South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-11-23
Farmer and House Keeper.

Farmer and House Keeper.
Cranberry pudding 10 made by pour.
ing boiling water ON pint OF drie.t
bread crumbs; melt Tablespoonful nj
butler and stir in. When The bread IL
sof.ensd add two eyss. and boat tho.
roughly with the bread. Then put in .
pint OF The stswed fruit and swestsn to
your taste. Bake In . hot oven for half
an hour. Fresh fruit may be u>ed Ia
place Of The cranberrics. Sices Of pea.
chss pat in layers make y delicious vari-
stion.
SwsDIsu PUppINe.- pound
OF -four; one-half pound OF butter, half
pound of sugar eigh. eggs: little sali.
Rub the sugar & butter % q cream: adj
tho yoiks we'll beaten, the salt, houi.
and lastly the whites Of the eggs beaten
TO stiff fro,h. Cook nv s,eamiug them
In u steamer about half an nour. Put
the batter threc-fourths OF an inch dseu
into teacups. Tue batter will al tho
cups. Turn them out ON hot platter.
Serve Immediately Hith eaucs In the
bottom of tho dish. Halt the above
quantity will be sufficient for q small
family.
Apple custard pie should be baked
with an under crust only. The filing 10
delicious il made o. ono pint Of sweet
milk, one pint OF smooth apple sauce,
we'll sweetened, three eggs; flavor with
lemon or with little cinuamou. Thit
will c,ake two email sized pies or onv
very large one.
CABBAGE SrKwED.-Shred two ANAL
cabhages coarser than for cold slaw par.
boil them with q small piece OF rel pep
per added TO the boiling water; then
pour off the water and aid three or four
tablespoonsful of vinegar. = small piece
Of butter, and a large sized ladietul of
stock from the stockport; cover tho
saucepan closely, nnt let the cabbage
simmer gently for half an hour season
with little red pepper, il it needs more.
and salt.
To PREVENT FADING. TO prevent
scarlet flannel or worsted goods of any
description OF this color from fading
when washed, take this prccau,ion Mix
half cupful of nour with q art ofcold
water, lot 1t boil Tor ten or fifteen miU-
u'eS. then mix with the warm suds in
which the article is To be washed squeezv
and rinse up aud down repeatedly in
stead of rubbing on rubbing -uosrd. IL
very much soile'i, wash in two or three
waters, always taking care To have them
Of the same Temperature. If possible, aud
just cool enough to put your hands In
comfortably. Make the suis before
putting the garment in, and avoid rub
Dlng sop Oh il.
To clean decanters break raw egg
shells in pieces snail enough to get into
tho decanter, add little water and
shake well. This never fails to remove
port vine or ciaret stains.
How TO MILK.-A mixer should
learn to milk quickly. Slow milking
will ruin any COW, and There is little
doubt that many cows are made unpro-
fiLsbie by bad milking. AS soou as The
How o. milk begins IL should be 6rswn
as rapidly as possible. Stripping with
the huger and thumb Is bad practice.
and should be unlearned at once, ana
the whole hand used TO milk with. Nv
porsevefing one viii soon be able ~
milk every short teats If tue hard 10 mo-
derately small. The best mixers have
small hands Strength of wrist will come
In time.
Abolish the feather duster. Use "a
cioth-wipe away the dust. Do you
know just what you are doing when you
brusb away dust2 You Disseminate in
the air, and consequently introduce into
your own interior, into your tissues and
AID respiratory organs, all sorts OF eggs.
spores, epidemic germs and nurdefous
yibriones which dus. contains.
In California, pruno culture liz great
success. Each tree bears about ono
hundred pounds Of prunes, worth about
fourteen cents per pound.
STORING ConN. ID mt be in a hurry
to house your corn. Corn packed IN a.
large bulk Is sure 10 hest. Let it alone
till late in November, that the winds and
irosts may dry it thoroughly, snd then
there will be no danger. II much OF IG
is upon tue ground and wasting, or the
stock are destroying much Of Il, OF course
1t will be well 70 house H. earlier, but do
not put IL in bulk 50 long "a IL IN the
least damp or there is any moisture in
the cob. IL may he gathered now aud
spread upon tue barn floor or other place
where tue air can circulate freely, to
dry, and afterwards put in hulk The
old plan OF shocking, or buskiug, crop
OF coru before housing il - falling into
disuse, and WEI, too, we think, for. while
IL Is better 20 have some busked in adj.
vance for winter use, that kept over To
the summer will be better, cleaner. AMI
whittier, II the shuck is allowed 20 remain.
Corn may be kept Two seasons 10 the
sbunk without becoming black and
weavelY. but not go when shocked in
. advance Wa L.