Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-03-06

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narrowing, the Early Rose potato
planted in hills thirty inches apart
each way, and the strawberry plants
also the same distance, alternating in
the rows with the potatoes, that is,
fifteen inches from each potato hill.
A one horse cultivator and hand-hoe
kept them perfectly clean. The potatoes
were dug IN July, leaving the strawber-
ry plants IN full possession just as they
were beginning to throw out runners.
The additional care of the strawberries
was estimated ut $40 per acre. One
full crop of berries free from weeds is
enough; more might he had, but the
labor of keeping clean by hand is much
more than preparing the ground by
horse-labor and replanting.
Household Gleanlngs.
SAUCE FOR SPONGE CAKE PUDDING
Two eggs we'll beaten, one-half cup
butter, one cup sugar mix thoroughly,
then pour in wine-glass of boiling
wine, stirring while pouring in.
SODA DoUGHNTrs.-Two quarts -four,
four teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,
two teaspoonfuls of soda, one teaspoon
salt, two cups sugar, one teaspoon
mace, on tablespoon melted butter;
mix with cold milk.
WHITE CAKE. -Four and half cups
flour, one and a half cups sweet milk,
three.fourths cup of butter, three cups
white sugar, white of six eggs beaten
to stiff froth, one-half teaspoon cream
OF tartar, three-fourths teaspoon soda;
favor with vanilla or to taste.
SUPERIOR Corn BREAD. one
quart of milk, make it the consistency
OF thick Cruel with corn meal, then add
four eggs beaten very light, one tea
spoon of salt. Bake in hot oven, and
serve as soon as baked.
SPICE CAKEs.-2 cups sugar, 1 pint
molasses, l cup butter, II pint water,
l cup lard, 8 cups flour, yollks of 6
eggs, nutmeg, 2 teaspoons ground
cloves, 3 tablespoon ground cinnamon,
l tablespoon ginger, tablespoon soda,
tb chopped raisins improves it. Bake
in small pans.
STEAMED Brown BREAD.-Three pints
graham flour, one teacup molasses, one
teaspoon soda, one teaspoon salt; add
sour milk to make stiff batter: steam
three hours. After taking it out of
the steamer set it in the hot stove oven
ten minutes. This bread is equally
good made of sweet milk and Yeast
powder.
The Best WAY TO SERVE R1cE.-Soak
1t for some hours in cold water to
which q little salt has been added.
Have stew-pan ready, containing
boiling water, into which put the rice.
and boil briskly for ten minutes. Pour
it into colander, and set it by the fire
to drain. The grains will be separat-
ed and very large
SPONGE CAKE PUDDING. Gun of
flour, one teanspoon cream tartar (well
mixed dry in the four, and the yolks
Of thee eggs we'll beaten, one teacup
sugar: mix we'll then add the whites
of the eggs beaten to stiff froth; one
teaspoon soda dissolved in a little
warm water; last, one tablespoon of
cream. Bake in a quick oven.
FISH R1ssoLEs.-Take some fish.
either fresh or that has been cooked.
shred it, and let it stew with some
butter, covering it over until sufficient
" done. Soak roll in milk, beat up
the fish and this together in a mortar
with finely-chopped, mushroom and
three eggs; season with salt and pep
per. Mix all we'll together: bake in
small cups, first buttered, and turn out
Serve with or without sauce.
FRIED BREAD.-A good dish for
breakfast: 3 eggs well beaten, 1 pint
sweet milk. Salt, dip slices of bread
in the milk and eggs, lay one slice upon
another, let them stand ten minutes
and fry brown in hot lard.
The Technologist says the best time
for painting the exterior of buildings
is late in autumn or during the winter.
Paint then applied will endure twice as
long as when applied in early summer
or in hot weather. In the former it
dries slowly and becomes hard, like q
glazed surface, not easily affected af-
terward by the weather, or worn off bv
the beating of storms. But in very
hot weather the oil in the paint soaks
into the wood at once, as into sponge.
leaving the lead nearly dry and nearly
ready to crumble off. This last diff
Guilty, however, might in a measure be
guarded against, though at an increas-
ed expense, by first going over the sur.
face with raw oil. By painting in cold
weather, one annoyance might certainly
be escaped, namely, the collection Of
small flies on the fresh paint.
MY METHOD OF Observation-Disclosures
clothes are removed, they arc put to
soak in a tub or barrel containing cold
water (without soap), asserting them
into four lots, namely-fine. coarse.
colored and fannels; hannels are not
soaked. On Monday morning they are
pounded and squeezed in this water
with a long-handled light mallet, then
wrung out, and after the water is re-
moved thrown back into the barrel
with sufficient quantity of soap, and
boiling water poured over them (fian-
nels and colored clothes not put into
boiling wateD; then pounded and
squeezed again a few minutes. Verv
few, if any, will need rubbing on the
board, rs this process leaves them
clean; they are then wruug out and mt
into bag and put on to boil in cold
water, with little soap. Alter boiling
about twenty minutes they are removed
to q tub of water and gently rubbed.
that no particles of soap may adhere to
them; then wiring, and put into little
rinsing water little blue and slightly
warm. Rinse, wiring, shake out we'll
and hang up to dry. White fiannels
should be washed in clean suds. and
all woollens rinssd in water of the same
temperature as that in which they have
been washed. A very little starch in
the rinse water improves the looks of
white as we'll as colored clothes: be-
sides they are more easily ironed. Nv
clothes, washed in this way. are "a
white and as clean Us any one could
desire: I find wringer q great help
IN washing. Starch for common clothes
l make as follows, and find it superior
to that which is boiled and strained.
and much less trouble: Stir about
four tablespoonful of -four with cold
water into thin paste, leaving no
Jumps, and pour into it a quart or two
OF boiling water, stirring all the while.
Then pour into it quart or two of
cold water, and let it stand u few min.
utes to settle. After it has settled the
top may be poured off for use.-Ieurol
Ncw Yorker-Afrs. Julia II. Wheel
OcE.
The Belfast (Me.) Age is responsible
for the remarkable statement that Mr..
l.. s. Poor, of Searsmont, on taking
some eggs from hens nest recently, !
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