Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
farm, Garden and Household.
Househol,l RecIrrs.

To MAKE Coon BUCKwHEAT CAKES
Take sour milk OF buttermilk-the last
named is best-and to one pint of milk
take a teaspoonful of soda; salt to
taste stir in enough buckwheat flour
to make batter bake al once. This
recipe will hardly fail to give satisfae-
ton il fairly tried.
APPLE CAKE.-Two cups of stewed
apples boiled in two cups of molasses.
Drain off the molasses (for the cake)
from the apples, add two eggs, two tea
spoonfuls of soda, four cups of flour,
one cup of butter, one cup of sour
milk; spice to suit. Then add the
apple (Which was drained as above).
The apples should be soaked the night
before stewing for the cake.
GRTs PUDDING WITH APPLEs.-Take
ten apples, pared and quartered, cover
the bottom of your pudding dish, sprin-
kle little sugar and CRATE little nut
meg over them cover this with well.
boiled grits, seasoned with butter las
for breakfast), then another layer of
apples, and so on until the dish is full.
Bake until the apples are we'll done,
and eat with sweet cream. Good either
cold or hot.
MoLAssEs CURED HAM. - Moisten
every part of the ham with molasses,
and then for every hundred pounds use
one quart of fine salt and four ounces
of saltpetre, rubbing them in very
thoroughly in every point. Then put
the hams thus prepared in cask for
four days. Then rub again with mo-
lasses and one quart of salt, and return
the hams to the casks for four days.
Repeat this the third and fourth time,
and then smoke the hams. This pro-
cess takes only sixteen days, while
other methods require five or six weeks.
worm-eaten Peas.
Professor Maurice Perkins, Union
University, Schenectady, furnishes the
following for the Country Gentleman :.
Very often in the spring I have
noticed that the peas, beans, &C., for
sale in the stores for seed were worm
eaten. In many cases the seeds were
so eaten as to be useless for seed. The
worm and even the egg may be easily
destroyed by the bisulphide of carbon,
colorless, volatile liquid, having an
ordor like that of rotten eggs. If the
barrel containing the seeds is not quite
full, moisten piece of cloth with the
liquid, lay it on the seeds and cover the
barrel with an old horse blanket. The
vapor of the bisulphide will sink down
among the seeds and destroy all animal
life. The seeds themselves will not be
injured. Two or three ounces will be
enough for half dozen barrels. This
liquid is used in Europe to destroy the
weevil in wheat. I have not seen the
above mentioned in any agricultural
paper, and thought that it might prove
useful to some of your readers.
Wooden Snow Shovel.
Every farmer who lives in the North
is compelled to do a good deal of snow
shoveling every winter, and if it is done
before the snow becomes compact and
solid, he may work with greater ease
and rapidity by using q light, broad
snow shovel made of wood. The blade
should be of thin wood, about three
fourths of an inch thick, thirteen inches
wide and sixteen inches long, the edge
dressed down and covered with sheet
iron three or four inches back. The
end piece should be an inch and half
wide, screwed on the blade, so as to
form a stiffener or cleat to prevent
Wrapping and splitting, and for this rea-
son it should never be nailed on the
end of the blade. The handle, which
is about four feet and half long, il
screwed on so as to be about 20 inches
from the floor when the blade lies fiat
This shovel may be used for chaff
grain, &C., as well as for snow.-C0aua
try Gentleman.
How to Make a Cistern.
see some of your readers wish tx
know how to construct a cistern. The
best way is to dig your pit the size Vol
wish and to wall it with brick build ,
partition wall across it, leaving two
thirds on one side. Leave number O
holes through the bottom of the partition
wall about four inches square the1
plaster we'll with not less than two coats
Fill up to the smallest side of the par
tition wall with charcoal then fill III
the other side about three feet will
coarse sand. Let the water in on thu
charcoal, letting it pass under the par
tition wall up through the sand. L
will be as pure as freestone spring
1t will have no taste of rain water. -Ec
change.
To Clean smoky Paper Hangings.
Take piece of wood of the shape O
a scrubbing brush, nail handle OF
the back, then upon the face nail
piece of dried sheepskin with WOO
upon it or flax or tow will do; or cot
ton flannel of several thicknesses will
answer very well. Dip this brush int,
dry whiting, and rub the smoke light,
with the brush on the upper parts O
the room first-protecting the carpe
with mating or newspaper, as tn
whiting dust is hard to sweep off car
pet. The whiting that remains on tn
wall is easily brushed off with sof
cloth attached to stick. It is yer
effectual if the room is not damp an
the whiting is dry.
Paris Street Scenes.