Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-04-09
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

BOILED WHEAT FOR DIsPEPTICs.-Soa
about a pint of clean, white wheat in warm
water for twelve hours or longer. Then
boil it for three hours, OF until the kernels
are thoroughly cooked, in a farina kettle,
OF in tin pail placed in another kettle con-
tanning water. Let a few nails or small
stones be put in the large kettle to keep the
pail from resting directly on the bottom.
By this means the wheat can be cooked for
long time without scorching it. If the
vessel containing the wheat is not kept in
warm water. it will scorch and burn, even
if the mass is stirred while it is being cook
ed. After the kernels are quite soft, add
salt to suit the taste. But wheat should
never be sailed before it is cooked, as salt
will render the bran tough. Wheat thus
prepared is excellent when eaten in milk,
or dressed with cream and sugar. Procure
the best quality of white wheat, as red
wheat is liable to be tough. The practice
of the writer has been, for a few years past,
to procure small bag Of clean wheat from
some good farmer, who cultivates clean,
plump grain.
Aside from the surprising economy in
providing such an. article Of diet, boiled
wheat is one of the very best kinds of food
that invalids, bilious and high-living dys-
peptics can eat. No medicine is COM
parable to it for giving healthful tone to
one system when it is somewhat run
down. A friend who has been accustomed
to subsist largely on beef steak and oysters,
was laid on a sick bed last autumn, and his
physicians assured him he could prepare
for an unwelcome case of typhoid fever.
We sent to him a few pounds of wheat,
with directions for cooking and eating,
and as we anticipated, he was at his bust
ness in four days quite well. He abandon
ed the use Of meat, except in small guam
titles two or three times a week, and says
the wheat has almost made a new man of
him. Such food will digest easily; it is
sufficiently bulky to distend the stomach,
and no food will make better blood. Boil
ed wheat is far superior to wheaton grits
and Graham bran.
HOG CHOLERA.-A correspondent of the
New Y ork ''Tribune'', who last wear lost
fifty hogs by what is known 40. .olera has
this year succeeded in preventing any APP
pearance OF the disease by administering
the following medicine: He procured /!
pounds sulphur, 6 ounces saltpetre, 4ounces
black anthony, 6 ounces copperas, and 2
pounds soft soap. A number of troughs
10 feet long inches wide, and inches
deep. were also obtained. A quantity of
bran and shorts, sufficient to give @ small
feed to each hog, was placed in a box and
moistened with water in which copperas
had been dissolved; the other ingredients
were then powdered, and with the soft
soap were evenly mixed with the bran and
shorts. The whole was then distributed
in the troughs and given to 100 hogs once
a week. Not only was cholera prevented,
but the hogs were kept in a hearty and
thriving condition.
CURE FOR FELoN.-As soon as dis
covered, take some spirits of turpentine in
a cup, dip the finger in it, and then hold
the hand near hot fire till dry: then dip
or till the pain ceases. The next day, with
a sharp knife, pare off the thick skin, and
you will find something like honeycomb
filled with clear water, open the cells and
the felon is gone. If the felon is too far
g6<B Tor turpentiDe, oil of origanum, treat
ed in the same way, will cure. If too far
advanced for either to cure, the felon will
be benefited, as it will be less painful.
Never draw it.
srEwED AppLEs.-Peel and core six
apples, put the cores and parings into a
quart of water, and simmer gently. Strain
off, and pour the liquid over the apples,
adding the juice Of half a lemon, and three
ounces white sugar. Boil gently till the
apples are quite tender, then turn out into
a basin, and beat up with fork gradually
adding about teacupful of cream. When
the whole is about the consistency of
cream, pile up in a glass dish, and put
away in cool place. Whipped cream or
the white of eggs, well whisked, may be
put over the top before serving.
APPLE JELLY.-Cut oub apples in quar-
tiers lido not pare or core them), dip each
quarter into clear water, and put them
into jar to cook in the oven until quite
tender; then strain the juice as usual, and
boil with pound of sugar to a pint Of the
juice The most delicious jellywill be the
result, with the full pure flavor of the
apples heightened by the cores having
been left in. and not spoiled by the obiec-
tionable addition Of lemon-pee and Juice.
SALT SHOULD BE furnished to all ami
mails regularly. A COW or an OK or a horse
needs two to four ounces daily. Salt in
| creases the butter in milk, helps the di-
gestive and nutritiye processes and gives a
good appetite. The people of interior Eu-
rope have saying that pound of salt
makes ten pounds of flesh. Of course salt
only assists in assimilating the food, it
does not make flesh or muscle.
BEURRE NoIRE.-This is..a savorv
French sauce, and is made after the fol-
lowing recipe, according to the ssHouse-
keeper" Put three ounces of butter into
a frying-pan and let it become quite brown;
! next add few sprig5 of parsley and two
dessert-spoonfuls of vinegar, with pepper
and salt. After it is thoroughly heated, it
then becomes fit to serve.
SOIL FOR FRUIT.-The Gardeners
Monthly gives briefly the following rules