The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-25
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The HOuBekeeper.

The H0usekeeper.
Hot SnAw.-One head of cabbage,
half pound of pork, and try it out and
take out the scraps. Chop up the cab
bage and put in the fat with water and
pepper, if liked, mustard. When nearly
done, add one cup of vinegar.
INDIAN PANcAKEs.-One pint meal al
most; fill up with flour; scald the meal,
but not the flour; thin with milk; salt;
last thing add one teaspoonful cream tar
ter, and one-half of soda, mixed to-
gether; ring and bake right away.
SrEwED CARROTS. the carrots
until tender; also boil separately five
small onions; cut the carrots into any
small fanciful pieces you may choose;
mince the onions, and chop sprig Of
parsley; have a pint of milk boiling,
which season with q little pepper and
salt, adding a small piece of butter
rubbed in a tablespoonful Ct -four; put
in the carrots and onioIs, and let sim
mer ten minutes; stir in the parsley, and
dish at once.
WHITE BEANs.-Soak one pint of dried
beans over night; parbol in plenty of
water, with q small piece of soda in it;
drain perfectly dry and place in baking
dish; rub one and one-half tablespoon
fuls of butter into four even tablespoon
fuls flour, until it is q cream; beat in
this two spoonfuls condensed egg, add
ing slowly O gill of vinegar, and o
sprinkle of salt; pour over the beans,
place plate, inverted, over them and
put in q rather cool oven one-half hour.
P1cKnED F1sH.-Clean the fish thor
oughly and cut into pieces about five
inches long; rub each piece on the cut
side with salt. Take stone jar which
will about hold the fish, put layer of
fish on the bottom, then few whole
peppers and allspice and blade Of mace,
then another layer of fish, spice, etc.,
till the jar is nearly full; then pour good
cider vinegar over it until the fish is
quite covered. Tie paper over the top
of the jar, and cover this with flour
paste; this keeps in all steam. Put tho
jar in the oven and bake for three hours.
The fish is fit for use rs soon MS cold,
and will keep, in the pickle, for six
months. The white fish, pickerel, etc.,
of the lakes are very nice.for picking,
while the land locked sturgeon of the
great lakes is almost as good as picked
salmon if it be scalded in water before
splicing, etc. Shad is excellent picked,
rs all the bones disappear.
HARD SoAP.-Four and one-half
pounds fat, one box of condensed lye,
one-half pound sal-soda, one and one
half pounds rosin; dissolve pound can
of lye in six quarts of soft water; put the
grease in large kettle, add two quarts
lye, two quarts soft water, and boil
thirty minutes; then add three quarts
lye, little ut time, not to stop the boil
ing, which continue from two to five
hours, or until it becomes soap, which
may be tested by cooling in a spoon.
Then add the rosin, broken quite small,
putting in rest of lye slowly, not to stop
the boiling, which continues thirty min
utes, then add one teacupful of salt, boil
till the soap is separated from the lye
and strings. When cooled in spoon it
should be hard, let it cool fifteen min
utes, then stir in the melted sal-soda,
stir thoroughly, pour in molds; wooden
boxes or pals will answer; when cold cut
in pieces to dry.
Kitchen and Market Garden.
Hot BEDS, rs the heat of tho sun in
creases, demand careful attention in
ventilating; on warm days the sashes
may be removed altogether, but they
must be replaced early. The whole OBJ
ject should be to secure to the plants an
uniform growing temperature, avoiding
both chilling and burning, and to do this
requires attention and close watching Of
the changes. Water, weed and stir the
soil among the plants, to keep them in n
healthy condition. Qn the Northern
States this is early enough to SOW egg
plants in the hot bed)
Cold FRAMES should be ready to re-
ceive transplnnted tomato and other
plants, and allow them to be hardened
off, before setting out. Cucumbers and
melons may be started in these.
SOWING SEEDS. Garden plants may
be divided into two classes, hardy and
tender. The hardy may be sown as soon
as the ground can be worked and hard
frosts are over. The tender can not be
risked in the open ground, until the soil
gets warm, and this time is, in oil parts
of the country, that which experience
has shown to be the proper one for plant
ing Indian corn. The seeds that may be
sown in the Northern States generally,
this month, are: Beet, cabbage (and all
it's forms of broccoli, caulifower, etc. },
celery, cress, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce,
onions, parsley, parsnip, peas, potatoes,
radish, spinach, turnip (early). N. B.
Under no circumstances is anything
gained-but much is lost-by sowing in,
or working the soil in any manner, when
it is wet Make haste-but slowly.
PLANTS FROM Cold FRAMEs.-Early
cabbages, caulifower and lettuce are set
out as soon as the soil can be male ready.
Set the plants well down to the leaves,
and press the soil firmly around them.
PoTAroEs. the sets cut and
dried off, ready to plant as soon as the
soil is ready. AS soon as the earth is
broken by the shoots, it is likely that
the potato bug will be there, and hand
picking must commence. One beetle
killed now, prevents the appearance of a
thousand later in the season. If this
cannot be attended to, do not plant any.
-Agricultrist.
CnrtinR Ont Manure.
In hauling out manure at this season
of the year, says r. B. Miner in the SIN,
upon fields to be plowcd in April or May,
if the heaps be made of size to equal
ize it's distribution, the same as would
be made if the land were to be plowed
without delay, there will be great loss
in the manure by the escape of its am
monia and drying of the surface of the
heaps. Suppose a two-horse load of
first-rate stable dung be placed in six
heaps in field in February, and this ma
nure remains in these heaps to the middle
of April or the fore part Of May, and are
thon snrond and the land Dlowed. how