The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-08
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Acid Tarts.-Take one egg, one cup
OF sugar, one cup water, one and halt
teaspoonfuls tartaric acid, one teaspoonful
flour, one teaspoonful extract lemon, a
piece of butter size of walnut. Cook
over steam then fill the paste and, bake
moderately. Put the lemon in just before
baking. Ice them if you wish.
TO Keep Dried Beef.-l see in the
Household recipe for keeping dried beef.
Twill give you my way. When the beef is
ready to dry enclose it in a bag of thin
cloth to keep the dust off while drying.
When dried l wrap it in paper, then
take the ashes out of the parlor stove, put
in dry stick of wood and lay the beef on
it and shut the stove. For twelve years l
have found it perfect place. No insects
ever find it.-Cor. Household.
Beef La Mode.-Take a piece of
rump steak, pound it we'll, and having
larded it we'll with strips of fat pork, put
into stew-pan with couple of sliced
lemons. Cover it and allow to cook
slowly. When the meat has given all the
gravy it.contains, add quantity of stock.
broth. Continue to boil slowly till the
broth thickens, and before serving it up
squeeze the juice of a lemon over it.
TO make Coffee cake, take one and
one-half cups of cold, strong coffee, one
and one-half cups Of sugar, half a cup of
molasses, nearly a cup of butter, one cup
of chopped raisins rolled in flour, one cup
of well-washed currants, also rolled in
flour, one teaspoonful of soda, little
sliced citron, one grated nutmeg, cloves,
cinnamon and allspice - each a small
teaspoonful. Stir in flour to make a
stiff batter-as stiff as pound cake
Bake one hour in u moderate oven. If a
pan of cold water is set in the oven with
the cake when baking, it is far less liable
to scorch or get too brown. The same
is true in regard to baking bread or pies.
The rose-slug, which eats the upper
surface of the leaf and is often very
destructive, can be effect,taily destroyed
by solution of whale oil soap. Our
own experience is that with good soil,
good cultivation and the timely and
proper use of whale oil soap, there is as
little difficulty in raising roses and keep
ing them thrifty as there is in raising
beets or turnips. The rose slug can only
be successfully attacked by Manipulating
or brushing off into a dish of water,
when they can be scalded, or otherwise
destroyed. The mildew, which often at
tacks the rose, should be treated with sui
phur, either by sprinkling upon it the
flower of sulphur, or by mixing the sui.
phur with water and applying with a
syringe. The currant worm in this section
has seen its best days. Hellebore is the
best application. When the enemy is
gone we shall, of course, have no trouble
in getting our currants started again
Vick's Floral Guide.
Grass, weeds and trees will develop
fertility. If one cannot procure stable
manure or muck, if land is cheap, one of
the most economical ways to improve the
fertility is to allow clover and grass to
grow and decay where it grew. TO cover
the ground with firm, thick sod, and fill
the soil with mass of grass and clover
roots, is to make land that will pay a fair
rent to the owner. Such sod, summer
fallowed, brings great corn, tobacco or
cotton. One must learn how to make fer
tility grow on thin land ;-drawing agricul-
tural salts from the deep subsoil in water
that rises to enter the longest roots of
clover or cow peas. The water evaporates
from the leaves of the clover, grass, peas
and corn, but the feriilizing salts do not.
These may lie used to feed and fatten hum
cry soil. Poor land may grow to become
fat in sod and manure as easily as poor
pig gains in flesh. Small seeds, like
those of clover and grass, may do most of
this work. See how easy it is to make
clover and grass labor for the thinking
husbandman.-N.T Y. Herald.