The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-04-04

CRACKER PUDDlNG.-fle cracker In
g cloth, and boil half an hour in sweet
skinned milk aud water. Serve with
a sweet sauce.
CUsTAkD PUDDING. One quart of
sweet milk, three eggs, and two-thlrds
of cupful of sugar; CRATE nutmeg on
top. Bake slowly till solid.
CURD AND WHKY.- Sweeten and
flavor TO taste, one quart of sweet milk !;
add one tablespoonful of lilo hid rennet /;
set in a warm place TIL 1t sets, or looks
like clabber. Serve cold.
GERMAN ToAsr.-Mske thin batter
with one egg; one cupful of milk; salt
and flour. Dip IN it thin slices of light
bread, aud fry to nice brown. Serve
hot, with butter, and sugar or syrup.
CORN STARCH BLANC NANCE Near
ly boil one quart Of sweet skinned
milk, and add tablespoonful Of corn
starch, wet smooth IN little cold
milk, and a little pinch OF salt; STIR till
it thickens. Serve cold with jelly, or
sugar and cream. Add one teaspoon
full of vanilla when taken from the
fire.
MINUTE PUDDINa.-Put three pints
of sweet SKINNED milk over the fire,
in porcelain kettle, or something
that will good deal more than hold
it. Salt it, and the minute it boils,
STIR in rapidly as much flour as will
/ moisten. Take it quickly from the
fire and serve hot, with butter and
sugar or syrup.
FRUIT PREVENTING DIsEAsE.-We
have frequently had occasion TO point
to the fact that regular supply of
we'll ripened fruit tends to preserve
health in family and 10 prevent dis
eases arising from malaria. Those who
remove to new portions of the country
should, therefore, make it q point TO
plant all kinds of small fruits which
COME soon into bearing, AS we'll as to
set out those sorts of the larger fruits
which bear early.
BAKED BEANs.--Pick, wash and put
| to soak any kind of beans on hand,
early in the morning. Near midday
| bring the beans tn boil in good
deal of water, allowing them To boil
gently until, by lifting some of the
beans upon skinner and blowing
| upon them, the skin cracks. Then
skim them into a "beau pot" made for
baking beans IN, put in small table
spoonful of molasses and pinch of
salt, and, to pint dIpperful of beans
before soaking, piece OF salt pork
about four inches square. Then NIL mp
with cold water, cover up and bake in
hot oven until evening. Let them
remain in the oven over night, and be
brought to proper degree of holiness
next morning for breakfast. Care
should be taken that the water does
not boil while baking. BY this meth
cd the beans will come 10 the table
| soft, rich, delicious-in that wonderful
! state some writer speaks of rs being
| lust where ''each bean maintains its
own individuality, but upon the very
point of being united to its neighbor. "
THE SCRAP BooK.-A, very sensible
writer in the Country Gentleman says
EVERY farmer should keep scrap
book. Many valuable recipes, useful
suggestions and beautiful thoughts are
floating round in the various newspa-
pers, that may be preserved in this
way for convenient reference. Maya,
zines should not be nuulated, but
bound and placed upon the library
shelf, year after year. Newspapers,
however, are usually Observation-Disclosures
aside and fOrgotten-but if what il
either interesting or useful to you is
first cut out and pasted in the scrap
book, a valuable volume, containing a
vast amount of miscellaneous informa-
ton, is rapidly completed, and always
accessible.
Let the children have department
all their ows, devoted to rabbits, pig
cons, canaries and other pets. You
will thus instill into their minds love
OF nature, desire for study and meth
odical habits. The cost of such book
is trifiing, and those who commence
the compilation of one will soon be
surprised at the amount of pleasure
and profit afforded them. Unlike any
other book In your library, this is one
Of your own making, and you alone
are responsible for its contents, like an
author who writes one. 1t would,
therefore, have value all its own and
become treasured heirloom for your
children when you are dead.
Il The matter may be arranged under
uluCTGbI HClCubluIJ
the floral, the horticultural, the hive
stock, the ornamental, the household,
the veterinary and the miscellaneous
IL every article is placed under iis
proper heading, no index will be nee
essary, and you can readily turn TO the
article to which you wish TO refer.
The value of such book must be
apparent to every intelligent farmer,
and its compilation pleasant amnse-
ment The lives of valuable animal:
may be saved by reference 10 It's
pages; grain and vegetables may be
cultivated more successfully, or other
and better varieties obtained. Useful
instruction may be found in vineyard
and orchard, meadow and lawn, barn
yard and poultry house.
Many pleasant evening may be
passed by the winter Preside reading
its pages for il the selections are good,
it will be an interesting and valuable
encyclopaedia. 1t is book in which
all should take an interest-the hug
hand Tho xpffa tho nhtId and {,