The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-05-25
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Family Cakes.-Yelks of eight eggs,
and one cup of sugar, kneaded stiff with
flour. Roll out thin, cut in fancy shapes,
and fry in hot fat.
-Soft-soap.-Take eighteen pounds bar
soap, three pounds sal soda, one pound
rOsin, eight ounces of salt, one ounce of
borax, all pulverized. Put into five gal
Ions of soft water, over the fire, until dis
solved then put in barrel and add twen-
ty-six gallons of soft water; then add two
ounces of spirits Of turpentine, and stir
together.
delicious Lemon Custard. juice
and rind of one lemon, one cup Of sugar,
the yelks of two eggs, three tablespoon
fuls of -four, one-half pint Of milk; line
the plates with paste and pour in this Gus
tard; while baking, beat the whites of two
eggs very stiff, add two tablespoonfuls of
powdered sugar, and spread over the
pie when done and brown slightly in the
oven.
Steak Toast.-Take the part of leg of
pork nearest the ham, clean the skin nice
ly, then boil, adding salt; when the flesh
will leave the bone, take the meat out,
cutting it crosswise, then pour the soup
over it, let it stand Until cold and it will
form jelly and be ready for use. To
prepare it for use, toast bread enough
for a meal, take what you need OF meat
and jelly and season with salt, pepper
and butter to the taste, and pot hot over
the toast, and you will think it fit for a
bishop.
Picking Cabbage.-I will tell the
way picked some this year. My hus-
band and others say have hit the nail
on the head this year in picking cabbage.
l first picked all the large leaves off then
grated them nicely, then put them on and
boiled until tender, then took them out
and drained until all the water was out;
then took vinegar, pepper, allspice, etc,
one teacup of sugar to every quart of vim
egar, or more if your vinegar is very
strong, boiled it five or ten minutes, then
poured it on the cabbage, put on weight
to press down and set away for use.-Cor.
Household.
Homemade r olls.-Place in wooden
bowl two pounds flour; make hollow in
the center; in it place one-half teaspoon
full salt; one tcaspoonful sugar, and
one and a half ounces of butter;
then pour in the hollow half pint
boiling water; stir with wooden spoon
enough -four from the inner edge of the
circle to make rather thin batter; allow
it to cool to blood heat; then dissolve two
thirds of cake of compressed yeast in
lukewarm water, enough to make the flour
into dough of the usual consistency; set
it to rise in moderately warm place until
the morning, when form into rolls in any
shape taste may suggest; allow them to
rise light after making Snd bake in a
nice hot oven.
Almost everything in farm manage
ment seems simple enough to some agri:
cultural writer's. To those without actual
ways-a right way and a wrong way; and
to tell everyone what the right way is, is
their work, and to them it is easy When
success in following the course suggested
to him by his observation and experience,
but that it is difficult for him to tell others
just what his course is, it is indeed i'm
possible to give them just the directions
SO that they can go to work mechanically
and apply his plan-we feel that he has a
practical appreciation of the conditions
necessary to success. He is safer teach
er than those who have knowledge from
books rather than from experience. We
have too few intelligent teachers of the
practical sort. -Hus6andmon.
Very many fail in their attempts to
can green corn for winter use. The fol-
lowing is taken from the american Grocer:
The corn should be picked when just milk
ripe. After husking, the kernels are cut
from the cob with gagged knife and the
cob scraped to get all the juices. Next it
is placed in tin cans without admixture
Though sometimes a little sugar is added
to poor corn) and sealed up alright.
Then comes the processing'' or boiling,
viz: subjecting the can and contents to
the heat Of boiling water from one to two
hours according to the size of the can.
This can only be determined by expert
ment Next they are taken from the boil
ing water and small hole punched in the
top of the can to allow the escape OF the
gases and instantly resealed, after which
the can is replaced in the hot bath and
allowed to remain as long or longer than
at first: