Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-19
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

AAuAsACCAAN nal AND 0OAES H.
Sponge Cake.-Three cups of sugar,
four cups Of flour, one cup of water and
SIX eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, two OF
cream OF tartar and little salt. Flavor
with lemon.
For bride cake take one and halt
cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful butter,
one cupful flour, a little more than one
cupful corn-starch, half cupful sour milk,
whites Of three eggs one-half teaspoonful
soda, one teaspooniul lemon.
To make oat cake take two cups of
sour milk, or buttermilk, and stir in three
cups of oatmeal, then add one teaspoon
full of salt and one of soda dissolved in a
little cold water; bake in gem pans or in
sheet The oven should be hot enough
to bake in twenty minutes.
-Musk-melon Mangoes-Fill,l after
scrapIng out the seeds, with stufling of
chopped onion, scraped horse radish
mustard seed, cloves, pepper-corns and
salt. Sew the piece in with needle and
coarse thread, and pour boiling vinegar
slightly sailed over them in stone Jar.
DO this two or three times, then put fresh
vinegar over them and cover closely.
Perhaps some of the good housewives
would like to know how to preserve
plums. Pick your plums when most ripe.
weigh them, and to one pound OF the
fruit put three -fourths Of a pound of the
best brown or white sugar. Some may
think plum or stone fruit must have as
much sugar as others, but it is not so; the
stone takes no part in the preserves: o. e..
you do not wal TO sweeten them, and they
will not take UP the sugar The preserves
are much better with three-fonrths Of
pound of sugar than if you use more
Put on the sugar and plums, and boil UNI
I'll quite soft in porcelain or brass kettle,
and put in stone jars when hot, set in Gel
lar, and all will be well.
Picked Red Cabbage.-The purple
red cabbage is the finest Slice them into
a sieve and salt each layer, remembering
that too much salt will spoil the color.
Drain for three days; dry it, add some
sliced beetroot and put it in a jar. Pour
boiling vinegar over it. Mace, bruised
ginger whole pepper, horse-radish and
cloves boiled with the vinegar will make
great improvement. Tie bladders over
the jars In a few days open and see if
the vinegar has shrunk away if so, fill
up with cold vinegar Some recommend
that the vinegar be boiled, but allowed to
cool before pouring over the cabbage. A
little bruised cochineal makes this pickle
a beautiful color and is harmless. If kept
very long, picked cabbage gets soft, but
is very nice, especially if eaten soon after
it is made Another method of making
this pickle is to quarter the cabbage, re-
move all stalks, then slice thin and, after
treating as the above, add vinegar, cold
with one ounce of whole black pepper,
one-hat ounce Of ginger, bruised, and
little cayenne pepper, to every quart of
Farm Journal.
But very few farmers in our country
realize the importance of thoroughly cul-
tivating the soil yet the subject is one of
special interest, and one deserving the at
tention of every agriculturist Under the
system of farming which is generally
practiced in this country the land wears
out and the crops diminish in quality and
quantity from year to year. Although ma
ture has furnished man with "a soil of vir-
gin richness and fertility il cannot con.
tinue so while we draw from it yearly our
vast resources of food and clothing. The
soil must be renovated and its fertility re-
ncwed, or it will cease to yield its increase
for the supply of our wants. Money and
labor must be expended upon it, and in
order to develop the resources that nature
has impaired to it ii must be well TILED
There are farmers with but few acres of
land, which they thoroughly cultivate,
that make more money than those with
large farms cultivated in the usual man
ner And what has been done in II
few instances may be dore in many more.
The maxim "What is worth doing at all
is worth doing well' is worthy the atteS-
ton of every farmer, as it is far more
profitable to thoroughly cultivate small
farm than to go over in a slovenly manner
a large one. Success is gained by making
capital pay largely.--1he Lancaster (Po0
Farmer.