The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-01-24
FARM AND PRESIDE.

CORN DRor-cAKEs-Mix corn-meal with |
boiling new milk until you have thick
batter: put in the pans at once and bake
for twenty or thirty minutes.
BAKED EGas.-Beat up six eggs, one |
tablespoonful of flour, six of sweet milk;
melt your butter in the frying pan; When
hot, turn the whole in, well beaten, ana
bake in a hot oven.r an.s 90 I
BEEF STEw.-Six pounds of the flank OF
beef, cut in small pieces; boil In TWO
quarts of wafer until tender. Then put III
a dozen potatoes, a dozen onions, and tour
turnips; cover it so that the steam shall
not escape; salt and pepper to the taste.
RICE PUDDING.-On cup of rice, three
quarts of milk, one teaspoonful OF salt,
two-thirds of a cup of sugar; bake very
slowly. Eat with butter, or leave out the
sugar and serve with: Samee.-One egg,
one teacup Of sugar beat together twenty
minutes two-thirds of pint OF boiling
water. Flavor to taste.
GRAHAM BREAD.-Four quarts of I'M
bolted wheat, a teacnpful OF good yeast,
halfa cupfuI of molasses, one tablespoon
| full of salt mix with warm water enough
to make a stiff dough; let it rise six or
eight hours, wet your hands in cold water
10 pun IL 1llkO bilC pans 1CG ~ iioS al. 1900
or until it has risen an inch, and bake two
hours 1t should be very well baked.
| COOKING CRANBERRIEs.-In the first
place, select ripe fruit and remove all de-
| fectjye berries. The selected fruit must
then be thoroughly washed through several
waters-one washing is not enough. To
every pound of fruit add one pound OF
sugar. Put them into preserving kettle
| over slow fire. Do not hurry the pro-
cess of stewing. To prevent the berries
from sticking to the kettle, stir them fire.
| alently with silver spoon. When done,
turn them into dish and set aside to cool,
i after which they may be used for pies,
tarts, or sauce. When for sauce, mash
them fine through colander, and put
4 them into small molds suitable for the
table, having first rinsed the molds in cold
water, to prevent the berries from sticking.
;, PACKING APPLES IN PLAsTER.-A new
, and successful way Of keeping apples a
long time through the winter has been
, discovered by correspondent of Moore's
Rural who uses plaster for packing. He
says that in this way he was able to keep
Northern Spy and Swaar until May, not
only without the least decay, but almost
as fresh and full of flavor as when picked
J and he thinks that had they not been dis
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tues to an even later date. He selected
flour barrels, as being tighter than those
made expressly for fruit; spread the bot
{ tom with the pulverized gypsum, and theI
, put in alternate layers of this material and
/ the apples till the barrel was full, when 8
final covering of plaster was applied, anC
t the head pushed down and hoops driver
! tight. His theory is that the plaster, be
ing of cold nature, keeps the fruit at an
even temperature, and, being so fine ano
: dry, packs so close as to practically exclude
l the air.
BoRAx AND CLEANSING BLANKETS.-The
Boston Journal of Chemistry gives the fol
l lowing method of cleansing blankets
l Put two large tablespoonful of borax anG
r pint bowl of soft-soap into tub of colo
f water. When dissolved, put in a pair o
]. blankets and let them remain over night
e Next day rub and drain them out, ane
t rinse thoroughly in two waters, and hang
f them out to dry. Do not wiring them
!. But this is not the only domestic use tx
4 which borax may be put. Says the SAINT
\ ionrnal Borax is the best cocbroach ex
! terminator yet discovered. This trouble
e some insect has peculiar aversion to it
n and will never return where it has one
r been scattered. AS the salt is perfect,
: | harmless to human beings, it is much to b
:. preferred for this purpose to the poisonou
8 substances commonly used. Borax is val
V liable for the laundry; use one pound t.
: about ten gallons of boiling water, ant
n you need only one-half the ordinary allow
ance of soap. For laces, cambrics, etc.
# use an extra quantity of this powder. |
\ will not injure the texture of the cloth il
q the least. For cleansing the hair nothin!
: is better than solution of borax-water
= Wash afterWard with pure water, if
: leaves the hair too stiff. Borax dissolvet
/. in, water is also an excellent dentifrice, o
;, tooth-wash.