The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-04-06
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

butter, two cups of sugar, three cups OF
Hour, four eggs, one cup of sweet milk
one teaspoonful of soda, two of cream
OF tartar. Put the cream of taltar in dry
with IL -four.
BRoIhED OYsTERs.-Drain the oys.
ters and dry them. Put them in m
oyster broiler. Pour hot melted butter
over them. After they are put in the
dish in which they are to be served,
season with pepper and salt.
STEwED PoTAToEs. Boil until tender.
cut III small pieces; half tablespoon
ful of flour, little salt and butter.
chopped parsley and a teacup of milk :
put all together in a saucepan and LET
them stew about twenty minutes.
RECIPE FOR CoRNED BEEF.-For one
hundred pounds of beef take seven
pounds of salt, two pounds sugar. two
ounces saltpeter, two ounces of pepper.
two ounces soda dissolve in two and n
half gallons water, boil, skim, and pour
on hot.
GOOD RECIPE FOR BOILING MAcKEREr,.
Well wash the fish, put it into nearly
boiling water with tablespoonful of
salt in it, boil up quickly, then let it
simmer gently for quarter of an hour,
and il the fish be very large few
minutes longer. Serve in hot dish.
LEMON P1E.-Yolks of four eggs and
ono whole one, nine teaspoons of granu
lated sugar, juice of two lemons, and the
grated rnd Of one, three pounded milk
crackers soaked in one tumbler of milk
mix and bake. Then beat the whites of
the four eggs with four tablespoons of
powdered or fine granulated sugar, and
spread and put in the oven to brown.
This makes two pies.
RECIPE FOR CURING HAMs.-For one
hundred pounds of meat take ten pounds
of salt, four pounds of sugar, or four
plnts OF molasses, four ounces of salt,
peter; four ounces of pepper, two ounces
soda, mixand dissolve the Ingredients iu
four gallons of water, boil and skim,
pour on warm. In six weeks they will
be cured ready for smoking, but can re-
main in pickle for any length of time
and not get too salt.
CocoANUT CAKE. Three cups of flour,
two cups of powdered sugar, one cup of
milk, half cup of butter, three eggs,
two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one tea
spoonful soda, grated cocoanut /;
beat butter and sugar to a cream. add
the eggs well beaten, sift the cream tar
tar with the -four. dissolve soda in the
milk, stir in last the grated nut, bake in
carefully heated oven, taking care not
to open the oven door too often, as q
cake will never be as light.
BREAKFAST BAKED OMELEr - One
heaping teaspoonful of corn starch. one
fourth cup Of milk, lump OF butter, q
small onion chopped fine boil all to.
gether until the corn starch gets thick
not lumpy--seyen eggs, beat the yolks
and whites separately-the whites to
stiff froth; pnt the corn starch in dish
with the yolks and a half cup of milk,
add little salt and pepper, some chop
ped parsley, lastly the whites of the
eggs. Bake fifteen or twenty minutes
in hot oven.
TO Boil RICE. First wash the rice by
rubbing between the hands in three
changes of water to each cupful of rice
add two of water, with salt to season :;
boil slowly in covered vessel, never
stirring nor adding water when the
water is all boiled away the rice is done :;
take the cover from the vessel and allow
the steam to escape for a moment, then
shake the dish and turn out the rice.
In serving at the table the curry should
be put over the rice as you would gravy
ovtrpotatoes, not mixed in before going
to the table, as some do.
PoTTED CHICKEN-Boil the chicken
III as little water as possible till very
tender aud well done season while
bolilng to suit the taste; then, while hot,
separate the white meat from the dark,
and chop both very fine place the white
part III dish, in any design wanted
as a cross fill up with the dark meat !;
pour over it enough of the liquid left in
the kettle to thoroughly moisten it !;
then place a small board over it, and
press with heavy weights; after few
hours turn it cut on q platter, and you
Will have dish for the table that will
be not only delicious, but an ornament
FooiinE the Hogs.
Prof. Butler tells the following story,
showing how an old English farmer
managed to raise the fattest hogs and
drew the largest rizes. The farmer
wonld fatten bis swine until they
would lie down and eat no more. Then
he would procure half-starved hog,
put him in the pen with the fat ones,
and the natural hoggishness of the latter
would rouse sufficient ambition i'll them
to get up Notwithstanding their fatness,
drive tho hungry hog from the pen and
eat all the food themselves. H would
continue this operation every day until
the fat hogs had exceeded all proportion
and We're nearly fatted into lard. Then
the farmer would take his pets into mar
ket aud win all the prizes. The moral
of this stO-y was that the professor
wanted all the citizens of each State to
vie with one another in contributing
specimens to the State historical So
ciety.
Raising Timber.
Mr.. Chandler, Worcester, Mass. in
formed the farmers club that the too
common idea that timber growing does
not pay in the East, though it may in
the West, has been proved incorrect, so
far at least rs Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire are concerned. Tree plant
ing has been and is carried on largely in
both these States, and with decided
profit. In Massachusetts, the growing
of chestnut timber for making railroad
ties and telegraph poles has become a
business. This timber can be cut in
fifteen or twenty years, giving the owner,
If he keeps it in his possession, the ad-
vantage of at least two cuttings. In ten
years the land will sell for three or four
times what it would when cleared.