The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-21
HONE, FARu AID GARDEN.

Beautify your grounds. Plant trees
and shrubs. and fruits and flowers.
Bask in the sunshine. With inspira-
ton drink in the blessings of earth and
Heaven loaOo State Register.
MuAins. One quart of sweet milk,
and -four sufficient to make batter.
One-haf pint Of good yeast, four eggs.
little salt; then set them by the FIRE TO
rise. When quite light. bake them in
mufin-rings, on griddle:
Cookies. Two cups sugar, one cup
sour milk or cream; one cup butter.
two eggs, five cups -four, one teaspoon
full soda Reserve half the -four to roll
them out in, and the softer they can be
rolled the better. Add caraway seeds,
II liked.
Griddle Cakes.-Take your pieces
of dry bread and pour over them boil
ing water; stir and beat to q smooth
paste; put in -four enough to make
them about the consistency of buck
wheat cakes; add . little salt, one tea
spoonful of soda, and three eggs, well
beaten. They are delicious for break
fast or tea
Fried Potatoes with Eggs.-Slice
cold boiled potatoes and fry in good but
ter until brown; beat up one ortwoeggs
and stir into them just as you dish them
for table. Do not leave them moment
on the fire after the eggs are in, as, if
they harden, they are not half so nice.
One egg is enough for three or four
persons, unless they are very fond of
potatoes; if they are, have plenty and
put in two.
Celery is not so generally cultivated
as it should be, for the reason, doubt
less, that the millions who could most
easily have it have never learned to
like it. As with tomatoes and some
other vegetables, the taste for celery
has to be cultivated; but when once ac-
Quired it is never lost, and no delicacy
of the garden is more highly apprecia-
ted. In most parts of the country the
use of celery is principally confined to
city people. while farmers do not know
or care for it. There never has been,
and never will be, too much labor en-
ployed in producing articles which add
to human happiness, but it often hap
pens that this labor is SO INSTRUCTED
that some products are greater in
quantity than for the time can be used.
and so labor is poorly rewarded.
Country Gentleman.
A correspondent of the Practical
Farmer gives her method of growing
geraniums, as follows: Get roomy
pot, put three or four pieces of broken
brick or pebbles in the bottom TO secure
drainage. Take equal parts of chip
dirt. sand and barnyard manure; mix
well and fill the pot, make hole in the
center, fill it with water and carefully
place your plant in. Now fill the dirt
around your plant, press lightly to
make it firm, put it in shaded win
dow for few days until it gets accus-
toned to its new quarters, gradually
let it have the sun, and in week s
time you may give it the sunniest win
dow you have. If it grows too tall,
pinch the top off; it will soon throw out
new branches on every side. l wish
you could have peep at mine-it is so
thrifty and healthy. The leaves are as
broad as my hand. A great many
water too much; water mine twice a
week with soap suds; give it good
drenching and wash every leaf with a
| toothbrush. 1t makes the plant
healthy, and how beautiful and fresh
each leaf looks after the bath.