The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-15
FARM AND PRESIDE.

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RACK RASPBERRY DESSERT. look |
over and put into your glass sauce-dlsh
the best sweet black raspberries, crushing
them as little as possible. Then mash and
strain half as many ripe red curranIs.
Add sugar to the Juice of these until quite
sweet. and when It is well dissolved, pour
it over the sc black caps, and let them
stand an hour or two. Serve for after
dinner dessert, or for sauce at any time.
WHoRTLEBERRY BREAD PUDDING
Take stale batter-biscuit and steam or soak
i'm little water until quite SOFT. Ihen
crumble finely and place layer half an
inch thick in nappy, and over taat pace
a LAYER of iuicvz whortleberries. Sprinkle
over the latter sugar enough to sweeten
them, and then layer OF bread crumbs,
so alternating until the dish is full. Bake
half an hour or. more, according to the
size of the dish and the heat of the oven.
BLACKBERRY PUDDNG.-Make a crust
by wetting 2 cups of wheat-meal and
cup of fine corn-meal, with boiled rice
enough to make paste that can be rolled
OUT one-third of an inch thick. Then mix
about / Quart of blackberries with cup
of wheat-meal, pour them into the rolled
out crust. draw the latter over them ana
pinch together, then sew up IN a cloth ana
steam one hour and half. Let 1t cool
few minutes, and then dish with spoon,
and trim with sugar. Serve warm.
HOUSEHOLD MEAsURES.-As all faml-
lies are not provided with scales and
weights, referring to ingredients IN gen
eral use by every housewife, the following
information may be useful: wheat hour,
III pound is quart Indian meal. pound
2 ounces is l quart. Butter, when soft,
pound ounce is l quart. Loaf sugar,
broken, 1 pound is l quart. White sugar,
powdered. l pound l ounce is quart.
| Best brown sugar, l pound ounces is
quart. Eggs, average size, TO eggs are
pound. Is large tablespoonfuls are pint,
| 5 are gill, 4, ] gill, etc.
RASPBERRY PYRAAnD.-Wash pint OF
good hard rice, put it into quart OF SOFT
| hot water, boil up quickly for minutes,
and then set where it will steam or barely
simmer, without stirring, for half an hour.
Then, while hot, spread, on large Gunner,
plate, one-f fourth of an inch thick, and
cover this with ripe raspberries, and so on,
making each a little smaller than the pre-
| ceiling. so that the whole will form pyr-
| amid. Let it stand until cold, when it viii
/ form a handsome ornament tor the table.
Serve In perpendicular slices, or half slices,
trimming with sWeetened cream or straw
berry or raspberry juice - q,
APPLE PREsERvEs.-Take fair, sweet
apples, with firm flesh, pare them nicely,
cut them across the core in slices a quar-
ter of an inch thick, remove the seeds.
but not the core, as it improves the ap-
pearance of the preserve. Boil very gent
/ iy in little water till tender, and then
/ lift them carefully on plates. Take hall
the number of lemons that you had OF ap-
pies. cut them across the core in slices the
same thickness of the apples, remove the
seeds. and spread the slices on earthen
platters. Take pulveriZed loaf-sugar
. weight equaling that of the fruit weighed
before boiling; sprinkle half of it over the
4 lemon slices, let it stand few hours till
4 LIQUID enough has formed to cook them
in. then drain it off and put it over the
fire in a porcelain-lined kettle with the
rest of the sugar. When it boils, drop in
both lemon and apple slices, and boil
gently till the fruit is clear. For those
who dislike the flavor of lemon peel, the
apples can be made as above, substituting
lemon slices; or the apples can De lett
whole, if the cores are carefully cut out.
MOTHS IN CARPETs.-One can never be
quite sure, says the Country Gentleman,
that his carpets are not being consumed by
moths, except for few weeks after hav-
, ing them taken up and thoroughly cleaned,
unless something is used to prevent then
! growth or thoroughly destroy them. This
often necessitates the taking up and clean
ing of carpet that otherwise would not
need the renovation. With an ingram OF
Lowell, this needless labor may be saved
by laying down damp cloth, and over il
thoroughly rubbing the edges with hot
fiat-iron; this will kill the moth, if any
: have accumulated. But with tapestry
Brussels, or velvet, the ironing is not
effectual; besides, it Injuries the carpet
) Much hard work may be saved, however
2 by removing the tacks one side at a time
: rolling back, and examining the edges: Il
5 there are any moths they must be brushed
3 off and burned; and to effeetually destroy
: the life of all deposits, the edges OF the
carpet must be ironed, as before stated
4 but on the wrong side. The edge Of the
: carpet lining should be thoroughly looked
to, and the exposed edge of the flool
1 washed, and while damp sprinkled with
: salt If the carpet is to be folded under IL
S any place, sprinkle salt between the folds
D and see that the floor is well covered witt
z salt for an inch or two under the edge oftht
/ carpet all around. If salt were always pu
r under the edges of carpets before putting
l them down, moths would have but Sigh
} chance to trouble them. z5l
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