Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-29
HOME AND FARM.

Gems; One small quart flour, one
pint sour milk, one teaspoonful each
of soda and salt; heatthe gem-pans hot,
fill and bake.-Desroit Post.
-Omeleie: Break six eggs, season
with pepper and salt; add atablespoon-
full of finely grated bread crumbs. Beat
the whole well together, and fry in but
ter.-1he Household.
If you have anv spare land, with
no prospect of its being put to remuner-
ative 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 variety
of cooked food for fowls he gets eggs all
winter.-Irou Times
-Mo'asses Pies: One-half cupful su-
gar, one-half cupful molasses, yolks of
three eggs, butter size of a walnut, one
half nutmeg. Put all together and heat,
then stir in the well-beaten 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. e.-Al6any Journal.
A correspondent of the London
Ele ;tricion says the following is an in
stant remedy for toothache: With
small pieces of zinc and a 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 immedi 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
t'nctly seen in fields devoted to hoed
crops. 1t is scarcely possible to ma
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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 Planer.
Apples IN Jelly: 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 slices and put them with the
apples into the syrup; boil very slowly
until the apples are clear; take 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.-Boston Globe
A pretty way to arrange a 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 it enough grated choc-
olate; when this is hardened sufficiently.
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 viii be
smooth, and it is then very ornament.
al dish for dessert-N. Y Eranliner.