The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-08-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

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Recipes.
SPICE COOKIES. cups of sugar,
one cup of butter, four eggs, four table
spoonfuls each of cloves, cinnamon and
nutmeg, one cup of currants, sufficient
-four to make it stiff enough to roll out.
AGoop CusTARD. -Scald quart OF
milk, take off the scum, and pour it hot
on the beaten eggs. Take five eggs;
throw out the yelks of two; three table
spoonfuls of sugar, a pinch of salt, a
chip or two of lemon or orange and a
little vanilla. Set it to steaming in a
close-covered vessel, and steam five or
xix minutes; then set it on ice, and it
certainly is delicious.
P1oKuEp ON1oNs.-Take some small
onions, peel and throw them into stew
pan of boiling water, set them over the
| fire. and let them remain until quite
clear: then take them out quickly and
lay them between two cloths to dry. Boil
some vinegar with ginger and a whole
pepper, and, when cold, pour it over the
onions in glass jars, and tie them closely
over.
Brown BREAD.-In a gallon crock mix
one quart Graham flour and one quart
white -four. Make hole in the center,
put in two tablespoonfuls of molasses
and two of brown sugar, pinch OF salt
and cup of warm water. Stir thorough
ly and add half cup of good yeast. Set
this sponge at night; in the morning add
. little warm water, mix stiff and raise
again, mould into loaves, and, when sui
fciently light, bake two hours in slow
oven.
JAMS. In. making jams the fruit
should be carefully cleaned and thor
ouehly bruised, as MASKING it before
cooking prevents it from becoming hard.
Boil fifteen or twenty minutes before
adding the sugar, as the flavor OF the
fruit is thus better preserved (usually
allowing three-quarters of a pound OF
sugar to pound of fruit), and then boil
half an hour longer. Jams require al
most constant stirring, and every house:
keeper should be provided with small
paddle with handle at right angles with
the blade (similar to an apple-butter
''stirrer," only smaller), to be used In IN
making jams and marmalades. 70 tell
when any jam or marmalade is sufficient
" cooked, take out some Of it on plate
and let it cool. If no juice or moisture
gathers about it, and it looks dry and
glistening, it is done thoroughly. Put
up in glass or small stone jars, and seal
or secure ike jellies. Keep jellies and
jams in a cool, dark and dry place.
Farm Notes.
AsHEs.-Do not allow ashes OF any
kind to be wasted. It will pay to haul
leached ashes several miles, when enc
has his own team and laborer at fair
wages. Coal asheswhen spread around
berry bushes of any sort, or around
grape vines, will aid materially in pro-
ducing large and fair fruit.
A correspondent of the Pacific Rural
Press says: "The only effectual remedy
for wire-worm I know Of is thorough
cultivation of the soil. Those that are
troubled with them will find by examin-
ing their soil that it is cold, and by STIR
ring it thoroughly it will get warmer.
By so doing they will kill the wire-worm,
as it cannot live in warm ground.
PREVENTION OF SwARsnNG.-A CORE
spondent of the Bee Keepers Magazine,
in relation to the swarming of bees,
says "After have had all the increase
I desire, when a hive shows an inclina
ton to swarm move it to the place OF
some weaker hive. In that way l make
all my colonies strong, and when l have
ACCOMPLISHED that object but still have
hive that threatens to swarm change
places with another, that may also show
signs of swarming. The change OF
workers destroys the propensity OF
swarming for the time being, and by
giving them plenty of box room they
will store honey, and if they are again
inclined to swarm, you may move back
again and it will have the effect"
! KEEPING Down THE WEEDS.
London Garden remaks: "The only
remedy for weeds is prompt destruction
in o young state. Weeds are easily
eradicated if never allowed to advance
beyond the seed-leaf. Once let their
roots run deep and wide, and their tops
rise high, and then the weeds are mas
tiers in the garden. It provokes one to
see the complacency with which some
cultivators allow weeds to establish
themselves in flower beds or borders, OF
on roads and walks, and their subsequent
futile efforts to subipgate them. Prompt
destruction will vanquish the very worst
of them. Plantains, grass, thistles and
docks, are perhaps the most difficult tc
eradicate. But if by any neglect these
have gained strong footing in any
garden, constant beheading alone vii
destroy them. No plant can live long i
never allowed to form leaves or stems
and the shortest, surest, easiest way tx
eradicate the worst weeds is by incessan
cutting off all their visible parts"
Canning Cold Berries.
Mrs. L. G. Pennell, the inventor, ha:
been successful in canning cold berries
and fruit so that they will keep the
season through, and housekeepers gen
orally will be glad to learn how she doe:
it. Taking berries, peas, beans, or corn
she fills the jar, bottle or tumbler brim
full of the raw, fresh and perfectly sount
fruit. She then pours in clear colo
water to fill the interstices, screws on tht
cover OF puts in the cork, turns the YES
sci upside down, and that is all. If by
accident any of the fruit show signs O
fermenting, it can be cooked in the ole
way.
The Miller and the Camel.