The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-30
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes.

PUFr PUDDING.-One quart of milk,
seven eggs, eight tablepoonfuls of -four !;
little salt !; use butter and sugar sauce.
LADY CAKE.-Two teacupfuls white
powdered sugar, Il teacupful butter,
one teacupful sweet milk, two and a half
teacupfuls prepared flour, four eggs.
Flavor with bitter almond.
DELICATE CAKE.-Two and O half cup
fuls sugar, n cupful butter, three and
a half cupfuls prepared flour, five eggs,
n cupful Of milk or water. This cake,
baked in layers, makes good Jelly or
chocolate cakes.
BOILED HoM1NY. - Soak over night
n quart of homiuy next day boil
slowly for two hours, drain and put it in
a baking dish, and stir in butter, pep
per and salt F.; it should be as thick as
mush, AMI is eaten by some people for
breakfast with sugar, cream and nut
meg. 1t is q good and exceedingly
wholesome dish, especially for children
in warm weather.
FISH CHowDEH.-Four tablespoonfuls
of onions fried with pork; m quart OF
boiled potatoes, mashed {; one and G
half pounds of ship biscuit, broken ; one
~teaspoonful of thyme, one-half bottle Of
tomato catsup, one-half a nutmeg.
grated ; a few cloves, mace, allspice and
slices of lemon, and some black pepper !;
six pounds of blue or whitetish cut III
slices, twenty-five oysters the whole to
be put in a pot, covered with an inch Of
water, cooked slowly and stirred gently.
LEMON JELLY CAKE.-One pint Of
flour, the same of white sugar, five eggs
beaten separately, n tablespoonful of
butter, one teaspoonful of cream OF tar
tar, one-balf a t~easpoonful of soda 8;
when we'll mixed, four tablespoonful of
cold water. For the Jelly take two cups
Of sugar, yolks of three eggs, the juice
and grated rind of three lemons !; cook
till thickered by setting in boiling
water, then add the beaten whites of
three eggs {; spread between the layers
of the cake and trim off the rough
edges.
GREEN Corn PUDDING. Take one
quart of milk, five eggs, two tablespoon
fuls OF melted butter, one of white sugar,
n dozen of large ears of corn. Crate
the corn from the cob, beat the whites
and yolks of the eggs separately +; put
the corn and the yolks together, and
stir them we'll ; then add the butter and
the milk gradually ; keep heating all the
while next add the sugar and the salt
lastly the whites. Bake slowly at first,
covering the dish for an hour /; remove
the cover, and brown finely: This is a
most delicious accompaniment of q meat
course when properly mixed and baked.
Warm up what is left from dinner for
breakfast by moistening it with a little
warm milk, ana stirring in a saucepan
until smoking hot. This pudding can
be made from canned corn.
Marketing Wheat.
Some farmers are not content to wait
until the wheat has had time to thor
oughly cure, before they get thrashing
son the BRAIN" and thrash they must.
They will not stack the wheat and let it
60 through the "sweat," but will rush
along and thrash it out of the shock, be-
lieving, no doubt, that they are manag-
ing very economically. Most practical
farmers know that the stacking of wheat
improves the color and plumpness Of
the grain, and adds materially to its
market value, yet suffer themselves to
do otherwise, under o false theory that
needs no argument to prove it such.
Many are now thrashing out of the
shock, even whilc the wheat is q little
damp, the weather very hot; % much
so, in fact, that neither man nor beast
can stand todofull work; yet the thrash
ing goes on; the wheat is bulked in tight
box cars, more than three hundred bush
els to each Car, and by the time the
wheat reaches the market it is smoking
almost ed-hot-aad of course is al
most worthless. This quality of grain
is, to some extent, like a two-edged
sword, it cuts both ways. The owner
realizes very little for his work, time,
and labor; yet this same damaged wheat
has a tendency to reduce the price, and
does to a large extent control the values
Of all the better qualities. We have
heretofore advised our readers to stack
their wheat. We again repeat it.
Never send wheat or anything else to
market before it is in prime condition.
1t will pay not only to stack the wheat,
but it will pay to pass the same through
good fan before sending to market.
No thrasher that we have ever seen will
clean grain perfectly. While many OF
them do good work, and while they
clean amazingly well, we are satisfied
from no little experience that it pays to
run even the best cleaneu wheat through
a good tanning mill. One word more.
Don't SOW your wheat as it comes from
the thrasher; screen it thoroughly, tax
ing out all the "cheat," and we are sat
istied you will not regret following this
sort of advice. -Journal Of Agriculture
How to Apply Paris Green.
Probably the most effective weapon
for the destruction of the potato beetle
is to be found in every properly fur
nished household-a flour sieve. Sup
ply it with a cover and'a handle made
of a green rod because it will bend
easily Of a suitable size for the hand,
bent in the shape of the letter y in
verted, attached at each end to opposite
sides of the sieve, the part to hold by
Immediately over center of sieve and
about sixteen inches above the bottom
of it, and il. is completed. Use paris
green thoroughly mixed with sifted
-four, in proportions of one ounce of
the former to n and one.half pounds
of the latter. Hold the sieve charged
with the poisonous mixture in left hand
over q hill of potatoes, and with q stick
in the right hand rap it hard enough to
produce light discharges OF poison, and
proceed in this manner, taking two rows
at time, till the work is done. A man
can probably in this. way poison about
three acres q day. If it is desired to
make a sieve, the proper proportions
are about ten inches inside diameter and
four inches depth, and square in shape,
because most easily made. The wire
gauze for bottom should count twenty
wires each way to the inch; total cost
about forty cents.
Orchard and Nursery.
Young trees will suffer from the bot
sun and dryness. See to the mulch if
one is not already put on, lose no time
in applying it, and replace any that may
have been disturbed by the wind or
otherwise. Ii a young tree seems to be
suffering give it an extra mulch, and If
it has q long, naked trunk tie some hay
or straw around to shade it.
G.orko col Al, ,,.,S ,oaJ ouo,l:o.