Richland beacon., 1873-06-07
FIELD AND FAMILY.

CHEAP STEw.-Put some raw potatoes.
sliced. into deep frying-pan with some
onions and a little water. Put strip of
salt meat into it /; cover it down close, and /
let it stew an hour.
BREAST OF VEAL.-COver thckly with |
crumbs of bread. put small Jumps of but /
ter about on it, and sprinkle with pepper
and salt when baked. making a 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.-i5Oil potatoes
nicely with the skins on. When cold,
peel and slice, chOpping the slices slight
ly. Have ready pan with small guam
tity of butter-abOut one teaspOOnfIl to
six slices; put i'm the potatoes and brown
lightly, seasoning with salt and pepper.
Just before serving, turn over them halt
a cup of good cream, stir and send to the
table hot.
FRENCH MUsTARD.-Slice up an onion
in a bowl; cover with good vinegar; leave
two or three days; pour off vinegar into
basin; put into it one teaspoOntul 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 it 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 TT es will be
more profitable than deciduOuS trees. On
the plains where fruit trees will not grow
without shelter belts, cotton wood and
white or golden willow may be planted.
CREAM TOAsT.-Have two quarts of
sweet milk in porcelain kettle or tin dish,
and when it comes TO boil. stir in two
eggs well beaten. and lump of butter
rolled i'm flour. Swceten to suit the taste.
and CRATE i'm little nutmeg. Have nicely
toasted bread i'm tureen or any covered
dish, AMI pour the gravy on hot. This
makes nice dish for tea where there are
small children.
i RUsKs.-Three-fOu Of pound OF
sugar one half pound of butter; one
pint of sweet milk five eggs; three and
a half pounds of flour. Beat the eggs
very light; put milk, sugar, and butter
together over the fire till the butter is
melted; when cooled, add One-half pint
of yeast, then the eggs and flour. Mix
quickly and set to rise. Mold by hand
i'm round cakes, about half an inch in
thickness. The cakes should be placed
in the pan in a double layer-One cake OF
top of another.
. UNQUESTIONABLY the best way to dis
pose of broom corn seed is to feed it tC
the fowls. The next best mode is to give
it to the sheep; they are fond of il. 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 mich cows. The Shakers frequently
feed it to horses. and at the season of thu
year when this grain is abundant they
, use it exclusively.
AN agricultural writer furnishes tn,
, following cOnundrums for farmers to con
slider: Farms and farm-hands, with TIN
current prices, are poor property and re
turn small interest: but rememberin,
? Portland, Chicago and Boston, and re
membering there is not a town of 1000
, inhabitants that may not be swept out o
, existence in night, and rememberin;
{ there is no absolute and everlasting in
vestment but i'm the soil, is not three pc
, cent. in perpetuity. better than six or ever
: ten per cent. in the unstable cOmmOditie
2 of brick and mortar, bonds and mort
: cages, insurance policies, and warrante
:. deeds which warrant nothing at all?
: The contents of cesspOol may be ren
e dered comparatively inOdOrous by frt
0 quent additions of plaster, or ground ur
: burned gypsum. or diluted oil of vitrio
: or solutions of cOpperas. Probably tn
\ easiest way of using the contents for ms
nure is to throw fine earth into the vauI
;. until a semi-liquid mass is formed, and
e scoop this out and deposit it into quar-
h tity of dry soil gathered in readiness fo
t ii. The earth absOrbs all the liquid an
r all the gaseous matter, and if kept COZ
r cred from rain for few days it will be
excellent condition to spread over meao
v Ows or fallOws to be prepared for ia
;. crops.
g MARRIED. CAKE.-Light part: OF viii
b, sugar use one and one-half cupfuls; Blu
: ter, One-half cupful; sweet milk One-ha
D cupful soda, One-half teaspOOnful; creal
of tartar. one teaspOOnful; adding II
|, whites of four eggs beaten up very ligh
e bark part: Of brown sugar take two cuI
s fuls; butter, Onc-half cupful; sour mill
If one-half cuDful soda. One-half teaspoon
O full cream of tartar. one teaspOOnfu
It Sift two and one-half cupfuls flour, an
e add the yolks of four eggs, together wit
If cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, of eaC
e one teaspoOnful. When ready drop
a spoonful of the dark, and then one of Il
a light, and so on until the pan is full.