Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-11-10
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

"A little soda wafer will relieve sick
headache caused by indigestion Bos-
ton Budget.
The hair may be kept from falling
out after illness by frequent applca-
ton to the scalp of sage tea Exchange.
If you wish to keep a sharp knife
don't ut it in hot grease; stir your
potatoes or turn meat with fork or an
old case knife kept on purpose.
Every good pasture must contain a
luxuriant growth of tender and nutri.
tive grasses, cool shade, and a per-
manent supply OF pure water.
-Doughnuts: One cup sugar, one
egg, one cup sweet milk, butter size OF
an egg, one teaspoon soda, two tea
spoons cream tartar; flour to roll well,
The Household.
Dried cherries and plums are very
nice for pies or as sauce in winter.
Stone them and half dry them, then
pack them in jars with sugar strcwn
between the layers. y. Examiner.
Cookies: One cup sugar, one half
cup butter onc-half cup sweet milk,
one-half teaspoon soda di: solved in the
milk. flour to roll well. Cut in squares
quite thin. Brisk OVEN Chicago Jour
nal.
One ounce oil of Lavender mixed
with one quart of water or alcohol and
sprinkled about room will rid it Of
flies. One who knows. saws that four
applications at intervals will be sufficient
to drive away host. --Indianapolis
Journal.
The most desirable eggs for setting
are those the freshest laid. A liberal
daily sprinkling of tepid water upon
them when incubation is near its accom-
plishment, say a week before Matching,
Is an aid to the free issue of the chicks
at maturity.-1roy Times.
10 make orange float take one
quart of water. the juice ind pulp of
two lemons, one coffee cup Of sugar.
When boiling hot add four tablespoon
fuls OF corn starch. Let it boil fifteen
minutes, stirring all the time When
cold pour it over four or five oranges
that have been sliced into glass dish,
and over the whole spread the beaten
whites of three eggs, sweetened and
favored with vanilla. Thc Caterer.
Halls journal of Health says that
half teaspoonful Of common table salt
dissolved in a little cold water and
drank will instantly relieve heartburn
or dyspepsia. II taken every morning
before breakfast, increas ng the quantity
gradually to teaspoonful of salt and a
tumbler OF water, it will, in few days,
cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, if
at the same time due attention is paid
to the diet. t n
"A new way to make an apple
pudding is to make batter of flour,
sweet milk and one egg, with baking
powder. in proper proportion; pare and
core six tart apples, stew them in a
very little water until they are quite
soft, then beat the apples into the
batter. This. is to be baked in buttered
carthen pie plate; it should be a deep
plate; this is to be eaten with cream
and sugar, or if is an impossibility use
butter instead. - Boston Globe.
-Buttermilk Bread: Put two pounds
best flour into bowl, one teaspoonful
of salt, two of baking powder, two Of
cream of tartar, mix well; then put one
and a half teaspoonfuls baking soda into
cup, break all Jumps, add a little
buttermilk, blend; then fill up the cup,
pour this on the flour, mix very well;
add more buttermilk till il is moist
enough; work it well, put it on the
pasteboard and knead it, form into a
ball. lay the hand fiat on it, and press
it into round cake one inch thick, cut
into four, bake in a rather quic6 oven;
it will rise very much. About one pint
of milkwill be enough for above quantity
of flour. Detroit Post.