The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
Why should not the farmers generally
set fruit trees in the. fence corners, on each
side of the roads They will make much
more creditable appearance than briars
and elders. -
Sugar Cookies.-One and a-half cups
sugar; half cup milk; small half cup
butter; one egg; one teaspoon cream tar
tai; half do. soda, half q cup caraNay
seed. Mix pretty we'll, cut into small
cakes and bake.
Oatmeal Porridge.-Soak six table
spoonftlls of meal over night in q pint and
half of water; in the morning stir it we'll,
and set it in pail into kettle of boiling
water, and let it boil hard half an hour;
then add cupful of milk, and let it boil
fifteen minutes. Season with salt, and eat
with cream and sugar.
Potato Bread.-Take six good.sized
potatoes, boil and mash very fine. Add
three pints boiling water. Stir flour in
till it makes stiff batter When luke
warm, add your yeast, set it in a moder:
ately warm place. In the morning kncad
in flour and salt as stiff as you can. Set in
a warm place to rise; knead again, add
ing as little flour as possible. Let it raise
again, and then put it into your pans,
making them half full. When the lOaves
have risen to the top of tie pans, bake
them to good brown.
To Keep Hams.-After the meat has
take some clean ashes from bits of coal ;
1onfcfof, fhoV,o NTH n 1itf1o xx,ofor hof
they will form paste, or else just wet the
hams little, and rub on the dry ashes.
Rubbed in thoroughly they serve as q
capital insect protector, and the hams can
be hung up in the smoke-house or wood
chamber without any danger of molesta-
ton.
To make an excellent preserve from
unripe melons, the green part of water.
melons and citrons, in imitation of pre-.
served ginger, boil in alum water-a
tablespoonful to about two gallons-pare,
cut in pieces, and lay in water for one or
two days, to take out the alum TASTE The
pieces should not be quite soft, but like
sweet cucumber pickle. Drain we'll,
make strip of sugar-a pound to each
pound of lnelon-a pretty strong flavoring
Of ginger, as hot as may be liked, remem-
bering that when boiled it will taste hot
ter, little mace, and some lemon peel or
essence of lemon to taste. Boil the pieces
in this till clear. Unripe melons are
soaked for some days in brine, cut up and
freshened in cold water before boiling in
alum. This preserve requires watching,
being very apt to mold.-Household.
How to Dry Sweet Potatoes-A
correspondent of the Rural Sun writes:
Gin 1874 I mt VII oil
tatoes, except one row, before sunrise the
potatoes that day. During the first three
weeks 1 think one-third or one-fourth
rotted. Very few afterward. I left the
vines of the excepted row untouched for
nearly three weeks. They had nearly dis
appeared. dug the potatoes two or
three bushels-placed them beside the
others-a plank separating them. l
think not a pound rotted. They were
eaten, however, when the others were
used up, say within two months from dig
ging. 1t may be proper to say that the
last averaged less than half the size of the
first lot. Since that experiment am in
no hurry to dig my potatoes, and later
partial experiments only strengthen my
opinion"
AT meeting of the Elmira Farmers
Club, w. A. Armstrong said that cheap
ice-house could be made out of simple
well rooted Enclosure, without hollow
walls or pits or any costly apparatus. He
leaves six inches of space next the side all
around, into which he rams clean saw
dust closely, and covers the ice when put
in with a foot of the dust. The ice is cut
into large blocks and made to fit at the
joints as closely as convenient; but where
the edges are jagged he fills in with
pounded ice or sawdust-the latter being
the cheapest. Drainage is important;
but, if the house stands on porous soil or
is so elevated that the water will run off
readily, it answers every purpose. He
has kept ice several years in such build
ing, nine feet square and the same in
height, the sides being only of inch boards.
When ice is taken out, be careful to keep
all the cavities covered with sawdust, or
it will waste away rapidly. In answer to
a question as to the cost of house four
teen feet square, he said that $50 would
pay for it and the sawdust; and, built of
cheap lumber, it might cost only $25. In
packing, spent tan or cut straw would
answer nearly as well as sawdust.-
Country Gentleman.