Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-06
FARM AND FiRESlDE.

SOOtl SdIll L " VIC Iftl
''Good my wife has made butter thes
twenty years, and / should think she ough
to know how to make good butter by this
time!'
He was evidently offended.
"Well, let us examine it," The coyel
twas taken off the tub, the clean white
| cloth (wii CHI had been wet in brinel ROLLED
up, and the yellow treasure revealed. 1t
certainly did look good
ut tastes sweet, but how very salt it is. -
owe always make our butter salt, to have
it keep at this season."
''Let us see if the buttermilk is as we'll
worked out as the salt is in
Some of the rolls were pressed down with
the ladle.
''Now, my tIiend, if your wife has made
butter these twenty years, she does not
know how to make butter good: for no
butter can be good until the buttermilk is
worked out. If that is done, you need not
salt it SO bad as to have it keep well in any
place. A very little Care and labor would
have made this excellent butter; lacking
that little, it is only Il second quality. as
you Shall acknowledge when | show you
sample Of good butter"
We went in, and took up Il roll from a
crock of first-rate butter 1t was smooth
clear and handsome; the hand of woman
had not been on it from the time it had left
the churn until NOW; all the work had been
done with the ladle.
eff you get a drop of buttermilk from
that butter, you shall have the whole free. -
''Now, taste this, and your own, and say.
honestly, if you would not give a higher
price for this than for your own. Look at
it-see how transparent these minute COB
ules are, and how intimately they are blend
ed with the mass. Until these all disap
pear the butter will keep sweet, and no
butter will keep long when they are ever
50 slightly colored by the milk
The farmer simply remarked that there
was a difference in all butter, andleft To
find a less critical and more ready Gus
toner.
1t is strange that when everybody loves
good butter and are willing to pay for it,
our farmers wives and daughters do not
take pains to make better article. 1t is
the womens' fault that we have poor but
ter generally, and we hold them responsj-
BILE.
1t is perfectly easy to make good butter
The only requisite is care. Good butter
will always command a good price in the
dullesJ. market, while poor butter is drug
at any price.
When any of my lady readers make but
ter again, just let them imagine that am
to have nice piece of bread and butter
with them, and that / shall detect the
least particle of milk, and that | am not
fond of too much salt.-New Gennesse
Farmer.
EXERCISING CoLTs.-To begin with, let
it be remarked that colts need great deal
Of exercise. By nature they were made
for rapid movement. Like young birds.
they develop in motion. Many most prom
Using youngsters are fatally checked in the
development of their powers by lack of
needed exercise in their second and third
years. hold that a colt needs a great deal
of exercise not to the halter, which is
good for nothing but to sweat out law
groom, but sharp, quick exercise, in the
taking of which every muscle is brought
into play, every joint tested, and every
vein, however small, swelled taut with
rapid blood, as is the case when allowed
the liberty of hill and plain, and to follow
+ il1, Of,
feet Horse
SHORT NUT CAKEs.-TWo cups of sweet
milk, three cups of sugar, five eggs, three
tablespoonful of butter, (level, not round
ed), one and half teaspoonfuls of soda,
three OF cream tartar, one spoonful of salt,
a little nutmeg. Here seems to be a case
soda, ETC.; but the probability is that zone
of soda and two of cream tartar is exactly
the same as three of baking powder, and
50 on
AGoon SALAD.-A correspondent OF the
Gardeners Chronicle says: Here is a
salad that will delight those who eat Gu
cumbers with bread and cheese Take a
tomato, not 0Verripe, and cut it into Slices
as you would Il cucumber, take Il small
onion, and cut it up as fine as YOU can,
sprinkle it over the tomato slices. add salt.
pepper and vinegar at discretion and YOU
will have Il salad which, as relish, puts
the cucumber to shame,
FRECKLEs.-Smal round freckles can
be removed by the application of chlorine
water every night and morning, allowing
it to dry in. For the more dense ones,
chloride Of lime, one to ten, fifteen or
twenty parts Of water, according to sensi-
tiveness of skin. When using the strong
er solutions, merely touch the spots with
moistened camel's hair brush.
CoCoANUT PIE.-One-half q cup of but
ter, one cup of powdered white sugar, four
well-beaten eggs; beat whites and yelk to-
gether; one cup of grated cocoanut, one
quart of sweet milk mix butter and sugar
together, then add the eggs and cocoanut,
and lastly the milk. Bake in lower crust.
Eat when cold. This quantity makes two
pies.
10 SWEETEN SALT PoRK.-Cut as many
slices as will be required for breakfast the
evening previous, and soak till morning in
sweet milk and water; then rinse till the
water is clear, and fry. The pork will be
found very nearly as good as fresh pork.
RHEUMATISM AND GOUT.-A medical
correspondent of an English journal says
that the advantages of asparagus are not
sufficiently appreciated by those who suffer
with rheumatism and govt. Slight cases
of rheumatism are cured in a few dave Nv,