Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-23
FIELD AND FAMILY.

RYE DROP CAKEs.-One cup Of sour
cream, three cups of sour milk or butter
milk, one-half cup of sugar or mOlasses,
two teaspoonfuls of saleratus. Mix still
enough for the spoon to stand erect. A
little salt helps it.
BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.-TO one quart
of juice take one pound Of loaf sugar,
quarter of an ounce of mace, cinnamon,
cloves and allspice-to be powdered. Boil
all together fifteen minutes. When cold,
to every pint add one gill of best brandy.
RASPBERRY ICE-CREAM.-Strain the
Juice from fine garden rasp6errics, If pro-
durable; otherwise field raspberry may
be used, but will of course, make an ice
of inferior quality and less inviting color.
To one pint of juice allow one quart OF
rich cream and fifteen ounces of white
sugar.
PLUM PREsERvEs.-Plumsa are equally
good done in molasses as sugar. Ii sugar
is used, take an equal quantity of fruit
plums gently forty minutes. They will
require heating over once if to be kept.
Beech plums are very excellent prepared
in this way, as well as for pies.
AN undoubted pedigree for at least five
generations is considered sufficient TO en-
title an animal to be considered thorough
bred, although, strictly speaking, The
term really implies unbroken descent on
both sides from English-Arabian or pure
Arabian ancestors, not for five generations
only, but as far back as records extend or
a pedigree can be traced.
BLACKBERRY SIRuP.-Make a simple
strip Of pound of sugar to each pint OF
water, boil it until it is fich and thick
then add to it as many pints of the ex-
pressed juice Of ripe blackberries as there
are pounds of sugar; put half nutmeg.
grated, to each quart of sirup; let it boil
fifteen or twenty minutes then add to il
half gill of fourth-proof brandy for each
quart of sirup; set it by to become cold,
then bottle it for use. A tablespoonful
for child, or wineglass for an adult, is
a dose.
A KENTUCKY correspondent of the
New York Times, replies to man who
wants to know how to free his cabbage
from the cabbage worm: "Thirty years
experience enables me to tell him. Get
what is called here shipstuff, or shorts,
such as we feed to stock-wheat bran
will do as good as the shorts; examine
the cabbage before they head if you see
the web of the caterpillar, or holes in the
leaf of the bud, put tablespoonful OF
shorts in the head. If hard rains follow
you may have to repeat. The cure is
effectual. The worms become mired In
the shorts made wet with the dew. The
worms seldom attack the cabbage after
they are headed"
REMEDY FOR CHoKED ANIMALs.-We
are assured, by a farmer of intelligence,
and one who has had much experience in
the treatment of diseased horses and cat.
tie, that the following simple remedy Ii
almost infallible in relieving chOked ami.
mails: Take strong cOrd-a strong piece
of dressed deerskin is best, as it will not
cut-and tie it around the foreleg of the
animal just above the knee, then with a
stick twist it till 1t cords the leg very
tightly. The pain will, in few moment;
make the animal very sick, even to vomit
ing, which with the exertions for relief
will remove the obstruction. Our in
formant says he has seen this remedy tried
in great many instances with uniform
success.-Raral Southland.