National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-20
Farm, Garden and Household.

PuFF PUDDING. - One quart sweet
milk, seven eggs stir Az stiff as cup
cako serve hot with sauce.
To PREVENT BREAD FROM DRYING. --
Keep wet cloth around the loaf that is
being cut from, and wet every time after
ameal.
To PICKLE CABBAaR. Quarter them
till they are thin enough TO let the vine
gar strike through ; put them down in
layers with spice, salt, and vinegar scald
your vinegar as often as il necessary to
make them tender.
YEAST Boil six potatoes without the
skins add six tablespoonfuls of flour,
one teaspoonful Of salt one quarter pint
Of brown sugar. Mash the whole. hay.
ing poured over the mixture pint OF
the water in which the potatoes were
boiled, scalding hot When lukewarm
add half pint of yeast. Excellent for
biscuit.
SrIcEp APPLES. Eight pounds OF APP
pies, pared, four pounds Of sugar, one
quart Of vinegar, one ounce stick CHINA
mon, half-ounce of cloves. Boil the
sugar, vinegar, and spices together ;
put in the apples when boiling, and let
them remain until tender about twenty
minutes). Take them out, and put
them in jar Boil down the syrup until
it is thick, and pour it over.
CURE OF SrAMMERrNG.--Keep the teeth
close together, and before attempting to
speak, inspire deeply; then give time
for quiet utterance, and after very
slight practice, the hesitation will be re-
levcd. No spasmodic action of the
lower jaw must be permitted to separate
the teeth when speaking This plan,
regularly carried out for six months will
insure success.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.-Four eggs
well beaten, with two cups and half Of
white sugar, one heaping cup of butter,
one cup Of sour milk, one teaspoonful of
soda, five cups of -four one teaspoonful
of vanilla, one OF lemon, heaping cup
Of raisins, whole without stoningl, half
cup of candied orange peel and citron
sliced, half n cup Of almond meats sliced
II is delicious cake, and this amount
will make two commonsized ones.
To STop BLEEDING. Bleeding from a
wound on man or beast may be stopped
by a mixture of wheat flour and com
mon salt, in equal parts, bound on with
cloth. If the bleeding is profuse use
lar quantity, say from one to three
pin $. 1t may be left on for hours, or
even days, if necessary The person
who gave this recipe says in this man
ner he saved the life of horse which
was bleeding from n wounded artery !;
the bleeding ceased five minutes after
the application. 1t has been success
fully applied in other cases.
PRoTEcrIoN IRON STRIPED BUGS.-I
b. Smith of Patmos, Ohio, wrote to the
Farmers Club, that solution of salt
peter-two ounces to gallon of water
will destroy the Striped-bug. He tried
it and saved his squashes two years Mr..
Lyman. A trucker with whom | talked
the other day said he kept the Striped
bug off his vines by planting small
tomato plant in each hill The tomato
comes up first and ofiends the bug by its
smell; the pest accordingly leaves.
When this is accomplished, and the
tomato plant has reached its third or
fourth leaf, it is killed Mr.. Ely. Yes,
that is coming flank movement on the
bugs, like the fellow who planted grain
of corn in each potato hill. The corn
came up first and the potato bugs who
were lying around loose waiting for the
appearance of the crop they delight to
feed en-, thought they had gotten into a
corntield by mistake, and forthwith in
continenuy fed.
NOTES FOR BUTTER MAKERS. One
inch and half shallower instead of
deeper-is the proper depth to set the
milk. Zinc pans are better than tin, and
the cooler the place where there is cir
sulation of air, the better Swimming
must be done before curds form, or else
after they have soliditied. Better if you
want the best butter better if you want
the most, but never half way between,
unless you are more for your convenience
in the matter than your profit. We adj
wise churning every day, if the cows
number half dozen Butter washed in
clear cold water in the churn is not in
jured, while considerable labor is saved,
and the less manipulation with the hand
while in the churn and while out of it
the better There is "grain" to but
ter, as well as n delectable something
in the taste, which the hand and even
the paddle can annihilate. Use oak
boxes for marketing. and if the rules are
carefully followed. the result must be
satisfactory.
To WEAN A CoLT.-It is not necessary
nor even desirable that in weaving the
colt should be removed from the mare
1t is n good plan to have n closed stall
or box for her colt next to each mares
stall. She can then communicates in her
own NOV win bor ool, on1 IN 80. h.