The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-15
FIELD AND FAMILY.

interest or profit. That capital may be in
labor, or money, or manure.
Coon TEA CAKE.-One egg, broken into
a teacup, Fill the cup with sweet milk.
One cup sugar, one-half cup butter,
little nutmeg, one teaspoon each Oh
saleratus and cream of-tartar. Flour TO
makei it the consistency of common sponge
cake.
DROP JoHNN1Es.- cup sugar, and
two eggs, well beaten together; one cup
cream, three cups buttermilk. one large
heaping spoonful of saleratus. Salt and
spice to suit your taste. Thicken with
flour to a stiff batter. Drop in hot fat, q
spoonful at a time. Fry the same as fried
cakes.
"MAssA's ."-Slice sweet
oranges into deep glass dish, removing
carefully every seed and all of the SKIN,
particu arly the tough white portion
Sprinkle with sugar, then CRATE the whlte
of cocoanut and cover about an inch
deep. Stand about an hour before using.
Sci We in small plates, taking care to keep
the cocoanut on top.
| SPICE PUDDING.-One cup butter, one
cup molasses, one cup of sweet milk:
Three cups flour, one teaspoonful OF
ground cloves, one of cinnamon, one-halt
| teaspoonful of allspice; one teaspoonful
of soda one egg. Plenty of raisins.
Steam three hours. Liquid sauce for spice
pudding: Six tablespoonfuls of sugar,
four tablespoonfuls of butter, two table
spoonfuls of vinegar, one tablespoonful OF
flour. ten of boiling water, q small lump
of tartaric acid. Flavor with lemon mix
thoroughly and boil.
To Boil LAMB, MUTTON, OR VEAL
Wrap the Joint or quarter of lamb, etc.,
etc., in a nice cloth, wet it, and dust IL
with flour. Let it remain so half an hour.
Have the pot ready boiling; dip the joint
in first one end and then the other--then
; put it in the pot and cover closely. Let
it boil gently but steadily, an hour and a
half for lamb, and two hours for veal and
mutton. Sauce: Drawn butter, with
; chopped parsley, and sliced carrots, and
pickled cucumbers. Boil carrots for a
dish to eat with lamb, etc. Slice into 1t
some potatoes, parsley and onions, and
with little thickening, you have good
soup.
OLD RECIPE FOR CUSTARDS.-The an
tiquity of the following may be as accept
able as its excellence. The date of it is
! 1863. Take two quarts Of cream, and boil
it well with whole spice, then put in the
yolks of twelve eggs, and six whites, well
beaten and strained: then put in these
eggs over the fire, and keep stirring lest
they turn; then, when they are thorough
, ly hot, take it off and stir it till almost
cold: then put in rosC-water and sugar,
: and take out the whole spice; then put
I. your custard into several things to bake,
: and do not let them stand too long in the
l oven. When you serve them, strew on
: small French comtits of divers colors, or
, else fine sugar, which you please.
g A GooD FARMER.-One of our best and
most accurate farmers informs us, says
! the Country Gentleman, that when boy,
= as soon as he had learned bookkeeping at
! school, his father employed him to keep
! the farm accounts-the cost of labor,
+ amount of work expended on each field,
! time of performing operations, plowing,
, sowing, cultivating and harvesting.
! amount of crops. prices at which sales
q were made, sc. He soon became much
a interested in farm operations, and thor
!, oughly acquainted with all the details of
\ work, in more complete manner than he
v ever could have been in any other way
= and was early placed on the track of farm
q ing regularly and Systematically. Let
:, other farmers follow this example with
: their sons, and we should have less OF
!; random, hip-skip husbandry, and more OF
q order and success.
If Corn renews itself each year from the
C seed, but not so with the potato, for this
= plant is propagated year after year from
e tubers formed on the procumbent stems
e and of course, must, at each successive
planting, be exactly like the original plant
for these tubers, or what we call potatoes
are not seeds but only buried or abnormal
stems. Indeed, if an aerial stem, or stalk
II of any kind of potato, be carefully BEN
down and covered with fresh earth, JUS
2 allowing its top to extend out of the
earth, small potato tubers will soon bt
@ formed in the axis of the leaves nearly it;
whole length. The prOcumbent stem
y that bears the tuber frequently shows its
a character by passing out of the hill, wher
O it Immediately turns, upward and be
comes clothed with leaves like the Other
# stems.
It DOES 1T PAY TO DRILL WHEAT?-A
correspondent of the Ohio Farmer answers
e the above question as follows: In max
n ing ready for the wheat crop, does not the
farmer select the best wheat land? Ther
e does he not aim to have it in the best pos
sible condition by scattering over it al
d abundance of compost, and with the dill
gent use of the plOw and harrow render
n it one grand mellow garden for wheat
n With equal care and Judgment he pro
cures seed large and plump and as clear
l., as it can be made, even though it is at the
:, expense of time. After so much toll, is i
Ii not wise to adopt the best method for put
ting in the grain? If the farmer has fol
- | y y
i with only partial success, and frequently
total failure, why not try to drill? Ger
it tainly the past year ought to convince q
t. rational farmer of the superiority of the
IS drill over broadcast sowing. 1t has beer
: a year of trial, and the drill triumphed
II In a field, the soil of which was BLACK
loan, easily frozen, and of course would
e not stand drought, the drill was used
v and fine crop of wheat CLEANED, while i
sown broadcast no crop could have beer
Is expected, judging from similar fields sowr
e broadcast. Then it is a saving of seed
One bushel of seed drilled is equal to ont
y and a half sown broadcast; and if the
IS land is to be seeded down, grass seed car
be sown at the same time. Let farmers
e think of this and act with wisdom. Buy
is a drill if the dimes are plenty, otherwise
hire one. But use the drill by all means
/ if you would receive pay for your toll.