The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1868-12-12
SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 1868
ACRiCULTURAL.

renders the apple a favorite, because of
its hardness, its many varieties, and the
ease with which it is preserved, as we may
have them from the orchard and cellar
from August until May
One of the FIRST things wanted for the
nice preparation of the apple is corer
If you have none, and do not wish to pay
the prices attached to the patent, get
your timer to roll up a hollow tube of
tin smaller at one end than at the other,
and, when rive.ed, about the size of the
top of pepper castor; let it be some
five or six inches in length you will
fud it to answer every purpose for coriug
neatly and 'r9pidly.
Apples for baking should always be
cored, both, to insure freedom from
worms, and also a cavity wherein to drop
PARTICLES of butter and sugar. AMI favor
ing it desired. Place them in a dripping
pan, all of size and kind, with hall piut
or more of water, and the butter and SUI
gar, and favoring, if desired. Place
them in dripping pan, ali of Il size and
kind, with half 4 pint or more of
water, and the butter and sugar drop
ped into the cavities, which will, with
the Juice of the fruit, make fnc syr-
up.
They are also very nice boiled. Put
into stew pan, after coring. with suf-
fcient water to cover, aud boil slowly,
until Thoroughly done, with sugar and cin-
namon sticks for flavor. After skim
ming out the apples, one can add more
sugar, and boil the syrup longer, if dcsir-
ed
IF you have good apples, and wish
very nice sauce. pare quarter as many
as you like, and lay them in sugar fo-
twenty-four hours-perhaFs qurter OF
a pound to a pound OF fruit. This will
keep them from falling to pieces and hlr-
den them, SO that if cooked slowly, aud
SKINNED out of the liquor, they WILL keep
their shape perfectly. Bits of lemon
peel, peach or rose leaves. are nice for fla
voring.
Apples make most delicious preserve;
sweet ones can be uzeI, but are MT rs
good as sour. They sho1ll be har e"el
In their full weight of sugar, fr ut least
twenty four hours, using tisht. Gs,n.
app c., and large qr,rtcr<, s.iciis iii
two or three fresh lemons to eight or
ten pounds. J-I y mule from apples is
much pieasanter thln that of currents
So marmalade, apple butter &C., are in
valulble in th. fruit cl,s.t.
For pu liinss, pies AMI tarss, app'es
should generally be grated. For this
purpose large CRATER is wan.el, which
is convenient for many purposes, su;h "a
grating potatoes, horse radlish, &c.
This grated apple. mixed with milk,
cream, or melted butter and eggs, made
very sweet, favored with VI inc and nut
meg, and baked on one crust, makes
pie fit for king.
A nice pudding is made by placing
half dozen cored apples in pudding
dish, and pouring over them smooth,
rich batter, to be eaten with any sauce
you please. Layers Of stewed or gra-
ted apples are very nice between layers of
rice.
A pretty dish for dessert may be made
by rolling thin several layers of good
cream dough, about the size of break
fast plate, aud frying in hot fat; place
grated and seasoned apple between the
several layers and serve hot. have
said nothing of the beauties of apple
dumplings, whose very name touches a
tender memory of childhoo and ehome.
nor of many other dainties which will
suggest themselves to the thoughtful
house keeper.
Ciler,-;' those delicate juices,"--is
always convenience in cooking, and
pleasant draught in hot weather (don't
laugh, my INITIATED reader), when pre-
pared SO as to keep sweet, as it may be
by simple chemical process, and flavor
ed with wintergreen in the barrel.
The following short rules in rural
economy are worthy of attention
/. Paint all tools exposed to the
weather, and If with light colorcd paint,
they will not heat, warp or crack in the
sun.
2. Dip well seasoned shingles in lime
wash, and dry them before laying, and
they viii last much longer, and not be-
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