The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-02-10
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Domestic Hints.

Domestic Hints.
AN ENGLISH STEw.-Cut the meat in
small and rather thin slices, season them
highly with salt and pepper, and dip
each lightly in bread crumbs moistened
in gravy or melted butter. Dress them
neatly on dish, and lay over them thin
layer of cut pickles, vinegar and the
preserved gravy of the roast beef; heat
in Dutch oven and garnish with fried
sippets or potato balls
WASHING VEGETABLES. Vegetables
should never be washed until immedi-
ately before being prepared for the table.
Lettuce is made almost worthless in
flavor by dipping in water some hours
before being served. Potatoes suffer
even more than other vegetables through
the washing process. They should not
be put in water till just ready for boil
ing.
RE. COOKING BOILED CoD.-Cut cold
cod in neat bits OF flakes from the bone;
place in dish any sauce left of it, and
pouring over them four ounces of butter
melted in cream and thickened and sea-
soned to your taste with cayenne, made
mustard, and fish sauce. Heat thorough
ly in Dutch oven. The dish may have
another dish on q puffed napkin.
BEIvIDERE CAKEs.-Take a quart of
-four. four eggs, piece of butter the
size of an egg, piece of lard the same
size; mix the butter and lard we'll in
the flour beat the egg light in pint
bowl, and fill it up with cold milk then
pour it gradually into the -four, add a
teaspoonful of salt, work it for eight OF
ten minutes only, cut the dough with q
knife the size you wish it roll them in.
to cakes about the size of breakfast
plate and bake in quick oven.
BAKED BEANs.-One quart beans,
pick, wash, soak over night on back OF
range in the pot they are to be baked in,
strain in morning through colendar,
sprinkle tablespoonful each of salt and
molasses; add one pound salt pork,
scored in squares on top fill pot with
cold water. Put in hot oven at nine
o'clock A. NJ. Keep pot well filled with
water hourly to within one of taking ur
at six p. NJ.
WAFFLEs. Melt one ounce of butter
and add it to two quarts of buttermilk
or sweet milk buttermilk is best. Bea
separately five eggs, add the yolks
some salt, one teaspoonful soda ant
-four, sufficient to make thick batter
lastly the whites of the eggs.
NICE DESSERT FOR CH1nDREN.-Sti
unsifted graham flour iuto kettle O
water that is boiling and salted to taste
it should be stirred in slowly, SO as t,
give it time to cook thoroughly unit
quite thick for sauce use sweetene,
cream.
Light Versus Heavy Tools.
The great end at which all improve
ments aim is the maximum power com
bined with the minimum of material an,
weight. A man shoveling dirt with
shovel one pound heavier than it shoul,
be will will lift 5000 pounds more in
day of ten hours than he would do will
suitable shovel. All this strength i
wasted. The same is true of machinery
So simple thing as an unlubricatet
pulley is felt in the furnace, and tn
cost of coal is augmented. Every use
less pound in truck or carriage take
vitality from the horse which draws it
and costs the owner many an extra dol
lar for his keeping. The man who pull
an oar in the great boat races at Sara
toga puts himself in training and reduce
every ounce of superhuous flesh. TIL
race horse carries not one extra ounc
of fat to burden him in the effort t
win. Yet workingmen will carry throug
half their lives fifty pounds more fes
than is needed for the best working cor
dition-a burden which tells agains
their efficiency and personal comfor
through many years of their industris
life. These may seem little things, bu
whatever wastes power increases e2
penses, and whatever burdens the Labor
er is not little thing.
Cure for Mango in Cattle.
correspondent Of the New Yor
Times writes: Ny cattle have til
mango, or barn itch as some term i
What can do to prevent its spread an
cure it, that will not be dangerous whel
the cattle are herding together?
Reply.-A perfectly safe cure fc
mauge is to give the animal daily or
ounce of sulphur in the feed for one {
two weeks, and to apply to the affecte
parts the following mixture One pour
pure fresh lard, two ounces of fowe
of sulphur, and one ounce of carbol
acid. These should be all ground u
together and mixed very intimately int
smooth ointment, which should /
rubbed on the skin where it is affecte,
every day for week or two.
Planting Potatoes.
All land intended for potatoes
spring should be manured and ridge
up thorougly without delay, exposing
much surface as possible to the action
the atmosphere. All kinds of charre
refuse, SCOT, charcoal dust and simil
substances form an excellent dressir
for potato land. In neither a very w
nor n very dry season are the best r
suits obtained from artificial manur
when used for special crops.