The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-08
Farm and Household.


Have teams i'm proper condition for
effective labor.
Lose no time in getting all the seed
that may be needed.
Get all crops in as early as the state
of the land will admit
Keep stock off meadows and pastures
until the ground is well settled.
Sow clover, either alone or in winter
grain, and dress with plaster.
Plant fruit and shade trees when
ever the weather and land are favora-
BILE.
Make fences thoroughly secure
"man high. bull strong and pig tight"
your work, or it will drive you-and
that is slavery.
So soon as Jack Frost permits. put
in force Old Richards maxim, "Plow
deep while sluggards sleep"
Give final examination to all tools.
implements and machines, and see that
they are in good working order.
Pull ont red root, cookie, and other
nuisances from among winter wheat,
and begin the seasons campaign by
declaring war-a war Of determination
against all weeds.
Potato-Puff-Two cups cold mashed
potatoes stir in two tablespoons
melted butter, beating to a cream: add
two well-beaten eggs, one cup cream
or milk. pour into deep dish bake
in quick oven.
Work on system. A careful planner
can get far more into season than one
who goes at things helter-sketer-ius
"a careful packer can get more things
into a trunk than one who losses them
in anyhow.
When grass lands are dry enough.
pick off all stones. gether up rubbish.
get out rotten stumps. level down
hillocks. smooth Off with the roller,
and, if possible, give dressing Of we'll
rottcd manure.
Ladies' cabbage-Boil fifteen min
utes, then change the water and boil
until done; set aside until cool chop
fine: add two beaten eggs. one table
spoon butter, pepper. salt and three
spoons of cream or milk stir all well
bake in a buttercd pudding-dish.
Orange cakc-Thrce eggs. yolks and
whites, one cup flour. three table
spoons milk. one teaspoon baking
powder, a little salt: CRATE the peel
and chop the pulp of one orange to-
gether; squeeze the juice out and mix
with soft frosting. and put between
the layers of cake when cold.
To wash fanncl-Ncvcr rub soap
upon it. Make a suds by dissolving
the soap i'm warm wafer. Rinse in
warm water: very cold or hot water
will shrink flannel. Shake il out sew
eral minutes before hanging to drv
Blankets can be washed in the same
way.
Cracker pudding-One quart of milk,
six crackers rolled fine. and the yolks
of four eggs-bake. One and half
cups of granulatcd sugar. and the
whites of four c"gs beaten to stiff
froth or frost. When the pudding is
done, spread the frosting over il, and
set in the oven a few minutes to brown
a very little. Ii is then ready for the
table.
Lemon cake-Two cups sugar, half
cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three
cups flour, whites of four eggs, half
teaspoon soda. one of crean-tartar /;
bake in four shallow tins: when cold, |
put the following mixture between:
To the grated peel and juice of two
lemons put one cup sugar: wet one
and quarter table spoon corn-starch
with very little cold water: add a
triflc Of salad, and butter size of a wal
nut.
Snow cake-Sift one tumbler pulver- |
lied sugar into a cakc-dish: fill a tum- |
bier two-thirds full, winter wheat -four.
a pinch of salt. and teaspoon cream
tartar, and fill the remainder with corn
starch. add the whites of ten eggs. |
beaten until they stand on an inverted
platter: use colorlcss extract for fla
vcring. a rather slow oven.
Those hens ought to be happy who
deserve such praise as this, given by a
writer in the Poultry World: white
Leghorns are the most profitable and
desirable Of fowls: they are good for
the table. of medium size, are hardy
and easily reared feather soon, ma
ture early. and commence to lay when
quite young: and they give more and
larger eggs for their size and food they
eat than any other breed. Besides all
this, they are very handsome. They
are quick in their motions and easily
started, yet they may be completely
domesticated.'
Cheap and delicious soup-Save the
liquor in which nice leg Of mutton
was boiled to-day. Ii would be wicked
TO throw il away, for large fraction
OF the succulence and nutritivcness of
the meat is in it. Remove the fat to-
morrow. and then put il over the fire.
Add onions, carrots or turnips. sliced
thin. and some parsley leaves, or Lima
beans. sweet corn and sliced potato,
with bits of celery: add in either case
rice or barley, tablespoonful of them
dry to a quart of liquor is good rule.
Do this. and at tritling expense you
NAV have a turecn of soup hit TO Sc:
before king.