Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-15
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Raisin Cake.-Take one cup flour, two
cups cream, one cup butter, four eggs, one
pound OF raisins, cloves, cinnamon, can
died lemon cut fine, one teaspoon of soda.
Stir well.
Mr.. VIM. Horne, v s., says in the
Country Gentleman that in thirty years
practice as veterinary surgeon he never
has found single instance where any dis
ease in a horse could be traced to bots as
a cause.
To Get Rid ofFleas-Pennyroya scat
tered under the carpet, between the bed
ding during the day, and worn in small
packages about persons where fleas
abound, it is said, will completely relieve
the sufferers.
1t is said that vines and plants are best
protected from insects by applying buck
wheat flour. If sprinkled on cabbage at
the time the leaves begin to curl to form
the head, it will surely protect it from the
cabbage-worm.
Corn Oysters.-Nine ears corn, two
eggs, two tablespoons flour, pepper and
salt. Cut the rows of corn lengthwise,
and then scrape it off the cob; beat the
eggs light, add the flour, pepper and salt,
and fry the cakes about the size of an oys-
ter in butter.
-Currant Jam.-To every pound of red
currants allow three-fourths of pound
of white sugar. Gather the fruit on fine
day, weigh it, then strip off the stalks put
the sugar and currants into preserving
pan and boil three fourths of an hour,
skimming carefully. Put into pots and
cover with branded papers as you would
jellies.
To prevent horses feet from scalding
| or cracking in summer, and enabling the
shoes to be carried longer time without
| injury, the French practice is to coat the
| hoots once week with an ointment com
| posed of equal portions of soap fat, yellow
wax, lnseed oil, Venice turpentine and
! Norway tar; the wax is melted separately
before mixing.
Curry. veal or chicken, two
cups of milk, one and a half pounded
crackers, quarter teaspoonful of curry
powder, butter size of an egg, one egg,
salt, dry toast. Chop the veal or chicken
very fine Put the milk on the fire with
the pounded crackers, salt and curry.
When boiling, add the meat. When the
meat is heated, add the beaten egg Add
butter Serve very hot on buttered toast.
English Plum Pudding -Two pounds
of stoned raisins, two pounds of currants,
two pounds of suet, chopped very fine,
about two pounds Of flour, about two
pounds of bread crumbs, half a pound of
| fine, moist white sugar, one nutmeg,
grated, little spice, half a pound of
citron, cut in very small pieces, sixteen
eggs, well beaten, one pint of new milk.
Stir well with wooden spoon. Do not
wet the mixture too much, for if it is not
very thick the fruit will settle. The cur
rants must be rolled in little flour before
being added 1t will take six hours to
boil this. Boil in bowl covered with a
napkin. To be eaten hot, with sauce.
Most fruits yield juices which, owing
to the acid they contain, permanently in
| lure the tone of the dye; but the greater
part may be removed without leaving a
stain if the spot be rinsed in cold water
in which a few drops of aqua ammonia
have been placed before the spot has
dried Wine-stains ON white materials
may be removed by rinsing with cold
water, applying locally weak solution OF
chloride of lime and again rinsing in an
abundance of water Some fruit-stains
yield only to soapng with the hand, fol
lowed by fumigation wifi sulphurous
acid but the latter process is inadmissible
with certain colored stufis. If delicate
colors are injured by soapy or alkaline mat
tiers the stains must be treated with color
less vinegar of moderate strength.
Il have been watching a grass field
since last July QS74, part of which was
cut early with a mower and the rest LET
three weeks later. The square block OF
two or three acres in the center of the
field, which was cut last, seemed almost
killed all the fall. The grass was timothy
and very little aftermath appeared, while
the outside of the field cut first was brigh
and green. The same result appear,
again this spring, and | judge the middl,
of the field will not yield a haltton of hay
per acre, while the outside may go up to I
ton and a half Add to this that the early
cut grass was best for hay, and it makes I
strong case for early cutting. Its equally
important for clover, and, indeed, unless
clover is kept very closely cut or pasturec
the second season, so as to prevent its seed
ing, it is rarely worth keeping for gras'
the third ar.-CotOatry Geatlenaoa.