Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-12-16
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Doss cstic Recipes.


GERMAN ToAsr.-Cut thick slices OF
bakers bread, dip them each side IN eye
ana milk enough to soften, fry until
drown IN pan creased with butter
serve with hot sauce.
CHOCOLATE PUDpING.-One quart oil
sweet milk, three ounces OF grated
chocolate, scald tho milk and chocolate
together, and, when cool, add tho yolks
OF i've oggs and ono cupful OF sugar.
Bake about twenty-five minutes. beat
tho whites for the top, brown in the
oven, and eat cold.
PLUM PUDDING pound OF rails
ins, ono pound OF curfants, ono. half
pound OF suet, five tablespoonfuls OF
bread crumbs, eight tablespoonfuls of
nour, SIX eggs, one-quarter pound OF
citroh, one tablespoonful OF sugar, a lit
tle salt, nutmeg to taste; boil fully five
hours, and serve with hot melted sauce.
BRowN PuDpING.-One cupful OF mo-
lasses, one cupful OF milk, three-quar-
tiers OF cnpful of beef suet chopped
one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoon
ful OF salt, one cupful OF raisins, three
full oupfuls OF flour. Steam three
hours without lifting the lid.
SAUCE FOR PUDDING. - Ono cupful of
brown sugar, one-half cupful of butter,
one tablespoonful Of -four; stir we'll to-
gether, and nid one cupful of hot wa.
ter; let all come to boil; use the flavor
ing preferred.
70 REcooH ROAST BEEF.-Cut nice
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be sure to turn them every moment and
let them only get very hot through;
have your dish heated, and put into it
lump OF butter, some pepper and salt !;
turn the slices over in this and send to
table ut once.
BonED,APPLE DuMpLINGs.-Ta
ripe, sour apples, peel and core them;
make dough of one quart of flour, two
teaspoonfuls Of baking powder, Que
easpoonful OF salt, one-half cofreecup.
full of lard, enough water 80 make soft
dough; roll and cut in nine pieces, cook
your apples, stick them with fork,
bake, boil or steam them.
Farm Work.
Regularity OF WoRK.-The fine
weather has enabled farmers to finish
up their fall work, and push on with
that for spring, 1t would be well to
keep on as long as tho weather remains
favorable, for We know not what spring
may bring forth. Work should be done
with regularity, and not by "Gts and
starts. At this season the hours of
work may he shortened, and the days
labor be finished at four o'clock. There
is much work that may be done indoors.
reading, studying, planning for tho fu
enre, which are all equally as necessary
to be- done rs plowiug and digging
drains. BY apportioning the time to
different labors, che may often Get
through more work than 10 other ways.
System is everything in planning work,
ana goes a great way in doing il. By
ecoLomizing tho time, thcra may be five
hours daily set apart for reading.
About the house everything should be
done to ma ko things snug, and all requi-
sltiors mnIie by the housekeepers at
tended to Mt once. Winter time Is m
exactlnR period for housokeepers, and
everything shoul,: be done TO relieve
their necessary work of much of its
weight. Fuel should be put under
cover, and properly prepared for con
Vehient Use. Drains should be made to
carry OFT water II place provided for
Stops and wa ~, where they may be
saved for use as fertilizers; tho cellar
thoroughly cleaned, whitowashed and
protected; shelves put up where needed;
porchcs for protection around the doors
and well should be made, and all these
done without considering that any undue
calls are made upon the patience or tho
ume OF the farmer or mechanic. The
nome should be considered first
Agriculturist.
Tar on Fruit Trees.
According to the experience of Mr..
Henry Reynolds. of North Carolina, tar
IS perfect remedy for Scared and sun
cracked apple trees. He says that by
coating with new tar the trunk of
favorite fruit bearer that was cracked
and 80 decayed that the bark was dead
aud would peel off, he has restored it
fully. He applies it to all the branches
that show signs of decay. Since prac-
ticing this cheap remedy, he has not
been troubled with insects. By apply
ing tar to the trunk, and clearing away
the surface ut the roots SO as to let It
run down on them, peach trees badly
damaged by borers are fully restored.
Replace the dirt, and you will have no
more trouble with the tree for two years
or more. If the tar is applied to young
trees, the borers will not trouble them
at all. He states that the coating should
be applied in the winter or early in the
spring with new tar.
To Break in New Boots.
A correspondent sends the following
a pair of heavy, thick-soled, calfskin
boots had been worn two years, creaking
uproariously at every step. I could
stand it no longer. I determined to
conquer them, and did it thus: I
saturated tho insoles thoroughly with
kerosene oil, aud set them aside couple
OF days to exhale their fragrance. VIII n
next put them on they creaked as bad
ly ~ ever, but 1 had not walked half
mile before they were as silent as kit
tens; the soles, which before were SO
stiff and unyielding that I could wear
them Only two or three hours at time,
became soft and pliable, readily &C.
commodasing themselves to the shape
OF my feet, and now are as easy to wear
as moccasins. 1 consider this great
triumph, aud cheerfully record my ex.
perience for the benefit of those who
are suffering under the terrible sffiiction
OF new boots.
Making Sour Hay.
The Austrian system of making sour
hay is very simple. 1t consists in dig
ging long graves or trenches, four feet
in depth by six or eight feet in breadth.
The newly cut clover and grass is
cranmai into the trench and sramped
tightly down. When the trench is quite
full, so that the contents are little
above the surface, the whole is then
covered up with foot or fifteen inches
of earth, just as heap Of potatoes is
covered. Professor Wrightson states
that the preservation is complete, and
the wetter the fodder when it goes to-
gether the better. No salt is mixed
with tLa grass He frvtber efotoo fhot