South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-07-14
Farmer aud House Keeper.

Poor Mans Fruit Cake.--This cako
is excellent as we'll rs economical.
Take one and a half cups Of brown
sugar. two cups of flour, one of butter
and one of chopped raisins, three eggs,
three tablespoons of sour milk, half
a teaspoon of soda, half a cup of black
berry jam. Mix the sugar. butter
and eggs together first, then the -four
and milk and fruit. Bake in a mod
crate oven.
Egg and Toast this perfect.
~ fresh egg is necessary put pan
half full OF hot water on the stove.
with little salt in it, let il come to-
a full boil, break your egg carefully
IN 1t. cover. and put back on the stove
tall the white is firm. Take out OF
the pan with skinner, and slide in.
TO a bowl of hot water while you mako
aud butter your toast. Take up tho
egg carefully on perforated Skinner,
shake dry. trim Oft any ragged edges
and serve immediately on the toast.
Sprinkle little salt and pepper ON
the egg. If this is we'll and neatly
done it is appe,izing for sick person.
If we'll made butter will keep nj.
most indefinitely when packed in air
tight vessels and the top of the but
ter kept constantly covered with sat,
urated brine. G. @. Taylor, well
known dairy correspondent of the
Cultlvator and Country Gentleman,
packs butter in jars, covering the top
with strong brine, setting the jars in
TO boxes which admit of fine salt be.
ing packed around the jars on all
sides. aud covering the jars with
earthenware plates and the whole with
fine salt. The butter must i'm all ca.
SEES be thoroughly we'll made.
One pound of saI-soda and half
pound ofupslacked lime boiled togeth.
er in one gallon of water for twenty
minutes. Let it stand until cool,
then drain off q pint into stone Jug
or jar-makcs an elegant washing
fluid. 1t should be added to the boil.
ing water Cor soiled clothes-a large
spoonful to q boiler of clothes.
To Make beer.-Pour three gallons
OF boiling water on two quarts of
wheat bran and let stand until cool.
then strain out the bran. steep hand
ful OF hops and strain add to the bran
water; add three cups OF sugar and o
cup of good yeast. This makes q
cheap and excellent drink for harvest.
Prepare it at night and it will be fit
for usk next day.
instantaneous Emetic.-Two tea.
spoonsful OF mustard mixed in warm
water. For child with Group it re.
lieves at once. A tablespoonful of
lard warmed and given is said to be
an instantaneous cmetic.
If the stove is cracked, a good ce.
ment is made for it as follows; Wood
ashes and salt in equal proportions,
reduced to paste with cold water.
and filed in the cracks when the
stove is cool. 1t will soon harden.
To Relieve Choking. DR.. Bever.
idge, noted British naval surgeon.
states that blowing fcrcibly into tho
ear OF the patient will give Immediate
relief III cases Of choking from foreign
bodies in the throat. The act excites
so powerful reflex action thar the Oh.
struction is expelled from tho wind.
pipe. The plan is certainly worth a
trial.
A practical Pennsylvania farmer
says that two bushels Of salt per acre.
sown broadcast, Will clean out tho
army worm, and also increase the
growth of grass. The remedy ia ono
which can be easily tried. and if il
does no good it will not do any harm.
Hot Milk as n Restorative.-Mill<
that Is heated TO much above 100 de.
grees Fahrenheit loses for the time n
degree OF its sweetness and its density
but no one fatigued by over exertion
OF body and mind, who has ever ex-
perienced the reviving influence of n
tumbler Of this beverage, heated ma
hot as il can be slipped, will willingly
torego a resort to it because Of it's bav.
ing been rendered somewhat less nc.
cepiable to the palate. The PROMPT
ness with which its cordial Influenza
IS felt Is indeed surprising. Some
portions OF il seems TO be dioesfed and
appropriated almost Immediately: and
many who fancy they mood alcoholic
stlmulants when exhausted by labor
OF brain or body will find in this SIM
pie draugbt an equivalent that shall
be abundabtly satisfying and more
enduring in its effects.-PhrenoIogic.
al Journal.
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One OF tic surest ard best remedies
Tor preventing the ravages Of the cab
lbago worm Is pyrethrum, or Persian
insect powder. Add two tablespoons
iul OF the powder to one gallon OF wa.
ter, aud wash the plants, especially
The tender leaves just forming tho
heads, twice q week.
Pehnyroyal distributed in places
irequented by reaches will drive
them away.