The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Housekeeping Hints.

! Housekeeping Hints.
! YEAST CAKEs.-Put very large hand
full of hops into two quarts of boiling
water and boil until the water is reduced
half; boil three large potatoes until
cooked; mash them and add them to two
pounds of flour; pour the boiling hop
! water over the -four and potatoes and
! stir until it is quite smooth; while it is
warm add two tablespoonfuls of salt and
half o teacupful of sugar; before it is
quite cold stir in a dissolved cake OF
compressed yeast or gill of any other
liquid yeast; let it get perfectly light,
; then knead in all the Indian meal it will
take; roll out in sheet about half inch
! in thickness, cut in small cakes; lay
! them OH a cloth on q board, putting
them in q warm place; turn them every
day; they will take ten or twelve days,
in the winter, to dry; place in paper
bags, few in each, and tie tightly,
hanging in dry place. Will keep good
! for months.
! CHOCOLATE CoRNsIARCH.-One quart
of milk, quarter pound of chocolate, one
! tablespoonful cornstarch, two eggs, one
cupful white sugar; CRATE the chocolate;
add to this the cornstarch and sugar;
mix well; put enough milk on to dis
solve; then add the yolks of the eggs
we'll beaten; heat the rest of the milk
when near boiling stir in the mixture
and let it boil for five minutes: when
done pour into n dish and let it cool;
beat the whites of the eggs to froth and
! add n spoonful of sugar, and drop in
spoonfuls over the pudding. You may
omit the last if you wish, but it makes n
pretty dish.
! O1D-FAsH1oNED BUcKwHEAT CAKES. -
Put some lukewarm water in the batter
pail, add salt, handful of Indian meal,
| buckwheatfour enough to make batter
of the desired thickness, then add yeast
! to raise it. Be sure to get the batter
thick enough, for itcan easily be thinned,
when wanted to bake, with little milk,
which will make the cakes more tender
and of beautiful brown. Stirsup the
! batter at night; let rise until morning,
and bake; the next night add more luke
warm water, salt, and sufficient -four to
/ thicken, as before. If the cakes should
be slightly sour, dissolve little soda in
warm water, just before baking, and add.
It is well to use the batter all up once in
! two weeks or thereabouts, and start new
again.
CoDF1sH CAKEs.-Soak three pounds
salt Goldfish in cold water till it comes to
boil; pour off the water; if too salt for
the taste, add fresh cold water; don't let
it boil; when soaked sufficiently remove
! all bones and skin and chop fine in chop
ping bowl; boil eight white potatoes till
done, drain off water, mash very fine,
add one-half cupful milk, less than one
half cupful butter, salt in proportion to
the freshness of the fish; beat we'll with
q spoon and add to the fish, mixing thor
oughly, using more potatoes than fish;
roll with the hands into small round
cakes an inch thick, and fry rich brown
in very hot fat. These, with stewed
dried peaches and rice pancakes, make q
good breakfast.
The Fruit Garden.
Planting should be attended to at the
earliest moment, as the shrubs, etc., will
suffer in hot weather, unless they become
we'll rooted. 1"
CURRANTs. Wherever the leaves are
fairly expanded the currant A6raris, or
most common "worm" is to be looked
for. Careful examination of the under
side of the lower leaves will discover the
eggs, and by the picking of a single
leaf, dozens OF eggs may be destroyed.
If the worms appear, apply powdered
white hcllebore at once, or it may be up
piled stirred in water, about two ounces
to the pailful. Scald the hellebore with
little hot water first, and fill up with
cold. The. same directions apply to
gooseberlies.
STRAWBERRIES not already done,
remove the covering around the plants,
to expose them to light and air. Set
plants early, that they may get well
started before hot weather. We set in
rows three feet apart, with plants one
foot distant, allowing the runners to fill
the spaces between the plants, and form
solid rows. Where land is scarce, the
rows may be two feet apart, or the plants
set as close as twelve by eighteen inches.
Very rich soil and clean culture are
needed.
We would remind growers of the i'm
portance of cooling off the berries before
packing. The fruit must never be soft,
! but its ripeness governed by the time
before it will reach the consumer. Pick
into the baskets, and set these in cool,
shady place for some hours before pack
ing. Use only baskets and crates that
are we'll ventilated.
Grapes may still be set in many locali-
ties, and there can hardly be yard Of
any kind but will allow of one or more
vines. The vine is 80 manageable that
it's fruiting part may be q long distance
from the Observation-Disclosures.
Antidotc for Oidium on Grape-vines.
NJ. Chatot, Frenchman, recommends
common table salt as an antidote for
odium, or grape-vine disease. He says
that his vines and grapes were covered
for some years with q 'fungus-like sub
stance, and that last spring he sprinkled
handful of salt about the roots of each
vine. The effect was marvellous, the
vines grew luxuriantly, and bore an
abundance Of grapes entirely free from
the fungus of oidium.
Use for Coal Ashes.
E. E. S., West Meriden, Conn.,, asks
what is the best use to which sifted coal
ashes that have been saturated with slops
from the house, can be put.
Reply.-Thcy are of little valle for
any purpose. They may be spread upon
meadow, where they will do more good
than anywhere else. If the soil is heavy
clay, they may be scattered on any
plowed. ground and narrowed in.