The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-03-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Housekeeper.

FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Housekeeper.
WAFPLRs. quart Of milk, one
and g half quarts -four, four eggs, and
salt. Beat milk and eggs together; stir
the flour in until it makes O smooth bat
ter.
Coffee CAKE, WITHOUT EGes.-One
and one-half cupfuls cold coffee, the
same of sugar, one cupful butter, half
cupful molasses, heaping teaspoonful
soda, one cupful each of raisins and cur
rants; a little citron and spices to taste;
stir with -four as stiff as fruit cake.
PoTAro PUFF.-Any left over mashed
potatoes may be made into an excellent
dish for next days dinner. Mashed po-
tato, two cupfuls; melted butter, two
tablespoonfuls, work well together and
add milk, one cupful, and two we'll
beaten eggs. If the potato was not sufh-
ciently seasoned for the table salt will be
required. Bake in quick oven until
the top is light brown.
CREAM CAKE.-Cake-One cupful OF
sugar, one and a half cupfuls -four,
three eggs, one-haf teaspoonful soda,
one teaspoonful cream tartar, little
salt; bake on round tins and split with
sharp knife. Cream-One cupful su-
gar, one-half cupful -four, three eggs;
beat together, and stir into it one pint OF
boiling milk; stand on the range min
ute, stirring all the while; favor to
taste.
PLUM PUDDING. - One pound OF
bread, or six large crackers pounded, one
quart of milk, one large spoonful -four,
one teacupful sugar, one nutmeg, one
teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half tea
spoonful ground cloves, butter the size
o. Pr egs same quantity of suet, chop
ped. one pound raisins, stoned. Boil
the milk and mix all the ingredients to-
gether. These puddings are served
with rich sauce and eaten warm, but
are excellent cut up cold like cake.
They will keen several weeks, and when
they are to be used, pass knife around
the pudding, pour 10 a little hot water,
cover close and put in the oven half an
hour before serving. Bake ja deep
earther dish.
How to Prevent Borers in Apple Trees.
G, G. Reese desired to know of the
farmers club if tar will prevent borers
in apple trees, and will the tar injure the
trees.
A member replied that wrapping trees
with tarred paper from eighteen inches
to two feet high, letting the paper fit
the ground snugly, and make little
mound up to the paper, will furnish both
tree borer proof and rabbit proof. In
his opinion, half of the young orchard
trees are injured, if not killed, by these
two pests. Care should be taken that
the borers already in tree are destroyed
before the tarred paper is applied. This
may be done by enlarging the opening
of the hole and forcing the shoot Of an
apple after them and crushing them; a
wire may be used for this purpose, but
the member preferred The apple shoot as
being elastic. This insect deposits its
eggs often on the body Of tree when
the bark has been injured. Washing the
body with strong soapsuds was advised
as excellent.
Another member thought the only
sure remedy for the borer is the knife.
He advised cutting out the worm rs soon
asit is discovered that the grub is at
work in the wood, and covering the de-
nuded places with grating wax. In re-
gard to preventives, he alluded to the
one sometimes practiced of building lit
tie fires in the orchard at night during
the early part of the summer, while the
insects are mating. Seeing the light
they fy into the fire and are burned.
Another preventive often employed, OF
which the speaker approved, is tying a
piece of oilcloth tightly about the trunk
of the tree, drawing down one edge to
the ground and covering it with earth.
This prevents the insect from reaching
the bark, and as soor as the season for
depositing eggs is over it can be re-
moved.
Cure For Hog Cholera.
According to the experience OF Mr..
Wiley Davis, of Illinois, large cattle
grower, fresh meat is preventive OF
cholera. He says his hogs were about to
take the hog cholera when the cars killed
two steers, and his hogs gorged them
selves, and have been healthy ever since.
He thinks that forcing hogs afflicted with
the symptoms of cholera to move about
is one of the best things Tor them, next
to feeding flesh and providing them a
mixture of ashes, salt and lime. John
Allen, of Urbana, "a reply to question
as to the cholera, said he had arrested 1t
among his swine by feeding meat ; and
when asked what sort of meat was best
for that purpose, said that cracklings
are the best if you can get them, but re-
fuse meat from the smoke house, surplus
fat or lean, shanks, rinds, etc. any KIND
of meat VIII answer the purpose" Mr..
Allen added, so far as his experience
went. there was no other remedy worth
anything. Let those, then, who have
hogs suffering with cholera, or the symp-
toms thereof, iced fresh meat of almost
any kind, and see if it proves effective.
Cultivation of the Ounce.
"Will you be kind enough to give me
some general information in regard to
growing and attending ounce trees"
Reply.-f it is desired to grow
ouinces. the trees should be procured
from nurseryman and planted out now
or else early in the spring. The ground
in which the Young trees are planted