South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-07
Farmer and se-Keeper.

squash ana SIMPLY Dy Trying them IN
butter. Slice them as you would Gu
cumhers, dip in dry flour. fry to
brown. and imagine that you are eat
ing fried oysters.
Angel Cake.--One cup and a half
of powdered sugar: one cup of flour,
| after sitting; one teaspoonful of cream
of tartar; the whites of eleven eggs.
Sift the -four and cream of tartar four
times; beat the eggs TO stiff frotb;
beat in the sugar and a teaspoonful of
vanilla; add the flour, which beat in
lightly but thoroughly. Bake slowly,
forty minutes In an INCREASED pan.
| The pan should have tin strip pro.
Ijecting above each corner, in order
that when il is turned over to cool
the air may circulate freely under il.
| Cut it out when cool.
We turn our cake upside down on
colander TO cool, rs our cake pan has
no projections.
To use the superfiuous yolks, we
have evolved Gold Cake-onc cul,
butter; two cups sugar; one cup sweet
milk: three cups flour; two teaspoon
fuls baking powder, flavoring, and
yolks of eleven eggs.-Journal and
Messenger.
A French recipe for preserving
eggs two years is rs follows: Melt
four ounces of beeswax over n quiet
fire and stir in eight ounces OF olive
oil. Cool partially when mixed, then
dip in the eggs one by one so as TO
coat every part of the she'll. The
shell absorbs the oil, and the wax clo-
ses the pores. Pack away in powder.
ed charcoal. A substitute for oil and
wax is parafline. 1t melts to thin
liquid below the boiling temperature,
and is odorless, tasteless, harmless and
cheap.
Worth Remembering. An cx-
change says: Very few young moth
ers are able to control their nerves
so completely as to keep from being
startled when confronted with cut
finger with dripping blood aud thu
loud cries which announce catastro-
phe. Sometimes she cannot collect
her thoughts sufficiently to recall any
OF the good remedies with which sho
is to write out q list of help in tronbIo
and tack upon the door of your room,
after the manner of hotel regulations.
There is nothing better for cut thar
powdered rosin. Get few cents
worth, pound it until it is fine and
put 1t into an empty clean pepper or
spice box with perforated top; put on
soft cloth around the injured mems
Der and wet it with cold water once
in while. 1t will prevent infama.
ton and soreness. In doing up
burn the main point is to keep the AIR
from it. If sweet oil and cotton arc
not ut hand, take cloth and spread
dry flour over it, and wrap the burned
part i'll it. 1t is always well to have
some simple remedies i'm the house
| where you can get them without -
moments loss Of time, little bottle
OF peppermint in case Of collie, chic
rate OF potash for sore throat, pepsin
for indigestion and bottle of brandy.
Prof. A. T.. Blount, of the Colora.
do Agricultural College, expresses him
self very strongly in favor of light
seeding OF wheat. lie says that "a
single grain Of wheat can not carry ont
It's habit and develop according TO its
nature on less than sixteen square in
ches, and that every pound of seed
wheat should be made TO produce ita
bushel all over the world
John Il. Russell. at the farmers In
stitute, at Salem, Mass, said cons
| rff o..
cent. more than whole. They are
more completely digested. Prefer
oats to any other grain for horses.
Cracked corn is very good under some
| circumstances, but wouldn't use meal
or shorts. The disease called big heal
is caused by feeding corn.
a gentleman who devotcs a part Of
his spare time to looking after tie well
fare Of his fruit trees, says If fruit grow.
ers would but sprinkle little muriats
Of potash around the roots OF their
trees good crops will be the result RI
Their than the exception. He says ho
has tried this to bis entire satisfaction,
and he asks others to give II trial
and report the result.
A teaspoonful Of powdered char
coal in a glass Of water often relieves
headache.
To obtain glossy skin: Pour up
on pint of bran sufficient boiling
water to cover it. Let it stand until
cold and then bathe the face with il.
only patting the skin with soft tow,
ell to dry il.
Getting Rid Of Stumps.-This re.
commentator comes from the Scion.
tiiic American: In the autumn or
early winter bore hole one or two