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Show HOME AND FARM. Never wash raisins that are to be used in savory dishes. It will make the pudding heavy. - Health Monthly. Use kerosene or bath brick, or powdered lime to scour iron, tin or copper; wash in hot suds and polish with dry whiting. An old settler and weather prophet declares that frosts occurring in the dark of the moon never, or at least "hardly ever," kills small fruit. Soot falling on the floor from open chimneys, or carelessly handled stove pipe, if covered thickly with salt, can be brushed up without injury to the carpet. - Germantown Telegraph. A farmer in Clay County, Tex. (Texas) has a 3,000 acre wheat farm, and expects to break about 7,000 acres more this year and 3,000 next year, which will make a wheat patch of 13,000 acres. Here is a country with millions of acres untilled, and the farms of New England unproductive and returning to their primeval condition, and yet three or four thousand tons of potatoes are exported weekly from Scotland to the United States - Boston Post. Vinegar Cookies. One cup of molasses, one-half cup of sugar, one tablespoon of ginger, one tablespoon vinegar, two teaspoons of soda, one egg, and a pinch of salt. Bring the molasses to a boil, add soda and pour on the egg and sugar, beating together while foaming, add vinegar and ginger then flour to roll thin. - The Herald. Peanut Patties. Line two dozen patty-pans with puff paste or flaky pastry. To one pound of roasted peanuts, pounded fine in a mortar, add one egg well beaten, one pound of sweetmeat, half a pound of butter, put the mixture into the pans and bake until the patties are done in a moderate oven. Dip the patties with powdered sugar and use them hot or cold. - N.Y. Times. If you wish to give a suggestion of color to your white shawls with antique lace insertion and edge, line the bottom with a band of scarlet. Ribbon may be used for this, or a strip of red holland. If holland is used, be sure that you choose the kind that is warranted not to fade, as the other is changed by sunlight to a dull brown. - N.Y. Post. An Excellent Recipe for Sponge Cake. - Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff froth, and the yolks of the same till they are very thick. Add to the yolks one and one-half teacupfuls of white sugar and three tablespoonfuls of cold water. After they are thoroughly mixed add the whites and stir well. Add to two cupfuls of sifted flour two heaping teaspoonfuls of your powder, stir well and sift again. Stir this flour into the mixture, and when well stirred put immediately into a well heated oven. - The Household. |