The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-11
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household HELPS.

RICE PANCAKES. Boil half pound of
rice to jelly. When cold, mix with it q
pint of cream, two eggs, little salt and
nutmeg. Stir in four ounces of butter,
just warmed, and add as much flour as
will make batter thick enough. Fry in
as little lard as possible.
PoTATo SoUP.-Nine boiled potatoes.
one quart of milk, nearly one cup of
butter, one medium seized onion salt,
pepper. Boil, mash and strain the po-
tatoes through sieve. Add milk, onion
cut fine, salt, pepper and butter. Put
all i'll saucepan and let it come to n
boil.
butter, two of white sugar, three eggs,
half Il cup of seeds, half of milk and
prepared flour enough to make stiff
paste. Roll it very thin, with sugar
instead of -four, on the board and cut in
round shapes. Bake it about fifteen
minutes.
PoTATo CAKEs.-Take mashed pota-
toes, flour, little salt, and melted butter
(to make them sweet, add q little
powdered loaf sugar., mix with just
enough milk to make the paste stiff
to roll make it the size and thickness of
muffin, and bake quickly.
The CHIhDREN's PUDDING Quarter
of pound of suet, quarter of pound
of flour, quarter of pound of currants,
two ounces of sugar, two teaspoonfuls
of molasses, juice and peel of one lemon,
two tablespoonfuls of milk. Boil in
mold three hours.
CRANBERRY RoIL.-Stew q quart of
cranberries i'll sufficient water to keep
them from burning. Make very sweet,
strain and cool. Make paste, and when
the cranberries are cold spread it on the
paste about an inch thick, Roll it, tie
it close in a cloth; boil two hours, and
serve with a sweet sauce.
COFFEE CAKE.-One and half cups
of sugar, one cup of molasses, one cup
OF butter, one cup of strong coffee, three
eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, five and
half cups of flour, raisins, cinnamon,
cloves and nutmeg. The raisins to be
stoned and rubbed in little of the flour
before being added to the mixture
Utilizing Skim Milk.
1t has long been problem with dairy
men how they might best utilize the
valuable nutritious matter usually wasted
in the milk from which the butter has
been extracted. If we remove 81 ponnds
OF butter from 100 pounds of milk there
will still be left in it the material for |
pound of butter and 81 to 4 pounds of
caseine, which, with the water and
little sugar and mineral matter that
would go with them, would be sufficient
to make from 6 to pounds of good,
wholesome, and life-sustaining food, if
it could only be reduced to q condition
that would make it palatable and diges-
tlble. Two cheeses were presented to
the Dairymen's Convention at Utica,
which, it was claimed, would accomplish
this end. One of these was made from
milk which had been skinned at the rate
of.33 pounds of butter from 100 pounds
of milk. In the place of the 81 pounds
OF butter taken away, one pound of oleo-
margarine was added to 100 pounds of
milk and worked into the cheese. This
made a very fair cheese. It was not
equal to whole milk cheese, but it was a
great Improvement over the ordinary
skim cheese, and it had the merit of
being wholesome and digestible, which
can be hardly affirmed of ordinary skins.
The discovery that good cheese can be
made in this way bids fair to revolution
ize the former uses of skim milk. The
other cheese was made from milk
SKINNED at the same rate, and sour be-
sides, together with sour buttermilk
mixed with it, and nothing in the shape
of fat added. The cheese offered for in
spection, and which was claimed to be a
fair sample of what had been made all
the fall, was rich, meaty, and fine-ha-
vored, and would sell well. Experts
were agreed upon its merits.
High Manuring.
1t is a common thing in the neighbor-
hood of Philadelphia to see the huge Co
nestoga wagons of the farmers, drawn
by four or five horses and loaded with
stable manure, returning homeward
whence they had come with hay or other
produce to the city. Heavy manuring is
made the basis of agriculture upon the
high priced lands in Southeastern
Pennsylvania, and when the Doylestown
Farmers Club talks up the subject of
profitable cropping we reasonably look
for valuable practical information. SO we
learn from a recent discussion that in
Bucks county the farmers who manure
heavily raise large crops and find their
land improved in condition. Further we
are told that the most persuasive artifi-
cial fertilizers have no injurious effect
when applied in connection with abun-
dance of other manure. Mr.. Brewer had
never injured his soil by high stimula-
tion. Mr.. Fries thought it a profitable
investment when load of hay was sold
for $40 in Philadelphia to spend SIS of
this for manure and take it home to the
land. Doubtless it is because the hus-
bandmen of Bucks county believe in and
act on this principle that they raise i'm
mense crops, and their farms are worth
$500 per acre.