The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

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Those who love to grow flowers for
their own sakes are, on the whole, hap
pier and better people than those who do
not. There are, Of course, bad people
who have flowers and good people who
have none; but we refer to the general
tendencies OF things. Anything, there
fore, that will encourage people to grow
flowers is gain all round.-N. Y. Her.
aid.
Fried Apples.-This old-fashioned
dish may be improved by frying in this
way: Lay some small bits of salt pork on
the griddle; when very hot lay pieces of
apple as large as you can cut, with the
skin uppermost, upon the griddle. They
must be laid singly, like griddie-cakes.
Cook not too fast; when we'll Drowned,
turn them, sprinkle with salt, and when
soft through arrange on a plate. They
make a tempting dish.
Mouth glue is made by dissolving,
with the aid of heat, pure glue, as parch-
ment glue or gelatine, with about
quarter or third of its weight of coarse,
brown sugar, in as small a quantity of
boiling water as possible. This, when
perfectly liquid, should be cast into thin
cakes, on flat surface very slightly oiled,
and as it cools cut up into pieces of con-
venient size. When required for use
moisten one end. A piece kept in the
desk or workbox is exceedingly con-
venient.
Most people in cleaning lamp CHM
neys use either brush made of bristles
twisted into a wire, or rag on the point
OF scissors. Both of these are bad for
without great care the wire or scissors will
scratch the glass as diamond does, which
under the expansive power of heat soon
breaks, as all scratched glass will. If you
want neat little thing that costs nothing
and will save half your glass, tie piece
of soft sponge the size of your chimney to
pine stick.
"A Cracked Wheat Pudding.-Take
one quart Of unskimmed milk, add to it
one gill of cracked wheat, uncooked, and
one gill of sugar and a small piece Of
stick cinnamon. Place it in an oven OF
medium heat When about half done
stir in the crust already formed and leave
it to form another, which will be sutfi-
GENTLY brown. Try when it is done by
tasting grain of the wheat, which must
be very soft This, when cold, makes a
delicious creamy pudding. A handful of
raisins is an addition.
Best Apple Pie-Take deep dish, the
size of a soup-plate, fill it heaping with
peeled tart apples, cored and quartered;
pour over it one teacup Of molasses and
three great spoonfuls of sugar, dredge
over this considerable quantity of flour,
enough to thicken the strip good deal.
Cover it with crust made of cream, if
you have it; if not, common dough with
butter worked in, or plain pie-crust, lap
ping the edge over the dish and pinching
it down tight, to keep the sirup from run
ming out. Bake about an hour and a
half. Make several at once, as they will
keep well.
Mrs. Upper, the great queen of bees,
gives the following seasonable advice:
"After your bees are put away for the
winter let them alone. To those who
winter them out of doors we can only say
be sure that they have plenty of honey in
the hive, while at the same time they have
empty comb IN which to cluster. 1t will
require much more honey for those left
out of doors and they should, by all means,
be sheltered from the rays of the sun upon
the entrances. This is more dangerous
than cold or snow, as it tempts the bees to
activity in weather too chilly for them to
| AS. We AdSC oil SCC4 UCC'A1VCS COSCACN
with snow bank for weeks without in
jury. Whether bees are in houses, eel.
lars or out of doors, a quilt, carpet OF
mat over the tops of the frames is great
protection, worth many times the cost and
trouble"
But, though insoluble in pure water
carbonate of lime is slightly soluble il
water WI ich is already charged with car
nj Jrs,,
down carbonic acid from the air it is capa
the soils and rocks through which it fiji
tiers; and it thus happens that all springs
and rivers that rise in localities in which
there is any kind of calcareous rock be
come more or less charged with carbonate
of lime kept in solution by an excess o
carbonic acid. This is what gives the pc
culiar character to water which is known
as hardness and a water hard enough
to curdle soap may be converted into t
very "soft'' water las the late Prof. Clark
of Aberdeen, showed) by the simple add
ton of llme-water, which by combining
with the excess of carbonic acid causes thu
precipitation of all the lime in solution il
the form of insoluble carbonate, which
. gradually settles to the bottom, leaving thu
water clear" A Piece Of Limestone" IL
, Popular Science Monthly.
An exchange gives the following
recipe for the "Queen of All Puddings: >
"Soak a teacup Of tapioca and a teaspoon
full of salt in three tumblerfuls of warn
mot hot) water for an hour or two, til
softened. Take away the skin and core
, of apples without dividing them, put then
in the dish, with sugar IN the holes, ant
( spice if the apples are without flavor, no
1 otherwise. Add cup of water and bak
till the apples are softened, turning then
), to prevent drying, and then pour over tn
tapioca and bake long time, till all look
n a brownish yellow. Eat with har
e sauce Do not fail to bake long time
This can be extensively varied by mxin
chopped apples, or ounces, or orange:
: or peaches, or any kind of berries wit
|, the tapioca, and then sugar must be adde
according to the acid of the fruit, thong
some would prefer it omitted when til
q sauce is used. The beauty may be il
e creased by cover of sugar beaten int
p the whites of eggs and then turned to
a yellow in the oven. Several such put
1t dings can be made at once, kept in a COO
place, and, when wanted, warmed Oyel
t! many relish it better when very colo