South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-27
Farmer and House-Kecper.

one teaspoon OF cream tartar mot
baking POWDER n small pinch of salt.
Beat whites of eggs TO stiff froth. add
sugar and flour, and last, flavoring.
lemon or bitter almond.
Delicious Ice Cream.-Take the
cream from one good large crock or
pan of milk with skinner. in order
to get as little milk as possible whit.
beat this with an eggbeater in large
bowl until il is thick and light; then
add II tumbler Of powdered sugar and
any flavoring you like; when we'll
beaten together add, n spoonful at
time, as much freshly fallen snow "a
it will take until it is the consistency
or ordinary leo cream. This will
make about one gallon.
A good breakfast dish is made of
dried beef. Slice it very thin, cook
it for few minutes in hot butter and
lard mixed, stir it constantly, and
when it is equally heated stir in us
many eggs as you can afford TO use.
Serve with buttcred toast.
Ham Cake.-A capital way of dis.
posing of the remains of ham and
making an excellent dish for breakfast
is: Take pound and a half OF ham,
fat and lean together; put it into
a mortar and pound it, or pass il
through sausage machine boil II
large slice of bread in half pint OF
milk, and beat it and the ham well
together; add an egg beaten up. Put
the whole into mold, and bake "a
rich brown.
Steamed Fruit Pudding. Two cups
OF suet, chopped fine, two cups OF boil.
ing hot coffee, two cups of sugar,
half pound of raisins, half pound of
currants, quarter pound of citron, five
cups OF flour, teaspooniul OF salt,
three teaspoonsful of baking powder.
Mix these ingredients we'll together,
cutting the raisins, currants aud ci-
tron fine; put all in a bag and steam,
three hours do not lift the cover tll
the pudding is done; serve with
nice sauce.
If small piece of sulphur is oc-
casionally thrown upon tho fire in tho
smolehouse, it will etfectually pre-.
vent shippers and bugs from making
inroads upon the meat nor will it
produce any effect on its flavor save
on the mere surface of the skin. "A
mercan Farmer.
The following directions for mix.
ing mustard may be found useful
The water used should be previously
boilsd, and should have become near
I ly cold. Hot water destroys the es.
sential qualities of the mustard, while
a mixture with cold water is liable to
! fermcnt; vinegar should not be used
1t Is best TO make one days supply at
n time, and is false economy to keep
over what is left The fresher tho
mustard the better. In mixing the
mustard should be stirred until every
lump had disappeared, and the mass
resembles thick cream.
SkIm-miII and water, with little
bit of glue in it, made scalding hot,
will restore old rusty black Grape. Ii
clapped and pressed dry, like fine
muslin, it will look as good as new.
A paste made Of whiting and BEN
zoin will clean marble, & one made of
whiting and chloride of soda, spread
and left 10 dry lin the sun if pobsiblc)
on the marble, will remove spots.
When carpets are well cleaned
sprinkle with salt and fold when
laid strew with slightly moistened
bran before sweeping. This, with the
salt,wiIl freshen them up wonderfully.
The best black ink. mixed with the
white of an egg, will give ladies fine
shoes color and shine without rubbing
off.
A little grease or kerosene on the
legs Of fowls will remove scabs in
short time. Two applications are
sometimes needed.
Oatmeal Mush.-ITave the water
in your saucepan boiling hot sprin.
klc in the meal very slowly, to pre-
vent Jumps stir constantly; when
you have added sufficient meal, set
the pan on tho back Of the range. To
simmer slowly: stop stirring in meal
when II is not quite - thick as YOU
would liSc--it swells when cooking
let it simmer ten minutes stir oc-
casionalIy; add a little butter and
salt 20 taste Serve with cream and
sugar.
Apple and suet dumpling3 are
lighter when boiled ia n net than q
cloth. Besurc aud always skim the
pot well.
A writer SAYS that 10 has never
failed to cure garget by the use of
beans. He feeds one pint Of bean
meal, mixed with other meal, for four
successive days, and has found that
quantity sufficient TO cure the worst
cases. lie thinks If COWS were fed
with bean meal several fines q wear