Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-05-07
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-FrOsting-A Good Recipe.-F Five
tablespoonful of white sugar for every
egg, beat up together, then put it over a
kettle Of boiling water, stirring all the
time until it gets thick enough. Let the
cake cool before putting it on.
Sugar Crackers.-Three cups of sugar,
one and one-half cups of butter, three
eggs, nutmeg, one-half teaspoonful of soda,
-four to roll, roll thin and sprinkle with
sugar. This fruit cake and the sugar
crackers it is said will keep six months,
if properly taken care OF.
Cheap Fruit Cake.-One cup molasses,
one and one-half cups sugar; three and
one-half cups Of -four, one OF butter; two
pounds English currants, one teaspoonful
all kinds of spices, one teaspoonful OF
soda, two of cream of tartar, one cup OF
sweet milk, yolks of three eggs Saving
the whites for frostingl Bake slowly
when cool frost.
I To Boil Eggs.-When you select eggs
for boiling, test their freshness by putting
them in pan of cold water. Those that
sink are the best. Always let the water
boil before putting your eggs in. Three
minutes will boil them soft four minutes
the whites will be completely done, aud
in six minutes they will be sufficiently
hard for garnishing salads and dishes
requiring them
Sour milk, buttermilk, and whey are
excellent for poultry of all ages, and at all
seasons, especially in winter. Milk is a
very good substitute for the insect forage
they are deprived OF at that season, and
we believe IL is much more profitable to
give il to them than TO swine. Unless ii
is allowed every day it is best not To give
fowls all they will drink, for they will be.
come purged by the excess, so that more
harm than good will be done. A good
way is TO mix the corn.meal dough with
milk-RuxaI Messenger.
Hay Tea for Calves-A farmer who
had calf of value and no milk 10 give IL
was advised to give it hay tea. He did so
and the calf is reported as doing finely
though IL has neither received hay nor
meal since he got it. He cuts the best and
finest hay he has about two inches long
and pours boiling water over 1t; lets il
stand until cooled to about the heat of
milk from the COW, when the tea is given
to the calf and the hay 10 the COW. Both
calf and COW thrive on their feed. We
have fed great deal Of hay tea To calves,
with good results.-Raral NeD Yorker.
EARLY Melons Gardener generally
find it difficult TO get rs early melons as
they would like, for the reason that they
will not bear transplantiDg. l have tried
way by which they can be started early
and transplanted when wanted. Save all
the pasteboard paper boxes, and fill them
with the best soil ANY kind of boxes
will do; they can be made OF wood with
bottoms tackled on. After warming the
soil, plant the seed, about five to the box.
They can now be sunk in the hotbed, or,
If you do not have one, they can be kept
in the house by the stove. When the
young plants are large enough they can
be transplanted. After making the ground
mellow, make a hole the size OF the box;
then slip out the bottom, and the earth
with the plants will slip through with
out being disturbed. This plan will do
for other plants besides melons, as cucum-
bers, etc, the tender egg plant and some
varieties of flowers. BY starting plants
early in this way several weeks can be
gained.-Corr Of Prairie Farmer.