The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-30
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Domestic Recipes.

uiuB WllCu uHS DeCu uuIu6u uOWn from
mother and daughter for many years
back iD a New England family Boil
quart of milk; stir into it gradually three
gills of yellow Indian meal and half a
pint OF molasses; scald thoroughly and
add two tablespoonfuls of powdered
ginger and teaspoonful of salt; butter
brown earthen pan; put into it half
pound OF beef suet chopped fine; turn
in a quart of cold milk; then add the
pudding and stir up well; bake five
hours. Serve either plain or with hard
sauce; the rule for the sauce being cup
of granulated sugar to half cup of but
ter well beaten together, and favored
with either vanilla, lemon or grated
nutmeg.
CURRY.-Take pieces of beef or NUT
ton. or better, both, and stew them to
shreds; to one quart of stew add one
tablespoonful of fresh ground coriander
seed, one teaspoonful of tumeric, one
teaspoonful Of salt, one bird pepper, or
a little cayenne pepper; fry one medium
sized onion and add; if the gravy is
thin, thicken with a little -four. An
economical housekeeper will use rem
nants of beefsteak and mutton chop to
advantage.
LEMON MBR1NGUE PIE.-Boil three
lemons until they are soft enough for a
straw to penetrate the rind; mash them
up fine with tablespoonful of butter,
one cup and half of powdered sugar,
and the yolks of six eggs; make thin
crust; put in the mixture and bake it !;
when cool, beat up the whites of the
eggs with one and one-half cups of
nnuHpraJ cI1n on1 ct,rao1 ~ bn
pie; brown it nice color.
POTATO YEAsT.-Two good sized po-
tatoes, grated raw; pour on one-half
pint boiling water, one-half cup of white
sugar, teaspoonful salt; when cool, put
in one-half cup good yeast; let it rise;
when light, put in bottle and cork
tight. Half cup makes two loaves of
bread; reserve one-half cup every time
for raising.
CHICKEN PIE CRUsT.-Six cups of
flour, one and one-quarter cups of water,
one and one-half pounds of lard, one
teaspoonEul of salt, one-half teaspoon
full of soda, sprinkled over the dough-
This is crust enough for pie of two
chickens.
SPONGE CAKE.--Three eggs, beaten
one minute; one and ne-half cups of
white sugar beaten five minutes; one
cup of flour, beaten one minute; one
half cup of cold water and another cup
of flour, with two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, beaten one minute; bake in a
slow oven.
JELLY RoLL.-Three eggs, one cup of
sugar, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one
half teaspoonful OF soda, one cup of
flour; pour it thin into baking pan;
bake slowly; spread jelly over it, and
roll it up. Wrap it in cloth.
Farm Notes.
One feature of fruit growing by the
farmers, who are mainly the fruit grow
ers, is the neglect to thin out the crop
when the fruit is about half grown.
The refuse taken from the tree at that
time, being one or two of the smallest
from a cluster, and all the small and
knotty ones on the weak twigs, etc., are
profitable food for all classes of stock.
OF all churns that have come under
our observation the old dash churn gives
the best results.
Never attempt to cultivate wet land
with green crop. If draining will not
pay, working wet land never will.
If you want good, sweet mutton, kill
your sheep without worrying and
fatigue; the less exercise the better.
Hang it up at once now change ends
hang him by the head, and skin down
to the tail /; the job is done in half the
time, and neatly.
The following is method for healing
up wounds, caused by the splitting of
fruit trees by frost or other means :
Heat some grating wax dip strip of
muslin III it, and place it perpendicularly
over the wound then put three or
more narrow bands around the tree.
That is sufficient, and the healing pro
cess will go on rapidly.
Nest boxes should be movable, so
that after Matching, and occasionally
when used for laying, they may be con
veniently cleaned. One way is to
whitewash them but another, pre-
ferred by some, is to kindle fire insid e
and char them. This process will effec-
tually destroy vermin and their larvae,
and will thoroughly purify the nest by
leaving coating of charcoal inside.
This substance is one of the best an
tiseptics, and perfect deodorizer.
Boxes made Of seven-eight stuff-pine,
hemlock, or spruce-will outlast num-
ber OF these publications by fire, as the
process tends to preserve the wood.
Natural Age of Fruit Trees.
1t seems to be the common belief
that there is no limit to the natural age
OF apple trees. But this is certainly a
mistake. We all know that the peach
tree usually fails to be profitable at
twelve to fifteen years of age, and the
cherry and plum averages only twenty
to thirty years; the pear, in favorable
circumstances, forty to fifty years-in
rare cases q much longer time; so, also,
the apple tree has its natural limit, and
although, like mans life, the duration
of the period of health and vigor varies
greatly according to constitution, nur-
ture, climate, ETC., its approaching ter
mination is clearly indicated by signs of
debility and disease. On very deep and
favorable soils, and where the trees are
not damaged by severity of climate,
apple orchards are occasionally found
bearing fair crops of fruit at eighty to
one hundred years of age, but these are
nearly as rare as for their owners to live
SO long. Very few soils are of the best
kind for an orchard, and everywhere our
climate is either too warm or at times
too cold for the best health of the trees.
Injury by severe cold plackening all the
wood, l am convinced, is a very COM
mon cause of the premature failure of
aglr,.I ls-kx.