Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-06-07
FIELD AND FAMILY.

CHEAP STEw.-Put some raw potatoes,
sliced, into deep frying-pan with some
onions and little water. Put strip OF
salt meat into it; cover it down close, and
let it stew an hour.
ALMOND CAKE, PURE.-Twop pounds and
a half of flour, equal weights OF butter ana
sugar-as i'm pound cake-the whites OF
thirty eggs, one pound and half OF sweet
almonds, with two tea-spOonfuls OF ex-
tract of bitter almonds, to be poured over
the sweet almonds as you pound them up
in mortar.
BREAST OF VEAL.-Cover thickly with
crumbs of bread, put small Jumps Of but
ter about on it, and sprinkle with pepper
and salt when baked, making gravy OF
butter. This is very nice dish. Both
the rack and breast, as commonly dressed,
are but little esteemed, yet in this way
make excellent dishes.
How TO Fry POTAToEs.-Boil potatoes
nicely with the skins on. When cold,
peel and slice, chopping the slices slight
ly. Have ready pan with small guam
six slices; put I'm the potatoes and brown
lightly, seasoning with salt and pepper.
Just before serving, turn over them half
cup of good cream, stir and send to the
table hot.
FRENCH MUsTARD.-Slice up an onion
in bowl; cover with good vinegar; leave
two or three days; pour off vinegar into
basin; put into 1t one teaspoonful pepper,
one of salt, one tablespoonful brown
sugar, and mustard enough to thicken !;
smooth the mustard for vinegar as you
would flour for gravy; mix all together
set on the stove and stir until 1T bOils,
when remove and use it cold.
THE last idea about fencing is to plant
trees for posts, and when they are strong
enough, string wires from one to another.
The kind of tree is unimportant, but OF
course fruit, nut, and maple trees Will DC
more profitable than deciduOus trees. On
the plains where fruit trees will not grow
without shelter belts, cotton wood ano
white or golden willow may be planted
CREAM ToAsT.-Have two quarts Of
sweet milk in a porcelain kettle or tin dish
and when it comes to a boil, stir in two
eggs well beaten, and a lump OF butter
rolled in flour. Sweeten to suit the taste
and CRATE in little nutmeg. Have nicely
toasted bread in a tureen or any covered
dish, and pour the gravy on hot. This
makes nice dish for tea where there are
small children.
RUsKs.@Three-four of a pound o.
sugar one half pound of butter; ont
pint of sweet milk five eggs; three anC
a half pounds of flour. Beat the egg
very light; put milk, sugar, and butter
together over the fire till the butter il
melted; when cooled, add one-half pin
of yeast, then the eggs and flour. Mil
quickly and set to rise. Mold by hant
in round cakes, about half an inch IL
thickness. The cakes should be PLACED
in the pan in double layer-one cake OIL
top of another.
PROFESSIONALLY the best way to dis
pose of broom corn seed is to feed it Il
the fowls. The next best mode is to Civ
it to the sheep; they are fond of it, ant
fatten upon it nearly as fast as upon In
dian corn. Ground with corn, rye, oats
or barley, it is profusely fed to cattle, ant
when mixed with wheat bran it Is goo'
for milch cows. The Shakers frequentl.
feed it to horses, and at the season OF tn
year when this grain is abundant the.
use it exclusively.
AN agricultural writer furnishes tn
following conundrums for farmers to con
slider: Farms and farm-hands, with tn
current prices, are poor property and re
turn small interest: but Remembering
Portland, Chicago and Boston, and re
Numbering there Is not a town Of 1900
inhabitants that may not be swept out o
existence in q night, and rememberin
there Is no absolute and everlasting In
vestment but In the soil, Is not three pc
cent. in perpetuity, better than six or ever
ten per cent. in the unstable commoditie
of brick and mortar, bonds and mort
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deeds which warrant nothing at all?
The contents of cesspool may be rer
dered comparatively inodOrous by FRI
quent additions Of plaster, or ground ur
burned gypsum, or diluted oil Of vitrio
or solutions of copperas. Probably th
easiest way of using the contents for ms
nure is to throw fine earth into the vaul
until semi-liquid mass is formed, and
scoop this out and deposit it into quar-
tity Of dry soil gathered in readiness 70
it. The earth absorbs all the liquid an
all the gaseous matter, and If kept COZ
cred from rain for few days 1t will be
excellent condition to spread over meat
ows or fallows to be prepared for ia
crops.
MARBLKD CAKE.-Light part: OF whit
sugar use one and one-half cupfuls; blu
ter, one-half cupful; sweet milk one-ha
: cupfnl soda, one-half teaspoonful creal
of tartar, one teaspoonful; adding Il
whites Of four eggs beaten up very Ggh
|, bark part: OF brown sugar take two cul
fuls; butter, one-half cupful sour mill
, one-half cupful soda, one-half teaspoon
. full cream of tartar, one teaspoonfu
Sift two and one-half cupfuls flour, an
add the yolks of four eggs, together wit
cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, OF eac
! one teaspoonful. When ready drop
spoonful of the dark, and then one of Il
light, and so on until the pan is full.
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