Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-06-21
.cp,CULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Short Cake.-One pint of butterMlik
ar sour milk, one teaspoon soda dissolved
in the milk, one teaspoon lard, little
salt. mix scft, and cut with tumbler or
cakecutter bake on griddle.
-Wafles.-One pint flour, one pint
sweet milk, three eggs we'll beaten, a
loco Of butter the size of an egg and a
half a little salt one teaspOonful OF cream
tartar heaping, half teaspooutul soda.
Melt the butter and stir up flour, milk
and eggs. Sift through little fine sieve,
the cream tartar and soda the last thing.
Bread Omelette. in a stew pan
cup of cream, the same of bread crumbs,
a little salt. dust OF pepper, a little nut
meg. Set over the fire, and when the
bread has soaked up all the cream remove
IRON the stove, cool, then beat dozen
eggs, thoroughly mix with the cream and
crumbs, and try. Serve as an omelette
Cows in spring, when first turned out
10 pasture, require salt more frequently
than at any other season, but in the hurry
of spring work they are very likely to be
neglected The best way to insure sup
plv is to put quantity in box under
cover. or where the animals can at all
times reach it without assistance. In this
way all danger from neglect through the
carelessness of laborers will be avoided.
-Rural Neen Yorker.
TO preserve Strawberries whole,
take equal weights of the fruit and gran
ulated sugar; lay The former in large
dish and sprinkle half the sugar over :;
give shake to the dish, that the sugar
NAV touch the under side of the fruit;
next day drain the juice from the berries,
add the remainder of the sugar and one
pint of red currant juice to every four
pounds of fruit Boil and skim until no
scum rises, drop in the Strawberries
few at a time; let them boil slowly for
about ten minutes; skim out into jars.
Boil the strip until sufficiently thick !;
then pour it over the berries and seal while
hot.
Much is said about the nutritious
value of stock TODD, but very little about
their medicinal qualities. But few realize
that oat meal and oat tea are the best med
icines as we'll as the best feed for young
animals--that the tea will "strike out"
disease-that wheat bran is laxative,
while the -four is the opposite-that corn
is the most stimulating of grains, and, in
raw state, unfit food for most young an
imals-that potatoes are good to feed raw,
occasionally, to horses and cattle, and
that beets are excellent for all animals. A
change OF food, in most cases, is all that
is needed for stock that get " under the
weather. "--Agr5cuttaral Journal.
Here is my way for making straw
berry short. cake: First prepare the ber-
ries by picking; after they have been well
washed--the best way to wash them is to
hold the boxes under the faucet and let a
gentle stream of water run over and
through them-then drain, and pick them
into an earthen bowl; now take the po-
-masher and bruise them, and cover
with a thick layer of white sugar; now
set them aside till the cake is made. Take
quart of sifted -four half cup of sweet
butter; one egg, well BEATEN three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, and milk
enough to make a rather stiff dough
knead well, and roll with rolling pin till
about one inch thick; bake till a nice
brown, and when done, remove it to the
table; turn it out of the pan; With light,
sharp knife, cut it down lengthwise and
croSsways; now run the knife through it.,
and lay it open for few moments, just to
let the steam escape (the steam ruins the
color of the berries) then set the bottom
crust on the platter; cover thickly with
the berries, an inch and half deep; lay
the top crust on the fruit; dust thickly
with powdered sugar, and if any berry
juice is left in the bowl, pour it round the
cake, not over it, and you will have a de-
licious hort,cake, real strawberry
short-cake," and not shortberry straw
cake" which most of them are.-Cor
Chicago Tribune.