Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-05
FIELD AND FAMILY.

beaten, and one spoonful of sugar; pour
over this enc pint of scalding hot milk,
stirring briskly. MAKE over night for use
in the morning.
CREAM ToAsT.-Boil the milk in the
tel-kettle boiler; when hot, mix the flour
in cold milk, strain through sieve, and
stir in rapidly; add the butter and salt to
taste; let it boil five minutes. Toast any
bread, pour the cream over 1t, and serve.
FRIED BREAD.-Cut dry bread into
slices, dip it in water, then put it in no"
lard. Fry until nicely Drowned, then
pour cream and eggs well beaten over it.
Let 1t fry to the bread then commence
eating as quick as you have mind to.
AUNT JERUsHA's TURNovER.-Flour,
two pounds lard. one pound; salt, half
a teaspoonful. Water enough to make
paste. Roll thin to about the size of a
tin plate. Take any berries you like, and
lay them in the center of the crust. Lap
the edges together. Lay in pie-pans and
bake; or, If you prefer it, in clean brick
oven.
A WRITER In the Gardeners Monthly
says that he grows his camehias in large
pots and leaves them undisturbed for
years. He has large reservoir on his
place, holding five hundred gallons of
water. In this he deposits annually about
three bushels of lime. Before watering
tie plants he stirs the lime well up in the
water, and then lets it settle. The healthy
thrifty appearance of the roots and
branches seem to warrant its use.
LAMENEss of pigs and loss of the use of
the hind legs is believed, by a correspon-
dent of the ~ E. Farmer, to be species
of founder caused by highly concentrated
or oily food, such as cornmeal or milk in
large quantities, and which he has cur ed
by bleeding-by cutting off the end OF
the tail, repeating the operation two or
three times if necessary. He has never
known it to fail to cure.
WHEN oleanders are troubled by scale
bugs, it is well to try kerosene oil to re-
move them. Make soapsuds, and add
the oil. Wash the stalks all over with a
rag or sponge dipped in it. Other plants
can be treated in the same manner and
even if the leaves absorb the oil it will
not injure them, but the plant will thrive
finely; the jessamine is a good example OF
its good effects.
FRUIT CAKE-VRRY NICE.-Put one
teaspoonful of soda in coffee cup, add
five tablespoonful of hot water, four do
of melted butter, and fill the cup with
molasses. Make it sitter with flour than
if eggs were used. Stir into this mixture
all it will hold of stoned and chopped
raisins, currants and citron in slices, one
teaspoonful each of powdered nutmeg and
cinnamon, and pinch of cloves.
How TO Cook BEANs.-Very many peo
ple fail in cooking beans. Put the beans
-. IL 1af u hra
or four hours. Then put these beans in
cold water 1.-TWO quarts of water to one
quart of beans, adding tablespoonful Of
salt,) bring them to boil and let them
simmer until tender, say two, or two and
half hours. Pour the water away from
them; let them stand by the side of the
fire, with the lid of the saucepan partially
off, to allow the beans to dry, then add
one ounce of butter for every quart OF
beans, and a seasoning OF pepper and
salt.
ENGLISH IvY.-The English Ivy is one
of the most beautiful plants for decorating
a window, since they will stand cOnsid-
cradle degree of cold, even to zero with
out being killed. 1t should be grown and
kept i'm Summer in pots, in a cool, moist
and partially shaded situation, care being
taken that the roots do not penetrate the
drainage hole i'm the bottom of the pots
and thus get foothold i'm the earth. This
NAV be obviated by placing fat stone or
brick under the pot when it is plunged in
the earth, and in the Autumn when the
plants are transferred to the house you
will be amply repaid for your care.
CURE FOR GALLs.-When the first ten
derness is indicated the part may be
washed with one drachm of tincture of ar
MICA to half pint of water. If the swell
ing be considerable, either from the pres
sure of the saddle or harness, it should
first be thoroughly bathed with either
warm or cold water, and the parts saved
from further pressure; or better, give the
animal rest. If the gall be extensive or of
long continuance, the following compound
will be found valuable: Take eight ounces
aloes and four ounces each of myrrh, cate
chu and benZoin, all pulverized, and put
i'm one gallon of new rum let the mix
ture stand for two or three weeks, fire.
quently shaking it; then strain through
fine linen or flannel. 1t would be found
valuable for use when required.
CrrRoN MELoN.-Peel the melon, take
out the inside, and cut it in such pieces as
you like-thin strips, about quarter of
an inch thick at the best. Then weigh
the melon, and take the same weight in
fine white sugar; put little alum in
some water, and boil the melon in it until
tits tender; take it up on Dish, sprinkle
the sugar over it, and between the pieces,
and let it stand over tight. Then turn
off the strip into the preserving-kettle,
and boil until clarified; then put the
melon in it and boil it until scalded
through take it out on a dish to cool.
Add to the strip two lemons and little
preserved ginger, to flavor it; boil the
strip again until quite clear; put the
melon up into jars, turn the sirup over ii,
not quite boiling hot; when ceol, seal up
your jars as for other preserves.