Connecticut western news., 1876-03-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
DOmestIc Recipes.

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 Domestic Recipes.
 MUFFMs.-A pint of sour milk, two eggs, lump of butter half as large as an egg, 8 small teaspoon of soda bake in gem pans in hot oven fifteen minutes LIQUID OR SoFT SAUcE.-One cup and a half of sugar, one-half cup of butter, and yolk of one egg beaten together :; add the well beaten white of the egg with teaspoonful of boiling water.
 BAKED CUsTARD.-Pour quart of hot milk over five well-beaten eggs. Add tesspoonful of butter. Season with vanilla, rose water, or nutmeg, and sweeten to taste. Bake in cups or pud- ding dish.
 FRIED ToMAToEs.-Takec cold stewed tomatoes we'll seasoned, add to them sufficient rolled cracker to enable you to form into cakes, fry in butter to light brown. Fresh tomatoes sliced and rolled in fine cracker crumbs first salt ing them) and fried in the same manner are very nice.
 HoMINY FEATHERS. full teacups of cold boiled hominy, add to it one scant teacup of sweet milk and little salt, stir till smooth, then add four table spoonfuls of -four and one egg, beat the .yolk and white separately, adding the white last. Have ready pan with hot butter and lard (half of each), drop the batter in by spoonfuls and fry light brown.
 PUMPKIN NPUDDINa.-Pare the pumpkin and put it down to stew, strain it through @ collander; two pounds of pumpkin to one pound of butter, one pound of sugar, and eight eggs beat to froth half wine {, lass of rose water, one teaspoonful of mace, cinnamon, and nutmeg all together.
 MILK ToAsr.-One quart milk when it comes to boil thicken with one tablespoonful corn starch add salt. Toast the bread light brown butter each slice. and put layers of toast in 8 covered dish, and pour on the thickened milk then more toast and milk, and so on till the dish is full cover and let stand five minutes, ard serve.
 To CooK SwEETBREADs-PLA every mode of dressing they should be prepared by half boiling and then put tin3 them. into cold water. This makes them winter and. thicker and firmer. Dip them in egg and then into bread crumbs pepper and salt, and fry in lard serve with peas or tomatoes. Another way is, after they are par boiled and cold. to lard them with fat pork put them into 8 stewpan, with some good veal gravy and juice of g small lemon stew them till quite tender, and just before serving thicker with four and butter serve with the sh Fl
 WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.-Five eggs beat whites separately, three cups oi granulated sugar, one cup butter, one cup sweet milk, three cups flour, one-hal teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, pinch of salt. Beat tho butter, sugar and yolks of the eggs to g cream; mix the soda in the milk, and cream tartar in the flour, add the white of the eggs just before the flour. Bake in jelly cake tins, browning lightly Take the white of one egg, little suga and water. beat together and with { knife spread over the top of each cake grate one cocoanut and mix it witt sugar, sprinkle it over the cakes, anl pile them one on top of the other finishing the top in the same way. ThiI is delicious with ice cream.
 Is Drainage Needed.
 A writer in the Massachusetts Plough nsan thus concentrates some of the argu ments in favor of drainage: What ar' the effects of drainage? Thorough drain age deepens the soil. Of what use is i to plow deep and manure heavily, while the soil is full of water The roots O plants will go down into stagnant water kha a1o k. oE, ,,/>H ol /, the surface; many of them have beel washed down blythe rains; some of then are found in the decomposing rock themselves. Take away the water an, the roots will find them. Drainag lengthens the seasons. In our climat this is an important point to be gained If by drainage one or two week could be gained it would b quite relief in our backwar, springs, when there is so much | be done in short space of time. Drain age increases the effect of theappIcatiol of manure. The soil being dryer is nor easily worked fine. The manure is als more evenly distributed. The water als passing through the soil carries fertiliz ing matter down to the roots of tn plants. Where there is stagnant wate manure must decompose slowly, if at all but let the water pass off, the air is ad mitted, and decomposition takes place What observing man is there that doe not know that his crops are improve in quality by drainage9 Sweet Englis grsss and clover take the place of sedg and rushes.
 Hew Long Butter will Remain Sweet.
 A series of observations were recent made in the milk testing establishmen of the municipality of Thur, with vie, of determining the time during whic butter could be kept fresh under vary ing conditions. The following are eel tain results obtained, and seem to b worthy of consideration by housekeel CTS as we'll as dairymen When kept warm hving-room, at 8 constant ten perature of fifty-nine degrees Fahr., th butter became rancid after one days e1 posture and in a we'll ventilated dair :. at temperature of ffty-three degree Fahr., after four days. In this latte apartment, the temperature remainin at ffty-three degrees Fahr.. but the bu ter being surrounded with water, th change did not occur till larse of thi teen days, which was increased to fiftee when the butter was submerged in th cold water. These tests were made wit pure fresh butter, but when the samp was pressed and slightly salted, it ws found that in the we'll ventilated dairy with temperature at fifty degree Fahr., it remained sweet for twenty min days.
 4 Injury to Wheat.
 The present season ia excantionalI