Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Recipes.


CANNED GRAPE JUIcE.-Prepare the
grapes as for jelly, let the juice be boil
ing hot, and can it in the same way as
you do other fruit. 1t is excellent for
mince pies, better far than brandy or
cider.
GRAHAM COOKIES. cups of sugar,
cup and half of sour cream, half tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in the cream
mix quickly, roll and bake. These re-
quire less heat and more time in baking,
as Graham instead of fine flour is used
GRAPE CATsUP.-To five pounds of
grapes, boiled and passed through col
ander, add two and a half pounds of
sugar, half pint of vinegar, one heaping
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves,
allspice and pepper, and half table
spoonful of salt.
CHOW CHow.-Take six cucumbers
Just before they ripen, peel them, cut in
strips, and remove the seed four white
onions, six good sized green tomatoes,
and half head of cabbage. Chop all
fine, let them stand in salt water over
night, then pour off the water and add
vinegar and spices to suit the taste.-
Tribune.
Corn OMELET.-Take twelve ears of
corn, boil twenty-five minutes, split the
grains lengthwise then with a sharp
knife remove the pulp, leaving the husks
on the cob. This is easily done by
scraping the cob lengthwise. Add to
this five eggs, well beaten, and season to
suit the taste. Fry to nice brown. In
the absence of corn a cup and half of
bread crumbs with the eggs will make a
good omelet.
APPLE JELIY.-1. Prepare the apples
as for drying crush them in portable
cider mill, and squeeze out the juice.
Make the jelly the same day the apples
are pared. Put the juice into porcelain
kettle, boil it rapidly twenty minutes,
then add a full pound of the very best
COARSE grain granulated sugar to every
pint of juice. Boil three minutes longer,
and dip into glasses. The pulp may be
stewed and canned. 2. Peel and quar-
ter the apples, put them in preserving
kettle, and for every quart of prepared
apples allow pint of water. Cook
gently until they are ready to fall apart,
then strain through ielly-bag or colan-
der, and add to the liquor its weight of
sugar. Boil as for other jellies. If sweet
apples are used, the juice of lemons
should be added to give an acid taste,
and the peel be employed to flavor the
jelly. The pulp may be used for pies or
sauce.
Farm Notes.
A cheese manufacturer in central New
York is said to have cleared 81 900 this
year.
Be sure to test any new variety of seed,
on a small scale, before you venture a
full crop.
The wheat which the grasshoppers
went through near Red Oak, Iowa, is
going to be the best of all.
The Vicksburg Herald says: The
young man who raises bale of cotton is
doing more for Mississippi than the thou
sand men who white sticks and wonder
when money will be easier.
Just think of it: seventy farmers
visited by a census man in New York
State last month, and only one of the
seventy kept any kind of business ac-
count. This is probably about the pro.
portion everywhere, not more than two
in every hundred certainly keep an &C
count of their business, OF know whether
they are gaining or losing. Is that the
way to do business, we ask2
Many horses are ruined by harsh treat
ment when they are colts. Their dispo
sitions are soured, and they come tc
look on man as demon and an enemy
Teach the colt by every act that you are
his friend. Be kind to him always, anG
you will gain his confidence to that de
gree that he will always obey. the word
when he understands your meaning.
DR.. Pratt, in the Prairie Farmer
gives a mode of feeding young fish
He says that about as early as the young
fish begin to eat in spring, the green fl,
appears, and by running wire acros
the pond and hanging some liver to it
the fly will "blow" it, and about tn,
third day the maggots will begin to drol
off Repeat the liver every two day,
and you have constant food for th
young fish, and very good food too.
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