The Brookhaven leader., 1884-04-03
HOME AND Farm.

Gems; One small quart -four. one
pint sour milk, one teaspoonful each
Of soda and salt; heat the gem-pans hot
| Gil and bake.-De'roit Post.
-Omele tc: Break six eggs. season
with pepper and salt; add tablespoon
tul of finely grated bread crumbs. Beat
the whole well together, and fry in but
ter.-The Household.
If you have anv spare land, with
no prospect of its being put to remuner-
alive use, suppose you plant few for
est trees. 1t will pay, and even if you
don't live to see the day of the golden
harvest, your children will Exchange.
Boiled Icing; Two and one-quarter
cupfuls sugar. two-third cupful cold wa
ter, boil together until it candies when
dropped into cold water; beat slightly
the whites of three eggs, then put in
the sugar and stir twenty minutes;
Juice of one lemon. Toledo Blade.
"A poultry-raiser in Georgia finds
chopped or pulped yellow turnips a
very valuable food for fowls during
the winter. He prefers whole corn for
the last feed at night, but uses vege-
tables, unmarketable rice. and small
grain at other times. With a variety
of cooked food for fowls he gets eggs all
winter. TroU Times
Mo asses Pies: One-half cupful SUI
gar, one-half cupful mOla5ses, yolks of
three eggs, butter size of walnut, one
half nutmeg. Put all together and heat,
then stir in the well-beatcn eggs Bake
the crusts partly done and pour in the
mixture. Beat the whites of three eggs,
sweeten very little, and put on top af-
ter the pies are done.-Albany Journal.
"A correspond mt of the London
Elc ,tricjdn says the following is an in
slant remedy for toothache: With
small pieces of zinc and q bit of silver
any silver coin will do, the zinc placed
on one side of the afflicted gum, and
the silver on the other, by bringing the
edges together the small current of
electricity generated immed ately and
painlessly stops the toothache.
"A growing, living tree robs the soil
of water, and, to some extent, of fer
tility, for wide distance. This is dis
tnctly seen in fields devoted to hood
crops. 1t is scarcely possible to ma
nure highly enough to bring corn or
potatoes under or near trees to the
average in other parts of the field.
Butternuts or hickory are especially in
furious to hoed crops near them, pos
sibly because the wash from their
leaves positively Injuries the SOIL
Southern Plan'er.
apples IN Je,ly: Pare and core small
sized apples without cutting open;
then put them with some lemons in wa
ter to cover; let boil slowly until ten
der. and take out carefully without
breaking; make syrup of half a pound
of white sugar to pound of apples, cut
lemons in 81 ces and put them with the
apples into the syrup; boil very slowly
until the apples are clear; lake them
out in a deep glass dish; put to the
syrup an ounce of isinglass dissolved,
let it boil up; lay slice of lemon on
each apple and strain the syrup over
| them = 30 3tOn Globe
A pretty way to arrange choco-
late pudding is to make corn-starch
blanc mango; before it is hard at all,
take out enough of it to fill border
mould, mix with il enough grated choc-
| olate; when this is hardened su DILIGENTLY.
take it out of the mould. put it on q
small platter and heap the rest of the
blanc mango in the centre; if you wish
it to look particularly nice, make the
| filling of the centre after the border is
cool and on the platter; then the filling
will take the shape of it and will be
smooth. and it is then very ornament.
al dish for deSsert-N. Y Examiner.