Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-08
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Nutmeg Cake-One cup butter. three
eggs, two cups sugar, one-half nutmeg, four
cups flour, rind of one lemon, one cup OF
milk, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons
cream tartar. First mix butter and sugar
together, then add two cups -four one-half
cup milk, the three eggs beaten, the nut
meg grated, also rind Of lemon, then the
other two cups of flour, with the cream
tartar mixed through it. and lastly the one
half cup milk with the soda dissolved
therein. Beat all thoroughly and bake in
bread pans, buttered and papered.
strawberry ice cream forms deli
cious dessert on a hot day. and is easily
made wherever the berries and cream can
be had in sufficient quantities. Take a
quart of berries after they have been
hulled, and sprinkle over them one large
coffee cup OF fine white sugar; let them
stand two or three hours, and then mash
them up fine, and squeeze out the juice
through strong cloth. Add another
large cup of this juice, and then stir in
one quart OF pure, sweet cream, or a pint
and half of cream and the beaten whites
of three eggs Mix all together and
freeze, and when half frozen turn in one
pint of fresh berries and freeze stiff The
Juice needs to be made very sweet or else
twill curdle the cream.
Nothing so well symbolzes the eco
nomical habits Of Continental Europe,
and especially France, as the pot an fen.
This is an iron pot kept constantly sim
mering upon the fire, into which IS put
from day to day all the wholesome rem
nants of food which in this country are
thrown away. Our people in their mag
niticent way of doing things never stop to
consider how much nutriment adhcres
even to well-picked bones of porter-house
steaks, mutton chops, ribs of beef legs of
mutton, etc. All these, and many things
beside, are put into the pot az fen water,
seasoning and fragrant herbs are added as
required, and the constant simmering--a
solvent tor even the toughest of Texan
beef-extracts every particle of marrow
even, and the bones come out as clean and
white as if they had been bleached for
years in the sun Among the common
people more than half the nutriment for
the day comes from the pot an fen. and if
any member of the family comes home at
an unusual hour hungry it affords at all
times "A meal at once warm and whole
some. --Pratrie Farmer.
Prof Roberts, of the Cornell Univer-
slty, made some experiments in growing
corn upon the college farm last season,
the results of which are valuable He
planted three plats of three-siNteenths of
an acre each with corn, and thinned the
hills in one lot to three stalks, another to
four stalks to hill the third was not
Trimmed. The first plat yielded at the
rate of 100 bushels, the second l2J bushels
and the third 1916 bushels tot ears) to the
acre. Mr.. Roberts states, as the result of
many experiments prior to these at the
Iowa Agricultural College, that the heav-
est crops of corn We're made by growing
three stalks to a hill, and that two stalks to
a hill will produce more corn than five
stalks. If every stalk produces an ear,
and corn be planted three feet apart each
way, there will be nearly 100 bushels of
shelled grain per acre. To grow maxi
mum crops of corn, then, it is only neces-
sary to grow one ear upon stalk, and
ears of such size that 100 of them will
make bushel of corn. In view of this it
is strange that with SO prolific grain As
corn yield of 100 bushels per acre should
be considered almost impossible. -Ameri-
can Patron.