Connecticut western news., 1876-12-22
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipes,

bakers bread, dip them each side in eep and milk enough to soften, fry until brown in pan greased with butter: serve with hot sauce.
 CHocoLATR PuDD1Ne.-One uuart of sweet milk, three ounces of grated chocolate, scald the milk and chocolate together, and, when cool, add the yolks or nve eFgs and one cupful of sugar. Bake about twenty-five minutes, beat the whites for the top, brown in the oven, and eat cold.
 PLUM PUDDNG.-One pound of rais- ins, one pound of entrants, one-half pound of suet, five tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, eight tablespoonfuls of hour, six eggs, one-quarter pound of cltron, one tablespoonful of sugar, a lit tle salt, nutmeg to taste; boil fully five hours, and serve with hot melted sauce, BROWN PUDDING cupful of mo- 1ssses, one cupful of milk, three-ouar- ters of cupful of beef suet chopped; one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoon tul of salt, one cupful of raisins, three full cupfuls of flour. Steam three hours without lifting the lid.
 SAUCE FOR PUDDING cupful of brown sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one tablespoonful of flour; stir we'll to- gether, and add one cupful of hot wa ter; let all come to boil; use the flavor ing preferred.
 To REcooK ROAST BEEF.-Cut nice slices from it and bron over a quick fire: 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 at once.
 BOILED APPLE DUMPb1Nas. as.-Take nine ripe, sour apples, peel and core them; make dough of one quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one easpoonful of salt, one-half coffeecup- ful of lard, enough water to make e soft dough; roll and cut in nine pieces, cook your apples, stick them with a fonk, bake. boil or steam them.
 REGULARITY OF WoRK.-The fine weather has enabled farmers to finish up their fall work, and push on with that for spring. It would be we'll to keep on as long as'the weather remains favorable, for we know not what spring may bring forth. Work should be done with regularity, and not by "its and starts, At this season the hours of work may be shortened, and the day's labor be finished at four o'clock, There IS much work that may be done indoors: reading, studying, planning for tho flu. ture, which are all equally as necessary to be done as blowing and digging drains. By apportioning the time to different iahors, enc may often eet shrough more work than in other ways. System is everything in planning work, and goes great way in doing it. By econo.nlzing the time, there may be five hopts daily set apart for reading.
 About tho hahse everything should be done to make things snug, and all reoui, sitions made by the housekeepers at. tended to at once. Winter time is an exactlln1g period for housekeepers, and everything should be done to relieve their. necessary work of much of its weight. Fuel should be put under coyer. and properly prepared for con. venlent use.. Drains should be made tc carry off water place provided fol stops and aste, where they may be
 
 thoroughly cleaned, whitew ashed and protected; shelves put up where needed porches for protection around the doors and wei should be made, and all these done without considering that any undue calls are made upon the patience or the tune or the farmer or mechanic. The home should be considered first AgrSculturist.
 l- Tar on Fruit Frees.
 According to the experience of Mir Henry Reynolds, of North Carolina, tai IS perfect remedy for scared and SUI cracked apple trees. He says that by coating with new tar the trunk of { favorite fruit bearer that was cracked and so decayed that the bark was dead and would peel off, he has restored ii fully. He applies it to all the branches that show signs of decay. Since prac ticing this cheap remedy, he has no been troubled with insects. By apply ing tar to the trunk, and clearing away the surface at the roots so as to let il run down on them, peach trees badl, damaged by borers are fully restored Replace the dirt, and you will have nt more trouble with the tree for two year or moro. If the tar is applied to youns trees, the borers will not trouble then at all. He states that the coating should be applied in the winter or early in tn, spring with new tar.
 To Break in Now Boots.
 A correspondent sends the following A pair of heavy, thick-soled, calfskil boots had been worn two years, creakin, uproarlously st every step. I coult stand 1t noslonger. I determined t conquer them, and did it thus
 saturated the insoles thoroughly wit kerosene oil, and set them aside 8 coupl of days to exhale their fragrance. Wh2 next put them on they creaked as bad ly as ever, but had not walked half mile before they were as silent as Xii tens; the soles, which before were S stif and unyielding that could we7 them only two or three hours at time became soft and pliable, readily a. commodating themselves to the shar Of my feet, and now are as easy to wet as moccasins. I consider this a gres triumph, and cheerfully record my e, perience for the benefit of those wl are suffering under the terrible ff1ictio of new boots.
 Making Sour Hay.
 The Austrian system of making SO, hay is very simple. It consists in di ging long graves or trenches, four fe in depth by six or eight feet in breadtl The newly cut clover and grass
 crammej into the trench and trampt tightly down. When the trench is u1it full, so that the contents are lit above the surface, the whole is the covered up with foot or fifteen inch of earth. just as heap of potatoes
 covered. Professor Wrightson stat that the preservation is complete, al the wetter the fodder when it goes t gether the better. No salt is mix, with the grass. He further states th