South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-11-16

ono and one-half cups flour, one. half
cup corn starch, one-half cup zee, milk.
one teaspoonfui cream o. tartar. ono.
tablespoonful soda. the whites Of six
cggs, a little mace or nutmeg.
| Cream fritters. as an cn.ree with roast
| beef and vegetables, are made iust tho
same rs il they were TO be eaten with
syrup. The cream is = gravy made Of
butter and -four. with boiling water pour.
ed over. A little sugar should be add.
ed, and few drops OF vanilla.
| a SMILE SusAN.-Two cups Of Emo
dry bread crumbs, three cups OF chop.
ped apple. one cup Of sugar one tea.
spoonful OF mace, and half rs much all
spice, two tsblespoonfuls OF butter, ono
teaspoonfui Of salt. Butter pudding
dish and cover the bottom with crumbs
Lay on these thick layer OF minced
! apple, spyinkled lightly with salt and
spices more heavily with sugar. Stick
bits of butter over all Then more
crumbs. going on in this Older until all
| the ingredients are used up. The top
layer should be crumbs. Cover CLOSELY
and bake half an hour. Remove the
cover and set on the upper grating of
the oven until nicely Drowned. Send to
tabl, in tho dish IN which 1t was baked.
| Cranberries make delicious filing
for a roly.poly pudding. Stow them,
using as little water as possible, so that
the juice will be thick and jelylike;
sweeten aud let the sauce boil for
minute or two. but not longer, after tho
| sugar is put in.
1t is the usual practice TO serve pota-
toes in porcelain dish with closc-it.
| ting cover. In ten minutes the best
potatoes, however, carefully cooked are
thus utterly destroyed. A culinary au-
tbority recomm nds that they should be
placed in wooden dish, or served in
porcelain dish, with towels above and
below to absorb the moisture.
a nice dish for breakfast is made by
cutting pork tenderloins In thin slices;
stew them in water till they are nearly
done then put n little butter In sauce
pan, fey them till light brown; serve
them on buttered toast, with mashed
! potatoes and raw tomate5 sliced thin.
| Oatmeal cookies combine many good
| qualities and will be rclished 10y child
rem. Make them Just like an ordinary
sugar cooky. using two-thlrds oatmeal
and one-.Lird wheat -four.
! PIcKLED ONIoNs. Take your onions
when dry enough TO lay away, as near OF
Eigness as you have them; take Off
only the outward dry coat, then boil
them in one water ill they begin TO
grow tender: then drain them through
q colanier ena let them cool As soon
as they arc slightly cool slip off the peel
until they look white; rub them gently
with soft cloth, then lay them to cool.
then put item in cans. To a quart or
onions ! Of an ounce Of mace. ginger to
your taste. These Ingredients must be
all boiled in the vinegar. Skim the scum
! we'll as it rises. Let it stand until 10 10
cold, then pour on your onions; keep
covered close.
Sauce FOR a common fruit pudding is
nice made OF one cup of sugar, an even
Tablespoonful OF iour, and one OF butter.
Nix TO cream, pour boiling water over
| this, and stir until there are no Jumps;
then put it on TIE stove, and keep t
ia re until it is cookci. say, for ten or
even fifteen minutes. Flavor with nut
meg, and put in large spoonful, OF mo-
! lssses TO give IL q rich brown color.
If peach growers will 90 through their
orchards every fail aud examine each
tree closely they will fad upon many Of
them gum ooziHg from the trunk near
the ground. By bruspg away the gum
q small white grub with black hesd
will be founl drilling bis way through
the BARI. Kill all Of these pests and the
trees will not suffer from borers. The
warm weather Of October and November
is the best time Tor doing this work.
WHITEwAsH. The following is a re-
cipe for preparing wniJews ash: Take the
very best stone lime aud slack 1t IN .
clio tub, covered with cloth 10 pre-.
serve The steam. SaIt-ss much IS can
be dissolved in the water used for slack.
ing and reducing the lime-should be
applied, snd the whole carefully strained
aHd thickcned With small quantity or
sand, tue finer and purer the better. A
fcY pounds Of wheat -four mixed as paste
may be added and will give greater
durability TO the mass, especially whcu
applied 10 the exterior OF buiidings.
\ WIFI pure lime, properly stacked aud
mixed viii twice Us weight Of ine SAM
and sified wood ashes IN equal proper.
,'ons although any color mag be made
BY the addition of pigments, granite,
slate, lrcestoae AMI other shades NAV
be initiated. and without any detriment
TO the durability Of the wash. This
covering is very often applied, and with
| good effect, 20 uuderpinning stono fences
roof, and The walls Of barns and other
Outbuildings Probably the pure white.
wash Is more healthy than the coioref,
as its alkalesceBt properties are superior,
and when used in cellars, kitchens anu
sleeping apartments produce salutafy
results. No person, who regards the