The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Helps.

dredge it with flour and little salt
When about to send it to table lay it
on hot dish and add small teacupful
Of boiling water to the gravy dripping
from the meat. To make mint sauce,
chop tablespoonful of fresh mint and
mix it with spoonful of moist sugar
and four tablespoonful of vinegar, mix
ed well together.
Sco1norED CRAB.-Take off the claws
crack them, and pick out the meat; take
the meat out of the shell and wipe out
the latter; remove the rough, spongy
part; crack the white inner shell; take
out the meat; season the whole with
little salt and pepper and little Cay,
enne pepper, and mustardspoonful OF
mustard; stir till the seasoning is mixed
with tho meat; rub three ounces OF
bread to crumbs, press it with the band
to make it firm; warm little butter;
pour it over; put it in a quick oven, to
bake for ten minutes.
BEETRooT AND ONION SALAD.-Peel
and cut into slices two or three medium
onions and plateful of beetroot; sea-
son with salt, pepper, tablespoonful OF
vinegar, five tablespoonfuls of saladsoil;
lay the beetroot in alternate layers on the
dish, and pour the mixed liquor over;
then place layer of hard boiled eggs
on the edge Of the dish.
ANGEL PUDDINGS. ounces flour,
two ounces powdered sugar, two ounces
butter melted in half pint of new milk,
two eggs, leaving out one white; mix
and bake half an hour in saucers, turn
them out into dish, and serve hot with
sweet sauce in boat.
Potato BA1Ls.-Take half q dozen
potatoes, boil them, pass them through
q sieve, and work into them in bow!
one gill of cream and the yolks of three
eggs; add pepper, salt and nutmeg tc
taste, and some parsley finely chopped.
When they are well mixed and smooth,
take them up by tablespoonfuls, roll
each in a ball, fatten it, and -four il
slightly. Lay them all in pan with
plenty of butter melted, and cook them
slowly. Turn them over when one side
is done, and serve hot as soon as both
sides are colored.
Boston CREAM CAKEs.-Take half 6
pound of butter, the same OF flour,
ght eggs, one pint of water-which
should be warm set on the fire and
slowly bring to boil one minute, stir.
ring all the while, then take from the
fire, turn into a deep dish, and let II
cool; beat the eggs very light, and whil
into this cool paste, first the yolks, ther
the whites; drop in heaving spoonfulE
upon the buttered paper, taking care moi
to let them touch or run into each other
and bake ten minutes.
Questions nnd Answers.
When butter comes soft and white
and the buttermilk will not separate
from it, what can be done with it2
Remove it from the churn and salt il
nearly as much again as you would have
done had it come in good condition; put
it in a cool place and let it remain ovel
night. The next morning turn it over 6
few times and set away again; continue
this light handling of it for three OF
four mornings, when there will be nc
trouble in working it, and it will be of 8
fair color. The salt with time separates
the buttermilk from the butter. Never
use the hands in working butter, but
take wooden ladies' at all times.
What is the cause of the sleepy taste
in mutton3
Some people say that the strong taste
designated as sleepy is due to the con-
tact of the wool with the meat. Others
believe the true reason is found in the
delay before removing tho intestines
these should be taken out as soon as life
is extinct. Proper care paid to the
butchering of wcl-fatte,i sheep will pre-
vent the objectionable odor and taste
too often found in their hesh.
What is the remedy for lice on cattle
Among others given is the saturatins
of coarse string with mercurial oint
ment and tying it around the animal
neck; also, the application of oil is effec
tive, as is washing with carbolic or whal
oil soap.
What is the rule for setting out rasp
berry plants9
Some farmers recommend placinI
them in rows four feet apart each way
others advise planting them two fee
apart in the rows, and the rows fourfee
apart. Again, the plants are set tw
feet apart in rows five feet apart. A goo
width in rows is necessary to enable tn
raking out of the vines in the spring
and the last rule suggested is yer
good one. The ground should be deer
ly plowed and put in good condition t
receive the plants.
Is there q remedy for vermin i
horses2
Try rubbing powdered white precipi
tate into the roots of the hair where tn
lice are located, and keep the anims
from being heated for several days afte
the application.
What is the best prescription for
hoof ointment?
A good ointment for horses hoofs
made of Venice turpentine, pine tar an
raw linseed oil; take four ounces of eac
and melt them over slow fire; whe
melted remove from the fire, thorough
mix, and stir in while cooling thre
ounces of spirits of turpentine. Whe
cold it is ready for use.
When to Sow Glover.
Harris, of the Agriculturist, write
Oh this subject as follows: "My ow
practice is to harrow the wheat thre
times in the spring. We go over tn
wheat both ways with the harrow, an
then SOW, the clover seed and folio,
with the barrow to cover the seed.
the ground is very hard, the harrows d
not break up the crust sufficiently t.
afford covering for the seed, and if dr.
weather follows we have a poor catch OF
these hard spots. have my doubts a
to which is the better pan, but am in
cined to think that so far as securing
good catch of timothy and clover is con
cerned, it is better to give up narrowing
winter wheat in the spring, and to SOY
timothy seed in the fall, and clover see
very early in the spring. 1t depend
very much On the soil and season. Th
narrowing helps the wheat, and kills
good many weeds, and on sandy LOAF
the harrow leaves a good seed bed fc
the clover, and il we are favored with
few showers we are prettysur of a goo
catch of clover.
"Last year all my clover failed. M
wheat also is poor crop. And do NJ
like giving advice. I am enjoying
short spell OF humility. I have l
whistle and keep working. try to loo
at the bright side. I have thirty-tv
acres of capital barley seeded down wit
clover and timothy, which seems to be