The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-31
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-O6f8tOg0 fOL8tOeS.-OllCc raw pOCa
toes and throw them into water. Have
ready lard, boiling hot; season the pota-
toes latter draining) with salt and pepper;
fry little brown.
Roll Cake.-Three eggs, one cup OF
sugar, one cup of flour; stir we'll into it
one teaspoonful of cream tartar and half as
much soda; bake quick, and roll with
jelly when hot; bake in square tins.
Apple Float.-To one quart of ap-
pies, partially stewed and well mashed,
put the whites of three eggs we'll beaten,
and four heaping tablespoonful of loaf
sugar; beat them together for fifteen min
utes, and eat with rich milk and nutmeg.
"A Remedy for Corns.-Bathe the feet
in tepid water to soften the corns; pare
these off very closely with sharp knife;
then rub on well green peach-tree leaves ;
when, after continuing the rubbing once
or twice day, the corns will disappear.
Dish for Breakfast.-Take half a
dozen, or as many as necessary, good
cooking apples; cut them in slices of
about quarter of an inch thick. Have
ready pan of fresh, hot lard; drop the
slices in, and fry brown. A little sugar
sprinkled over improves them.
Green Corn Soup-Cut the corn from
the cob, and boil the cobs half an hour.
Take out the cobs and put in the corn,
and boil it half an hour. Add half as
much sweet milk as you have of the corn
soup. Season with salt and little pep
per, and one or two eggs if you like. Let
all boil up together, thickening with a
little flour stirred smooth in milk.
Honey Soap.-Cut thin two pounds
yellow soap into a double saucepan, STIR
ring it until it is melted, which it will be
in few minutes if the water is kept boil
ing around it; then add a quarter of a
pound of olive oil, quarter of a pound
of honey, five cents worth of oil of CHINA
mon; boil all together ten minutes, pour it
out and stand it by until the next day; it
is then fit for use. Made by these direc-
tons it is very superior soap.
-Currant Jelly.-Take ripe, freshly
gathered currants, and fill up gallon jar
with them, and set it in boiling water for
an hour; then turn out the juice carefully,
not letting the berries fall into it. To each
pint ofjuice take hree-quarters of a pound
of best lump sugar; boil all together for
twenty minutes; strain through a jelly
strainer into cups or glasses which have
been dipped into cold water. When per.
fectly stiff, dip thin paper the size OF
the glass into the white of an egg, and lay
over the jelly; then paste over the glass a
piece of stiff brown paper, and write the
kind of jelly and the date upon it.
The Swede Turnip.-Mr. John Dey
in discussion on Root Culture by Wis.
consin Farmers Club, said: 1.-THE Swede
turnip is good root for sheep, hogs and
young cattle. Cows fed on them will
keep in good heart, but they are not as
good for milk as the carrot or beet. II
will pay we'll to raise them. If we do moi
wish to feed them we can sell them; they
usually bring 40 or so cents per bushel
and if we say 600 bushels to the acre al
40 cents we have $4,000; and if we allow
one-half for raising and marketing We
have $3.50, which would buy 200 bushels
of corn, and to raise 200 bushels of corn
we would want four acres of ground and
expend more to raise and harvest than We
would the turnips."
MIR. Stall, who has lately conducted :
series of experiments with a view to has
tening the ripening of fruits, announce:
that this result may be obtained by lessen
of the fruitbearing trees. As an instance
it is stated that the ripening of pears upor
an early tree was FASTENED by simply re
moving the earth for a circuit of fifteeI
feet about the roots, the soil being left tn
depth of but two or two and one-hal
inches above the roots. The theory is
that, by thus almost exposing the roots
they receive more warmth from the sun
and these, by the frequent application o
water, are more active in supplying tn
life-giving sap to the fruit above. Inter
esting as these results appear, we confes
that we are hardly prepared to indoors
them, and yet the repetition of the expert
ment may SO readily be accomplished
that any interested reader might with lii
tie difficulty aid toward the establishment
or, if need be, the demolition of this new
theory of growth.-Applctons' Journal.