The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-25
HOUSE FARM & GARDEN.
Selected Recipes

1uIIpT OIlG cup VI illAih oAio up -
molasses four cups Of -four one-half
teaspoonful of soda. Mix and boil
four or five hours.
Cottage Christmas Pudaing.-A
pound and quarter Of -four, fourteen
ounces of suet, pound and quarter
of stoned raisins, four ounces Of cur
rants. FIVE ounces Of sugar, a quarter
of pound Of potatoes smoothly
mashed, half nutmeg. quarter tea
spoonful Of ginger, the same OF salt
and of ground cloves. Mix these IN
gradients thoroughly, add four vel
beaten eggs, with a quarter pint OF
milk: tie the mixture in a well-foured
cloth and boil it four hours. Serve
with brandy sauce.
Orange Snow Balls.-Wash we'll
half pound Of rice put it into plenty
of water boil it quickly for ten min
utes drain and let it cool. Pare four
large oranges and clear from them
entirely the thick white inner skin
spread the rice, in as many equal por-
tons as there are oranges, upon some
pudding cloths; inclose an orange Id
each, tie up, and boil the snow-balls
for an hour turn them carefully on to
dish, and strew plenty Of sifted
sugar over them
Apple Snow Balls.-Pare and core
some nice, tart apples, without dlvld-
ing them. Prepare the rice as in the
foregoing recipe. inclose the apples in
the rice. and boil them for an hour.
Serve with butter and sugar stirred to
cream, with any ilavo1ing agreeable.
Johnnie Cake.-One pint of corn
meal, two teaspoonfuls of cream of
tartar, one teaspoonful Of soda, one
tablespoonful Of sugar, little salt.
Mix altogether through sieve then
add two eggs and one pint OF sweet
milk. Stir well and bake twenty
minutes.
Roast Partridge.-Dress and SINCE
them fill the bodies with the stutfing
of bread crumbs, seasoned only with
pepper, salt and butter ; put some cold
stock of gravy into the pan and basic
frequently thre e-quarters of an hour
will cook them. Serve with gravy,
enriched with some good, game sauce,
with mashed potatoes and jelly.
Yeast Poultice.-Mix pound OF lin
seed meal or oatmeal into half a pint OF
Yeast. Then heat the mixture over
! fire, string carefully to keep from
burning. When it becomes warmed
. through, it can be spread on linen like
q Eany other poultice. Yeast poultice!
: are often ordered by physicians whe1
there is fntid discharge from ulcer
alton, when it is supposed to correct
: Soused Pigs Feet.-Clean thorough
ly, put them into hot, sailed water
t sufficient to cover them, and let then
! boil slowly until perfectly tender
When done and cool. cut the feet apart
remove the large bones, put them int
stone or glass jars. and cover witt
/ good cider vinegar, to which add
few cloves, two or three dozen grain
J. of allspice, and two small red peppers
cut fine.
!, Graham Breadth answer t
ssNina's" request, send my recip
l. for Graham Bread Not having trie
d Mrs. Rustic's recipe for bread, ! COZ
q not say that mine is any better, but
e know that it is good Graham bread :
One cup Of sour cream, one cup {
a buttermilk. one half cup Of moiasse!
e. one teaspoonful Of saleratus. one to;
g spoonful of salt, and Graham fiol
20 enough to make a stiff batter. Put til
:. mixture in 4 two quart basin and 81
= in a steamer and steam four hours
How 10 Keep The Combs OF Fowls Fro
Freezing.
"a During the piercing cold OF wint'
nd the combs and wattles Of many POI
all birds suffer disastrously from Il
III sharp attacks Of Jack Frost. III
combless state Of many beantif
rs bird, ruined for the show pen. il n
a. for the poultry yard, bears cruel g
of dence to the wanton carelessness
o. their owners.
- A warm, though not necessarily
- expensive fowl-house is indispensat
aid to every farmer and fincier who war
,ut his fowls to lay and pay during t
en- winter. Those who keep 5ingle-con
IN ed varieties, and have not warm hou!
a III for them, can easily prevent tn
- cocks combs from freezing BY siml
an having roosting place, built like
BON smaller house inside their ponli
me house. BY this means, during wea
er exceptionally severe, the birds
L be shut up, temporarily, in snu
W confined area, and q couple OF panes
glass will allow them to see eas
while eating, 50 long as the dan
lasts.
rar, This inside house need not take
Dir. anv of the room ordinarily used
-rva +5,n fnvrfz mt can he constructed