The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-06
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

DROP CAKEs.-29 cups of sugar, little
| over cup of butter, cup sour milk,
cup sour cream, two eggs, soda. Flour
enough to drop smoothly from the spoon.
RAISED WAFFLEs.-1 pint of sweet milk,
l heaping teacupful of butter, 3 eggs, /
teaspOonful of thick brewers yeast, quart
of flour, and another teacupful of sweet
milk, in which is dissolved / teaspoonful
of soda. Let it raise until light, then bake
as other waffles. Serve with butter and
sugar.
!, ORDINARY stains in sheet zinc may be
removed by washing it with solution of
diluted sulphuric acid and water-one part
of acid and three parts of water. After
using this preparation, the acid should be
thoroughly cleansed off with soap and
water. To scour or brighten zinc use
glycerine mixed with sulphuric acid.
The easiest and simplest remedy for
| chapped hands is found in everyone's
| kitchen closet, and is nothing more than
common starch. Reduce it to an impalpa-
| bic powder. put it in muslin bag, and
keep it in the table drawer. Whenever
| YOU take your hands out of dishwater or
suds, wipe them dry with a soft towel, and
while yet damp, shake the starch bag all
over them and rub it in. The effect is
| most agreeable.
| SAPLINGS for fences, or any other fence
timber, should be cutwhen in full leaf and
the tree allowed to lie for some days until
| the leaves are withered. Then the leaves
will have drawn all the sap from the tree
| and the timber will be more durable than
if cut at any other time. If the butt of a
tree cut in this manner can be inserted in
solution of metallic salt, as chloride of
zinc, or copperas, the solution will be
drawn into the wood and the timber be
made very durable.
BELLS AND DoGs.-A farmer of Broo.ne
county, New York, writes to the New
York Times: 81 put bells ON sheep to
keep the dogs off. / have tried it thirty
years, and never lost one. My neighbors
have lost sheep all around me. They have
not had bells. | use one bell for ten
sheep. | have so much faith in bells that
think the law should not pay man for
hiss sheep if he had no bells ON Them"
This is correct. Bells on a few wethers
will keep off dogs, and even wild animals.
To HULL CoRN.-Put in an iron kettle
quarts clean wood ashes fill the kettle
with boiling water, and boil half an hour;
then take it from the fire, and let stand
until cold; then pour off the I've and
boil the corn in it until the hull begins to
come off; then rub and wash thoroughly
three or four times, and boil until very
tender tit can be made in large quantities.; |
then take a small portion and put in the |
frying pan and add one pint of milk |
when it boils, mash it fine and add butter, |
salt and cream, or, if preferred, warm it in |
milk and add salt without washing it.
SALT Pork PUDDING.-Chop very fine +
large cupful of salt pork which has soak
ed In milk over night. Add to it cup of /
molasses, with tcaspoonful of saleratus
stirred into it, ( of cup of sweet milk, l
cup OF stoned raisins or cqrrants, tea
spoonful each of ground cinnamon, cloves,
and nutmeg. Add flour enough to make
as stiff as berry pudding. Steam in a
cloth or boil for four hours. For a sauce,
take cup of white sugar and pour over it
The same quantity of boiling water; when
melted, stir in 2 well-beaten eggs. Flavor
With vanilla or lemon, f.
1T Is great mistake to permit shade
rees to stand so near together that none !
ave room for proper development. ,
Dung trees may be placed near each 9th
n to prevent awkward gaps, but as they +,
Increase in size, the superfiuous ones should ,
Ne removed, and the remaining ones will
Don show they are the gamers. A cele-
'rated fruit grower said it took him thirty
ears 10 acquire the moral courage neceS-
airy to thin out his fruit buds properly.
still higher degree of courage is requir-
d to lay the AK to thrifty, handsome !
hade tree, though we know its neighbors
will be dwarfed if it is allowed to remain,
PUMPKIN BUTTER-'Take out the seeds
f one pumpkin, cut in small pieces, and
oil it soft; take three other pumpkins,
ut them in pieces. and boil them soft; put
hem in a coarse bag and press out the |
lice; add the juice to the first pumpkin
nd let it boil ten hours more, to become
fthe thickness of butter. Stir often. If
he pumpkins are frozen the juice will
ONE out much easier. Pumpkin butter
an be made on a large scale in big iron
ettle over fire out doors. 1t will keep 8
'r years in wooden box orIkeg. a