Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


rhUII Or OURRANT CAKk.-Currant6 !
or citron for cake should not be "rolled
In flour, but dredged or well sprinkled
with siited flour, having first made the
fruit as dry as possible; that is, after
washing and draining the currants, dry
them on the stove and while warm and
dry dredge them with sifted -four Just
before adding them to the cake, and
the fruit should be the last thing added.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN BREAD MAKING.
Persons who are so unfortunate as to
be poorly provided with those agents Of
mastication, good teeth, will be glad to
know that there is method of baking
bread which obviates the necessity of a
hard crust. The crust commonly at
tached to the loaf is not only trouble
some to such persons, but is often the
cause of much waste. The way to be
rid of it is as follows: When the loaves
are nodded, and before they are set
down to rise, take small quantity of
clean lard, warm it, and rub lightly
over the loaves. The result will be
crust beautifully soft and tender
throughout.
FRENCH ToAsT.-This is a very nice
breakfast dish. Take couple of eggs,
beat them, and pour with them little
milk, season with pepper an, salt. Cut
your bread as if for toast, pour the egg
over it, and put it in pan of hot but
ter and fry brown.
CHICKEN SoUP.-Cut up an old
chicken and break the bones. Put it
in a gallon of sold water, simmer several
oh I,,p A Lo1
before taking up add to the soup nearly
cup of rice and sprig of parsley.
Strain when done through a sieve.
Take out carefully bones and parsley.
Sea on with salt and pepper. Heat
again moment and serve.
A RELISH FOR BREAKF ST. - Take
one-fourth of pound of fresh cheese,
cut in thin slices, put in a frying-pan
turning a cup of sweet milk over it; add
one fourth teaspoonful dry mustard,
pinch of salt and pepper and piece of
butter about the size of butternut:
stir the mixture all the time. Roll three
Boston crackers very fine and sprinkle
in gradually, then turn at once into
warm dish; send to table Immediately.
SEED CAKE. One cup of butter; two
OF white sugar, three eggs, half a cup of
seeds, and flour enough to m Ike a stiff
paste. Roll it very thin, with sugar in
stead Of flour on the board, and cut it in
rounds. Bake it about fifteen minutes.
Grape Growers MaxIms.
The following rules are given by the
Rural american
l. Prepare the ground In fall 1; plant
in spring.
2. Give the vine plenty of manure,
old aud we'll decomposed for fresh
manure excites growth, but does not
mature it.
3. Luxuriant growth does not always
insure fruit.
4. Dig deep but plant shallow.
5 Young vines produce beautiful
fruit, but old vines produce the richest.
6. Prune in autumn to insure growth,
but in the spring to insure fruitfulness.
T. Plant your vines before you put
up trellises.
8. Vines, like old soldiers, should
have good arms.
8. Prune spurs to one developed bud;
for the nearer the old wood the higher
favored thu fruit.
10. Those who prune long must soon
climb.
II. Vine leaves love the sun, the fruit
the shade.
IL. Every leaf has bud at the base,
and either bunch of fruit or tendril
opposite to it,
49, A tendril is an abortive fruit
bunch-a bunch of fruit productive
tendril.
IA. A bunch of grapes without a
healthy leaf opposite is like a ship at
sea without rudder-it can't come to
port.
Is. Laterals are like politicians if
not checked, they are the worst of
thieves.
16 Good grapes are like gold-no one
has enough.
II. The earliest grape will keep the
longest, for that which is fully matured
is easily preserved. (Not correct, says
the Fruit RecOrder.)
49, Grape eaters are long livers.
10. Hybrids are not always high bred.
90 He who buys the new and untried
varieties should remember that the sell
er's maxim is, Let the buyer look out for
himself.
Diseased Fruit Trees.
Mr.. Hopes, president of the Penn
sylvania Fruit Growers Association,
boldly asserts that the diseased fruit
trees are, in nine cases out of ten, the
results of causes which have their
origin in carelessness or ignorance.
Deep planting is one error-to plant a
tree rather shallower than it formerly
stood is really the right way, whilst
many plant tree as they would post.
Roots are of two kinds-the young and
tender rootlets, composed entirely of
cells, the feeders of the tree. always
found near the surface getting air and
moisture; and roots of over one year
old, which serve only as supporters to
the tree and as conductors of its food.
Hence the injury that ensues when the
delicate rootlets are SO deeply buried in
earth. Placing fresh or green manure
in contact with the young roots is, he
tells us, another error. The place to
put manure Is on the surface, where the
elements disintegrate, dissolve and
carry downwards. Numerous forms of
fungi are generated and reproduced by
the application of such manures direct
ly to the roots, and they Immediately
attack the tree. 1t is very we'll to en-
rich the soil at transplanting the tree,
but the manure, if it be in contact
with, or very near, the roots, should
be thoroughly decomposed. Fruit
Record.
To Clean Metal.
Powder some whiting, and make it into
q moist paste with some sal volatile.
Cover over the gold ornaments and sur
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