Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-09-22


,r.ir PeppING.-An excellent pud-
ling Is made cf tart apples stewed, and
thcn nut ia layers with fine cracker CT
hrsad crumbs, While the apples arc still
no, stir Sugar and little butter in with
Them, fhis should be baked for half an
ho,.r> \ little sweet cream Is a great adj
Aition, but it is good without any sauce.
TO PREVENT Morn RAvAGEs.-A boiling
solution Of sulpiate of copper applied 10
floor before laying carpet will keep away
moths. For outside coverings OF furni-
ture, especially of wool, solution oil cor
rosiye sublimate dissolved in cOlOrless al
cohol can be used without fear oil discol-
Grafton and Is certain cxtcrmlnator of
these pests.
Ir,toS Prrrs.-Bruise one pound of
double refined sugar and sift it through
fine sieve. Put it iato bowl, with the
Juice of two lemons, and mix them to-
sether. Beat the white of an egg TO very
stiff froth, put into your bowl, add there
with the rinds of lemon grated. Mix it
well up, drop into the pufls in small drops
and bake i'm moderately heated oven.
How TO MnK-A mixer should learn
10 milk quickly. Slow milking will ruin
any COW, and there is little doubt that
many cows are made Improbable by bad
milking. As soon as the flow of milk be-
gins it should he drawn as rapidly as pos
sible. Stripping with the finger and
thumb is bad practice, and should be I'M
learned at once, and the whole hand useG
TO milk with. By pcrsevering one Will
soon be able to milk very short teats, if
the hand is moderately small.
PEACH SH0RTCAKE.-Makea soft dough
Of Que quart of sifted -four mixed with two
heaping teaspoOnfuls of baking powder,
generous teaspOonful of butter, little
salt, and sufficient sweet milk. Roll out
thin, put layer in 4 baking pan, and
sprinkle with flour and bits of butter;
make four layers like this, using no butter
and hour OH the top layer. Bake in
quick oven, turn outside down, remove
the layers, aud place the ripe peaches, cut
up and sweetened between each layer.
Serve as a cake, with cream and sugar.
ABOUT RATs-Rats are wonderful clean
animals, and they dislike tar more, per-
haps, than anything else, for il they get
it oil their jackets they find it most difficult
TO remove it. Now, | heard it mentioned
that pouring tar down at the entrance OF
their holes was good remedy, also plac-
ing broken pieces of glass by their holes
was another remedy. But these remedies
are not effective. The rats may leave
their old holes and make fresh ones in
other parts of the house; they don't how
ever, leave the premises for good. l
thought I would try another experiment.
one had not heard of before. One even-
ing set a large wire cage rat-trap, attach
ing inside a most seductive piece of strong
smelling cheese, and next morning found
to my satisfaction, that had succeeded in
trapping very large rat, one OF the
largest had ever seen, which, after had
besmeared him with tar, | let loose into
his favorite run. The next night tried
again, and succeeded in catching another
equally big fellow, and served him in the
same manner. | could not follow these
two tar-bcsmeared rats into their numcr-
Gus runs, to see what would happen; but
il is reasonable to assume that they either
summoned together all the members OF
their community, and by their crcstfallen
appearance gave their comrades a silent
indication of the misfortunes which had
SO suddenly befallen them; or that they
frightened their brethren away, for they
forsook the place and fled. The expert
ment was eminently successful. From
chat day in 1875 till now, 1888, my house,
ancient though it is, has been entirely free
FROM rats and believe that there is no
remedy equal to this one, if you can catch
YOUR rat alive. They never came back to
the house again.