The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-09-10
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"A little soda water will relieve sick
headache caused by indigestion.-Bos-
ION Budget.
If you wish to keep q sharp knife
don't put it la hot grease; stir your
potatoes or turn meat with a fork or an
old case knife kept on purpose.
Every good pasture must contain q
.luxuriant growth of tender and nutri-
tive grasses, cool shade, and q 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; -four 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 strewn
between the layers.-N. Y. Examiner.
Cookies: One cup sugar, one-haf
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.-ChicaSo Jour
nal.
One ounce oil of lavender mixed
with one quart of water or alcohol and
| sprinkled about a room will rid it of
flies. One who knows. says that four
applications at intervals will be sufficient
to drive away . host.-Indsanapotts
Journal. -
The most desirable eggs for setting
are those the freshest laid. A liberal
daily sprinkling of tepid water upon
them when incubation is ear its accom-
plishment, say a week before Matching,
is an aid to the free issue of the chicks
at maturity.-Iroy Times.
To make orange s'ioat'' take one
quart of water, the juice and 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 a glass dish,
and over the whole spread the beaten
whites of three eggs, sweetened anG
favored with Vanilla The Caterer.
-HaUs journal of Health says tina
half a teaspoonful of common table sail
dissolved. in a little cold water au6
drank will instantly relieve heartburn
or dyspepsia. If taken every morning
before breakfast, increasing the quantit!
gradually to a teaspoonful of salt and
tumbler of water, it will, in a few days
cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, i
at the same time due attention is pait
to the diet.
"A new way to make an. appl
pudding is to make a halter of flour
sweet milk and one egg. with bakin,
powder, in proper proportion; pare AM
core six tart apples, stew them in
very little water until they are quit
soft, then beat the apples into tn
batter. This is to be baked in a buttere
earthen pie plate; it should be a dee!
plate; this is to be eaten with crear
and sugar, or if is an impossibility US
butter instead.-Boston Globe.
-Buttermilk Bread: Puttwo pound
best flour into a bowl, one teaspoonfu
of salt. two of baking powder, two G
cream of tartar, mix well; then put on
and a half teaspoonfuls baking soda int
a cup, break all Jumps, add a littl
buttermilk, blend; then fill up the cur
pour this on the flour. mix very vel
add more buttermilk till it is mois
enough; work it well, put it on tn
pasteboard and knead it, form into
ball. lay the hand flat on it, and pres
it into a round cake one inch thick, CT
into four, bake in a rather quick over
, it will rise very much. About one pir
, of milk will be enough for above quantit
of four.-DetrO1 Post.