The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
Farm, Garden and Household.


yeast is used it will not require cup
full, Add teaspoonful of soda dis
solved in hot water, and three table
spoonfuls of molasses. Mix them well
with warm water IN pan, then pour
into baking tin, and place it where it
will be warm to rise, and bake when
light.
COTTAGE PUDDING. Rub into one
pint of flour two teaspoonfuls of cream
of-tartar; rub together one table
spoonful of butter and one teacupful
of sugar, and add to the flour dissolve
one teaspoonful of soda in teacup of
sweet milk /: beat one egg to froth and
add to the milk then stir the lat
ter briskly into The flour, etc, turn into
buttered pudding dish and bake half
an hour in quick oven.
As sauce for the above, beat togeth-
er the yolk of one egg, teacupful of
sugar, and half teacup of melted but
ter. To this add half teacupful of
wine and the same of boiling water.
While this is cooling beat to a froth the
white of one egg, and then stir into the
same.
Sort GINGERBREAD. - One cup of
sweet milk, one cup of molasses, and a
tablespoonful of shortening must be
melted in half cup of hot water in
which teaspoonful of soda has been
dissolved. Add three cups of -four, a
little ginger, and salt. Mix all these
ingredients together, and bake in a
shallow pan.
PLM DoUGHNUTs.-Tak one cup of
sugar and one cup ofsweet milk, two tea
spoonfuls of cream -of-tartar and one of
soda, the latter dissolved in half cup
of hot water, little salt and spice with
nutmeg. Mix with flour until hard
enough to roll, and fry in hot fat.
Cheap Poultry Yard.
Set posts firmly in the ground, six
feet high, eight feet apart. Take No.
8 wire, and stretch from post to post
outside, fastening with staples made of
wire driven into posts. Place three
wires one inch apart, one foot from the
ground; another three at three feet ten
inches from the ground another three
at top of posts. Take common laths
and weave in, leaving three inches space
between sides of each. This makes the
fence four feet high. Then take other
laths, picket oae end, and chamfer the
other like a chisel blade, and Intervene
among the top wires then shove the
chamfered edge down beside the top of
the bottom lath, tapping under wires
two inches. This makes a cheap, dura-
BILE, pretty fence, that is seven feet and
ten inches high, and fowl-tight. Wires
should be left somewhat slack, as inter-
weaving the laths will take it up
". Lang, IN the Poultry World.
Charcoal for Fowls.
The benefit which fowls derive from
eating charcoal is, believe, acl1nowl-
edged. The method of putting it be-
fore them is, however, not well under
stood. Pounded charcoal is not in the
shape in which fowls usullly find their
food, and consequently is not very
enticing to them.
1 have found that corn burnt on the
cob, and the refuse-vhich consists al
most entirely of the grains reduced to
charcoal, and still retaining their per-
feet shape-placed before them, is
greedily eaten by them, with marked
improvement in their health, as is
shown by the brighter color of their
combs, and their sooner producing a
greater average of eggs to the flock than
before.-,S RuJuS Mason in the Poultry
World.
To Extract Grease, Spots From Books or
Paper.
Gently warm the creased or spotted
part of the book or paper, and then
press upon it pieces of blotting paper,
one after another, so as to absorb as
much of the grease as possible. Have
ready some fine, clear essential oil of
turpentine, heated almost to boiling
state; warm the creased leaf little,
and then with a soft, clean brush wet
with the heated turpentine both sides
OF the spotted part. BY repeating this
application the grease will be extracted.
Lastly, with another brush dipped in
rectiied spirits of wine, go over the
place, and the grease will no longer
appear, neither will the paper be dis
colored.
Blind Staggers in Horses.
A writer in the Southern CultiUatOr
says he has seen horses cured by the
following remedy: As soon as it is
known that the animal has staggers,
which can readily be told by its dull,
sleepy appearance, disposition to move
round in circle, and running against
objects that come in its path, bleed
copiously from the neck, and immedi-
ately pour into each ear about gill of
spirits of turpentine. Also, get as much
turpentine up each nostril as possible,
by using stiff feather or small brush
Give light diet, or grass only for o day
or two, and cure is effected.
To Make Green Pickles.
A correspondent replies to the ques-
tion chow to make green pickles." as
follows - If hard, green cucumber
pickles are wanted, salt down in dry
salt, putting a layer OF salt in a jar, then
a layer of pickles, and so on until full.
This will produce pickles as green as
they can be made, but it is more costly
than making brine. If you have stock
to feed the salt to, it will be better than
the old process. Souring may be done
in the usual way. OF course the above
process is not calculated for manufac-
turers for market.
Wheat Sacks.
Wheat Sacks are a very important
item to the wheat growers of California.
We notice that a statement was recently
made by the President of the San
joaquin Farmers Club that San Fran
cisco firm, representing a capital of
$15, 900, 900, had offered to furnish 80,-
600 good, secondhand sacks for 81 cents
each.