Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
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Gems: One small quart flour, one
pint SOU milk, one teaspeonful each
of soda and salt; heatthc gem-pans hot,
fill and bake.-DetroI Post.
-Omeete: Break six eggs, season
with pepper and salt; add tablespoon
full of finely grated bread crumbs. Beat
the whole w~elttogether, and fry in but
ter.-1he Household.
If you have. anv spare land, with
no prospect of its being put to remuner-
alive use, suppose you plant a few for
est trees. 1t will pay, and ever if you
don't live to see the day.of the golden
harvest, your children will.-Erchange.
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.-Ioledo 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 u variety
of cooked food forfowls he gets eggs all
winter.-1rou Times.
-Mo'asses Pies: One-half cupful SUI
gar, one-half cupful molasses, yolks of
three eggs, butter size ola 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.-Al6any Journal.
"A correspondent of the London
Electrician 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 n side of the afflicted gum, and
the silver on the other, by bringing the
edges together the small current of
electricity generated Immediately and
painlessly stops the toothache.
"A growing, living tree robs the soil
of water, and, to some extent, of fer
tility, for q wide distance. This is dis
tinctlY seen in fields devoted to hoed
crops. 1t is scarcely possible to ma
nure highly enough to bring corn or
potatoes under or near trees to the
~VCLnSo Ill OVuCL pdlCS VI tdc uc1Os
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 Planter.
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 a syrup OF half a pound
of white sugartoa pound Of apples, cut
lemons in slices and put them with the
apples into tie 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 a slice of lemon on
each apple and strain the syrup over
them.-B0stoD Globe
"A pretty way to arrange a choco.
late pudding is to make a corn-starct
blanc mango; before it is hard at all
take out enough of it to fill a border
mould, mix with it enough grated choc
olate; when thisis hardened sufficiently
take it out of the mould, put it on
small platter and heap the rest of thu
blanc mango in the centre; if you wish
it to look particularly nice, make the
filling of the centre after the border il
cool and on the platter; then the filling
will take the shape of it and will b.
smooth, and it is then q very ornament
al dish for dessert-N. Y Examiner.