The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-13
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

"A very good way to use up cold
roasts, especially those of pork or veal,
is to put sufficient number of slices
into vinegar over night, then dip in egg
and bread crumbs and fry light brown.
-Housekeeper.
To remove wart, cover the skin
around the wart with lard, apply over
the surface of the growth one or two
drops of strong hydrochloric or nitric
acid; then keep the part covered up
until the scab separates.
-Shad: Make a dressing of bread
crumbs, butter and parsley, sprinkled
with salt and pepper. Fill the fish and
sew up; spread thickly with butter, and
flour well. Pour a little hot water
round the fish and haste often. Bake
an hour and serve garnished with pars-
ley.-Boston Budget
Perhaps you would like to try to
make your own cologne; here is recipe
which is said to be very good: To one
half gallon of alcohol put six drachms
each of oil of lavender, oil of bergamot,
and essence of lemon, two drachms of
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cinnamon. N. Y. Tribune.
Lemons are simple and excellent
remedy for biliousness. Take the juice
of one or two lemons in as much water
as will make it pleasant to drink without
sugar, before going to bed. In the
morning on rising, at least half an hour
before breakfast, take the juice of one
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Apple Compete: Cut some fac APP
pies in halves, peel them, clean out the
cores, and drop them into cold water.
Having taken them out, prepare some
sirup by taking two pounds of fine sugar
and boiling until the sirup spins into a
thread. Boil your apples in this sirup
until they are soft Place them in
china or glass Dishes and after strain
ing the sirup through fine sieve, pour
into the holes of the apples whence the
cores have been cut out-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Here is a remedy for women who
are tagged out after a day of excite
nlent or business, and is better than al
coholic stimulants and outline: Drop a
fresh. raw egg into glass of lemonade,
shake well torether-be careful with
the sugar-and drink it slowly and
without ice when you begin to dress. 1t
is astonishing how the dreary numbness
will leave your tired head, and bright
things will soon come trooping into
your mind to say over the coffee.-Once
a Week.
Cottage Soup: Two ounces of drip.
ping, half pound of any solid fresh
meat in dice one inch square, quarter
of a pound of onions, a quarter of a
pound of turnips, two pounds of leeks,
three ounces of celery, half a pound of
rice, three ounces of salt, quarter of
an ounce of brown sugar, six quarts Of
water. Put the meat, sugar, dripping
and onions into an iron Saucepan; stew
them till lightly Drowned: add turnips,
celery, leells. Stir cold water and rice
Add five quarts of hot water, and salt
to taste. Stir occasionally till it boils
If to be kept, stir gently till the soup is
nearly cold. Let it simmer three hours.
Boston Herald.
Fruit Cake: Wash and drain we'll
one pound of currants. chop mot fine)
one pound of raiSins: slice one-half
pound of citrOn. Beat five eggs and
two cups of brown sugar together add
one cupful of butter, one cupful of mo-
lasses, one cupful of good sour milk
with one large teaspoonful of soda dis
solved in the milk, one teaspoonful
each of ground cinnamon. cloves and
nutmeg and six cupsful of sifted -four,
reserving half Il cupful to mix with the
fruit to prevent it settling, add the fruit
last. This will make one large loat
and will require one and Il half or two
hours to bake it.-Home.