South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-22

siitcd flour, and flavor. Bake rather
slowly.
Cracker Suet Pudding. .One>fourth
pound beef suet, freed from strings
aud powdered, orc cupful fine crack.
er crumbs, two tablespoonsful of
sugar, four eggs, three cupsful milk,
pinch of soda, one teaspoonful sab
beat the yolks with the sugar add to
these the milk, in which the cracker
has been soaked for half an hour:
work into smooth paste before put
ting IN the suet aud soda whip the
whites IN last, and bake nearly ii not
quite an hour. Eat hot with wine
sauce. You may also steam or boil
this pudding.
Directions for Making Biscuit
Put l at of tionr into a sieve with /
teaspoon just even JUL of soda, l OF
salt, tablespoonful of white sugar:
sift thoroughly all together. then add
l tablespoonful of lard, wet with !
PIT. of sour milk; handle as little and
make rs rapidly as possible; bake in
a quick oven Is minutes.
Almond cookies are very nice.
This rule will make n large quantity.
ard may of course be varied To shit
your needs Two pounds of butter.
three pounds of sugar, one pound of
almonds blanched and chopped. cut
IN halves or pounded, two teaspoons.
iul OF cinnamon, one tcaspoonful of
salcratus, one cup of boiling water,
one lemon, one dozen eggs, knead in
flour enough to make the dough "a
stiff rs cooly dough should be. roll
and cut in fancy shapes, and after
they are in the tins sprinkle the al.
monds thickIy over them.
a Delicious Dish.-Boil new pota-
toes and early boets separately, but
at the same time, when thoroughly
cooked, slice separately, and while
sun hot put a layer of bcets in n deep
dish, sprinkle lightly with pepper and
salt, then add layer of potatoes,
sprinkle with salt and pepper and lay
on thin slices of new sweet butter then
slices OF bects and potatoes with salt,
pepper and butter as before until the
dish Is tull. Over the whole pour e.
nouSh thin sweet cream so that after
iiitering down through the beets and
potatoes, few spoonsful of it will be
found III the bottom of the dish. Serve
while still quite warm. You will be
sure to repeat this dish several times
each year.
Every housekeeper should know
that sugar boiled with acid, if it be
but three minutes, will be converted
into glucose, which is the form OF SUI
gar found in sweet apples. One
pound OF sugar has rs much sweet
ening power as two and a quarter
pounds of glucose. In other words.
one pound of sugar stirred into the
fruit after it is cooked, and while vet
VAIN, will make the fruit as sweet "a
two and quarter pounds added while
the fruit is boiling.
Black Varnish for Straw Hats
Two ozs. ofgum arabic dissolved i'm
cold water, one Oh. extract logwood
dissolved in hot water, add one.half
teaspoonful OF copperas, one teaspoon.
iul OF brown sugar; mix all together
and put on with q brush.
The simplest aud most harmless
remedy we have yet seen against the
potato bug, is reported by the Lancas-
ter Agricultural Society: Put three
or four pounds Of tobacco scraps or
refuse into q barrel filled half full OF
water. Leave it several days. The
decoction applied to the beetles OH the
vine effectually destroys all young
ones. a second application will de-
stroy the mature beetle. There is no
danger Of poison, and il is cheap
and easily applied
a standing autidotc for poison by
dew. poison oak, ivy, otc., is to take
handful Of quicklime, dissolve in wa.
ter, let it stand bali an hour, then
paint the poisoned parts with it.
uicc OF lour appllcduOn5 Will never
fail TO cure the most aggravated cases.
II is said that two thirds Of sweet
oil and one-third OF carbolic acid
mixed well, will cure the worst ring.
worm.
Acorc7pondeut Of tie 'Plouglman'
states that he has boon successful in
curing warts on TIE teats of cows by
simply bathing with wator in which
beans have been boiled.
The following is said TO be an an.
tldotc for blight in pear trees: one
quart Of slased lime, one quart of
bone phosphate aud one ounce ofsul.
phur sprinkled under each tree.