Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1877-02-20
FIELD ARD FIREsIDE.


PURK Royal Take a piece of shoulder
OF tresh pork fill with grated bread with
the crust soaked. pepper. salt, onion. sage and
thyme, bit OF butter and lard rub GU u lit
tie pepper and salt, and place IN the psn with
some wa.er; when about halt dune, place
round it some large apples when done, place
your pork on dish with the apples round 1t.
put -four aud water in your pan, (bcst)
-four Drowned, some thyme and sage boil,
strain through 3 very small colander over
your pork and apples,
To SHAPE Rolls LIKE THE BAkERs'.-
Roll out the risen dough when it is exceed
ingly light aud puffy, ano cut it into rounds
with a tuubler Put a feather into some
melted butter and rub it lightly over the
rounds, then fold them into q half moon,
prick them on the top, and lay on fat tin
to rise. When they are very light, bake in
hot oven about twenty minutes. The oven
should be so hot you cannot hold your hand
in il aud count over twenty.
PooR MANS PUDDING ten o'clock
10 the morning pick, wash. and put to soak
in little more water than enough TO cover,
e oupiul of best rice. About two O'Clock,
il any water remains, drain it of place the
rice III your pudding DISH, add ole cnpiul OF
sugar and one teaspoonful salt and eleven cups
milk. and spice; put this iu modern oven
aud bake from 10 three hours stirring
occasionally at first if the rice settles.
SAVING STEPS. -Housework is far less
faticuing if you do it in pethodcal way
and save your steps. Do not make ten JOUR
neys to the cellar when one is sufficient
You want light wood for kiudling and veg
otables for dinner. Take basket aud bring
all ut once. When it is time to set the table,
think over all you require-miIk. butter, frui,
land instead Of going for osch separate thing
separate time. let one going do.
SPIcED OYSTERS Two hundred oysters
two dozen cloves, FIVE dozen allspice, also
mace, cayenne. pepper and sal, to taste -
Strain the liquor through a sieve, put in
saucepan and add the oysters, spice, pepper,
salt, and half pint of cider vinegar; place
them over slow FIRE and ss soon as thew
come to boil take them of, pour them into
large bowl and set them away to cool when
cold cover them close.
OYSTER ToAsr-Toast two large, or three
small slices Of stale breud for each person.
For family of six, take a quart of oysters
in the liquor. Boil together one pint o! milk
and the liquor from the oysters butter the
size of an egg pepper and salt to taste ;
when it boiIs put in the oysters for thirty
seconds, and dip the toast until soft. II any
soup remain, pour it over the toast.
To COMPOST pond mud, throw i, in piles on
the bank to drain, and when it is only moist
mix it 10 layers with barnyard manure, and
lime, If desired. II one load of stable manure,
one bushel of lime and five loads of drained
mud be evenly mixed and lett to decom pore,
no ammonia will be lost Tho heap shonid
be slightly hollow on the top to hold the rain
that may fall
Mock MINcE PIE. Three soda crack ers
rolled fine, one cup of cold water, one cup Of
molasses, Que half cup of brown sugar, one
half cup Of vinegar, one half cup of melted
butter, one half cup Of currants, one egg
beaten light, one teaspoonful of cinnamon,
one>fourth teaspoonful each of cloves, alIspIce
and nutmeg, five apples chopped ius.
Reports from the coffee trees planted in
California four years ago announce complete
success. They bore last year and the berry
has excellent aroma. The tree fuurishes
luxuriautly and it is commended to farmers
in the foothills of Middle and Southern CAL
ifornia as safe investment
APPLE FRITrERs.-One quart milk three
eggs, and flour enough to make q batter.
Pare and core one dozen large apples, chop
them to about the size of small peas, drop
the batter with spoon into hot lard and fry
as you would doughuuts; eat with cider, or
wine and sugar.
CAYENNE PEPPER, ginger and condiments
given to poultry will increase their vigor and
egg production And it ism t artificial. either
for wild fowls eat great deal of high .pic
berries and buds, and taste for such food is
Inherited by every fowl wild and domestic
To PREVENT pumps from freezing place a
small tack just under Que edge of the lcatl err
valve which retains the water, sinking the
tack into the leather to hold it This will
cause small leak aud the water will not re
main long enough to freeze.
To PICKLE EGGS Put the eggs on the
stove 10 cold water. let stand and boil one
hour-the heart is then mealy remove the
Shells stick four OF FIVE cloves in each egg,
pour hot vinegar over (add other spices il you
lke); let stand few days.
The REST way to clean the inside of old
iron pots and pans is to fill them with water
in which few ounces of washing soda is dis
solved. and set them on the FIRE. Let the
water boil until the inside of the pot looks
clean.
To CLEAN BLACK KID GLOVES "A
good way is to take a ,easpooDfuI of salad oil,
drop few drops Of ink in it, aud rub it over
the gloves with the tip of feather, then let
them dry in the sun.
1.-THE WATER OF cIsrERN is foul let
down in it bushel of pounded charcoal in