Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-06-15
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| COOKING SPRING CHICKENS. the
season for this delicacy is approaching.
some hints as to the manner Of cooking
may not be amiss. If you have the con-
veniences for doing it, keep some spring
chickens cooped for two or three weeks
before killing, and feed them on scraps
from the kitchen, and grain. They will be
plump and much better favored than those
just from market. Never broil a chicken
unless sure that it IS young. Having as
certained that it is tender, split it down
the back, wash and wipe perfectly dry.
place upon grid.-iron inside downward,
cover with tin pan and watch carefully,
turning several times. 1t will take from
tw enty-fve minutes to three quarters of an
hour, according to the size. Many cooks
brush the fowl over with melted butter
before broiling. This is poorplan. The
butter is apt to burn and the chicken will
become blackened. A chicken is, or ought
to be, fat enough tc bloil itself without
the addition of butter. when it is tender
and brown remove to a hot dish, lay Jumps
of butter over it, sprinkle with finely
minced parsley, add Il few drops of lemon
juice, pepper and salt, cover and set in the
oven for a few minutes until the butter is
absorbed.
The Southern negro cook has an excel
lent and simple way of preparing young
chickens. Cut them into pieces, sprinkle
with pepper and salt and dredge with -four.
Have ready saucepan, with hot fat eX-
tracted from salt pork, in which fry, or
rather sauce, the chickens, covering them,
and watching that they may not burn.
Take up, drain, and set aside in hot COW
cred dish. Pour into the gravy left in the
frying pan cup of rich milk, thicken with
a tablespoonful Of flour, add lump of
butter, some parsley and young celery
plant minced, boil up, season to taste, and
pour over the hot chicken.
If you are uncertain about the youth of
your fowls, the following is a nice Wy to
prepare them: Split down the back as for
broiling, and lay, breast upward, in ba-
king pan. Season with salt and pepper,
lay slices of fat pork over the breast, put a
lump of butter and a cup Of hot water in
the pan, and bake in rather h'5 oven.
Basic frequently, and when do..e remove
to hot dish. Thicker the gravy in the
baking pan, add lump of butter, and
dozen minced mushrooms, boil up and pour
into a brat, and send to table with the
baked chicken.
Caulifower, asparagus, baked tomatoes,
or peas, are each good in tLoir season with
oh cd mo %
ceding ways. A salad of lettuce or water
crosses is also nice accompaniment.
THE HA1K.-"Hall's Journal of HEALTH
has an excellent article on this generally
interesting subject, in the course of which
itcondemns, in it's usual unequivocal way,
the numberless hair restoratiyes; and as a
simply remedy for badness it proposes the
following wash: Pour three pints of hot
water on the stems and leaves of the gar
den "boX." Boil for fifteen minutes in a
closed vessel, then pour it in an earther
jar and let it stand ten hours. Next strain
the liquid and add three tablespoons of
cologne water. Wash the head with it
every morning. 1t is cleansing and tonic,
and if the root bulbs of the hair are not
destroyed-which is the case where the
scalp looks smooth and shiny, and then
there is no remedy-the hair will begin to
grow with yigor. If this wash fails after
a weeks perseverance, the badness may be
considered incurable, because the structure
of hair growth is destroyed.
But more certain and more easily un-
derstood method of restoring the hair,
when such thing is possible, is to strive
to secure larger share of general health,
keeping the scalp clean in the meantime
by the judicious application of moderate
ly stiff brush and basin of old-fashioned
soapsuds; for, as general rule, badness
arises from one of three things: inattention.
which brought on decline of health, dirt,
or stupidity.
FARMERS AND POuLTRY.-It is no eX-
aggeration to say that not one farmer In
ten in the United States takes the interest
in poultry keeping. its Importance de-
mands. Some are too careless to make it
successful; others too. Indifferent to under
take it, and others think it too insienifi-