The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Domestic Cooking.

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!s Domestic Cooking. H5za'i
Saint of Wad Ducks.-Roast the
ducks on a spit, take them off before
they are done and cut them in small
pieces. While they are cooking. fry In
oil or butter some pot-herbs, half bay
leaf, a chopped onion and head Of
cloves;y moistene with broth and glass
OF white wine: add some cooked celery
i and stoned olives; then; sprinkle with
crumbs of bread.
After boiling up once or twice, add
the hashed duck, let the whole simmer
in a corner of the range, turn out on q
dish and serve.
There are some hunters who cook the
ducks by a very small fire, with but
ter, white wine, pot-herbs, bay leaf
cloves, salt and pepper, and serve them
with butter sauce. calculated with tar
lragon vinegar. Every one to his taste
/ Breast of Zeal q Ia PTOVencnLe.-Cut
/ the breast into small square pieces,
place them In a saucepan with some
spoonfuls of oil, butter or dripptngs.
onions cut in thin slices, a bay leaf and
thyme, chopped finely, salt and pepper,
| cover the saucepan and cook slowly for
| two hours, with fire above and below,
taking care to stir the contents from
time to time.
Some minutes before serving add q
little soup stock and large spoonful OF
chopped parsley; putt back on the fire,
detach from the bottom with wooden
spoon, let it cook an instant and serve:
! Here is a little secret for theaimprove-
ment of maccaroni.
| While the water is boiling in which
the maccaroni cooks at it's ease, and at
the moment you think it is done, throw
/ into the saucepan large glass of cold
water and take it Immediately from the
fire. This fresh water has the effect or
hardening the paste OF the maccaroni
! and renewing its consistence.
Fried Eggs, Ren0utGde SGmce--Melt
butter in pan, season with salt; break
the eggs without bursting the yolks;
sprinkle with a little cream If conven-
lent; spead few morsels OF butter over
the top of the eggs, season with fine
| salt, coarse pepper and nutmeg; put
the pan over live Goals. holding a red
hot shovel above, removing the eggs
while the yolks are still partially soft.
! To this dish is added Remoulade Sauce,
made of olive oil, vinegar, mustard,
cut shallots, parsley chopped fine, salt
and pepper. Serve the sauce In poat'
| Fish IS01Lp.-Soak some crushed dried
peas, previously we'll washed, then put
| them to cook in warm spring or river
water. After softening, pass through a
colander, so as to form a thin PURGE.
Take, afterwards, some scraps OF fresh
l a
onion stuck with one or two heads OF
cloves, slices of carrots and pot-herbs,
salt and pepper; lnoisten with half wa
tier and half broth; add bread crumbs
and q lump of butter; let the whole
cook thoroughly and then strain
through a colander.
y. A GARDEN HINT OR TWO.
The out door grape vines should now
be tied up to the trellis; the raspberry
IL 1T, oh 70 q
and tied, but not tied. too closelysto the
stake, as itprevents free room for natu.
| ral4growth.h Asparagus beds should
have the coarser portion OF the manure
raked off, the rest forked In, and In
about ten days the beds should receive
a-good dressing OF, salt:T The rhubarb
beds should be put in ORDER and new
beds planted If needed. The currant
bushes should have all the dead and
unnroductive wood removed. Currants
make the best bushes If planted from
the cuttings. Take last years wood,
| from ten to twelve inches long, and II
YOU desire bush plant it as 1t Is cut,
and insertit in the ground where you
wish it to stand, some five or six inches,
and press the soil with the feet firmly
around it, and you will have currants
the second year. II you would prefer
pretty little tree, cut out the eyes from
tthe wood that goes beneath the surface.
Gather up from every quarter all the
rubbish about the garden, put it in
| heaps on different beds. burn and scat
| ter the ashes ~ NJ .lE = RI
Lose no time now in planting out
your fruit trees, vines, and fruit-bear-
| better, and the more time you will
have for other things not SO pressing as
now. Evergreen trees can be delayed
until the end of April or to the middle
OF May If necessary.
Pruning the Towering vines, shrub
| berry and rose bushes should be done
without delay, IL not already done.
Peas should be in the ground as soon as
possible. Ours we planted several days
ago-that is the first and second crops,
the Extra and Early Frame, with some
I"Advancers." -
An early start in the garden has q
! good effect the whole season.-GeTnsGn
tOtOrI Telegraph.
ABOUT PAINTING, PAPERING, ETC.
Select paper with quiet t1nts, as be-
ing in better taste than gaudy colors.
white or nearly white watered paper
should be used, with broad and deli
cately colored border. - So
Side walls can be papered by women.
Trim the imprinted edge from one side
of the paper, cut into strips the right
length, matching the figure as you cut,
then lay one strip at time on long
table, and with a good whitewash
brush, or even clothes brush, spread
on the paste-common boiled Hour
paste, made rather thin, and perfectly
smooth-then with your assistant, lift
the strip to its place, and with cloths In
your hand pat it thoroughly from the
top downwards, and the middle out
wards. In putting on the second piece,
lap its trimmed edge over the I'M
trimmed edge of the first, and match
the figure.
Do not begin in a corner, for these
are seldom straight, but begin by
door, so that when you come around
! to the place OF beginning, there will
not be strip of broken figure to close
up with. In papering the corners OF
room, always cut the paper instead of
turning the corner whole, and then lap
little so, so that the paper vii! go In
smooth to any Irregularities IN the
corner, and not bridge across, as 1t Will
do II put on whole. - ISL,
II your house is nice, and you wish to
repaint within doors, do not fail to get
zinc paint for the last coat. 1t costs
more, but is vastly more durable, has
beautiful polish, and is very easily
cleaned with soap. But II you are
building a nice house, by all means
have the wood work vanished, and
dispense with paint entirely. Almost
any wood is handsomer varnlshed than
any paint can make 1t, and a simple
damp cloth will then remove all dirt.
All the old vanished furniture, bed.
steads, chairs, tables, &C., can be made
to look almost like new, II well rubbed