The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-03
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Minute Loaf Cake.-One and half
cups sugar, one-half cup butter, one cup
OF milk, three cups of flour, two tea
spoonfuls of tartar, one of soda nutmeg.
Picnic Tit Bit.-Take one or two
chickens, boil in Il small quantity of
water; when thoroughly done remove
the skin. Then take all the meat from
tac bones, keeping the light and the dark
separate; chop, and salt to taste. If you
have meat-presscr take it or any other
mold, put in layer of light then a lay
er of dark meat, till the supply is ex
hausted; add little of the liquor it WAS
boiled in. Press When cold cut in
slices. 1t makes Il delicious sandwich
for a journey or picnic. Culicutor.
Recipe for Cream Putfs.-TwO cups
flour, one-half cup butter, thrcc-fourths
pint hot water. Boil the butter and
water together, and stir in the flour
slowly while boiling Let it cook a few
minutes; add five wcll-beaten eggs;
drop the mixture on tins and bake in a
quick oven. For the custard: One pint
of milk, one-half cup flour, one
pound sugar, two eggs Let it cool, and
after the putfs are cold cat them open
and put in the custard, which can he
favored with vanilla or lemon to suit
the taste.
Preserving Cut Flowcrs-Cut flowers
in vases will keep much longer if the
vases are filled with white sand and with
water enough barely to cover it, or rather
to keep it thoroughly wet. Water by
it>elt rots the stems, so that they lose the
power OF drawing up moisture; but this
does not occur SO readily where they are
thrust into wet sand The sand should
be washed by having water poured on it
and drained off before use; otherwise the
salt which all sca-sand contains will
prove injurious. AS wet sand is an un-
handy thing to put into vases, it is well
to have it washed and dry beforehand
Health Journal
Floral Pyramids.-lt is so easy to
have beautiful objects about us that it is
a pity to be without one. Take Il soup
plate or pickle dish, and fill it with
sand. Moistcn the sand with water, and
heap it to cone, and then thrust into
the wet sand flowers and foliage enough
to cover the whole surface, and you will
have, if you arrange it WE'LL the most
beautiful floral ornament that can DC
imagined. This is an excellent way for
arranging short-stemmed flowers, or
those whose petals are too soft to be tied
without injury among sitter ones. Or
place in the center of your soup-platc a
tcacup, IL childs mug Or Il wine glass, in
which insert made bouquet, and then,
filling the plate about it with sand, pro-
coed rs before. This will give better
cone than the first method, !Scienre IF
UMlM.
Canned Peach Pudding-Soak one
pint of picked and washed tapioca in
three pints of boiling water, letting it
stand three hours, then place in Il glass
fruit can layer of sliced peaches, with
sugar enough to swceten them, then Il
layer of the soaked tapioca, adding alter
nate layers until the can or cans are
filled. Then set in kettle in two-thirds
the depth of water, heat to the boiling
point, and then boil half an hour; take
out and seal precisely as you would any
canned fruit. These will be very con-
venient in case of any accident happen
ing to your dessert, or of any unexpected
arrival of company too late to cook
dessert. or in case any refreshments are
wanted at an unusual hour. and nothing
is cooked. Serve cold, or put into warm
water and heat to the boiling point.
Ashes as Food for Cattlc.-Thc Lire
.>tmL Journ"i has Il correspondent who
found his cattle given to the habit of cat
ing wood chewing homes, etc. They
became thin in flesh. refused to eat hay,
and presented a Sickly appearance. lie
had no impression that their food lacked
the constituents for making bone: and his
neighbors used bone meal, without motto
ing any good results whatever. At last
he put about four bushels of leachcd
ashes in his barnyard and threw out to
them about a shovelful each day. They
all ate with evident relish After turning
them out to pasture, he put one peck OF
dry ashes per week on the ground in the
pasture. They ate it all, and gnawcd off
the grass where it had been lying. The
cattle began to improve, gaining flesh
and looking better than they had done
for several years. lie says this morbid
appearance was unnoticcd years ago,
from the fact that the ground was new
and ashy from the burning of the woods
and land clearingS. Since this discovery
he gives one quart of ashes mixed with
one quart of salt to twelve head of cattle
about once a week.