Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.



Dsmsssic Recipes.
LETTUCE SALAp.-Two heads OF let.
tuce, two hard boiled eggs, two table,
sp0onfuls OF best salad or olive oil, one
teaspoonful salt, ono teaspoonful white
sugar. one teaspo0nful mustard, one tea.
spoonful pepper. four tablespoonfuls Of
vinegar or more as required; rub the
yolks to q powder and add the mixture;
thin with vinegar; cut up tho lettuce;
put in 0 dish; pour the dressing over.
II is delicious.
GINGER OR PoP BEER.-The following
is harmless but palatable: One and one
half ounces OF best ground Jamaica gin.
ger; ono and one.half ounces OF cream
tartar; one pound Of brown sugar; two
sliced lemons; four quarts boiling water;
one.half pint Of yeast. Let 1t ferment
TOR twenty-four hours; strain and bot
tie it. In two weeks it will DO ready to
use.
SIMPLE ToNIc.-If ono will take a
teaspoonful OF the extract OF dandelion
three times day in wineglassful Of
water it will improve the appetite very
much.
Corn MEAL MuFFINs. cupful Of
-four, also one OF Indian meal white is
the best), one egg, one and one half CUP
fuls sour or buttermilk, one half table,
spoonful lard, one.half teaspoonful soda
or saleratus dissolved in the milk, one
tablespoonful sugar, little salt.
LIGHT PIE CRUST. crust will be
found light If mixed with cold or ice
water, and handled as little rs possible.
Mix with knife as soft can be rolled,
three cupfuls OF -four, one teaspoonful
salt, one cupful Of lard, rubbed in we'll
with the hands; then mix with the knife
sufficient water to make soft dough.
Take piece of dough sufficient to cover
one pie and roll ont a little, then spread
with lard, little flour and salt sprinkled
over it, then fold over and repeat this
rolling. and spreading three times. If
this does not make the crust sufficiently
rich and flaky, the next time roll out and
spread with lard and sprinkle with salt
and flour five times. Light pie crust
depends much upon its being mixed soft
and cold and being but little handled.
Once spreading is sufficient for under
crust. Some ladies' use marble slab to
roll crust on instead of board.
How TO CRYSTALLINE FRUIT.-Pick out
the finest Of any kind Of fruit, leave on
their stalks, beat the whites of three
eggs to stiff froth, lay the fruit in the
beaten egg with the stalks upward, drain
them and beat tho part that drips off
again, select them out one by one and
dip them into cup of finely powdered
sugar; cover pan with sheet of fine
paper, place the fruit inside OF it, and
set it in an oven that is cooling; when
the icing on the fruit becomes firm
pile them on dish and set them in a
cool place.
Poultry Manure.
A correspondent gives the Boston
Cultivat0r the results of some careful
experiments to determine the actual
comparative value of hen manure, from
which the following is taken:
give the result of little experiment
I made in 1868. had been composing
my hen manure with ashes, and apply
ing it to my crops with very good re-
suits. But from what had read I was
almost certain that the course was
wrong and determined to set myself
right. The hen manure was piled upon
the barn floor and moistened with water
80 that it would heat little and become
fine; l then added the same bulk of rich
loan that had had the wash OF the barn
yard and small quantity of plaster. I
took one bushel of this mixture and ap-
piled it to one hundred and forty hills of
corn before planting, scattering it over a
circle of at least one foot in diameter.
No other manure was used on the plants.
I then took three pecks of the above
compost and mixed with it one peck of
good ashes and applied it to the same
number of hills in the same manner.
The corn was planted May 20, cut and
stocked on September and husked o.
tober IL. The portion with the hen ma
nure gave LA pounds of sound corn and
two pounds of soft corn. The portion
with hen manure and ashes gave 100
pounds of sound corn and seven pounds
soft corn. | also planted one hundred
and forty hills with nothing in the hills
and got eighty four pounds sound corn
and thirty-one pounds soft corn. The
hen manure increased the crop seventy.
two per cent, hen manure and ashes
thirty per cent. One-half bushel of hen
manure made thirty poundsof sound
corn on the cob, and this approximates
very nearly the result get from year to
year by using hen manure. Thirty.fve
pounds of corn on the cob are worth at
least thirty-five cents, which practically
makes the hen manure worth seventy
cents q bushel.
1 have just weighed bushel of hen
manure from under the henroost and
find it weighs thirty pounds. According
to Bruckner's analyses, bushel of hen
manure contains:
Phosphoric acid, .O45 h., worth Ice. per
Potash, .0055 ID, worth 70. per Id ..... .0O4
Nitrogen, .645 h., worth 800. per ID. :. 1913
Actual value one bushel hen manure 80. 269
In 1869 I made another experiment,
but mixed no ashes with the hen manure.
Three bushels of the compost, mixed as
before, made ninety-one pounds of
sound corn, or thirty pounds for one