The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-20
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

RAISED CAKE.-2 cups of raised dough,
2 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, l cup OF butter, L
cup of sweet milk, teaspoonfu1 OF soda,
cups of flour, cup of fruit, cinnamon,
cloves and nutmeg. To be put into the
oven at once.
How To MAKE PAP.-Tie teaeupful OF
flour closely in cloth and boil for o
hours; then CRATE some of it after 1t is
cold and mix with cold milk, to the con-
sistency of thin starch. Stir it into boil
ing milk. When done, sweeten with sugar
to taste.
THE swelling of the bars of the mouth
is sometimes caused in young horses by
the cutting of the teeth, in which case
scoring of the swollen parts lightly with
sharp knife will cure it, or, what is better
still, touching them with lunar caustic. In
old horses it occurs from overlooking with
corn or other grain, when a change OF
food and cooling medicine should be
given.
If the bark of your trees is infested with
the eggs Of insects, you can get rid efthem
by taking pound of tobacco. pound OF
sulphur, / peck of lime; stir these ingred-
tents well together in three or four gal
Ions of water. Leave it to settle, and
syringe the trees with the clear liquid.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Gardeners
Chronicle says that he has found gas-tar
water, diluted to the color of weak coffee,
to be the best preventive to the ravages OF
siugs on all garden crops, and also an ex-
cellent manure, applying it by night from
an ordinary watering-pot, and half the
slugs will be killed, and the rest much
weakened. A second dose, after an inter-
val of week, is sufficient to Danish them
altogether.
BEAN SoUP.-Bean soup is a dish that
many people, and especially children,
would relish if properly made. 1t requires
about half pint of cooked beans for a
quart Of soup. Mash and boil until well
diffused in the water, and then run through
a colander to take out the skins. Thicker
with about one gill of wheat meal, and add
a sprig of thyme if desired. Boil five min
utes, and salt to the taste. The wheat meal
makes it much richer than a thickening OF
fine flour.
PREVENTION OF BoRE3s.-A correspon-
dent gives the following preventive against
the ravages of the borer in apple, peach
and other fruit trees: Mix one pound flour
of sulphur and four pounds of hogs lard,
in suitable vessel; put on the trees any
time in May or fore part of June, with a
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eight or ten inches up the tree to the
ground. This will not destroy the grubs
already in the tree but will prevent the
borer from attacking them.
CARAMELs.-1 cup sweet milk, l cup
molasses, Il cups brown sugar. Boil to-
gether Is minutes: then add butter the
size of large walnut, rolled in table
spoonful of -four. In the meantime melt
J cake of Bakers chocolate, add it to the
other ingredients, and boil till thick; then
add l large tablespoonful of vanilla try it
as molasses candy, and when sufficiently
boiled, butter some pans and pour it in.
When nearly cold, cross it off in little
blocks.
QUEENS CAKE.-1 pound of flour, of
sugar, pound OF butter, eggs, gill of
wine, gill of cream, nutmeg, teaspoonful
of saleratus, 2 pounds of currants or
chopped raisins. Stir the butter and sugar
to cream, beat the whites and yelk of the
eggs separately and after they and the flour
are also mixed with it, warm the cream and
and wine together, and add them, then the
saleratus, and last the fruit. Frost it, or
sift fine sugar over the top just before it
is put into the oven.-HeGrtJb and Home.
SOME one in New York has invented a
contrivance to destroy the animal odor in
fresh-drawn milk. It's simply tin pail,
the bottom of which is perforated with one
or two rows of holes three-siXteenths of an
inch in diameter. This pail is hung over
the empty milk-cans, and the milk poured
in through a strainer. The fluid starts
through the holes in streams; but before
it falls foot it is separated into drops, and
is thoroughly purified of all offensive
odors by the air, which is a good deodo-
riZer. This of course must be done in a
pure atmosphere-not in the dairy-room.