Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-06-23
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE.-This

is an excellent pie, as strawberries
do not cook well, they are SO juicy.
Bake pie crust into the shape OF
the top and bottom crusts, but with
out any fruit. When cold add the
straw berries, previously sweetened
enough, and covered with the top
crust the same rs pie. 1t is a
great luxury to those who are lucky
enough to be able to getit.
Strawberries do not preserve well,
and they are hardly necessary with
SO much other good fruit They can,
however, be dipped into hot syrup,
and carefully dipped out again, be-
ing dried in the sun on plates short
time. Then return them into can,
pour quantity OF hot syrup on
them, and put up "a other fresh fruit.
They keep better in tin than in glass.
If in the latter, they must be wrapp.
ed up and kept in darkness. Straw
berries are not good at all unless put
up in this way, as they are SO juicy
they soon loose their shape and COM
sstency, and but little is left but the
flavor, which never leaves them.
BoTTLING STRAwBERRIEs.-While
the strawberries are being picked
over and the stems removed, a quan>
tity of juice will drain from them
This should be placed in porcelain
kettle, with the desired quantity Of
sugar-a little over a quarter OF a
pound 10 q pound of fruit is sufficient
for most tastes. Let the syrup SIM
mer little, and add the fruit. Let
the whole come to boil, and as
soon as possible after it all boils
throughout, bottle or can, completes
ing one at time. Glass bottles
should first have q little warm wa
ter put into them, to warm them
and prevent the bottle from break
ing. This is, Of course, to be pour
ed out before the fruit is put in
Every bottle should be full at the
time of putting on the lid, when cold,
the contense will have shrunk con
siderable.
BEER VERSUS BREAD.-The amount
of nutriment contained in beer is
generally greatly over estimated
Liebing asserts that ia one thous-
and four hundred and sixty quarts |
of the best Bavarian beer there is
exactly the nourishment of an ordi. |
nary two-and a,half pound loaf of
bread This beer is about on q par |
with our best American beer In
stead of being on a condensation of
the nutriment contained in the grain,
in Just 80 far as the liquid has under>
gone fermentation the nourishment |
has disappeared.-Journal of Chemis-
try.
Twelve quarts of SCOT in hogs. |
head of water will make q powerful
LIQUID manure, which will improve
the growth of flowers, garden veget-
able or root crops. In either a Ii
quid or solid state it makes an eX-
cellent top dressing for grass or ce>
real crops.
A bit of shrubbery in the yard,
vine climbing on trellis, strip of
refreshing gre en- spread from the door
are sure to make place of greater
marketable value; which, with many,
is consideration to be thought of
before any other.
Nine tenths of the diseases which
happen to the hoofs and ankles of
the horse are occasioned by stand
ing on the dry plank floors of the
stable.
Smoke from rags, dry wood, or
corn cobs is better than from tobac
co in pacifying bees to remove honey
etc.
Carrots are recommended for
horses to aid digestion, and toma-
toes to cows toimprove and increase
the milk.
Experiments seem TO prove that
fence posts set up the reverse way
from which they grew. will last much
longer.
Managers should be low, and sta
bles we'll ventilated and lighted. Many
horses are m ade blind by being kept
in the dark.
1T is difficult to tell collie from
bots in horse, bu: a tablespoonful
of chloroform in twice as much mus
clage is a sure cure for either.
The potato is an absorber of pot.
ash. Therefore wood ashes are
good manure for it.
= Feed stock regularly, and.cut and
cook food well. Very few farmers
do it.