Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-07-14

Then bake in hot oven half an
hour.
Corn MEAL MUFFINs.-Onec cup of
corn meal, one cup of wheat flour,
two tablespoons of sugar, two heap
ing teaspoons of baking powder, one
half teaspoon of salt, one egg and a
cup and a quarter of sweet milk.
Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly
in a sieve and then sift. Have your
gem pans buttered and your oven hot
before you begin, for it takes but a
few minutes to prepare the mullins.
Beat the egg, add it to the milk and
stir quickly into the ingredients al
ready mixed, and beat for minute.
Then dip out in the pans. This rec
ipe is sufficient for one dozen mullins,
and they will require from 20 to 80
minutes to bake.
HIGDoM.-One peck of green to-
matoes, two red peppers, four large
onions, one cup of salt, one cup of
sugar, one cup of grated horse-radish,
one tablespoon of ground cloves, one
tablespoon of cinnamon, one table
spoon of allspice. Chop the toma-
toes fine, sprinkle salt over them,
stand over night, then drain off the
water, chop the onions and pepper,
add the other Ingredients, put all in
porcelain kettle, cover with good
vinegar, boil slowly till we'll cooked,
it requires some time, two or three
hours add more sugar and keep COW
cred with vinegar.
SORE THRoAT.-Chloride of potash,
camphorated oil. Take dessert
spoonful of the potash dissolved in a
tumbler of water. Gargle the throat
with it frequently, rub the throat and
lungs with the oil, soak a flannel with
it and wear il around the neck.
SILK pocket handkerchiefs and dark
blue cotton will not fade if dipped in
salt and water while new.
Equal parts of turpentine and sweet
oil rubbed on the throat and lungs,
will readily relieve stubborn cases of
the Group.
Sal volatile, or hartshorn, will re-
store colors taken out by acid. 1t
may be dropped upon any material
without doing harm.
If grease or oil is spilled on a car
pet sprinkle flour or fine meal over
the spot as soon as possible, let it lie
for several hours, and 1t will absorb
the grease.
1t is said that few drops of car
bolic acid-that is, 10 drops in one
pint of water-will, if poured Over
the earth in flower pots, kill all living
things except the plants.
If any one is fatigued the best re-
storative is hot milk, tumbler of the
beverage as hot as it can be slipped
This is far more of a restorative thai
any alcoholic drink.
Coffee pounded in a mortar an(
roasted on an iron plate, sugar burn
ed on hot Goals, and vinegar boileC
with myrrh and sprinl1led on the foo
and furniture of q sick room, are eX
cellent deodorizers.
The best labels for marking plant
are made from zinc, and nothing bu
q common lead pencil Is needed t
mark them. The writing is at frs
faint, the same as if made on glass
but soon becomes distinct when eS
,, posed to the weather.
A teaspoon of boraX in the waite
in which clothes are rinsed will whit
en- them wonderfully. Pound the he
rax so it will dissolve easily. This
especially good to remove the yello
that time gives to white garment
that have been laid away for two {
three years.
To cure sick headache use two tie:
v spoons OF powdered charcoal in h;l
n a tumber of water and it will usual
4 give instant relief. Another remeC
: is, when the first symptoms of hea
4 ache appear take. a teaspoon of Gle
g lemon juice fifteen minutes befo
: each meal and the same dose at be-
4 time follow this up until all sym
# toms have passed, taking no 9th
;. remedies, and you will soon be fir
from your unwelcome pain.