Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-23
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

/ and they deStry numbeiiesS injurious
insects. moths, worms, bugs and Larvae
| in the hot months. This helps materi-
ally to furnish them with useful food
and costs nothing.
Chocolate Pudding. = One-half
1 cake Of chocolates grated; one-half
| pint of soda-cracker crumbs; butter
the size of an egg; one pint of milk /;
white of six eggs we'll beaten: sugar
and salt to taste; boil in a mold one
hour. To be eaten hot with cream.
An exclusive corn diet will ruin
any animal. 1t is contrary to natures
laws that the horse, COW, sheep, or hog,
whose natural food is grass. should
| when winter comes on and this fresh
| succulent heritage is gone, be taken
up and fed exclusively, as many ami
mails are always excepting the dry
| feathery cornblades or hay), on the
dryest ard hardest grain known to this
continent. agricultural Eachange.
To Preserve Pears. Take pears
not quite ripe and peel off the skins.
! Prepare Sirup with three-quarters
1 of a pound of sugar to each pound of
hour, removing all the scum that rises
/ Put in the pears and let them boil for
| ten minutes, or just long enough to
/ soften little; then take out and COW
er tightly with paper wet in whisky or
| alcohol, and cover with another paper
placed over the mouth of the jar.
-Longwood Omelet Beat the yelks
al Il 4 f,,1 OF
melted butter, two-thirds of a tea
spoonful of flour, two-thrds of a cup
of milk, a little salt and pepper. Beat
| the whites very stiff pour the mix
/ ture over Do not stir, but only break
| up the froth slightly. Butter a heated
fry-pan, put in three teaspoonsful of
the mixture, slipping from the top to
| the bottom. AS it browns on the
under side, roll it over and over, and
place on hot dish to serve. This is a
| good breakfast dish.
In putting up pickles, pure,
strong and palatable vinegar forms the
| most essential part of the programme.
| There is nothing in the world 50 aggra-
waiting to a thrifty housewife as to find
on opening her pickle jar that instead
of the firm, crisp and refreshing pickle,
SO much desired and looked forward
| to, she has for all her trouble, time and
/ money simply Il mass of soft, tasteless
and lnsipid rubbish that has been rem
dered 50 by the use of vinegar lacking
! proper strength or containing all sorts
Of mineral acids and deleterious sub
! stances. The following recipe will
prove a success: Pour boiling salt
| water over the pickles, using a hand
/ ful of salt to one gallon of water, let
/ them stand over night, then drain
them off thoroughly and cover them
entirely with good vinegar chat
( known as white wine vinegar is gener-
/ ally considered the best for this pur-
| poSe); let them stand few days. then
! scald with the vinegar pour it off and
| cover them again with fresh vinegar.
/ cold; spice to taste; a small piece of
/ alum may be added to improve the
color; keep your pickle jar well COW
cred and YOU will have fine and crisp
/ pickles for years. k.rchange.
"A housekeeper, writing of the best
/ methods of Keeping dried fruit, says
81 have k pared peaches for four
or five ye IS, by keeping them in the
4 dark. As soon as removed from the
/ dry-house or baSe-oven they are put
| INTO any kind of strong bags, tied tight,
then placed in a close box, chest or
! barrel. Ii barrel is used, it must be
carefully lined with paper. The only
secret is in keeping fruit dixie furs)
in the dark. The moths will find ac-
cess in time to bags or jars, if exposed
to the light. The old plan of re-heat-
/ ing dried fruit makes it dark in color
and causes it to lose its pleasant fla
/ vor.' Another says on the same head {:
"When dried, place common veg
/ etable steamer over a Kettle of boiling
/ water; if the holes in the bottom let
/ the berries or corn through, put thin
cloth over them, then put in corn, etc,
/ to the depth of two inches, stirring
often with the hand, 50 that it may
all heat alike. When it gets too hot
/ for the hand | conclude the Larvae are
| destroyed then | put it into a pan and
/ dry thoroughly, and put into stone
/ crooks, tying strong cloth tight over
/ the mouth Of the crock. fill a fruit
I can for handy use as often as required
] have several kinds of berries ON
/ hand that have been dried four years,
and corn two years, treated in this way,
and there never has been a worm in
any of it.
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