fectly well, is very desirable addi-
/ ton 10 the house-keeper's store. and
is especially serviceable as a drink for
the sick.
Nicodemus Pop Corn. Put into
an iron kettle one tablespoonful OF
butter, thrrc of water and one teacup-
ful Of white sugar (pulyerized is best;)
boil until ready to candy; then throw
IN three quarts of corn, nicely popped;
stir briskly until the candy is evenly
distributed over the corn; set the kef-
tie from the fire; stir Until it is coo(-
ed little and you have each grain
separate and crystalized with the su-
gar; care should be taken not to have
too hot fire, lest you scorcli the corn
when crystalizing. Nuts of any
kind prepared in this way arc deii-
cious.
Uses OF Charcoal.-Tainted meat,
surrounded with charcoal, is sweeten
ed; strewn over heaps of decomposed
pelts, or over dead animals, il pre-.
vents an unpleasant odor. Foul VIA
ter is purified by it. 1t is a great
disinfectant and sweetens the air, il
placed in trays around apartments.
1t is so very porus in its ''minute in
terror" that it absorbs and condenses
gases most rapidly One cubic inch
of fresh charcoal will absorb nearly
one hundred of gaseous ammonia.
Charcoal forms an unrivaled pouItics
tor malignant wounds and sores, often
coroding away dead flesh, reducing
1t oDe-quarter in six hours. In cases
Of what we call proud flesh, Il j. I'M
valuable. 1t gives 10 disagresabie
! odOr, corTodes no metal, hurts no tex
! ture, Injuries no color, is q simple and
safe sweetener and disinfcetant.
For Chapped Hands.-Mix togeth-
or equal quantities Of rich cream aid
strong vinegar, and rub it over your
hands every time you wash them.
Hot Water for the Hcart.-In a
letter to the Lancet, DR.. A Paggi re-.
cords the following observation He
states that in Paris he saw a case in
which, under the inhalation OF chic.
reform, the heart ceased 90 beat. and
artificial respiration for ten minutes
failed 70 restore circulation, when DIR.
Liable dipped a large cloth ia boiling
water and applied it 10 the region OF
the heart, with the result Of immedi-
ately restoring the action Of that Or