The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-08-27

| age deck their stalks, giving rich hue and
color to the surroundings; off to one side
scatter a few ornamental grasses raise a
mound here and there, build rustic seat
near the center, and with rough poles-con.
struct an arbor over it and let the vines OF
the grape cluster around it, making it a
source of profit and pleasure; and, off to
one side, place yogr vegetable garden with
row of rasberries along the fence or wall,
strawberry bed here and row of rhubarb
there, row Of celery over yonder, bed of
parsley, and beets and carrots frames for
your tomato bed, and let them be planted
along the edges SO you can go along and
train them up and pull off just as it ripens;
don't forget your early radishes and lettuce
SOW your seed for succession, plant your
hills of cucumbers, and squash, and then L
know you won't forget your onions; but all
in all plant with system, with judgment, and
so you will not forget that all these things
require-to aim at perfection, good soil, and
manured properly.
Mrs Kitchen, on her usual subject, gives
US how cheap home made pickles are made
Take jar with close lid or bung, and
half fill it with best vinegar; then, as spare
vegetables of any description come to hand,
such as small beans, caulefowers, radish
pods, young cucumbers, onions, &c, throw
them in, taking care as the jar fills that
there is sufficient vinegar to cover the vege-
tables when nearly full add mustard seed,
bruised ginger, shalIcts, white peppers, &c,
to taste; tie down tightly, and place the jar
in a vessel Of water over the fire or in slow
oven until the articles are soft to suit the
palate. Or yon can pursue this plan with
the various kinds of vegetables, kept dis
tinct
Tt pickle cucumbers get very small ones,
wipe dry and clean and lay them into stone
| jars; allow one quart of coarse salt to a
| pail of water; boil the salt and water till
dissolved; then turn it boiling hot on the
cucumbers, cover them up tight, and let
them stand "a hours; turn them into
! bucket to drain; boil as much of the best
vinegar as will cover the cucumbers; wash
out the jars and pat them in; turn in the
vinegar boiling hot, cover them with cab
bage leaves, and cover the jars tight. In
48 hours they will be fit to use. Pickles of
any kind can be made in this same way.
Old Aunty Pie Crust said she had hern'
tell of these meetings and had come to give
in her voice on pies, pastry and puddings.
She was some on these things, for nigh onto
sixty years now she had gone by the name
of Old Aunty Pie Crust, and she gloried in
the name, and as all Of them was putting
down their experience and talking right out
in meeting, she would hold forth too. She
says:
I'll tell you the first requisite is good
flour, raised on good rich lands, none Of
your starved land -four for me, that don't
furnish full grown grain. well filed out,
with starch and gluten and sugar, covered
over with a fne covering of potash and
phosphorus, and other life giving elements,
which go to build up all human natur, when
you mix it up with good rich milk and salt
and nice fresh butter or lard, and bake it SO
that it is cooked clean thro, and all puffed
up, good sound, sweet, healthy pie crust,
Ijust as nice as myself, with my nice new
Sunday go to meetin' bonnet and fx-ups.
But that is not about pies or pastry or pud-
ding, have variety of them to suit, and
I'll give in the hull lot to ye in small doses.
Domestic recipes from Old Aunty Pie
Crust's pastry book:
Peach Potpie-Put plain pie crust round
the edge of pan; cutup some peaches and
put layer of them into your pan, theG a
layer of sugar and nutmeg; cover with a
crust, and bake slowly for two or three
hours.
Mince Meat-The necessary ingredients
are Four pounds of beef, after it is boiled;
four pounds of stoned raisins, six pounds of
sugar, about sixteen pippin apples, four
pounds of suet, two pounds of currants, two
ounces of cinnamon, one ounce of cloves,
two lemons; CRATE the rinds and squeeze out
the juice; citron a small quantity of mace
and nutmeg, aud enough cider to make 1t
: moist-about a gallon; add quart of sugar
house molasses and six oranges.
Lemon Citstard-Six eggs, beaten well ;
six soda crackers, rolled fine or grated )
three lemons, grated; two cupfuls of milk,
two cupfuls of white sugar, quarter of q
pound of butter, and a nutmeg. Bake on a
crust This quantity of M aterial is sufh'
cient for six pies.
Custard Ito be used ,gitA Pastry. Mix
in six spoonfuls of -four with one quart OF
milk; boil it like starch, and let it become
cold; afterward beat in five eggs, adding es
sence of lemon, whatever spice, and as much
sugar as you prefer. Make a good paste
pour in the mixture and bake.
l Dried AppIe Pie-To quart of dried