The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-01
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Booted or Soft tard.-One pint OF
new milk, two eggs, three tablespoonful
of -four, one cup ofsugar, and flavor with
lemon. Beat the eggs, sugar and flour to-
gether thoroughly, then add the milk
Have your water in kettle boiling hot,
put in your custard and stir constantly till
the consistency of cream. Eat when cold.
When is the best hour to have dinner
Noon time will not suit the business men,
yet it is the best for the rest of the house.
hold, and there the difficulty lies. Chill.
dren should eat their heartiest meal at
midday, and then 60 to bed after an early
supper. For adults, if the male members
of the household can get home at that
hour, five O'Clock is suitable time. Then
there is the whole evening for digestion
before going to bed.
I'm England, where every house-yard
gate is fastened with common latch,
dropping into the common figure 4 hasp,
it has been the custom of hawkers, beg.
gars and other species of the genus cadger
to lift the latch, walk into the kitchen and
have all the game to themselves. A writer
in the Gardeners Magazine says he inter-
fered with the procession of cadgers
through the gate. A second figure 4
hasp is driven in above the original, with
the face downward and 50 far distant that
there is just room, and no more than
room, for the latter to slide out between
them. The latch goes up and down fu-
riously, the gate is kicked and thrust, but
never opened, for not one of the cunning
rogues has cunning enough to lift the
latch very gently, so as to slide it out from
beneath the hasps that catch it either way
if it travels hairs breadth too far.
> "A writer IN the Ohio Farmer directs,
as certain remedy for ivy-poisoning, to
dissolve sugar of lead "a bit the size Of a
hazlenut) in half teacup of sweet milk
be easily borne with soft, Unity piece of
linen rag. Three or four applications are
sufficient to effect cure. If the poison
this astringent wash may be constantly
watching closely, one can see the fevered
the application. This remedy for ivy
poison should prevent great deal Of sui.
family is easily poisoned, to keep sugar of
lead in the house all the time. Let it be
labeled and kept where it can be found
the moment it is wanted. Keep it we'll
wrapped up that it may not lose its
strength.
There is no good reason why farmers
and their families should eat so much salt
pork, leaving all the fresh meat to the in
habitants of cities and villages, when the
following method will keep fresh meat
for weeks even in the warmest weather. I
have tried it for several years: As soon
as the animal heat is out of the meat slice
it up ready for cooking. Prepare large
jar by sca1ding it we'll with hot salt and
water. Mix salt and pulverized saltpeter.
Cover the bottom of the jar with sprinkle
If salt and pepper. Put down a layer of
neat, sprinkle with salt and pepper the
same as if it was just going to the table
md continue in this manner until the jar
8 full. Fold a cloth or towel and wet it
n strong salt and water in which little
If the saltpeter is dissolved. Press the
10th closely over the meat and set it in
:ool place. Be sure and press the cloth
lightly as each layer is removed and your
neat will keep for months. 1t is good
)lan to let the meat remain over night
lfter it is sliced before packing. Then
Train off all the blood that oozes from it,
t will be necessary to change the cloth
or take it off and wash it first
n cold water, then scald in salt and water
IS at first. In this way farmers can have
resh meat all the year round. I have
zept beef that was killed the 18th of Feb
uary till the 21st of June. Then l packed
large jar of veal in the same way during
he dog days and it kept six weeks. This
ecipe alone is worth the price of any
in the land. - Cor. N. Y.
Times.