Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-06-10
HOME AND Farm.


st. Nicholas
HOME AND Farm.
How TO Cook RIcK.-The best way to
"a % 7-r cook rice, or, indeed any other farina-
ceOtts food, Is 10 boil it In double kettle
or in pail set Within kettle.
f8Hf CocoA-suT CAKE.-Sugar, two cups
butter, one-half cup; sweet milk, three
fourths cup; white of six eggs -four, two
and one-half eups; two teaspoonfuls bak-
ing powder
OSE-EGG CAKE.-One aud oBe-third
cups Of -four, one-third cup Of sweet milk,
one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful melted
butter, one egg and two teaspOonaful ba-
Ring powder.
JELLY RoLL.-Three eggs one cup of
sugar, one teaspoonful of cream tartar,
one-half teaspOonfui of Soda one cup of
-four; pour it thin Into baking pan
bake slowly; spread jelly over it, and
roll It up. Wrap it in cloth.
GINGER CooKHs.-one cup of sugar,
one cup of n1olasses, ono cup of lard, two
thirds cup of boiling water one egg, one
teaspoonful cream tilrtafS one tablespoon
full ginger, one tablespoonful soda, and
one teaspoonful of salt.
BRowN BREAD.-Use unbolted wheat;
81 mix with sponge or yeast, SALT very IfGtle
molasses. Some add one tablespoonful of
lard. Mix just thick enough to pour in
to CREASED baking pans. requires much
longer baking than white bl@ad
three cups of sugar, eight cups of flour,
six eggs, one tablespoonful of soda, two
of cream of tartar, one grated nutmeg.
Roll tolerably thin, form In rings, and
bake on fiat tins.
WHITE PoTATo PlE.-For one good
r sized pie take half pound potatoes, boil
and mash, and while hot squeeze one
half lemon into it, with a good sized
piece OF butter; add one cupfuI white
sugar, two or three eggs, half teaspoon
full of mace, and crate nutmeg on top of
the pic.
CopFEE CAKE-One cup brown sugar
one cup rnolasses, one-haif cup each but
ter and lard, one cup cold coffee, two
eggs, one teaspoonfnl cinnamon, and one
OF cloves, one grated nutmeg, tea
spoonful OF soda, -four, one pound each
eurrants aud raisins.
RIcIrE ron STEAM PupDNG.-Chop a
cup and half of suet and one of rasins
together; take one cup of molasses, two
of sweet milk, three and half of flour,
one teaspoonful of soda; steam three
hours. Ii there is any left it will be just
rs good the next day by steaming il Just
long enough to heat it through Use a
sauce.
VINEGAR PIE-One cup of sugar, enc
cup of vinegar, one cup of water, one
teaspoon of lemon, butter the size of an
egg; let it come to boil; thicken with
cOrn-stareh, about two tablespoonful of
starch; put in the. starch until it be-
comes thick. The above will make two
pies.
FoR THE CHILDREN. Lime and milk,
according to the testimony OF an expert
enced physician, Is most useful com
pound not only fer infants, but later
period of life, when the functions OF di-
gestion and assimilation have been seri-
ously impaired. A goblet of milk to
which four tablespoonful of lime water
have been added will agree with any per-
son. even when other food Is oppressive
and fails TO afford proper no1rishment.
REcIrE ron LEMON Pm WITHOUT LEsI-
oN.-Take one tablespoonful of corn
starch; wet with cold water, thicken
with teaeup of boiling water then add
the yolks of two eggs, enc teaspoonful OF
lemon extract, half teaspoOnful of tar
tarlc acid, and sweeten to taste; make a
nice crust and put in the mixture; let It
bake until nearly done; then beat the
whites of the eggs with two spoonsful Of
pulverized sugar, 10 a froth, and spread
over the top of the pie, and let 1t bake to
light brown.
T'EA.-pe take this from orr clippings
file.
casper county, Texas, is produing an
excellent quality of tea. The News Boy
says the plant grows unusually large,
and ii will require but small plat OF
ground to furnish family with this
expensive and yet almost necessary arti-
cle."
Good tea has been raised in North Car
DINA. The experiment has been tested
fully, aud there is no doubt that 1t wonld
be profitable source of income If pros
oculed to any extent. We would ike U
cultivatng the tea plant. Tea can be
produced extensively In the South.-Wil
mington IN. Co Star
To MEASURE LAND.-Io aid our farm
ers in arriving at accuracy in estimating
the amount of land in different fields
under cultivation, the following table is
given by an agricultural paper:
yards wide by SOS yards long contain
10 yards wide by 4s4 yards long contain
20 yards wide by 24s yards long CON
tain / acre.
40 yards wide by III yards long con-
50 yards wide by GO1s yards long con-
20 yards wide by eo>5 yards long con
tain acre.
so feet wide by 726 feet long contain l
acre.
no feet wide by 1853 feet long contain
iao feet vide by 1863 feet long contain
go feet wide by l9s feet long contain 1
$40 feet wide by 1919 feet long CON
40 feet wide by 90 feet long con-
4 box 54xle inches, p deep, contain.
4 box lexleIa inches, 5 deep, contains
4 box sxssz inches, deep, contains
peck. .,>-,--. ...,.,
The standard busheI of the Unite'
States contains 2i60.4 cubic inches. An.
bex or measure, the contents of whicl
are equal to 216G.4 cubic inches. vii
hold a bushel of grain. In measuring
fruit vegetables, coal and other sub
stances one-f1fth must be added. II
other words, peck measure five time
even full makes one bushel. The usua
practice is to cheap the measure"
LIVING AND GETTING A LIvISG.-Th
farmer is emonstrably better of than tn
worker of the city. He is more indie
nendent has more command of his ow
time fares better at his table, lodges BET
ter. and gets better return for his laOol
What is the reason, then, that the farm
er,s bow runs TO the city the first chanc
he can possibly find there the means
life.
IL can only be found, believe, in til
social leanness, or social Starvation, Q
American agricultural life. The Amer
can farmer, in all his planning, ana al
his building, has never made provlslo
for Hfe He has only considered TN
means of getting a living, Everything
outside of this-eyerything relating {
society and culture-has been steadi
IGNORED He gives his children the al
Vantages of schools, not recognizing IN
fact that these very advantages call INT
life a new set of social wants A bright
well educated family, in q lonely farm
house. is very different material from
family brought up in ignorance al