Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-12-03
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FARM AND FIRESlDE.


FARM AND FIRESlDEs
KEEP BEEs.-Bees are as useful as
chickens, and as easily raised They afford
us luxur Gus food-healthy, and might
be cheap. Bees require no feeding, little
expense and attention. They want onlya
4 comfortable home, covered from the storm
and sun and protected from the marauding
milers. They will make their own living,
and do considerable towards the living Of
the farmer. Not many swarms can be
| prosperously kept in one place, but every,
farmer may use honey for home use and a
little to spare. e Every gardener, every vii
! lager might doits A sing le swarm of bees,
well attended to, will soon produce as
many swarms as can be successfully kept
| in one place. All that bees make IS clea
| gain. They get their treasures from til
| flowers. We should have bees enough
the country to have one always slipping
every flower. The flower is All the IS
producing honey. The bee Should be all
the time gatheringit. If we had a bee all
the time at every flower, honey enough
would be produced to supply the world. 1t
is a means Of wealth, health and pleasure.
Let bees be cuitivated-let every farmer
have them. They are as useful as cows,
and far less trouble. A little attention
will teach one to manage them.-RnrGt
World.
SALMIs OF PARTRIDGE.-This is the
season for them.-Half roast three or four
cartridges which have been kept till they
have the true s'gamey" flavor. When
cold, skin and carve them. Put them
into small stew-pan with bit OF lemon
peel, four shalots, a few bits of dressed
nam, seasoning herbs of all kinds that you
like, and dessert spoonful of pepper
corns, little cayenne with the trimmings
of the cartridges, and a half pint of claret.
Let this simmer for an hour very gently.
Dish the birds, and strain the SKINNED
sauce hot over them. Serve fried bread
with the salmis, which must be very hot
and highly seasoned to be good 1or any
thing
ORANGE CoNFEcTIoN.-The peel of
this fruit preserved in sugar is one of the
most delightful CONNECTIONS which family
can use,-far superior to the ,racts sold
in the shops. The peel should, of course,
be perfectly clean, and should be cut in
long, thin strips. Stew in water till all
The bitterness is extracted. Throw away
the water, and stew again for half an hour
in thick syrup made of a pound of sugar
to one of peel, with just water enough.
Put away in a cool place for favoring pud-
dings, pies, SC. For this purpose, itslould
be chopped very fine. No better or cheap
er flavoring can be furnished to a house,
hold.
PRESERVING CIDER.-A barrel Of cider
may be preserved in good flavor and cen
dition for next spring by the following
method: Fill clean, strong barrel with
juice from sound, good apples, and let it
ferment from two to. three weeks, until
the liquor becomes quite clear. Then rack
the cider into tubs, cleanse the barrel and
fill it with the fumes of burnt sulphur by
burning rag, dipped in melting brinl-
stone, in the barrel. Replace the cider in
the barrel, taking care to fill the cask full,
and bung tight. If kept in a cool cellar,
nice next April and May.
CIDER-APPLE SAUCE.-Boil down new,
sweet cider until nearly as thick when
cold as molasses. Pare and core sweet ap-
pies; reduce the sirup with water one
quarter, put in the apples, and cook over
Glow Hro will
through the winter. The boiled cider will
keep good the year round If corked tight,
and kept in a cool place. 1t is excellent
in mince pies, and little in cold water
makes good drink for hot weather.
SOFT SOAP AND VINEGAR FOR THE
HANDs.-A correspondent of 1.-THE Scien-
tifc American says: "Our men in the
shop use soft soap to remove the grease
and dirt from their hands when they quit
work. This, they find, causes cracks to
come; but if they dip their hands in vlne-
gar just after washing them with soft soap,
they will remain soft and smooth, and any
cracks on the hands will Immediately heal
up.''
RICE CoFFEE.-This is good food for
children who are suffering with summer
complaint, and is made by browning the
grains of rice like coffee, and afterwards
| boiling them. 1t is not unpalatable, very
| nourishing, and can be made any strength
| that is required. With the addition of
| sweet cream and loaf sugar, a child of two
or three years will require no other food
until the disease is removed.
EGG SAUCE.-Let two teacupfuls of
sweet milk come to a boil, and have two
eggs lightly beaten with half teacupfu1
of loaf sugar, and stir the milk into the
eggs. Set back on the stove, and stew
slowly until of the consistency of paste.
Be careful not to let it curdle Flavor
with whatever you prefer, and while hot,
drop in large lump of butter.
ECONOMY IN MEAT.-There is no diff
ficulty in poor man having meat for his
family every day. Take, for example,
what is called a shank of beef The very
best can be brought for fraction of what