The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-01
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Recipes.

Recipes.
FRUIT OR CuRaANr CAKE. .---Currants
or c1tron for cake should not be ''rolleo
IN flour" but dredged or well sprinkleo
with sifted flour, having first made stht
fruit as dry as possible; that is, afte,
washing and draining the currants, dry
them on the stove and while warm and
dry dredge them with sifted -four inst
before adding them to the cake, and
the fruit should be the last thing added.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN BREAD MAKING,
Persons who are 30 unfortunate as tc
be poorly provided with those agents OF
mastication, good teeth, will be glad tc
know that there is method of baking
bread which obviates the necessity of n
hard crust. The crust commonly Mt.
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 loayes
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 q
crust beautifully soft and tender
throughout.
FRENCH ToAsT.-This is q very nice
break klast dish. Take a 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, aud put it in pan of hot but.
ter and fry brown.
CHICKEN SoUP.-Cut up an old
chicken and break the bones. Put II
in gallon of cold water, simmer several
honrs, skimming it well. A half hour
before taking up add to the soup nearly
a 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 BREAKFAsr. - Take
one-fourth of pound of fresh cheese.
cut i'll thin slices, put in frying-pan
turning a cup of sweet milk over it; add
one fourth teaspoonful dry mustard, a
pinch OF salt and pepper and piece of
outter 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 a
warm dish; send to table immediately.
SEED CAKE.-One cup of butter: two
OF white sugar, three eggs, half cup of
seeds, and flour enough to m Ike 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 plant
in spring.
2, Give the vine plenty of manure.
old and well 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.
B. Young vines produce beautiful
fruit, but old vines produce the richest.
e. Prune in autumn to insure growth,
but in the spring to insure fruitfulness.
7. 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 tn, fruit.
10: Those who prune long must soon
climb.
IL: Vine leaves love the sun, the fruit
the shade.
E'oIy 49,. ....' :. 90. .sU Uno uaeo,
and either bunch of fruit or a tendril
opposite to it.
l3. A tendril is an abortive fruit
uuucn-a bunch nf f---i1 a productive
tend~;l
IA, A bunch of grapes without a
healthy leaf opposite is like ship at
sea without rudder-it can't come to
port.
Is. Laterals are like politicians if
not checked, they are the worst of
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.)
~. Grape-eaters are long livers.
-. Hybrids are not always high bred.
20 He who buys the new and untried
varieties shoull remember that the sell
or 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 |
'rees are, in nine cases out of ten, the |
results of causes which have their
orlgln in carelessness or ignorance.
Deep planting is one error-to plant a
rec rather shallower than it formerly
TODD is really the right way, whilst
many plant tree as they would post.
aoots are of two kinds-the young and
ender rootlets, composed entirely of
ellis. the feeders of the tree, always
ound near the surface getting air and
moisture and roots of over one year
I'D. which serve only as supporters to
he tree and as conductors of its food.
ience the injury that ensues when the
elicate rootlets are so deeply buried in
arth. Placing fresh or green manure
contact with the young roots is, he
ellis us, another error. The place to
ut manure Is on the surface, where the
lements disintegrate, dissolve and
AIRY downwards. Numerous forms of
ingi are generated and reproduced by
le application of such manures direct
to the roots, and they Immediately q
tack the tree. 1t is very we'll to en- ,
Oh the soil at transplanting the tree, :
ut the manure, if it be in contact :
ith, or very near, the roots, should
thoroughly decomposed. Fruit
'ecord.
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