The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-22
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

,,,,. HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
My Gingerbread.-A cup of water, a
cup of molasses, six tablespoonfuls q
melted butter, one and half cups a
flour, q teaspoonful Of soda, two of cream
Of tartar, two Of ginger; bake very
Welsh Rarebit- e-quarter pound
OF rich cheese, cut in small bits; put in a
frying pan, heated and buttered, with d
cup OF milk; when the cheese is all dis:
solved add one well.beaten egg, one hall
saltspoonful idry mustard, heaping tea.
spoonful of -four, q little butter, have
four or five moro slices of toast ready
stir the mixture all up together and pour
Immediately over the hot toast; serve in.
stantly, as it is not good when cold. Il
Dried apples are beginning to appear
on the tables, and are not generally vel.
coined, think, but if my friends of the
cooking department will bake instead Of
stewing them, l think they will like them
better. Bake in brown earthen pot, moi
used for anything else, as the grease
would spoil apples. Cover with cold
water, and if the fire scorches at all, put
a cover on the dish and bake four or five
hours; a longer time improves them. Pu
in the sugar or molasses the last half hour
and mash we'll with spoon, and they
taste like boiled cider apple-sauce. Use
no upper crust on the pie, but put bands
across. l prefer quartered apples to sliced
ones, as the last have less juice.-House
hold. ----~-
Mrs. Rustic's strawberry Short Cake
One large teaspoonful Of sweet milk
one heaping tablespoonful of butter, one
heaping tablespoonful of baking powder
worked throughly through, flour enough
to roll as for biscuits. Mix quickly, roll
to an inch in thickness and bake in 8
quick ovens Two hours before wanted
tor use wash and drain through colandel
three pints OF small-sized strawberries, put
them i'll dish and sprinkle sufficient SUI
gar over them TO- sWceten. When the
short-cake is done divide in the middle
butter the bottom layer, spread on half OF
the prepared strawberries and juice, in
vcrtthe top, butter and spread on the re-
matnder of the berries. Eat while warm
with sweetened cream, or whip cream.
! My treatment of roses is this: pro.
cure vessels large enough to allow the
roots all the growth required, with open.
plenty of good rich soil, which should be
renewed every six months; do not allow
the soil to become too dry, or do not wa.
ter too profusely. After supper, if tea is
left, when it becomes cold l often pour
enough on to saturate the roots, which is
very beneficial; also notice that there are
no worms at the root, or rose lice on the
stem, as both are very injurious. Tke
above is my treatment of roses, and am
satisfied no one can possess finer or more
thrifty looking ones than l have.-Cor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The following compound, recon-
mended by French chemist several years
since, may be worth trying on potatoes for
destroying the potato beetle. Take two
and half pounds of block soap, two and
a half pounds of flour of sulphur, two
pounds of mushrooms, of the species gen
orally found in low, moist grounds, and
thirty quarts of water. Divide the water
into two equal parts; put one-half into a
cask with the soap and mushrooms, after
they have been bruised; boil the other
half of the water in kettle, with the sui
phur in bag and kept down to the bot
tom of the water with a weight. The sui
phur must be stirred about, in order to
better saturate the water. The water thus
boiled must be thrown into an ordinary
sized cask until it has acquired high de-
gree of foul Odor, and the cask then closed
up tightly. This solution may be sprink-
led over infested trees, or plants of any
kind, and it is said to be certain death to
all kinds of insccts.-Rural NeD Yorker.
The currant has two enemies which in
some seasons and localities, if not inter-
fered with, are very destructive. The
more formidable one is known as the cur
rant worm. 1t is about an inch long,
bright yellow, and dotted with small
black spots. There worms are very vo-
racious and will strip the bushes OF foil
age before one is aware of their presence,
if not on the watch for them. The remedy
is thorough busting of white hellebore
upen tie leaves when they are wet with
dew; or better still, put two ounces of
white hellebore into pail, and pour upon
the powder quart of boiling water. AT
ter it has stood a few moments fill up the
pail with cold water and apply. it to the
bushes with syringe. The liquid kills
every worm it touches. Applications
should be continued while any of the
pests remain, and if attacked in time they
can soon be destroyed. The other enemy is
q worm Called the currant borer, and its
presence isskpownby sthe wood shrivel-
ing, or the foliage turning yellow Cut
of the infested branches close to the
ground and burn them. If currants are
grown in bush form, which is the better
way, they can seldom destroy plant, but
when the plants are pruned into miniature
trees with single stem, the borer is often
fatal to them.-Rtv. E.. =. Roe.