The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
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Cream Cookies.-One egg, one large
cup of sugar: one cup of cream; one-hali
cup of sour milk; half teaspoonful OF
soda; flour enough to roll.
-Whips.-Beat the whites of four egg.
to a froth; take pint and half of goOt
cream, sweetened with fine white sugar
peat we'll together, flavor with wine
lemon or almond, and serve in small
glasses.
..--Ox-Tail Soup.-Take two small tails
divide them at the joints, rub with salt
and soak for one hour and half in warn
water. Then place in stew pan with {
little parsley, four or five chopped on
IONS, dozen peppercorns, Il little mace
turnip, two carrots sliced, and water
enough to cover. Stew for two hours and
half, or until the meat is tender; then
remove the meat, and thicken the SOUP
with little Drowned flour; boil up,
SKIM well, add mushroom catsup and
pepper to taste. Serve hot.
Ripe Cucumber Salad.-Take one
dozen of yellow ripe cucumbers; wash
ana pare them; then cut into strips and
take out the seeds; chop them into bits
rs small as a pea. With them, or scpa.
rately, as you please, chop twelve large
Wnlte onions and six large green peppers.
MIX al we'll together, then add teacup-
iul OF black or white mustard-sced and
two tablespoonfuls of celery-seed. To
TINS mixture stir in one teacupful Of salt,
ana put the whole into cotton bag to
drain off over night. Next morning turn
IL out, put into jars, and fill up with the
strongest of cold cider vinegar. Keep it
lightly corked from the air, and in four
weeks it will be q delicious relish for
either breakfast or supper. 1t looks very
inviting, as it is white and crisp.
"A correspondent in the Cincinnati
Gazette says for cake bag in cows, get ten
cents worth of dry iodine fill cup with
good fresh lard, and stir in the iodine
till it is thoroughly mixed; let it stand
tor day or night; stir it again and rub
1t in with the hand frequently, and cure
Is certain. Whoever employs the violent
remedies should understand that they
may do more than is desired Iodine af-
fscts the secretiOns powerfully, and
causes the absorption of tumors and alb
normal growths; may it not also cause a
decrease in the secretion of milk? We
have found that persistent rubbing and
kneading was better than anything else
1t the bag be very tender, as it often is,
take teaspoonful of tincture of arnica
in water, and rub the same diluted with
twice as much water upon the bag to
take out the soreness.-Western RuraL.
Autumn transplanted trees have the
advantage of those planted in the spring,
in the better settling OF the earth about
the roots, SO that they are ready for an
early start. But there are two things to
look to or they will he likely to be worse
off than spring-set trees. The wind
often whips them about and makes "A
hole around the stem, greatly to their
injury. In such cases dig the earth
away from them with a spade down to
the roots, and replace good mellow earth
mot hard lumps) about them, pressing it
we'll about the tree with the foot. The
other difficulty is the hardening of the sur
face of the earth into crust. This must
be dug up and made mellow fyou would
have the tree do we'll through summer.
Trees set out in spring often have the
advantage of fall-transplanted trees be-
cause the earth is left mellow after set
ting, instead of hardened into stiff
crust by winter and spring rains. But if
The care is taken here pointed out the
[all-set trees will do the best.-Erchange.