The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-02-28
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.



q half Of sugar, onc-balf 4 cup Of butter,
and yolk Of one egg beaten together
add the well beaten white Of the egg
with Il IeaspoOnful Of boiling water.
BAKED CusrARp.-Pour quart Of hot
milk over five well-beaten eggs. Add n
teaspoonful OF butter. Season with
vanilla, rose water, or nutmeg, and
sweeten to taste. Bake in cups or pub
ding dish.
FRIED ToMAroEs.-Take cold stewed
tomatoes well seasoned, add to them
sufficient rolled cracker to enable You to
form into cakes, fry in butter to n light
brown. Fresh tomatoes sliced and
rolled in fine cracker crumbs (frst salt
ing them) and fried in the same manner
are very nice.
HoMISY FRrrrERs.-Two 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
spoOUfuls Of -four and one egg, beat the
yolk anil white separately, adding the
white Inst. Have ready pan with not
butter and lard (half OF each), drop the
batter III by spoonfuls and fry light
brown.
PUMrKGS PUDDING.--P Pare thepumpkin
and put it down to stow, strain it
through collander; two pounds OF
pumpkin to ono pound Of butter, one
pound OF sugar, and eight eggs beat to
froth /; half wine lass of rose water,
one toaspoonful of mace, cinnamon, and
nutmeg NIL 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 a
covered dish, and pour on the thickened
milk ; then more toast and milk, and SO
on till tho dish is full cover and let
stand five minutes, and serve.
To Cook SwEErDnEADs -P1A1S.-For
every mode of dressing they should be
prepared by half boiling and then put
tinJ them into cold water. This makes
thGm winter and thicker and firmer.
Dip them in egg aud then into bread
crambs 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 n stewpan, with
some good veal gravy and juice Of a
small lemon stew them till quite
tender, and just before serving tlicken
with flour aud bntter serve with the
gravy; garnish with sliced lemon.
WHITE MOUNTAIN CAKE.-Five eggs,
beat whites separately, three cups Of
ganulated sugar, one cap butter, one
cup sweet milk, three cups -four, onc-half
teaspoonful OF sodR, two teaspoontuls
cream tartar, pinch OF salt. Beat the
butter, sugar aud yolks Of the eggs to a
cream; mix the soda ip the milk, and
cream tartar in the -four, add tho whites
Of the eggs inst before the flour. Bake
III Jelly cake tins, browning lightly.
Take the white of one egg, little sugar
and water beat together and with q
knife spread over the top OF each cake !;
CRATE one cocoanut and mix it with
sugar, sprinkle it over the cakes, and
pile them one on top OF the other,
finishing the top in the same way. This
is delicious with ice.crcam.
Is Drainage Needed.
4 writer in the Massachusetts Plough
man thus concentrates some OF the argu-
mcnts in favor OF drainage: What are
tho effects of drainagel Thorough drain.
ago decpens the soil. OF what use is it
to pillow deep and manure heavily, while
tho soil is full Of water2 The roots Of
plants will go down into stagnant water;
the elements Of plant food are not all on
the surface; many Of them have been
washed down by tho rims; some OF them
afc found in the decomposing rocks
themselves. Take away the water and
the roots will find them. Drainage
lcngthGns the seasons. In our climate
this is au important point to be gained.
il by drainage one or two weeks
could be gained it would be
quite n relief in our backward
springs, when there is SO much 10
be done in short space Of time. Drain.
age increases the effect OF theapplication
OF manure. The soil being dryer is more
easily worked fine. The manure is MISC
more evenly distributed. The water also
passing through tho soil carries fertiliz.
ing matter down to tho roots Of the
plants. Where there is stagnant water
manure must decompose slowly, il ut all ;
but let the water pass OF, the air is nd
mitted, and decomposition takes place.
What observing man is there that does
not know that his crops are improved
in quality by drainagei Sweet English
grsss and clover take the place OF sedge
and rushes.
How Long Butter will Reninin Sweet.
A series OF observations were recently
made in the milk-testing establishment
Of the municipality Of Thun, with Wow
OF determining the time during which
butter could bc kept fresh under vary
ing conditions. The following are Ger.
tain results obtained, and seem to he
worthy of consideration by housekeep.
crs MS well MS dairymen: When kept in
warm living-room, ut constant tenn.
ppnture Of tilty.nine degrees Fahr., the
butter became rnucil utter one days ex.
posure md in well ventilated dairy
at temperature of flfty-throe degrees
Fair, after four days. In this latter
apartment, the temperature remaining
ut tifty.threo degrees Fahr., but the but
ter being surrounded with water, the
change did not occur till n larse Of thir-
teen days, which was increased to fifteen
when the butter was submerged in the
cold water. These testswer made with
pure fresh batter, but when the sample
was pressed and slightly sailed, it was
found that in the well ventilated dairy,
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