The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-06-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

Recipes.
MUFF1Ns. - Three pounds of flour,
one-quarter pound of yeast powder,
three eggs, half pound of sugar, three
ounces OF butter. Mix the powder dry
in with the flour in another pan rub
the sugar and butter we'll together, then
add the eggs and beat to a thin batter !;
then add the -four and wet with milk /;
beat thoroughly fill the rings and bake
in a quick oven. These mullins are good
| cold as well as hot.
TO Cook SPINACH. Wash free from
dirt and grit and boil twenty MINUTES in
salt and water. Add small lump of
soda to give q handsome color. Drain
we'll and chop as fine as powder. Add
butter, salt, little pepper and nutmeg,
and garnish with hard boiled eggs, cut
up in various shapes.
STRAWBERRY SuoRToAKE.-One quart
Of flour, half a cup Of butter, two spoon
fuls of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of yeast
powder, flour to roll. Split open, spread
with butter, then thickly with straw
berries, then sprinkle with sugar, then
put on the upper half, crust down,
spread with butter, berries and sugar,
and cover all over with q large pad, to
steam and soften, while hot. Eat with
cream.
ASPARAGUS. s.-The fresher the better,
and all stalks not crisp and tender should
be thrown aside. Cut off the white
parts, tie the rest in punches and boil,
with little salt in the water, for almost
twenty minutes then take out and drain
n minute, lay in q deep dish on slices OF
buttered toast, the heads all one way,
covered with rich drawn butter. Or
the stalks may be cut in inch pieces,
boiled tender then seasoned and cooked
for a few minutes longer in thick cream.
COFFEE CUsrARD.-Boil one quart of
milk with five spoonfuls sugar. Add
one cup very strong hot coffee, four
beaten eggs, one half cup corn starch,
rubbed very smooth, in little cold milk.
Stir we'll till smooth, put into cups, and
when cool ornament with the beaten
whites, just before serving. Another
good method is to crush the coffee grains
coarsely, and add one spoonful to the
boiling quart of milk then proceed as
in an ordinary boiled custarl, and strain
into cups.
VEAL LoAF.-Mince cold roast veal rs
fine Us possible, add one-fourth fat ham
chopped very fine, one cup grated bread
crumbs one grated nutmeg, two beaten
eggs, little salt and cayenne ; mix well,
form in a loaf, glaze over with eggs and
sprinkle with bread crumbs; bake half
an hour; servo with roast veal gravy,
heated, and thickened with a beaten egg
put in just before serving.
RHUBARB PIE.-Peel anil cut the stalks
quite small into rich paste, put a layer
of rhubarb, then deeper layer of sugar,
sprinkle with nutmeg or cinnamon, lay
on several small pieces of butter and
cover.
VEAL SWEET BREADS WITH TOMATOES.
Set over the fire two quarts of nice,
ripe peeled tomatoes, stew half an hour
slowly in their own liquor and strain
throug gh coarse sieve then put in four
or five sweet breads, we'll trimmed and
soaked in warm water add q little salt
and cayenne, and one-quarter of n pound
of butter, smoothed in three spoonfuls
of flour. Stew slowly till the sweet
breads are well done, or about an hour
and q half. A few moments before
dishing stir in the beaten yolks of three
eggs.
I have horse that has poll-evil. What
will cure it?
An incision should be made, slanting-
ly, with sharp pointed bistoury or
knife upon the right side of the neck at
the base of the abscess. The cut must
not be so deep as to come in contact
with the spinal marrow. The opening
at the base of the tumor should be made
sufficient in size to allow the pus to free
" escape rs fast as it forms. A seton
should be passed down from the natural
opening at the top of the tumor through
the artificial opening made Mt it's base.
Before iDsel ting the seton it should be
dipped in tincturc Of cantharides. This
will be found the safest plan to adopt for
promoting healthy grrnulation and adj
hesion of the walls of the tumor. The
fstulous track is not probably very long
unless it has been some time standing,
and the tape seton will work its way
gradually and etlicaciously out, by which
time the cure is made. A stimulus is
also necessary to be applied to the inte-
rior of the tumor, By resaturating the
seton, in three or four days after it is
first inserted, with solution made by
dissolviug ten grains of nitrate of silver
in one ounce of cold water. This latter
should be applied twice week until a
healthy discharge appears. Then stop.
In the opening, from the top down to
the bottom, should be injected, three
times a week, a stimulus composed of
one drachm of chloride of zinc dissolved
in one pint of cold water. Apply the
zinc lotion in half an hour after using
the cantharidcs and nitrate of silver To-
ton. The canthariies should be used
only once, and the nitrate of silver on
the third or fourth day sitter, and con-
tinued twice q week as long rs neces-
sary.
Measuring Corn, Etc.
Please publish correct rule for meas
urine corn in wagon bed also state
what is good for horse with heavcs.
B. P. WILLS.
You do not state whether the rule de-
dcsireis for corn in the ear or shellcd
corn but if for the latter, obtain the
rumber of cubic inches in the box, or SO
much as is occupied by the corn then
divide that by 215O. ~, the number of
cubic inches in bushel or you can
first find the number of cubic feet, by
multiplying the length, breadth and
depth, and then dividing the number of
cubic feet by seven and one-fourth (or
1924; because bushel contains about
one and one-fourth cubic feet. Corn in
the eor varies according to varieties. OF
some it will take two bushels of ears to
make one of shelled corn; but with
others, one and a half bushels will
yield this amount For heaves turn tho
animal out to pasture whenever possible,
and in winter give laxative food, such as
carrots, turnips and beets also sprinkle
hay and oats, and avoid dust food of all
kinds. Scdatives may also be given,