Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

One pound of steak, chopped up very
nne; then soda crackers, rolled; small
piece of butter; two tablespoonfuls of wa
ter; salt and pepper to taste, constitute a
delicious dish. Bake in a deep pan.
This will be found sufficient for small
family. - s.
-Tomake hominy mullins, take twocup
of fine hominv, boiled and cold; beat it
smooth; stir in three cups of sour milk,
half a cup of melted butter, two teaspoon
fuls of salt, and two tablespoonful of
white sugar: then add three eggs well
beaten, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in hot water, and one large cup of flour !;
bake quickly 1882
An excellent filling for lemon pie is
thus made: Rub smooth in some cold
water two tablespoonfuls of corn starch /;
add two cups of boiling water and stir I'M
til it looks clear. Pour into dish, add
two cups of sugar and a small piece of
butter When almost cold add the yolks
of three eggs, and juice of two lemons.
Save the whites for frosting IS
The expenses of conducting farm
are about the same whether it yields much
or little. 1t costs about as much to har-
vest half ton of hay per acre as two tons,
and costs as much to cultivate an acre of
corn, that produces ten bushels, as it does
one that produces 100, besides the use of
land, cost of fencing, care, management,
etc. Seek then to produce heavy crops,
for there is where the profit lies. --PrdSrSe
Farmer. oftfc. IS
Gravy for Roast Beef-When your
Joint is sEdone to turn" dish it and
place it before the fire; then carefully re-
move the fat from the dripping pan and
pour the gravy into the dish not over the
meat, as is the custom of inexperienced
cooks, who, moreover, not content with
this, ruthlessly drown it with cupful of
boiling water or highly favored made
gravy. This is vulgar error, for there
is always a sufficient quantity of natural
gravy in good meat to render the use of
foreign sauces supertuous. 700
Since the middle of December the
winter has been exceptionally warm, and
many farmers have not been able to fill
their ice houses But if they will only
avail themselves at once of the next cold
term they may be able to secure enough
for home consumption. AS soon as the
ponds or streams are able to bear the oxen
and sled, the ice will be fit to cus; and
when it is stored in the ice-house dozen
or more pailfuls of water can be poured
over it at night, and this will freeze it into
one solid mass. We know farmer who
filled his ice-house by conducting water
from his pump or aqueduct into it by
means of small eaves-spout, and the
water froze into a mass every night
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
TO make head cheese, thoroughly
clean the hogs head, which must be split
open, put it over the fire, with plenty of
cold water and handful of salt. Boil
until the bones drop out; it will require
five OF six hours, or perhaps longer, as it
depends on the size OF the head. When
done, drain off the broth, take out every
particle of bone, put the meat in a chop
ping bowl, season with pepper, red and
black half teacupful of sweet marioram
the same Of summer savory; the same OF
sage; teaspoonful of powdered allspice,
two of cloves, a salt spoonful of powdered
mace. Chop all together as fine as posi-
BILE; add half pint of the broth and the
same of sharp vinegar; put in moulds,
and when cold, cut in thin slices.
From peck of pumpkin seed dropped
and covered in the gaps of corn-field, a
dairy of nine cows has been kept up to sum-
mer milking and the quality of the butter is
super excellent, and six heifer calves
raised from the above are fat as moles.
The cows are fatter, too, than majority
the cattle slaughtered. These ows have
been making about six pounds of butter
per week, besides supplying pew milk
and cream for a gentleman's HI use with
sixteen inmates. The pun pkins are
chopped up in the managers wi h spade,
morning, noon and night, about half a
bushel each time when cut irto pieces.
They eat while being MIXED, morning and
night, and they come to the yard and go
into the stable for half an hour at noon.
Beets, carrots and some other roots and
small ears of corn will follow, SO as to
keep up the milk during winter. Cor.
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