National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
Farm, Garden and Household.
Household Recipes.

tovNp OAkE.-One pound Hour, on
pound OF sugar, one pound OF butter
eight eggs. Beat well, and bake til
done.
KNOX GINGER CAKES. Five cups o
honr, four eggs, one cup OF sugar, on,
OF butter, one OF sour milk, half.cup o
molasses, one tablespoonful Il soda
Roll out and bake.
GISdERBRRAp Nurs. Rub one.quar
ter OF pound of butter in one pound
OF -four, half n pound OF sugar, one
ounce ginger, peel Of one lemon and
three eggs. Work it well and bake in
small cakes. rolled out.
CLEANING Stoves. Stove luster.
when mixed with turpentine and APP.
piled in the usual manner, is blacker,
more glossy, and more durable than
when mixed with any other liquid. The
turpentlne prevents rust, and when put
on an old rusty stove will make il look
MS good as new.
For BUGs.-Ladies, the best medi.
cine for the insects that mutlate rose
buds and many other garden shrubs, is
quassia. Make strong tea of quassia
bark-it costs but twelve cents per
pound Wholesale drench the bushes.
The little pests will not fancy the taste
any better than sick children do.
HAsTY SHoRr.CAKE.-Mx with pint
OF flour a lump of butter the size OF an
egg, rub well with two teaspoons of
cream of-tartar in flour; powder fine
one teaspoon saleratus. Add one cup
cold water. Make n stiff batter. add
flour if needed. Bake on tin for tea.
If you use sour or buttermilk Won do
not need cream of tartar, nor as much
butter. II is much better made OF but
ter milk.
APPLE DUMpLINGs. These are boiled
in small knitted cloths, which gives a
very ornamental appearance to an other |
wise homely dish. Take the cores out
OF large greening apples, and fill the
cavity with marmalade, orange. or
lemon, If you have it, or with sugar
and spice to taste. Inclose in good !
kidney crust; lraw the cloths around
them tightly, and boil gently one hour,
or steam an hour and half. Eat with
hard sauce.
PUMPKIN Pies. - Choose the best
pumpkins that can be found. Take
out the seeds, cut the rind carefully
away, and then cut the pumpkin into
thin and narrow bits. Stew over a
moderate fire in little water, lust
enough to keep the mass from burning,
until soft Turn off tho water if any
remains and let the pumpkin steam
over slow fire about ten minutes.
When sufficiently cooled, strain through
sieve. Sweeten the pumpkin with
sugar and little molasses. The sugar
and eggs 81 uld be beaten together.
The favoring requires ginger, the
grated rind Of lemon, or nutmeg and
salt. To one quart of pumpkin add
one quart of milk, and four eggs for
ordinary richness. Heat the pumpkin
scalding hot before putting it upon the
crust to bake, otherwise the crust will
be soaked. Bake in very hot oven.
OATMEAL CRAcKNRLs OR ScorcH BAN
NocKs. -Sift enough oatmeal to make
one quart of fine meal stir it into warm
water enough to barely moisten it. and
add q pinch of salt. Set it away in n
pan for ten or fifteen minutes, or even
more, to let it swell then roll it out
on the bread board, using wheat flour
for both board and rolling pin, until !
only quarter of an inch in thickness.
Gut it with cooky-cutter, and bake in !
n slow oven, as they require only mod
crate heat, and should only be slightly l
Drowned. If baked properly. these ,
cakes will snap in the fingers, and ..
possess pleasant nutty flavor, and re- !
cure no butter to make them palatable. ,
III kept IN close jar they are good for :
some months after being baked. In
Scotland the bannocks are preserved
through the year, in barrel OF oatmeal.
Agricultural Notes.
According to The Vermont Farmer. |
j. A. Willard, of Essex, raised the past {
season on that part of his homestead of ,
one acre and 3S rods not occupied by !
house and barn, four tons of bav. one. q
half ton of corn fodder, 81 bushels DO
tatoes, and an abundance of other gar n
den vegetables. Some people skim 10 /
acres and get no better returns than this r
good husbandman shows from one. |
eighth Of the surface, and they are of i
those who complain that farming t
don't pay" ]
Nine OF the emigrants who left Eng $
land last year for Brazil recently re- a
turned to their native country bearing a
nearTrenuing reports OF their suffer d
lngs. Some members Of the COLONY +
were reduced to such straits that thew !
were actually compelled to sell their q
own children to the natives in order to t
procure food to save themselves from C
starvation.
A practical farmer, who selects his
seed corn in the fields, tells The Nsw-
Homestead that he has al q
ways made it point to take it from !
stalks which have more than one ear. II
and he adds that by this method che p
has noticed decided increase of stalks s.
That have two or more ears on, and this u
year neighbors have asked the privilege u
Of selecting seed from his crop, having Il
noticed the superiority of his corn in g
his respect over their own" D
A current item records the experience !. .,
u a farmer who mashes and breaks his \,
corn stalks by passing them through =
threshlng machine and thus renders =
them more serviceable for cattle food a,
Than when cut, the animals eating n !,
larger quantity and with greater salts u
'actisn, there being no sharp. silicious ~
edges to wound their mouths. =, u
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