Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-06-14
FIELD AND FAMILY.

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SPONGE FLOUR BIsCUIT.-Sift the flour
and salt in a pan; heat the milk and lard
together; pour the milk and Yeast into
the flour make a stiff dough when risen:
grease pan drop the batter on in large
tablespooAfuls let themstand where they
will be merely warm (no more), then bake
in quick oven; eat at once.
LOUISE PUDDNG.-Six eggs, six spoon
fuls Of flour, three quarters Of pound of
sugar, two spoonfuls Of butter creamed
with part Of the flour, a gill of wine, half
q tea-spoonful OF mace ground up fine,
half pint OF cream, and pint of milk.
Baked In deep dish without lining of
pastry, and eaten without sauce. ri,
HAsTY SHORT CAKE.-Mix with lump
of flour lump of butter the size of an
egg; rub well with two teaspoonfuls of
cream of tartar In the flour powder fine
one teaspoonful of saleraIus. Add one
cup of cold water. Makea stiff batter ;
add flour If needed. Bake on tin for tea.
If you use sour or buttermilk, you don't
need cream OF tartar ner as much butter.
1t is much nicer made of the buttermilk.
CocoANUT PUDDNG.-On a grated CO.
coanut pour a quart of boiling milk.
When cool, add six well-beaten eggs, a
coffee cup of white sugar, a tablespoonful
Of butter put into the milk while hot.
two tablespoonful of rose-wster, and half
a teaspoonful of salt. Line your dishes
with nice paste, turn in the pudding and
bake.
ROSE INsECTs.-If any one is DESTROYS
of keeping their rose bushes free from the
small, green vermin that frequently infest
them, the following remedy will be found
most effectual one: To three gallons of
soft water add one peck of SCOT snd one
quart of unslacked lime; stir it well, let it
stand for twenty-four hous, and when the
SCOT rises to the surface, skim it off. Use
syringe for applying it.-Seience of
Health.
PARIS GREEN FOR VINEs.-It is not
generally known that Paris green mixed
in the proportion of one part by measure
to twenty-five parts of flour, will kill the
striped bug from off cucumbers, squashes,
musk-melons and other vines, except
water-melons, the leaves of which latter
are sometimes spotted if the mixture be
used strongly. 1t May be busted on from
slazy bag or dredging box. Usually too
much of the powder is cast on; the slight
sufficient, and it should be applied in the
PREVENTIVE OF HAvEN.-The Farmers
Home Journal recommends, as preven-
tive of " haven" or foot in cattle, result
ing from immoderate eating of young
clover, to which all cattle are subject on
being first turned into clover pasture, that
they be fed each morning with a small
sheaf of oats. In case an animal is at
tackled. the Journal says but two means of
roliaf ouaiIohfa Tho cpa 90 10 x,lux <ro
a knife into the paunch at its most pro-
truding point in front of the hip, the
other is to place a gag of wood of the
size of the wrist, in the mouth of the ami
NAL, and confine it there with string
tied to one end, passing over the head
back of the horns, and fastened securely
to the other end; it may be described as
being big bit in the animals mouth, Sc
cured by rope head stall.
The English Swans have been discuss
ing the potato, and give certain recon-
mendations with respect to the manner of
cooking 1t that are of value. Everybody
may not know that the potato belongs to
the same family as the deadly nightshade,
and partakes to some extent Of the poison
GUS properties of its near relative, illus
rrati1g the proverb, Blood will tell"
Potatoes should be boiled in a ucepan
half full of water, boiling, and not in one
filed with hot water. Steam is thus en-
gendered, and the potatoes are steamed
instead of boiled, whereby the poisonous
element which the potato has in common
with other soLone is neutralized. The Lid
of the saucepan should fit closely. When
the potatoes are boiled the steam should
evaporate before they are eaten. They
should not be fried in butter, as the poi
sonous matter is thus retained, to the Sc
rious prejudice Of the stomach. William
Goblet was wont to describe the potato
as the accursed roots" but as it still
constitutes the chief food of laborers, it
should be cooked properly.