The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
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pair OF chickens, and costs much less.
To turkey weighing about nine pounds
allow nine eggs-seven hard boiled, and
two of them raw, yolks and whites beat
en- separately. 10 each egg allow two
tablespoonfuls of salad oil, perfectly
pure and sweet, one saltspoonful of salt,
the same of mustard, and two of Cayenne
pepper to the whole; celery to taste,
lettuce leaves, if in season, using only
the heart, and the juice of two large
lemons or three smaller ones.
BUoKwHEAT BATTER. R.-Keeping buck
wheat batter is often very trouble some,
especially in mild weather. 1t can be
kept perfectly sweet by pouring cold
water over that left from one morning,
and which is intended for raising next
mornings cakes. Fill the vessel entire
ly full of water, and put in cool place;
when ready to use, pour off the water,
which absorbs the acidity.
ECONOMICAL VEAL SouP.-Boil piece
of veal suitable for fricassee, pie, or
hash; when tender, take tho meat up
and slip out all the bones; put these
back into the kettle and boil for two
hours. Then strain the liquor and stand
away until the next day. When wanted,
take off the fat, put the soup into clean
pot, and add pepper, salt, on onion, Il
halftablespoonful Of flour mixed in cold
water, and slices of potato. Boil thirty
minutes and serve hot.
A GooD BREAKFAST DISH. When any
boiled fresh fish is kept from dinner,
take out all the bones CAREFUL = and pick
the fish up in small bits, cover the bot
tom of a deep dish with some of the fish,
and il needed, a little pepper and salt,
aud few spoonfuls of the best sauce, if
any was left from dinner. Then sprin-
kle over some fine bread crumbs, then
another layer of fish with sauce, then
bread crumbs again, and 80 on until the
dish is full. If all the fish sauce is used,
without making the composition quite
moist, beat two eggs very light, and add
them to a cup of milk, and pour over the
whole. Then cover with more bread
crumbs and set it in an oven long enough
to heat through and brown delicately
If no fish sauce is left over take two
large spoonfuls of butter, cut in little
bits and lay in alternately with the fish
and crumbs, use four eggs instead of two,
and pint of milk.
SARATOGA FRIED PorAroRs. Wash
the potatoes clean, slice with potato
slicer very thin, throw into cold water
long enough to take out some of the
starch, then wipe dry and put into boil
ing lard few pieces at time. Be sure
aud keep the I'd boiling AS soon az
the potatoes are OF clear golden brown
skim them out, drain them in a colander
or sieve, and serve very hot.
WHITE SoUP.-Boil a kuuckle of veal
and four calfs feet in five quarts of
water, with three sliced onions, a bunch
of sweet herbs, four heads of white
celery cut small, teaspoonful of white
| peppers, a small spoonful of salt and six
large heads of mace. Let all boil very
slowly Il the meat is in rags and has
dropped from the bones and the gristle
has quite dissolved. Skim we'll while
boiling. When done strain through q
sieve into deep pan. Next take off all
the fat and put the jelly into clean
soup pot with two ounces of vermiceIli,
and set over clear fire. When the yer,
nlicelli is dissolved stir in gradually @
pint of good cream while the soup is
hot. Do not let it come to boil aftel
the cream is in, lest it should curdle,
| Gut a W rolls in the bottom of tureen.
pour on the soup and serve,
Cotton seed for Feeding.
Cotton seed, "just as it comes from
the gin," says Southern correspondent,
is fed by hundreds of thousands OF
bushels to our cattle every winter.
have fed it to my cattle literally fol
more than twenty years -Four quarts q
day, divided into two feeds, is sufficient
for one COW. It is the usual practice to
boil or scald the seed, but this L think
unnecessary, as / have fed them raw and
cooked, and find no advantage in cooking
them. formerly had a strong prejudice
against cotton seed as feed, on account
Of the lint adhering to it, but this will
do no harm if it is fed in proper quanti
! ties. Several winters since, / wintered
my cows in the following manner
had purchased in the fall large quantity
of cotton seed, and had on hand a sup.
ply of corn fodder (blades of the corn
stripped from the stalk.) 1 fed to each
dry COW, night and morning, two quarts
of dry uncooked seed and two pounds ot
corn fodder. They had no other feed.
/ fed my mich cows, in addition to the
above, about two quarts of corn mea
each per day. They all wintered finely
and came out fat in the spring. Per
haps I need not say that my cows have
a warm, clean stable nor are they quite
equal in size to the improved breeds o.
the North.
To Destroy Ants and Reaches.
Procure at drug store fifty cents
worth of granulated cyanide of potas
stun, and pour some of the cyanide in
the orifce of the nests, and then sprinkle
slightly with water. The effect viii
soon be plainly perceptible. 1t i,
necessary to moisten the cyanide will
very little water, in order to prevent
the ants from dragging it away, which
they proceed to domost furiously, seem
ing to recognize it as their moral enemy
The best time to apply it is shortly be-
fore the close of warm day, when they
all gather in after a days foraging. L
the nest is an old and very large one
application must be made at odd inter
walls in order to kill those that hatch out
often at depth of as much as twenty
feet. 1t is proper to state here thai
cyanide of potassium is a deadly poison
and, OF course, must be handled eau
tiously. Have your druggist give yor
the granular cyanide instead of the
fused, which is in large Jumps, and is
hard to manage without taking it in the
fingers, while the former can be poured
out of bottle like so much sand. Dc
not fail to get it in bottle instead o.