Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-13
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Cherry Pie.-Stone the cherries,
make paste in the ordinary way, put in
the fruit, add sugar and a little water
Stir tablespoonful of flour smoothly
into two of weter, and spread it evenly
on the edge of the paste; put on the
cover and bake till done. All fruit pies
can, by using this mixture of flour and
water, be kept from running over in the
| oven.
How to Make Cake.-Do not leave
| the oven-door open, or change the cake
| from one oven to the other, except in ex-
IRENE cases. If it hardens too fast on
the top, cover with paper. 1t should rise
to full height before the crust forms.
Except for gingerbread use none but
white sugar. Always sift the flour, Be
accurate in your weights and measures
Western Rural.
-Roly- Poly Pudding.-Take crust of
equal parts of Graham -four and fine corn
meal, wet with rice boiled quite soft in six
parts of water. Knead lightly and roll
out as thin as ii will hold together. Then
spread on whortleberries or blackberries
or rhubarb or gooseberries, and, begin
ming at one end, roll it over upon itself.
Sew up in cloth and boil or steam one
hour and half. Then take off the cloth
and cut in slices crosswise, and serve
hot, with strawberry pudding sauce or
some other sweetened fruit juice.
-Sherbet-Rub the yellow rind of
three lemons with Jumps of sugar to get
the flavor. Squeeze the juice of six
lemons and carefully take out the seeds.
Put the sugar and juice with one pound
of nice white sugar in half gallon of
water. Beat to stiff froth the whites
of five eggs, stirring in two tablespoon
fuls of pulveriZed white sugar. Then
slowly stir it in the lemonade and put it
Immediately in patent freezer, with salt
and ice around the freezer (the same as
for ice-cream(, and turn it until it is frozen
as hard as you wish it. This is very del
icate and resembles dish of snow.
None but patent freeZers should be used,
however, as it must be stirred con-
stantly.
Green Tomato Pickles. -One peck
green tomatoes, half head of a good
sized cabbage, two punches Of celery, or,
what is better, a little celery-seed, half a
pint of white mustard seed; also three or
four small carrots, using only the red part,
six onions, five large bell peppers. Chop
them and mix them together, sprinkle
over cup of fine salt, let it remain over
night; drain well, sprinkle in the seeds
and pour over one pint of molasses Take
three pints of vinegar, two tablespoons
of ground allspice, two tablespoons of
ground cloves, two tablespoons of ground
cinnamon, two tablespoons of ground
yellow mustard. Heat the spices in the
vinegar and pour over scalding hot. This
should be kept four or five months before
using.
The same principles that apply to
the summer pruning Of trees and shrubs
apply with equal force to those canes
that grow one season and bear fruit and
die the next. Raspberries, if left to
their own course, grow tall and slender,
branching but little, and, falling over,
trail upon the ground. Some allow them
to grow thus through the season and then
cut them back to the desired height; but
If pinched off when they reached the
proper height, from twenty inches to two
feet, much of the material pruned Oft
would have been appropriated in form
ing laterals and in increasing the size OF
the canes. So with blackberries, pinch
ing them off at the height of two feet
causes them to grow stocky, throw out
laterals and form compact head.-N
Y. Herald
An Ohio farmer writes as follows:"l
have town lot planted in early potatoes,
which for the last two years has been al
lowed to grow up thick with mustard al
ter the potatoes were worked out the last
time. As result, mustard came up very
thick this spring before the potatoes APP
peared, and when the plants were up
the ground was so dry and hard / could
not have them worked. This mustard is
very thick among them, but it does not
seem to interfere in the least with their
growth have just been all over the
lot, and hasten to report nary bug |
was among the vines last week often, and
only captured two. My neighbors, whose
potatoes are not as smart as mine for
want of mustard, are undergoing fear
full struggle for life. The present pros
poets seem strongly to indicate their ul-
innate failure. As for mustard being a
remedy for bugs, ] will only state the
above facts"