The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-06-19
RECIPES.

lOSS are thoroughly cooked. Remove
from the fire and drain off all the wa
ter; mash with potato masher; add
a piece of butter the size of an egg :
two well beaten eggs; pepper and
salt to taste. Mix we'll, and frv in hot
lard. butter.-or-. drippines. Do not
treshen the fish before boiling. These
cakes meet with much favor when
ever made.
70 PwIfy Woter.-Pulverized al
UNI will purify water. the quantity
being large spoonful to hogshead
of water
Chicken Pie.-Cut up a large chick
en-; If it is tough parboil it. Place
your crust in deep, well buttered
pudding dish; then layer of thin
salt pork, and on that layer of chick
en- pepper it; chop up two or three
hard boiled eggs, and sprinkle some
over the chicken then more pork,
chicken and egg, until the chicken and
and half pound Of pork is used up;
pour in enough.of the water in which
it was parboiled to make gravy;
cover with crust ornament it lit
tie; bake an hour, or longer if the pie
is very large.
Rice and CORR Breod.-One cup
full of boiled rice; one.tourth Of cup
full Of melted butter; two large cup
fuls of white corn meal; teaspoon
full of salt; three eggs beaten sepa-
rately three cupfnls of sour milk, and
a small teaspoonfnl Of soda. Stir
the meal in the milk, add the yolkS,
rice and salt, butter and soda. Beat
the whites we'll and mix them lightly
in the batter Bake quickly in deep
tin pie plates You can use sweet
milk and omit the soda. but sour is
better.
Corn Meal HGfJoS.-'Thc yolk Of
Two eggs well beaten, one tablespoon
FIJI of butter, one Of wheel flour, one
teaspoonful salt, one pint sweet milk
(or water,) one pint OF corn meal, or
corn -four if YOU have it, is nicer; and
lastly the whites OF the eggs wcit9'
beaten Bake in waffle irons.
Beer Tomato Pie.-Cold roast beet
cat in thin slices ripe tomatoes peel
ed and sliced. line q deep dish with
a light biscuit crust; put a layer Of
beet, then a layer Of tomatoes; salt.
butter, and pepper to taste, and so on
until the dish is nearly full; put OF
the top crust, cutting cash in the
center Bake two hours in Il slow
oven.
DySentery.-I have known dyson
terry in it's worst form TO be cured
after other medicines had failed, by
drinking wheat -four stirred in water.
in quantity Of about half a tumblero OF
water, made to the consistency o!
cream with the flour. 1t may be adj
visable to add a pinch of salt, or the
flour may be eaten in its dry state
The same effect is produced in case
of chronic diarrh9a.
Ont do0r Whitewosh-I.-Toevery
four quarts of slackened lime allow
onehalf pint of boiled glue, lump
of alum about twice the size at hick'
DRY nut, and one tablespoonful ct salt
with Just sufficient bluing to give :
pure white tint.
Dot do0r HhUeudsh-ll.-Slach
lime in the usual way; mix handi"
Of -four with cold water taking care
to have no Jumps; then pour on boH'
ing water until it becomes like com
mon starch pour it, while not, lnto
the Stacked lime; add one pound o,
whiting and two ounces OF powdere"
boraX; stir all well together III :
bucket
Liquid Giuc.-A bottle two'thirds
full Of the best common glue, All"
filled up with common whisky; corn
up, aud set by for three or four days
Ftmsigatiou. = To fumigate and
cleanse the air of an apartment we
know OF no more simple way than 10
heat common iron shovel quite l not
and pour vinegar slowly upon it. lno
steam arising from this process is o. :
dlsinfectant character. Open window"
and door at the same time. Power
ed charcoal is an active disinfectan'