The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-31
FARM, GARDEN ANB HOUSEHOLD.

GRAHAM OR COARSE WHEAT
BREAD.-Two-thirds unsifted wheat
meal, e-third fine -four, little mo-
lasses, mix with warm water. One
large cup of potato yeast will make
two good sized loaves.1 Mix and rise
over night, and your bread is ready
to mold and put in your pans before
breakfast. Do not let it rise too long
the second time; much bread is spoil
ed byssO doing.
DRY PICKLE FOR BEEF-If you
would have the INCEST pickle for beef,
or other corned meats. please accept
the following prescription:
For 100 lbs. take
-Four quarts Of rock salt, finely pull
verified.
-Four pounds Of clean fine Sugar.
Four ounces of saitpetre, pulver-
lied.
Mix the whole together without a
dropof water, and then take your
beef. piece by piece, and rub the mix
ture we'll into all its folds and inter-
stices, packing it down as you pro-
coed in sweet, dry tub or barrel.
When all the pieces are thus treated
and packed down, leave it to take
care of itself. In a few days the
juice of the meat will dissolve the in
gradients and make pickle enough to
cover it. The meat in this case re-
tainsall its sweetness, not adulterated
or hardened by water-Mdtne Stand :
ard
Coop VINEGAR FROM ROTTEN AP
PLEs.-The idea prevails among many
farmers that rotten apples are worth
less. and hence suffered to go to
waste. This is mistake. If they
are not dried up they~are just as valu-
ablegfor vinegar as sound ones. 10
test this, two years ago after gather
ing my marketable apples and all that
would possibly answer for cider, be-
fore.they were frozen1 went through
the orchard and picked up large
loadsof rotten apples-there was not
among them bushef that had any
thing sound on them, and many OF
them had been rotten for weeks.
These were made upas usual. The
juice. at first was quite bitter and un-
pleasant. 1t was put into the cellar,
where it remained until SRring, then
removed to an .outhouse and left until
Fab, at which time the bitterness had
all disappeareds and it was pure,
pleasant tasted vinegar. ave have
usedsit in the family for a year past
and never had better l have sold II
to my neighbors, and they all pro
nouace it first rate.-F C.gtts, Alton
Illinois. m
SAVING CABBAGEs.-A correspond
ent Of one of our exchanges asks fol-
a method to preserve green cabbage:
through the Winter, sand the editor
calls upon others forsinformation.
The plan we have adopted for {
number of years seems toeanswer the
purpose as weHgas any with, which We
are acquainted. This we have made
known on several occasions, and i
maysnot do any harm to repeat it. |
is simply this:hs
Select dry part of the garden
digstrenches Of sufficient depth to re-
ceive the cabbage roots and, stalks VI
to Che head into these trenches
transplant the cabbages, heads up Of
coufse-fll in the dirt carefully abou
them up to the heads-plan four shor
posts, two of them being higher thar
the others, to give pitch to the roo
nail Singing lath or STRIPS of ole
board from one post-to the other, anC
another board half way up-lay upor
this.a number of bean poles, and upor
these throw straw, scornHfodder Of
beam haulm, protecting also the sides
and your cabbage will keep in gooC
condition until May
Where there is a fence, only two
posts will be necessary, that being EN-
e ployed as the apex of the cover O.
roof.-Gernaanto'on Telegraph.
COOKING FooD FOR SrocK 4
renders mouldy hay, sstrawsand corn
stalks perfectly sweet palatable
Animals seem to relish straw takel
from a stack, which has been wet anC
badly damaged for ordinary use, ant
evensiu any condition except dry
!. rot.4 steaming will restoreits sweet
uess.
Itsdiffuses the color ofs3the bran
corn-meal, oil meal, carrots, or what
/. eyeE7is mixed with the feed, through
theSwhole mass, and thus it ma,
cheaply be favored to suit the animal
1t softens the tough fiber of tn,
corn.stalk, rye straw and other hare
I material, rendering lit almost Xix,
green, succulent food, and Easily mas
ticated and digested by the>animal.
Itrenders beans and peas Agreeable
food for horses as we'll as other ami
: mails, and thus enables thea feeder t,
i combine more nitrogeneons food il
= the diet of his animals.