Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-02-29
farm, Garden and Household.

PLAIN COOKIES. -One cup sugar. one
egg, beaten, onc-half cup butter, one
half cup sour milk, one teaspoon Of gin
ger rub the butter in the flour, stir in
the egg and sugar. mix the spice in the
milk, stir in and mix in -four till stiff
enough to roll roll very thin, and bake.
Fora large batch, double heingredients,
Plain but good, and healthy for chill
dren.
BOILED INDIAN PUDDNa.-Sift one
quart of Indian meal, add one tablespoon
full of lard, teaspoon of salt, one-half
teaspoon of soda, one-half teacup of nice
molasses pour on boiling water and stir
till it forms a very stiff batter; wet n
pudding bag, made of strong, new cloth,
in boiling water -four on the right side,
turn it inside out, and put your pudding
batter in tie so it may swell one. third,
and boil three hours with boiled dinner
My word for it, you will have a pudding
you will not feel ashamed of. Serve with
butter and maple sirup, or sugar dis
solved.
MUTToN HAMS. -Mutton hams are n
very desirable addition to the farmers
table, III fact to any table. The meat
should be fat To cure them, take two
ounces of raw sugar to one ounce of com
mon salt, and half teaspoonful of salt
petrc. Rub the meat with this mixture
and place it in deep dish. Beat it, and
turn it twice daily for three days. Wipe
it, and rub it again with the mixture
Next day beat tagain, and turn and beat
aud rub it alternately for ten days. Then
smoke for ten days. The meat should
be eaten cold. Cure venison hams in
the same manner
IMITATION OF Mock TURTLE Put into
a pan knuckle Of veal, two fine COW
heels or two calves feet, two onions, a
few cloves, peppers berries of allspice,
mace and sweet herbs, cover them with
water; then tie thick paper over the
pan and set it in an oven for three hours.
When cold, take off the fat very nicely,
cut the meat and feet into bits an inch
and a-half square. remove the bones ayd
coarse parts and then put the rest on to
warm, with large spoonful of walnut
and one of mushroom catsup, half a pint
OF sherry or Madeira wine, little mush-
room powder, and the jelly of the meat.
When hot if it wants any more season.
ing, add some, and serve with hard eggs.
forcement balls, a squeeze of lemon. and
spoonful of SOY. This is a very easy
way and the dish is excellent.
BLACK-LEG IN CATTLE. -The symp-
toms MS given in a letter to the Rmul
Ner Yorker correspond precisely with
those OF four cows and three calves
which a correspondent of an excbanee
lost this winter. In speaking on this
subject he says: "Iu looking about for
a remedy, found the following recipe
Add one pint of salt to one and a half
pints of vinegar drench. Cow to have
no water for twelve hours after drench-
ing. Repeat this every hour for thirty
six hours. thought best to try this, as
every COW was sure to die, if diseased, and
this could no more than kill this is the
way | used the recipe took Il pint OF
salt and Que and half pints of vine
gar added to this one big tablespoonful
OF pulverlzed cayenne pepper and four
tablespoonfuls of tinctIre of extract of
lobelia. Iput in the pepper and lobelia
because noticed that the nose of the COW
/ was about to treat was dry. When
began treatment, said COW was hardly
able to move, In two hours she seemed
to be considerably better. | then re-
peated the dose ; next morning repeated
again, and the latter part of second day
gave another, the COW getting better all
the while. | gave, in all, about six
drachms, but left out the lobelia after
the second; gave it hot as was bearable.
The COW recovered very rapidly-im-
provement almost Immediately percepti-
bic. l had four other cows down at tue
same time and unable to get up--all at
the same time. Treated them same as
above all got well. Still another COW,
apparently well in the evening, was dead
at daylight; she had not been treated at
all. So ftook time by the forelock, and
drcnched all my COWS once day, as
above, for few days, and have lost none
since. The jelly patches Or clotted blood
on my COWS appeared along the spine,
Just under the skin. The disease affect
ing my cattle seemed to be the same as
is known as black-leg, block-quarter,
quarter-evil, etc, and the above treat
ment was certainly a dead shot.