Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-11-04
FARM. GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,


Ussfsl Recipes.
To KEEP CRANRKRRIKs ALL WINTER
Put them into q cool room, wher,
there In no danger OF freezing, ant
either spread out on q cloth or 90 "a Il
give each berry light and air or, which
isa sure way, put them in barrel under
water.
CRANBERRY SAUoE.-Put them into a
kettle. with just water enough TO pre-
vent burning, and stew until the whole
becomes b lmogeneous mass, with no
the time. Then add q clarified syrup,
previously prepared. in the proportion
OF one pound of sugar to one OF fruit.
II haste is required, however, IL will do
very well to stir in the sugar dry after
the fruit has been on the FIRE for while,
aud is boiling.
A Coon Way TO MEND GLASS. -
Pound flint glass rs fine as IT can posi-
bly, be made on painters stone, and
mix 1t with the unbeaten white of an
egg. Rub tho mixture on the clean
edges OF the broken glass. place them
carefully together, and, whore 1t can DO
done, bind together with a string. Set
aside for some days or weeks, and
one can scarcely discern that there was
ever crack in your bowl or dish.
BELvIDERE CAKEs.-Tho size of a
breakfast plate. Ono quart Of -four,
four eggs, a piece Of butter the size OF
an egg, a piece Of lard the same size.
Mix the butter and lard well with the
-four beat the eggs very light in pint
bowl. Fill it up with cold milk; thon
pour it gradually into the -four, which
must DO made into q tolerably stiff
dough. Add full teaspoonful Of salt,
and work briskly for eight or ten
minutes If worked too long it will fall.
Ont off squares of tho dough with u
knife the size that you wish your cakes
to be. roll them out, and bake in quick
oven.
MoLAssEs PLUM CAKE.-Two cupfuls
molasses, two cupfuls OF butter, six
eggs. two cupfuls OF brown sugar, six
oupfuls of -four, one pound of plums,
two lemons Guice and rind), two spoon
fuls OF powdered ginger. Spice to your
taste. Cream the butter, and rub it into
the -four. Beat in the molasses. Theu
mix all together, aud it may be eaten
hot for dinner, with the addition of
sauce.
A CHEAP AND FINE SHOE PoLsH.-
Take quarter of a pound of ivory black
and half an ounce of oil of vitriol, a
tablespoonful of sweet oil, half pint of
liquid honey or molasses, and half a
gallon of vinegar. Apply like any other
backing.
Tho Health of Stock.
The season is now at hand when more
than usual care is needed to preserve the
health of stock. In the spring and
early summer, when feed is fresh, when
water is pure. fresh and abundant, and
the genial influences of the season tend
to invigorate animal life and restore the
wastes of the previous winter, orr ami
mails are generally thrifty and in healthy
and good growing condition. But in
the early fall everything is changed.
Vegetation has begun to decay, the
heritage has lost its succulence, and has
become dry, innutritious and indigesti-
BILE and frequently infested with fungoid
parasitic grOwths which render it posi-
lively Injurious. The heats OF summer
have reduced the vital force, and with
the droughts have reduced the volume
of the streams aud springs, and caused
the water to become filed with decaying
matter and poisonous germs. The early
fall rains may have given a promise of
better things, but the promise is deceit
full, for the rank growth thus produced
is not wholesome or nutritious. The
chahgeful temperature fills the low pas
lures with sickening exhalations. The
replenished water courses are stocked
with eggs of parasites which have pass
ed through their different stages of lite
and now leave behind them new and
multiplied brood to carry ON their war
fare against animal life, or they are filed
with foul and poisonous matter from the
washlngs of the summer dried fields,
pastures, roads, outhouses and other
places where offensive matter acoumu-
lates. He is in the condition of things
by which the always existing danger to
animal life is vastly increased and new
periodical dangers become developed.
This calls for more than ordinary care
and precaution. But this care and pre-
caution are rarely exercised. BY know
ing how to avoid disease by preventing
or removing its cause is far the better
way. The ordinary rules of health
cleanliness, purity of air and water,
healthfulness of food, with avoidance of
either excess, insufficiency or Irregular
ty in feeding; ample and soasonable pro-
lection against heat, cold or damp and
avoiding overwork-all these are wol tn
more than a shopful of drugs. But
when from unavoidable circumstances
sickness appears, if the owner is able to
detect the first insiduous advance he has |
already won tho battle in most cases, be-
cause the most simple remedies, such as
change of food or some good nursing,
will often suffice to remove the ailment.
stnrchinG Linen.
The following is recommended by a
German journal: Make liquid paste
with good fino wheat starch and cold |
water, and then stir in boiling water
until a stiff paste is formed, and imme-
diately add white wax, or stearine, say
about one ounce of wax to pound OF |
starch-the exact proportions, however,
in any case can be determined only by
experience. If it is desirable that the
linen should be very stiff, powdered
gum arabic may be added to the cold
water with which the starch is mixed.
The strained starch should be thorough
~ rubbed into tho articles after they |
have been we'll wrung out, after which
they should then be placed between dry
cloths and passed through the mangle,
and then rubbed on the ironing board
in one direction with soft rag, to dis
tribute any Jumps of starch. Collars,
etc, should be ironed dry with hot
iron and considerable pressure. The
sticking of the iron may be prevented
by drawing it while hot over wax, and
wiping it with rag dipped in salt water.
Gathering. Dnmpness.
Wet rest lands by being cleared of
timber become dry, and streams fed
from such sources become almost ex-
tinct, as civilization encroaches on wild
woods. The excessive dampness of
crowded gardens is not singular, and
still less is it strange that buildings COW
cred with vines. whose windows are
choked with shrubs, and whose roof is
overhung with branches Of trees, should
he intOlerahlv damn and vh N tbo |