The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

"A piece of charcoal boiled in the
water with "high" meat or fowls will
render it or them quite sweet. A piece of
charcoal, or powdered charcoal, should
be kept in every harder. Hams, after being
smoked, may be kept for any length Of
time packed in powdered charcoal.
Meat will keep good for long time
in cold weather, and, if frozen through,
may be kept for months. Frozen meat
must be thawed before it is cooked, by
plunging it into cold water or placing it
before the fire before setting it down to
roast. It will never be dressed through if
this precation is not taken, not even when
twice cooked.
TO make French pancakes take two
eggs, two ounces of butter, two ounces of
sitted sugar, two ounces of flour, half
pint of new milk. Beat the eggs thor
oughly and put them into basin with the
butter, which should lie beaten to cream;
stir in the sugar and flour, and, when
these ingredients are we'll mixed, stir in
the milk; keep stirring and beating the
mixture for few minutes. Serve with a
cut lemon and sugar, and pile the pam
cakes on dish, with layer Of preserve
or marmalade between each.
Many things do much better if
planted in the fall if the work is properly
done. Indeed, quite a number of bulbs
must not be disturbed in the spring, such
as tulips, hyacinths, crocus and some
other bulbs. Peonies and the dielytra are
better If set out in autumn, as they grow
very early in spring. Of fruits in partic-
ular, we prefer to set out currants and
gooseberries in the tall. Cuttings of these
are almost worthless if planted in the
spring. So too the cuttings of most
shrubs. Lilacs, spireas, tartarean or up
right honeysuckle are best set in autumn.
In fact, about everything that starts to
grow very early is best set in the fall
st. Paul Psoneer-Press
1t seems that housekeepers are all
wrong in using soap to wash dishes.
The right way to do is to have your water
quite hot, and add very little milk to it.
This scftens the water, gives the dishes
fine gloss and preserves the hands; it re-
moves the grease, even that from beef, and
yet no grease is ever found floating on the
water as when soap is used. The stone
vessels should be set on the stove with
little water in them, when the victuals are
taken from them thus they are hot when
one is ready to wash them, and the grease
is easily removed. Tin-ware keeps bright
longer cleansed in this way than by using
soap or by securing. The habit so many
of us have acquired of securing tins is
wasteful policy; the present style of tin
ware will not bear it. The tin is soon
scrubbed away, and vessel that is fit for
nothing is left on our hands. Ocean.
The routine of the farmers work has
got to threshing buckwheat, and people
are talking about pancakes. Everybody
knows that buckwheat pancakes when
properly made and nicely baked) are Ge-
licious food, but the wholesomeness of
said diet is not generally known. 1t is
a well-attested fact that the use of buck
wheat pancakes makes some people itch
hence it is believed that said diet is not
desirable. What are the facts in this case?
When the liver is torpid some tonic is
necessary to carry off and expel the sur
plus bile which has accumulated in the
system; hence we hear and read of blood
purifiers, both liquid and globe form, and
some people prefer to take the nauseous
quack medicine rather than eat nice pam
cakes, which give tone to the stomach,
action to the liver and general health to
the person by cleansing the vitals, NOV
ing inward disease to the cuticle; then
when people scratch, they say hard words
against nice neutrality-suspicious., which
are both nutritious food and palatable med
icinS.-C0r. Western RurGk,