Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD



little veal season with butter and pep |
per add few well-toasted slices of |
white bread and a handful of finely |
chopped parsley.
WAFFLRs.- To quart Of sweet milk
take two eggs, tablespoonful OF melted
butter, a cents worth of yeast, a tea
spoonful of saleratus, and flour to make
a stiff batter in the morning Pdd tea
spoonful of sugar. They should be
fried a light brown in a waf1e-iron.
Have melted in a cup piece OF butter
with three-quarters of cup of milk, and
as the cakes are done CRATE nutmeg on
each and sprinkle on sugar, then put a
little of the melted butter and milk ON
each, and you will see how fast they will
disappear when placed on the table.
ROLLED BEEFsTEAK. - Beat a large
tender steak thoroughly and carefully.
Sprinkle over salt, pepper, sage, minced
onion, minced parsley and bits of butter.
Have ready some mealy Irish potatoes
mashed fine and seasoned with little
butter and salt. Spread over all and
roll up tightly; fasten the ends and
sides securely with skewer-pins. Place
it in a pan with such broth or gravy as
may be on hand if none, two teacups
of boiling water and one small minced
onion, pepper, salt and one slice of pork.
Simmer and haste as you would a roast
duck. Sift over it Drowned cracker,
pounded fine.
OLD VIRGINIA TOMATO "KETCHUP. -
Take ripe tomatoes, lay them in scald-
ing water when sufficiently cool peel
them and cut them in small pieces,
removing the cores measure them and
then measure a fourth less of strong
cider vinegar, say three quarts of vine
gar to one gallon of tomatoes. Put the
tomatoes on the stove half hour before
adding the venegar. For a gallon of
tomatoes season three quarts of vinegar
as follows: Two teacups of brown sugar,
two large onions, minced fine, two table
spoonfuls peeled horse radish, two
tablespoonfuls peeled celery seed, two
tablespoonfuls salt, one tablespoonful
mustard, one tablespoonful black pep
per. Other spices may be added if
desired. Boil till reduced to two-thirds
of its original bulk.
Farm Notes.
All farm animals except poultry seem
to crave salt aud should have it.
1t is possible to raise crop of clover,
another of millet, and another of ruta-
bagas from the same land in one season.
Dairymen with herd of COWS and few
acres may find hint here worth heed
ing.
All who can do so should arrange so
as to keep hogs in their apple orchard to
eat up all the wormy fruit as it drops
during the season. In this way, easier
than any other, can the ravages of the
worm be checked. Where hogs are not
sufficient for the purpose, small flock
of sheep should be used.
The object of mulching is two-fold-
first to retain moisture in the ground
and prevent it from being parched by
summer heat; second, to protect the
roots of vegetables from the severe
frosts of winter. The best materials for
mulching are tan-bark, saw-dust-or
better still, charcoal dust-leaves, straw,
to any light porous substance which will
keep the soil loose and moist. By pro-
per mulching we have seen potatoes,
peas, beans, cabbages, onions and 9th
er vegetables maintain their growth
through the driest summer. Exchange
Tomatoes are raised by the French in
this manner: Gas soon as q cluster OF
flowers is visible they they top the stem
down to the clusters, which soon push
strongly, and produce another cluster of
flowers each. When these are visible,
the branch to which they belong is also
topped down to their level, and this is
done five times successfully. By this
means the plants become stout dwarf
> bushes not above eighteen inches high.
In order to prevent their falling over
sticks or strings are stretched horizon
tally along the rows so as to keep them
erect. In addition to this, all laterals
whatever are nipped off. In this way
the ripe sap is directed into the fruit,
which acquire beauty, size and excel
lence unattainable by other means"
How Raisins Are Prepa red.
A strip of land bordering the Mediter.
ranean, somewhat less than one hundred
miles in length and in width not exceed
ing five or six, is the raisin producing
territory of Spain. Beyond these bound.
aries the Muscatel grape, from which
the raisin is principally produced, may
grow and thrive abundantly, but the
fruit must go to the market or the wine
press. When the grapes begin to ripen
in August the farmer carefully inspects
the fruit as it lies on the warm dry soil,
and one by one clips the clusters as they
reach perfection. In almost all vine
yards slants of masonry are prepared,
looking like unglazed hot beds, apd
, covered with fine pebbles, on whic hthe
fruit is exposed to dry. But the small
| proprietor prefers not to carry his grapes
so far. 1t is better, he thinks, to de-
post them nearer at hand, where there
is less danger of bruising, and where
bees and wasps are less likely to find
them. Day by day the cut branches are
examined and turned, till they are suf-
ficiently cured to be borne to the house,
usually on the hill top, and there de-
posted in the empty wine press, till
enough have been collected for the
trimmers and packers to begin their
work. At this stage great piles OF
rough dried raisins are brought from the
wine press and heaped upon boards.
One by one the punches are carefully
inspected, those of the first quality being
trimmed of all irregularities and imper.
feet berries and deposited in piles by
themselves; 80 in turn are treated those
of the second quality, while the clippings
and inferior fruit are received into has
kets at the feet of the trimmers and re.
served for home consumption. A guam
tity of small wooden trays are now
brought forward, just the size of a com
mon raisin box and about an inch deep
In these papers are neatly laid so as to
lap over and cover the raisins evenly de
posted in the trays, which are ther
subjected to heavy pressure in rude
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