The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-04-25
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOU USE.

lHE large numDer OF negroes VINO nave
rented land in Alabama and gone to
farming for themselves has caused
great scarcity of hands among land
owners who desire to farm their own
land.
OWNERS of lawns should be careful
and not NOW them too close, not water
them when the sun is shining upon them
and not clean off the clippings at once.
Lawns will soon die out if these rules are
violated.
OVER ten per cent of the grand ag-
gregrate of all the products and man
ufactures that the United States sold
abroad in 1876 came from the pigpens!
They brought more than one-third as
much as the entire cotton crop of the
South, almost three-quarters as much
as the wheat and -four from all the
North.
AT the late national meeting of the
shorthOrn breeders at Lexington res
olqtions were adopted declaring that
color in shorthorns is simply matter of
taste, fancy and fashion-not affecting
the quality of the animal or the meat or
milk; and that the public taste, prefer
| ring red as a color to the exclusion of
others, is injurious to the shorthorn
interest.
SLICE cold boiled potatoes a quarter
of an inch thick, and put into a sauce
pan with four or five tablespoonfuls of
milk, two or three of butter, pepper,
salt, and some chopped parsley; heat
quickly, stirring all the time, until
ready to boil, then stir in the juice of
half a lemon. Pour into a deep dish
and serve very hot. This dish is called
potatoes a la Maitre de Hotel"
PEEL medium-sized white onions and
let them stand in cold water one hour
then put them into boiling water, and
boil fifteen minutes; pour out this water
and put in more boiling water, and cook
till soft then pour off the water and put
in little milk; season with butter and
salt, and let them cook in the milk about
five minutes; thicken the gravy with 6
little -four and water. This way oi
cooking will take away the strong taste
Of the onions, making them tender out
side as well as inside.
THERE is very little, if any, difference
between the cattle known as Alderney
the proper term for both. The Island oil
|
ant as breeding station than that oi
Alderney; the former exports yearly
something over two thousand head o1
pure bred cattle, and the latter some
thing more than hundred. Guernseys
are essentially the same in their mos
striking characteristics, but are rather
been classed separately by the Roya
| orr so111turo1 Cooiofxy IT,
CELERY sauce is made by parboiline
six or eight stalks of celery; drain anc
stew in soup stock until very tender
strain through sieve, pressing as much
of the pulp through as possible; thicker
with sauce of butter and -four, one
tablespoonful of each to rather more
than half a pint of the sauce season
with salt and pepper, and add a table
spoonful of the white part of the celery
chopped fine; simmer for ten minutes
Serve with turkey. If intended fo
boiled chicken, use one cup of the brotl
in which the fowl was boiled and on,
cup of milk, for the sauce, instead O
soup stock.
. CRATE finely as much well-cookedh han
as you are likely to require, flavor i
with very little cayenne and some nut
meg. Roll out some good puff past
very thin, cut it into two perfectly evel
8 portions. prick in one or two places t.
prevent it rising too high, and bake in
quick oven till of golden brown. Thel
take out and let it stand till cool, whel
r spread little butter lightly over tn
whole. This should not be done till tn
i. paste is perfectly cool. Now spread tn
e grated ham even over the paste, lay tn
!. second piece of puff paste over it, an,
with very sharp knife cut into small
v sized sandwiches. This is charmin
: supper dish.
S PLAIN chicken fricassee: Cut up tn
chickens, and wash well in salt water
e put them in pot with enough cold waite
b to cover them; add (for two chickens
half pound of salt pork, cut up in thi
/, strips; cover, and let heat very slowly
then stew until the fowls are tender
l. Cook slowly-if they cook fast the
a tougher and shrink. When almost done
r add, if desired, a chopped onion or tive
It some parsley and pepper; cover closel
again, and, when it has heated to boilin,
o stir in slowly teacupful milk contaii
,. ing two beaten eggs and two teaspoon
Is fuls of -four boil up again, and then ad
% one teaspoonful good butter. Arrane
n the chicken nicely in deep dish, pot
t, the gravy over and serve hot.
CALF's head en- friture: Take SON
slices from the thick part of calf
n head, trim them nicely to the shape ve
g outlets are usually cut; simmer them fl