The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-28
FARM AND PRESIDE.

PUMPKIN PtEs.-Pare the pumpkin,
crate it and add sugar and ginger to taste,
and milk enough to make It of the proper
consistency. Then line your tins with
pie-crust. put in your pumpkin, and bake
in the ordinary way.
APPLE CAKE. % cups of stewed apples
boiled in 9 cups of steWed molasses. Drain
off the molasses flor the cake1 from the ap-
pies, add 2 eggs, 2 teaspoonfuls of soda, 4
Guns of flour, j cup of butter, cup sour
milk: spice to suit. Then add the apple
(which was drained as above). The apples
should be soaked the night before steWlng
for the cake.
CoLoRING BuTTE Take one good-sized
orange carrot for every four pounds OF
butter; crate 1t up finely, and put it in
strong muslin cloth press out and pour
into the cream before churning. You
will then have yellew butter If well
worked. The juice is sweet and gives
good flavor to winter butter.
MoLAssEs-C CURED HAM.-Moisten every
part of the ham with molasses, and then
for every hundred pounds use one quart
of salt and four ounces of saltpeter, rub
bling them in very thoroughly in every
point. Then rub again with molasses 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 process takes only sixteen
days, while other methods require five or
six weeks.
To MAKE square harrow in two parts
hinged together in the center, take four
pieces of 4x4 oak or maple scantling SIX
feet long. Mdrti& the shorter pieces into
the longer ones enty inches apart and
six inches from - III end, thus making two
frames or gates six feet long, three feet
wide, and viii four cross bars each.
Hinge the two gates together by means OF
three pairs of eye-bolts with long rod
passing through each pair. Put five teeth
twelve inches long and three-quarters of an
inch thick of square iron rod in each cross
bar, and three teeth into each main bar be-
tween the ero$s-bars. There will then be
fifty-two teeth. This harrow should be
drawn from one corner.
SAVE the tea-leaves for few days, then
steep them in a tin pail or pan for half an
hour, strain through sieve and use the
tea to wash all vanished paint 1t re-
ouires very little s.elbow polish" as the
tea acts as strong detergent, cleansing the
paint from all impurities, and making the
varnish equal to new. 1t cleans window
sashes and dil-cloths; indeed, any var
nished surface is improved by application.
1t washes window panes and mirrors much
better than water, and is excellent for
cleaning black walnut picture and looking
glass frames. 1t will not do to wash I'M
vanished paint with it. Whiting is UNI
equaled for cleaning white paint. Take
small quantity on damp flannel, rub
lightly over the surface, and you will be
surprised at its effects.
SLEEP FOR FARMERS WIvEs.-A farm
er's wife writes letter to the RuraG Neao
Yorker which she wants the ''men-folks
to read. 1t is plea for more sleep. Have
you wife, she says, who goes about in a
| listless, spiritless fashion, as though she
could but just drag herself about? Or is
she cross and fretful, and do you wonder
how she came to have such temper?
Ten to one, all she needs to make her
bright and happy is rest, sleep, and loving
words. Hire efficient help, that the wife
who has passed sleepless night may take
advantage of baby's morning nap and have
one of her own, or, if she choose, lie down
in the afternoon and make up the lost
sleep. You can afford it if you will. Do
| you begrudge hundred dollars year for
| your Wife's comfort and health? Why, no
breeding-mafe would be worked as some
men work their wives Give women their
home rights help them to bear their bur-
dens; give them few kind, loving words
every day, and you will have healthier and
happier wives, children, and homes.
AMONG all the ways and machines have
tried for washing clothes, says lady, /
find nothing equal to barrel and FOUNDER.
Bore six or seven inch and halt, or larger
holes, into the end of six or eight inch
sapling Il USE butternut, it bores easy, and
is handy, two or three inches deep, then
bore ihree- fourth-inch sid. hole through
to the bottom of the larger ones to let out
air and water when pounding. The pound
er should bd six or eight inches long or
high, made a little tapering, and hoop
iron band put round it near the top. For
a handle, | use a common hoe-handle, such
as can buy at stores for dime. use a
coal oil barrel to pound in; it is cheap and
strong, makes good water barrel, or con-
venient to put dirty clothes in. Soap your
clothes well, and put into your barrel just
warm water enough to thoroughly wet the
clothes. In washing this way persons
generally use too much water; it then
makes hard, spIashlng work. If the water
gets too dirty, change it of course. If
great doubleNfisted men, with weak or even
strong and heslthy wives and families,
would provide and use this simple thing, /
think they would bless the day they first
tried it.