The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-28

spoonful around the roots of your plants;
also wash your plants in soapsuds.
To MAKE BUTTER YELLOW IN WIN.
TER.-Just before the termination of
churning, put in the yolks OF eggs, and
the butter will be as yellow as gold.
In applying lime to the barn-yard or
stable manure it should BE- air-slacked.
Caustic lime has a tendency to draw
Odt the ammonia, and should never be
applied on the dung pile.--LPrairie
Farmer.
FRIED CAKEs.-1 teaspoonful cream. /
egg beat up; teaspoonful of salt and
] of ssda, dissolved in a little warm
water; sufficient -four to make il roll
well; cut in pieces inches long and 3
inches wide, and fry in hot lard.
A VERY fair oak stain may be produced
by equal parts of potash and pearlash,
say two ounces Of each to about a quart
water. Keep 1t corked up in a bottle,
and 1t is always ready for use; if it strikes
too deep color, add more water.
CORN CAKE.-One cup of fine Indian
meal; two OF sifted -four, one-haIf cup of
granulated sugar, one egg piece of butter
or lard half the size of an egg, one tea
spoonful saleratus, a small pinch of salt,
one pint sour milk. It is greatly i'm
proved by using the egg, but very good
without.
VERONA CAKE.-Take two pounds
and half prepared -four; add pint and
half cold milk, a pound butter, a pound
sifted sugar, pound currants. a quarter
pound lemon and orange peel, and little
o. or N nj afn IL
Put in a round tin and bake an hour.
This ricn cake may be iced or orna
mented.
Poor MANS PUDDING.--One cup OF
water. one cup OF mOlasses, one teaspoon.
full of salt, one teaspoonful of soda; sti1
| stiff and steam three hours The sauce
for it is: Three>fourths cup OF. butter,
onep Gu of sugar, one tablespoonful -four
After it has cooked a little, stir in four
well beaten eggs and a tablespoonful oil
vanilla; or prepare vinegar sauce.
Snow CAKE.-The whites of six eggs
one cup of fine white sugar, one cup OF
sifted -four, one teaspoOnful of cream.
tartar. Beat the eggs to a stiff froth
then add the sugar; beat them well
together, then add part of the -four
Mix cream>tartar to the rest of the -four
and beat all well together. Add the
favoring last. Bake in rather quick
ovens
SOME one wants to know how to make
good apple dumplings. Try this recipe
To one quart of -four add two teaspoons
of baking powder, pinch of salt, on,
tablespoon lard; make same as usual
instead of boiling, place. them in
steamer over kettle of boiling water
cover tight, steam until the apples ar,
tender. You will find this to be good, -
lChicagO Inter-Ocean.
BUTTERMILK BIsCUTr.--Two cup
buttermilk, four level cups silted -four
one tablespoon lard. one level teaspoon
soda, little salt. Mix and work lightly
roll and cut into biscuits about halt al
inch thick. More -four may be added i
the dough is too soft to roll. Put tn
biscuits in very hot stove; spread
paper over the top of the pan a Jew min
utes, until the biscuits rise, and bak
quickly.
PLAIN LEMON PIE.-Slice one lemon
as thin as possible in little slices no
more than hale across the lemon; put il
one cup of sugar, two thirds water, on,
tablespoonful OF -four; put your -four
sugar and water together, and place you
lemon all around on your crust before
putting the liquid in then wet the edg,
of the crust and turn under the tor
crust, and pinch tightly together to pre-
vent the juice running out.
JELLY-CAIiE ecps-bea
whites and yoiks separately - one tea
cupful white sugar, one teacupful siftet
flour, one teGspoonful cream tartar, one
half teaspoonful soda dissolved in a very
little hot water, flavor with the Juice O
one lemon; beat all well together spread
quarter of an inch thick in a square tin
bake quickly; then turn bottom side up
spread with jelly and roll up while hot
this recipe makes three rolls.
TOMATO SAUCE.-Useone-hal a canfu
of tomatoes; put in a stew pan, addin;
one-half an onion, sliced, q littl,
thyme, bay leaf head of celery,
tablespoonful of sugar a Tablespoonful
of salt and one of pepper, a piec
of butter the size of a large egg
and small piece OF ham; let thes
simmer slowly until the celery is tender
when add tablespoonful of -four mois
tened, and alittle cayenne pepper; boil fiv
minutes, and taste to see if it is highly
seasoned; strain through a hair seive
and put back in stew pan until it ad
heres thick 70 the spoon.
APPLE JAM.-The following is an ex
cellent way to preserve winter apples to-
spring and summer use: Peel and re
move the cores from juicy apples; slicl
thinly and put into a preserving PAL
with three quarters of a pound of whit
sugar to each pound of the fruit; add
little water to prevent their burning
and few cloves, a little ginger and til,
rind of lemon tied up in a piece O
coarse muslin; stir with wooden spool
over quick fire for from twenty t,
twenty-five minutes-c careful that tn
jam does not burn. When cold, put int,
jars and paste or tie down with thicI
paper, or it may be put into cans and
sealed.