The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-08-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


flour; stir the butter into the soup, and
let it boil ten or fifteen minutes longer.
Just before taking out of the pot, beat
mp an egg and stir into it, with salt and
pepper to your taste.
Ok Tail Sour. .--Scald and scrape the
tail. Divide it at each joint, and stew it
with plenty of water. Peel and cut into
slices two large potatoes, two large
onions, two large turnips, and two car
rots. Chop bunch of pot-herbs fine,
When the meat is tender, skim the
soup, add the vegetables, and boil them
till they are done. Stir in q tablespoon
full of burned sugar, and strain the soup.
Season the soup with pepper, salt, cay
enne, and lemon juice, and break in half
pound Of vermicelli. Boil till this is
tender, and serve.
TOMATO Sour. For this excellent soup
the proportions are, seven or eight mid
ding sized tomotoes, three pints of
broth, four or five stalks of parsley, two
of thyme, salt, pepper, teaspoonful of
pepper corns, a bay leaf, two onions,
three cloves, and three or four cloves of
garlic, quarter of a pound of rice, a
| tablespoonful of butter, one ounce of
sugar, three slices of bread. The toma-
toes are put into boiling water for few
seconds, taken off and dropped into cold
water, and then skinned. They are put
into a sauce pan and set on a moderate
fire with the broth, parsley, salt, pepper
and the following spices tied in a linen
rag: thyme, pepper corns, bay leaf,
onions and cloves. When cooked, the
whole is turned into colander with the
exception of the spices in the rag) and
forced through with potatoe-masher,
except the tomato seeds; then the strain
ed Juice and pulp are mixed with the
rice; after it has been boiled, the butter
and sugar are added. The whole is
simmered for half an hour, and turned
into the soup dish. While it is simmer
ing the slices of bread are cut into dice
and fried with little butter, and put
into the soup tureen before turning the
mixture therein. Cover it for ten min
utes and serve.
Household Hints.
In peeling onions, put large needle
in the mouth, half in and half out. The
needle attracts the oily juice of the bulb,
and any number may be peeled without
affecting the eyes.
Alabaster is best cleaned by putting
it in pan of water and letting it soak
for some hours till quite clean. Another
mode is to cover it with strong solu-
tion of washing soda.
To PREVENT METALS FROM RUsTING.
Melt together three pints of lard and
one of rosin, and apply very thin coat
ing with a brush. It will preserve
stoves and CRATES from rusting through
the summer.
To remove tattoo marks, blister the
part with plaster "a little larger than
the mark; then keep the place open with
a green ointment for a week; finally,
dress it to get we'll. AS the new skin
grows, the tattoo will disappear.
The way to clean feathers is to wash
them in a lather, then rinse in cold
water, and then in water slightly blue,
and shake thom until dry. If the hue
looks thready, damp it between the folds
of a cloth and beat lightly, and clap it
between the hands till quite dry. 1t i'm
proves them sometimes to hold them in
the steam of kettle.
To wash striped table cloths, soak in
clear cold water for half an hour; wiring
out and put in warm clear suds; wash
quickly, wiring as dry as possible; put
in clean cold water, adding handful of
salt; let them soak in this for fifteen
minutes, wiring and starch with very
thin starch, hang up as soon as done,
and when dry roll in damp cloth and
iron. have washed colored cloths in
this way for years, and they look as well
as new.
Covering Manure.
II is remarkable that more attention
is net given to the subject of covering
manure from the weather, and especially
from too much rain. Those who have
given the matter particular attention
have found that manure so protected is
worth double that which is left out in
the open cir. Two loads for one lisa
profit few farmers can afford to los.
There is no question which so vitally
concerns the farmer as this one OF
manure. Much that he does has refer.
ence to it. Straw is not to be sold be.
cause it makes manure. Stock is fed
through the winter for the express pur
pose of manure-making. Articles which
scarcely pay to send to market are never.
theless taken to the city in order that
manure may be brought back as re.
turn load; and yet the whole of the
manure made remains all the season ex
posed to the sun. wind and rain until il
is diminished one-half in value.
The trouble is probably that few really
believe that exposed manures undergo
this loss. But the matter has been toe
thoroughly tested to admit of doubt
We know tirst-class farmers who did not
themselves believe it, until by actual ex
pertinent they found opt its truth.
In arranging farm buildings it viii
pay well to look as much to the preserva
tion of the manure as to the hay OF
gram; and those who have their build
ings already finished without these
manurial arrangements will find tha
twenty-five or fifty dollars spent OF
boards for a covered shed will ranh