Connecticut western news., 1876-04-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes,

RICE CUsTARD.-Boil the vice slowly
 without stirring much, until it is tender
 turn it into mold to cool: make n boil
 ed custard thin, and sweet, and ponr
 over the rice before it is served.
 MoIAssEs CANDY.-One pint white
 coHee sugar, one pint molasses, one
 Gaplespoonful of vinegar, one table
 spoonful of butter; cook slowly long
 tune, until 1t " strings" from the spoon
 when dipped up; pour upon 0 greased tn pan; then pull it till it becomes white.
 DRAWN BUTTER.-Take one pint of sweet milk, piece of butter the size of an egg, two or three tablespoonfuls of flour or corn starch; rub-the butter and Hour together; when the milk is boiling.
 str In the butter and flour; have ready two hard-boiled eggs; take off the shells and chop or slice them; stir them in as you take the butter from the fire; pep per and salt to taste; send to table i'm mediately.
 Ao1Na FOR CAKE.-Icing can be made very easily by merely mixing the white or eggs with sugar, and adding to each egg one teaspoonful of ice-cold water. This takes more sugar than when the egg IS beaten to froth, but it will keep soft for some days. To make the icing very thick. 1t must be put on in two or three layers, as otherwise it will be thick on the edges of the loaf and thin on the top. It will not pile up like old fash toned icing. ~
 NEUDLE PUDDINa.-Three eggs, beat light; add little salt and flour to make paste that will roll; roll the paste an eighth of an inch thick; fold the paste shred fine; boil in clear water, with 8 little salt; put them in the water while it IS boiling, and do not allow them to SUCK together, or uncover the pot for ten minutes; take them out and drain well; bake them one hour; beat two eggs light; mix them in quart of milk, and stir in the neudles; add salt, sugar, and spices to taste, and bake as custard..
 SALT FIsH.-To be used to advantage salt fish must be soaked the afternoon previous to using, the water changed before bedtime, and again early in the morning. Once more change the water after breakfast, put it on the back of the range or stove and never allow it to boil, scarcely simmer until you find it soft | enough to pick apart very fine with a fork. It must not be chopped but care fully picked; it takes more time but is | the only right way. For codfish cakes | nave the potatoes nicely mashed with | milk and a little butter, proportion of | one one cup of fish to three of potatoes, a little pepper, red or black. Dip in egg | or not, as you prefer, before frying | brown. To be made in cakes not too | thick. ~
 American Farmers' Club.
 Tnf0runol
 late meeting and the answers to them:
 IS chlccory profitable field crop?
 Yes, the roots, dried and afterwards ground, can be sold at good prices to mix with coffee. Horses are very fond of the tops, and the trimmings can he fed in winter in place of erain-about one peck per day to each horse. It will keep them fat, and is sure cure for. as well as preventive of, worms and bots. The seed can be obtained at any seed store. Sow the same as carrots. Sandy or loose soil IS preferable. Farmers would do we'll to try it first on a small scale. ''-'''-'
 Gan bees be protected from moth2
 construct the hives so as to furnish no hiding place for the moths, and keen the stocks strong. Even with these precautions there is liable to be some loss.
 What is the best fertilizer for corn2
 According to Professor Caldwell's ex- per1ments barnyard manure yields the { most corn; plaster and potash salts the next best results; guano no marked diff ference with soil unfertilized, and fish scraps but meager production.
 Which IS most successfully transplant- ed, the maple or the elm2 ,
 The first mentioned is most likely to live, but with care either will thrive Tn { ttransplanting be sure and obtain sap hngs having mass of fine fibrous roots: when ready to plant dip these roots in mud about as thick as cream, and then plant with each root lying in it's natural position with fine earth packed closely about each. After planting, mulch the trees thoroughly.
 Early Rising.
 A young farmer found he was getting reduced in circumstances. He went to B friend to ask his advice. This friend. with grave face, said: CT know of a ( charm that will cure that; take this cup. ( ana drink from 1t every morning of the l water you must get at such a spring. but remember, you must draw it your ( self at five o'clock, or the charm will he broken. The next morning the farmer ( walked across his fields-for the sprino { was at the further end of his estate-and ( spying neighbours COWS, which had ( broken through the fence and were { teedlng on his pasture, he turned them I put and mended the fence. The laborers ( were not yet at work. When they came olterlng along, after their proper time. 6 'ney were startled at seeing their master ( 70 early. "Oh," said he, "I see how I t IS; 1t comes of my not getting up in I 'lme." This early rising soon became a pleasant habit; his walk and cup of wa. ter gave him an appetite for breakfast: I md the people were, like him, early at work. He soon acknowledged that the