Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-02-29


pounds. am going down till l reach
one hundred and forty pounds, and there
will stop, unless my husband says one
hundred and thirty. am willing to do
anything to please him.
--D>eD~<&
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
DREAM CAKE is new production, and
will be welcomed by all lovers of good
cake. It is baked in three layers. Each
layer should be about an inch and half
thick when baked. The two lower layers
are frosted with confectioners' sugar and
the white of an egg; the frosting for the
bottom layer is favored with lemon. the
next layer with vanilla, and the top layer
is thickly covered with cocoanut and is
favored delicately with few drops OF
rose water. The cake may be made by
folio wing any good and suffi GENTLY rich
receipt for white cake.
IF 1t is necessary that the clothes of the
Mondays wash should be left in water all
night, do not leave them in suds, but after
taking them from the boiler and draining
them, put them in a tub and pour over
them scalding water and let them lie in
this; from this they can be wrung out and
after bluing slightly will look much
whittier and certainly will have more
pleasing and cleaner color than If left all
night in suds.
HASH made of bits Of roast beef or lamb
may be given very good flavor by using
raw potatoes instead OF cold boiled. Chop
the potatoes very fine, in the proportion
of two-thlrds of these to one-third of
meat. This will require longer time to
by many people.
WATER CREss. 1t is possible to raise
this luxury on most every farm. Stick
some pieces OF the plant in shallow parts
of the running stream, and it will need no
further care or cultivation. If you do not
wish to raise it for a market crop, at
least have supply for your own table. 1t
will cost you nothing and will help de-
crease your DOCTORS bill.
DOMINOEs FOR CHlLDs PARTY
Bake any kind of sponge cake in a very
thin sheet; when cold, cut into small, OBJ
long pieces; frost the top and side. When
the frostlng Is hard, mark the lines and
dots with small Cancels brush dip
cd in no II;
cake, with the Lima bean in it, is very
much like ''angel cake''-a fine light, white
cake, frosted, with colored candies stuck
ON top.
LUMBER FOR CABINET UsEs-Hick0ry
and cherry require growth Of thirty
years before they are valuable for timber,
maple twenty years and beeches and
birches fifteen years. Black walnut, how
ever, will produce trunk fourteen inch.
es in diameter in as many years, from the
seed.
CREAM COOKIES are made of one cup of
sour cream, one cup of butter, two cups
sugar. two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda,
flour enough to make dough of medium
body. neither as soft as possible to roll nor
as hard. These may be rolled thin, and
will be light and rich. Bake IN quick
oven. but do not let them brown.
A DELICIOUS DISH for tea or lunch is
made thus: On very fine wire gridiron
Tor one made of wire not used for screens)
place some slices of salt pork, cut as thin
or two small ones; broil and serve hot.
Coffee, crisp toast, with chopped cabbage,
make an almost ideal lunch.
STALE BREAD may be utilized in max
ing good breakfast dish. Cut it in thin
slices and when toasted uniformly brown,
spread it with butter, and heap on each
slice some ham, minced and mixed with
eggs, and fried nicely. Serve very hot.
PANHANDLE. Sturtevant's analysis
at the New York Experiment Station
shows that the narrow leaved plantain,
generally regarded as weed to be eradl-
Gated, possesses nearly the same nutritiye
value as timothy.
GREEN CLOvER.-"Green clover turn
ed under will increase the fertility of land
five times as much as the same crop left
on the surface to ripen and dry up and
then ploughed under"
HUBBARD sQUAsHEs.-It is said that
frost will not hurt hubbard squashes.-
They are not SO easily affected by frost,
but once frozen they will rot quickly.
COMMERCIAL MANUREs.-All concen-
rated fertilizers should be applied by
oroadcasting in preference to placing them
n the hill, as too large quantity in
mail area is sometimes fatal to seeds.
IF starch is cooked sufficiently it does
lot need anything to prevent its sticking.
So we are Informed by successful laun-
iress.
FRITTERs made of batter, with bits of
,old turkey or chicken dropped into each
poonful, make nice entree.
PEA BRUsH.-Do not wait until the 1st
# June to cut your pea brush.