The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-05-06
NO. 81.
Farm and Household Column.

Farm and Household Column,
Food for Children.
Children don't like fat meat, AZ
give them good bread and butter.
and allow them plenty of sugar. 4
chemist will tell yon that both fatty
substances and saccharine or sweet
substances are eventually oxidized in
the body. Sugar is the form to which
many other things have to he redu.
ccd before they are available as
Matchmaking food and the formation
Ut sugar is carried on in the body.
1t has been proved that the liver is a
factory in which other constituents Of
food are transformed into sugar.
Now, it ia probable that your chill
drrn really need sugar to keep them
we'll, and it Is fortunate that most
children arc fond Of vegetable acids.
A SANGER If berries, or a ripe apple,
is often a better corrective for chill
drcn's ailments than = dose uf n,edi.
cine; yet the majority If parents
give the nauseous dose preference
over the frnit. It does seem some.
times az If parents were occupied
more in denying than in gratifying
their chillren's appetites. This il
neither necessary nor fair. They get
as tired Of bread and milk NJ you
would. And what comes of it,
Simply, that a. soon as they have an
oppot tanity, they indulge their lore
for fruits aud sweets to excess.
Potte'l Ok Tongue. tender an
tongue of good flavor, and
the following day cut from it the
quantity desired for potting, or take
for this purpose the remains of ono
which has already been served at ia.
bic. Trim off the skin aud rind.
weigh the meat, mince it very small,
then pound it as fine a. possible with
four ounces Of butter to each pound
Of tongue, small teaspooDful Of
mace, half as much Of nutmeg and
cloves, and tolerably high season.
ing If cayenne. After the spices arc
we'll beaten with tile meat, taste it.
and add more if required. A few
ounces OF any we'll. roasted meat
mixed with the tongue will give il
firmness. The breast of turkeys.
fowls, cartridges, or pl,easants NAV
be used for the purpose with good e.
feet.
A correspondent ola western news.
paper, who has for years been con.
'lucting experiments with corn, haA
at very valuable result.
SO far from the replanting of corn
being of little value, as is the com.
mon impression, lie says, it Is Of a.
much consequence that lie replsnts
whether it is needed or not-or rath.
er, he plants two or three weeks after
the crop is planted a hill every IF.
teenth row each way. He says: III
the weather becomes dry during tho
Killing time, the silk and tassels both
become dry and dead. In this con-
Ilition, If 1t should become seasonablo
'he silk rovives and revfves and re-.
news its growth, hut the tassels do
not recover. Then for want Of mi.
len, the new silk is unable to gil tho
'ffice for which it was designed. Tho
pollen from the replanted corn is then
ready to supply the silk, aud the
ill'ng is c"mpleted.' He SAYS that
nearly all the abortive ears, 40 com.
mon in corn crops, are caused by tho
want Of pollen, and he has known
ears to double their size ia this ~:
;oud filling.
Excellent Brcad.-Mix seven poun;la
If best flour with three pounds of
pared boiled potatoes. Steam of tho
water aud leave them a few minutes
IN the fire, mash them fine, and mix
hem while warm in The -four with 4
spoonful or more If salt. Put quart
# water, milk warm, with three iarrv
'po"nfa's Of yeast, gradually to the
'otatoes and -four. Work It we'll
nto a smooth dough, and let it r..
main four hours before it is baked.
Immense quantities Of poor butter
'rc made from milk set in inproper
places. The kitchen pantry, the iiv.
ng. room, and the cellar used to storo
ard other family supplics.
will impa't peculiar taints to tho milk
md cream, in such a degree al to be
destructive !" flavor, even though tho
mtter in other respects he skiilfulls
handled. Dairy lmms 50 situated nj
o catch the odor from, tho pis.tyr:
the cessln'ol, Or other deco,nposinu
1iith. cannot be used for making GOOD
butter.
Chocolate Caramcls.--Scrape one.
'a'f ronnd Of chocolate, mix Il with
Two pounds If light brown sugar and
INC teac"pf"i 1t milk. SIT it over
the fire. and when it cor s,enccs IL
boil add two ounces of butter. Boil
hard for twenty minutes, stirring it
all the time. Remove from tho iro
and flavor with extinct If vanilla
pour in u pan that has been ~etl
creased and set it to cool. Before It
is quite cold, mark it of in squares
with a sharp knife. This recent 4
much used and liked 10 Baltimore,
and the above quantity of ruat,rlu,s
will make two and a half pounds ri
GRUMPY caran'els.-COnstant header.
Glass mcy he made to appear lilo
'sronnd" " ~ colored in several wayr.
Inc method is TO cover with A b,bi-
net or tarle'an, not linc Int III even
exture. If the glass is desired with
4 figured surface, procure a fipurcI
,et. or in liph IF this. ,rnrL ~