The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-09-12
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

"A little soda water will relieve sick
headache caused by indigestion. -BoS-
ton Budget.
Every good pasture must contain a
luXuriant growth of tender and nutri-
tive grasses, cool shade. and per-
manent supply OF pure water.
If you wish to keep a sharp knife
don't put Vt in hot grease; stir your
potatoes or turn meat with fork or an
old case knife kept on purpose.
-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.
Tile 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 strewn
between the layerS.-N Y. Eranljncr.
The transformations of nature are
wonderful. Put herring in tin box
with some cotton-seed oil and it imme-
diately turns into a Sardne.-PHiIGdeL-
PhjG CaH
Cookies: One cup sugar, one-half
cup butter, One-half cup sweet milk,
One-half teaspoon soda dissolved in the
milk, flour to roll well. Cut in squares
quite thin. Brisk Oven.-Ch Chicago Jour-
AGi.
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.-IndianapoIis
journal.
TO make orange float" take one
quart of water, the juice and pulp of
two lemons, one cotfee-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 a glass dish,
and over the whole spread the beaten
whites Of three eggs, sweetened and
favored with vanilla. The Caterer.
-H0lrS JournuJ of Health SAYS that
half a teaspoonful of common table salt
dissolved in a little cold water and
drank will instantly relieve heartburn
or dyspepsia a. If taken every morning
( before breakfast, increaSin NO the quantity
gradually to teaspoOnful of salt and
lumber of water, it will, in Il few days.
cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, if
at the same time due attention is paid
to the diet
"A new way to make an apple
pudding is to make a batter of flour,
sweet milk and one COG. 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 buttcred
eartben pie plate; it should be deep
plate; this is to be eaten with cream
and sugar, or if is an impossi bihty use
/ butter instead. Boston Globe.
-Buttermilk Bread: Put two pounds
best flour into a howl, 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
a cup, break all Jumps, add a little
| buttemilk blend; then fill up the cup,
pour this on the -four, mix very well;
add more buttermjlk till it is moist
enough; work it well, put it on the
pasteboard and knead it, form into a
ball. lay the hand flat on it, and press
1t into a round cake one inch thick, cut
into four. bake in a rather quc6 oven;
it will rise very much. About one pint
ofmilk will be enough for above quantity
of 1our.-DetroU Post.