The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-15
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

PoTATo SCoLLoPs.-Boil and mash the
potatoes soft with a little milk; beat up
light with melted butter, a dessert-spoon.
full for every half pint of the potato; salt
and pepper to taste; fill some patty pans
or buttered scallop shells with the mix
ture, and brown in an oven. Stamp a
pattern on the top Of each; glaze while
hot with butter, and serve in the shells.
To MAKE APPLE Take one
dozen apples, boil them over a slow fire
until they are soft, then remove the skins
and cores; beat the apples we'll with a
wooden spoon until they become frothy
strain through a sieve then beat the
whites of twelve eggs until you can turn
the dish upside down and not spill out +;
add half q pound of sifted refined sugar;
mix it with the apples, then beat all to-
gether until it looks like snow; place it
on a cake-dish, build it up as high 8
possible, place s%pouge-cake or lady-fin-
gers around the sides like charlotte
russe.'
EXTRA NICE JELLY. -Always use the
best white sugar. either granulated OF
powdered; great care should be taken in
weighing or measuring; also observe the
time closely. To make peach jelly, use
one-third of the kernels with the peaches,
which should be pared, stoned and
sliced; place the peaches and the kernels
in a jar ; place this jar in apot of boiling
water; stir from time to time until the
fruit is all broken, then strain through q
stout, coarse bag, and to every pint OF
peach-juice add the juice of one lemon,
then measure again, allowing n pound
of sugar to a pint of juice; heat the sugar
very hot by placing it on pans in the
oven, stirring occasionally SO that it may
not burn; when the juice has boiled just
twenty minutes, add the sugar, let it
com to a boil, and take it instantly from
the fire ; have your jelly-glasses rolled
in hot water, and then fill them with the
scaldingsliquid; when cold and firm, put
tissue paper Oh the top of the jelly, paste
a thick paper over the glass; keep in a
dry place.
FRUIT CAKE.-Three cupfuls sugar,
one cupful molasses, n and one-half
cupfuls sour cream, one and one-half
cupfuls butter, six eggs, n and n e
half teaspoonfuls soda, three pounds
~raisins, one pound citron, two pounds
c~urrants, n teaspoonful cinnamon, n
teaspoonful cloves, n ~teaspoonful
spice, one whole nutmeg, one bottle
lemon extract, -four enough to make a
spoon stand straight up. Bake in a deep
baking pan four hours. When cool, put
in a stone jar and keep two or three
weeks before cutting.
Budding Fruit-Trees.
There are two Observation-Disclosures
now in very general use among experts
in horticulture, for changing or multiply
ing varieties of the same class on the
same tree, and both of these are simple
and inexpensive. The first of these is
known as grating, and is only practiced
on larger trees, and always in the spring
before the foliage is developed. The
other method, which is much more
rapid, and quite as sure when properly
done, is budding, and the time for doing
this extends from the middle of July
until the first of September. Whenever
the bark separates easily from the wood,
the buds may be set, with fair chances of
success. The outfit for budding.consists
of some narrow strips of bass mating,
such as comes on the inside Of coffee
bags, and a pocket knife with a single
blade, with a small piece Of ivory fasteD-
ed in the end of the handle. When the
i~ncision is made the ivory is used to
raise the bark up on either side, so That
the bud may be pressed into place. The
buds to be inserted should be cut from
young, healthy trees, and always of the
present years growth, those that are
most matured being selected. The
leaves may then be clipped off the
branch of buds, leaving say half an inch
of the leaf stalk attached to the bud.
Then with q keen-edged knife cut off
each bud separately from a half to three
quarters of an inch in length, leaving a
thin slice of wood back OF the eye or bud.
These should be kept moist and protect
ed from the sun or air until set; exposure
ever for a short time may prove fatal.
When the whole top or any part of it
is to be budded over, select the spot for
each bud in q smooth part of the branch,
motto large, say from n to two inches
in diameter. On this part make an in
cision through the bark in the form of
the capital letter T, and raise OF separate
the bark from the wood with the ivory
on the handle OF the knife. The bud may
then be pressed into place, cutting off
square the portion that goes above the
cross incision. Then with a strip of the
bass mating wrap firmly around the
branch above and below the eye, fasten-
ing the end of the strip by a slip knot.
This completes the operation, which can
be successfully done eve by a novice in
less time than it takes to describe it,
z. T. Quinn, IN Scri6ner.
The Value OF Hen Mnnure.
If 1.-the droppings from the roosts by
hens be carefully saved in barrels, and
every spring and fall this be
composted with any good soil or muck
from swamps, and SO kept a fe v months,
its value for any crop is equal to Peru
Wan guano, and it may, I think, be esti-
mated at fifty cents per fowl per annum.
From fifty hens I saved about ten barrels
of the pure hen guano during the year.
What I save from November to April I
compost in the spring with soil. First I
spread in a circle soil to the depth of
three or four inches. Then 1 spread hen
manure about an inch deep ; then I
spread another layer of soil, and then q
layer of, manure, till the heap is eom-
pleted, using about four times the bulk
of soil that I do5of manure, the last layer
beingsoil, Thetop of this compost heap
I make fat, to catch the rains; then I
cover it with any refuse hay or straw,
then place some sticks of wood or boards
against the covering to keep it in its
place, and in two or three months it is
ready to use, having become thoroughly
incorporated with the soil !; but, as the
season for planting is then past mostly,
I leave the heap till the next spring,
when I use it with what I compost in
November. Perhaps it would be better
to make a compost in March, where the
climate will admit, aud use the manure
for crops planted the last of May or early
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